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- Stevens drumming is overrated (the "less technique but more feel"-argument doesn't gel with me)

- I've never liked Patience, it bores me. 

- Matt Sorum is the best drummer gnr ever had. 

- Izzys solo albums are ok at best (except ju ju-hounds which is a B+, mainly because of "shuffle it all") 

-  "it's five o'clock somewhere" is pretty dull and generic, especially compared to the magnificient "ain't life grand"

- I liked the horns and background singers on the 1992-leg of the UYI-tour. 

12 hours ago, lame ass security said:

Why do you think that was delusional?  I liked Scott but I don't think it was delusional to want Patton orginally. 

I think the original poster was referring to that It's pretty obvious that patton would never want to be the frontman of a band like velvet revolver. If you read/see some interviews with him (or fnm) it will become really obvious. Besides that- Patton's been asked about VR before and he pretty much said that he thinks they Were a joke. 

It's got to be PC for me, the first time I heard it (in 2001, believe it or not) it blew me away. That song made me buy AFD and after that, I consumed everything GNR daily for years.

The total disharmony in this song (especially the background harmonies and the additional guitar coming in during the pre-chorus) had a weird, sickening, affect on me. That's... something.

3 minutes ago, Creed said:

with fortus, frank and melissa the album will fail...so...

You base this presumtion on what exactly? 

On 2019-02-09 at 5:01 AM, Screamin' Demon said:

If she's a feminist, I believe so!  ...Seeing how they are often, and ironically so, very masculine! 

Yeah, people wanting equal rights equates to being masculine. Clever man. 

I've always thought that his solo on "Serial Killer" is one of his absolutely best. That whole album (Ain't Life Grand) is packed with great riffing and soloing. Slash best work since UYI IMO.

15 minutes ago, Its Tino said:

Yeah the Slash speedball hallucination story sticks out for sure  

But the stories I appreciate most are the ones of how the writing of appetite went down. How WTTJ was quick and spontaneous. The SCOM story, Nighttain story, paradise, etc.. that’s what makes slash’s book my favorite rock memoir. 

The aspect of this that I find really interesting is also that both Slash and Duff claims to have written the main riff to WTTJ and the chorus to PC, respectively. Duff has proof for his claims of the WTTJ riff, so clearly Slash's memory is tainted there...

11 hours ago, F*ck Fear said:

Similar maybe, but it's not identical.

What's the difference? 

29 minutes ago, F*ck Fear said:

I literally just listened to this riff from 1988, and there is no fucking way  that all those years later Axl Rose and Josh Freese listened to it and said "That's the main riff in our new song"

I don't think so either but it's identical to the riff from CD. It's a pretty generic riff so it isn't impossible that two people that happen to have been in the same band came up with the same variation of a standard minor pentatonic riff. 

38 minutes ago, donny said:

 

we know the new album has been recorded in canada with Brian but i wouldn't rule out Axl making an appearance on it.  

Is this confirmed? I saw the pictures from outside the studio, but is it even confirmed that they weren't old pictures taken during the recording of rock or bust?

8 hours ago, Derick said:

IDK, If you ask a teacher if he does not get tired of giving the same class for decades he will probably respond by saying that the content of his classes can be the same but the students change, the context changes and every class is as it were the first time because it renews the purpose of teaching and that is what gives you the pleasure and motivation to continue teaching without becoming tedious. So if, in due proportion, we translate this to what a musician does, we ask him if he does not tire of playing the same songs for years and years and years ... We would probably have a response very similar to that of the teacher. It may be exactly the same setlist for decades, but it changes the audience, changes the context, and feels the energy of the people there on the show, watching them entertain themselves is likely to rule out any chance of boredom.

I understand the analogy. With that said, I'm a musician myself, and when I've been on considerably smaller tours (like 15 shows in three weeks) neither me or my bandmates can stand to play the same set every night, even when we know that certain songs get more positive attention than others. When you do the same sets over and over, you feel like a machine and it kills the joy of performing. But it's all subjective I guess.

31 minutes ago, sl4yer said:

According to sestlist.fm no :/

They must be really bored playing the (almost) exact set every show for two years.

Never liked Patience. The only good part of that song is the outro IMO. November rain and sweet Child bores me as well. 

On 2018-11-21 at 1:22 PM, Sydney Fan said:

There is one on youtube where axl is sitting on the drum riser, i think its in the US and hes pissed off and slash goes over to have a word and axl yells him to fuck off and duff tries to intervene and axl gets up and walks away.

Link please? Thanks

All of you that's not putting ain't life grand as (at last) in the top three, have you given it a good listen? 

I know that "one mans Coffee is another mans tea" but to my ears it's leaps ahead anything slash has recorded outside of GNR, therefore I can't understand that it isn't getting more love. 

Wasn't this show promoted as an event where gnr would debut new material? I'm really surprised that they played the same set as always! 

21 minutes ago, Tom-Ass said:

I thought Slash's playing leading up to the reunion was at it's all time best.. His playing with SMKC was off the charts. Anastasia live in Sydney is my all time favorite live performance of his. I think Slash is all about chemistry and I don't think there is any natural chemistry with Frank and Fortus and it shows.  I don't think Pyro and possible click tracks help either... That said the vast majority of people still say that he pretty much carries these shows on his shoulders. 

A click track seems pretty obvious since frank is counting in every song (the most obvious one being it's so easy).

Technically better, yes. But, to me, sometimes when guitar players get more Technically proficient they can somewhat lose the magic they once had. I haven't heard much of the myles Kennedy-stuff, but can it be that the presence of Fortus has made slash more of a "noodler"? Since Fortus is a very technical and fast player, perhaps slash doesn't want to be the "slow hands" of the band and therefore he's playing a lot of fast runs where he earlier would focus on sustaining notes and playing a melody? Just a hypothesis. 

35 minutes ago, Mickey said:

FROM JARMO:

It’s So Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Chinese Democracy, Welcome To The Jungle, Double Talkin’ Jive, Better, Estranged, Live And Let Die, Slither, Rocket Queen, Shadow Of Your Love, You Could Be Mine, You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory/New Rose, This I Love, Civil War, Yesterdays, Coma, Band Intros, Slash Solo (Godfather)/Sweet Child O' Mine, Used To Love Her, Wichita Lineman (Glen Campbell cover), Wish You Were Here/Layla/November Rain, Black Hole Sun, Only Women Bleed (instrumental)/Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Nightrain

Encore: Don’t Cry, Patience,

Wow, they're really switching things up 

Two questions for the ones who followed the show:

1. Same setlist as always? 

2. Rasp or Mickey? 

Meh, not interested. 

Haha! This showed us (once again) to never get our hopes up regarding this band. 

10 minutes ago, ©GnrPersia said:

Axl vocals in the final 30 seconds of Coma:

Any links to it? Can't find it on Youtube.