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  1. Honestly you guys will have a really good time at the show. I was sour before the show I went to last summer (no Izzy, so much fucking money, no Izzy, we had to travel quite a ways, no Izzy, stadiums suck, no Izzy etc) but I ended up enjoying it immensely. The crowd and show environment will get your adrenaline up and it is great to see Duff/Slash/Axl together. I mean it really is. For us, that gets lost under all the Izzy disappointment, but it's still a trip. I went into it expecting little interaction between the guys and for it to have a corporate feel, and I knew Axl was frankly, past his prime. And all of those things were true but hearing those guys in a live setting again and listening to music that I really love...it was worth it. 

    I think Izzy has property in Spain (didn't Matt Sorum say so last summer?) and if his history of appearances hold any clues, he is most likely to show up in Spain, London, or Paris. And yes, it sucks that this is always a crap-shoot, but at least there is some hope for those audiences- he sure as hell ain't showing his ass up to Denver, you know?

    Man, the agony and the ecstasy of being a GNR fan never goes away. You're unlikely to get stuck in a riot, at least. 

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Kris_1989 said:

    The part in bold is one of the worst things about being a Izzy fan IMO. The Aerosmith show for example. I could've gone. I was living in LA at the time and would have if I had known but since he doesn't announce anything his actual fans never get to see him live. I was so upset when I found out he was there. Same thing with the GNR shows, you always find out after the fact. It's just shitty.

    Not trying to be a bitch but that's a bit of a two way street. If Izzy isn't willing to tour or do any promotion for his music then a label isn't going to take the risk on him. I mean think about it, if you had the money to sign him knowing that he wont do any shows or interviews, would you?  Izzy is talented AF and an amazing songwriter but if he doesn't want to be a part of the industry a label isn't going to change that. They'd just be throwing away their money.

    I couldn't agree more. Literally the only time you could be sure of seeing Izzy live in the past 24 years is for four shows in Japan in 2000. That's crazy. People would be willing to fly to shows if they knew he was performing! Agitating. 

    And you aren't being a bitch at all, your'e just being reasonable.  This interview:

    http://www.snakepit.org/isrsnews.html

    Stradlin has also apparently lost his appetite for self-promotion. After this interview, he called his manager, permanently canceled his press schedule and flew to Hawaii.

    This was for his last album with Geffen Records. That was the last impression a major label had of him. Actions have consequences, even for rock stars. Rock music doesn't sell, period, but smaller bands and acts still find managers and labels and promoters, they tour and release records- they just work their asses off for it. You have to sell the hell out of yourself.  Really hustle. I just don't think Izzy can stomach that- that's why he "hates the business" and that's cool but no one is going to hand him anything either. 

    I kind of think that Izzy just wants what he wants when he wants it, and that's fine. It is what it is and what it is is Izzy and we're just here like :shrugs:

     

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Lumikki said:

    Yeah, me too.

    But I'm not sure he actually is friends with him or likes him. Duff is good at getting along and playing nice with everyone, but in private he might have a quite different opinion about certain people.

     

    I don't know...

    http://archive.seattleweekly.com/2009-07-22/music/duff-mckagan-reintroducing-you-to-the-cr-e/

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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2557174/Nikki-Sixxs-fianc-e-Courtney-Bingham-enjoys-lavish-bachelorette-party-Mexico-former-wife-Donna-DErrico-blames-bankruptcy-legal-fees-divorce.html

    I mean it's fine. GNR were bad,bad boys too. But Motley gives me the heebie jeebies. And they could all probably give us some super-strain of herpes through our computer screens.  

  4. 1 hour ago, Lumikki said:

    It's always such a relief to to come here after reading all the stupidity in the main section.

    People thinking Nikki Sixx is "a great lad with very little ego" and an "intelligent, likable" dude. You've got to be shitting me :facepalm::vomit:

    As @BorderlineCrazy correctly pointed out, the man has a bigger ego than everyone who ever was in GNR put together (which is saying something, considering people like Slash, Axl and Sorum have been part of this band) and is a complete and utter asshole. Makes all our favorite idiots in the band seem like sweet little choire boys by comparison.

    Also, go ask his ex-wife about what a great guy he is. Or better yet, his step son. The man is a waste of space and air, just like everyone else in Mötley Crue.

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    You can't read The Dirt and come away thinking anything but that Nikki Sixx is pure evil. At least Tommy seems too stupid to truly know what he is doing and Mick Mars is literally crazy. Nikki and Vince are just pure pieces of shit.  I actually kind of hate that Duff seems to be friends with this asshole.

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  5. I feel like the Chopaway site + Beenafix + Metal Sludge + Groupie Central are like flashbacks of my youthful internet glory days. That's how I used to de-stress in-between thesis writing in college. Good times. 

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    Anyway, I'm starting to get my hopes up again... Izzy has been silent, Adler is muzzling himself again, the Fernando/billboard thing... maybe they decided to pay Izzy out the ass for a few LA shows? Now that A/S/D are secure in their millions? Reunion starts now? Thoughts? I'm weirdly conflicted over this? Why do I care so much? Too many question marks?? Help???

    Knock some sense into me, kids.

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  6. I get the feeling, watching Izzy's last shows, that he was going through a bout of depression/anxiety. Duff's biography:

    I could see right there and then [when the Oslo gig in August, 1991, was cancelled because Axl was in France] that Izzy wasn't going to last. The cadence of his walk was different now: I saw it clearly as the lurch of a bicycle with a misshapen wheel. His face was drawn, his eyes blank, his body language exhausted. He had made it with us, sober, touring. But he couldn't stand pissing off the fans an torturing the crew. He had to confront that reality sober. And at the same time he had to deal with Slash, Matt, and me trying to bury our frustrations by obliterating ourselves with drink and drugs. It was only a matter of time now.  

    And who could blame him? Even in the best of circumstances, facing giant stadium crowds has got to be daunting. And his circumstances sucked. Axl, Slash and Duff were all such a mess by that point. And Izzy had not even been sober for two years. Cantor also said that Izzy was upset by all the money they were wasting on videos and jets and parties and curfew fines. They were making shit loads of cash and throwing it all away.

    And I wonder what the start of the Illusions albums actually looked like. Izzy said in an interview that he asked Axl if they could get on a schedule and that Axl threw a fit. Probably went something like this.

    "We'll meet at the studio at 3:00 on Thursday."

    Izzy shows up at 3:15.

    Slash and Duff show up at 7:00.

    Axl shows up at midnight on Saturday.

    All the spare time is spent on booze and coke.

    Izzy stops showing up after a few weeks, the rest of the band feels like he just doesn't care.

    I think in the beginning there were three alpha-dogs in the band- Axl, Slash and Izzy. Izzy's voice was muted by heroin for a while but when he sobered up he probably felt like he should have an equal say in the band's direction again. But it seems like it was too late for that.  Steven was kicked out and the UYI's became a monster that I doubt Izzy was ever comfortable with.  Sometimes I wonder if money isn't the only reason Izzy isn't there now- maybe S/D/A thought Izzy would upset the power balance if he was too involved. Things with the band are obviously delicate. Axl might be intimidated (I don't know if that's the right word) by Izzy in a way that he just isn't by Slash. Slash wanted Axl in his band right away, he was impressed by his talent from the start. Izzy knew Axl when he was nothing.

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  7. I gotta believe that tweet was a shout out to this thread in general and maybe you guys helping out with the Instagram stuff in particular since that situation seems to bother Izzy a great deal.  I don't think we get many visitors from the main section and that's okay if the Tweet thread is anything to judge by. Like watching a twelve year old shit himself at his own birthday party, that thread.  A simple, "Nice of you to acknowledge your fans,  thanks for the new music this past year" would have sufficed, but no.

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  8. 4 minutes ago, Top-Hatted One said:

    I've got a hunch this may be the last time we see this incarnation of this band. Richard looks bored. Probably sick of playing the same songs for 15yrs and might be considering moving on like Bucket, Brain, Finck, Bumble, DJ & Tommy before him. Frank ain't getting significantly better. 

     

    He really does look miserable lately. He looks that way in candid pics, too.  I wonder what's up? 

  9. I saw Aerosmith a few years ago and all I remember is that Steven Tyler screwed up Sweet Emotion so badly they almost started over, they had some of the worst old man facial hair I have ever seen, and Joey Kramer had a 20 minute drum solo. 20 fucking minutes. The only reason a drum solo should take 20 minutes is if your Cruecifly gets stuck.

    On the plus side, they didn't play that Armageddon song that makes me want to stab myself in the eyeball.   On the minus, 20 minute drum solo.

    On the one hand:

     

    On the other hand, I've seen The Rolling Stones. You, Aerosmith, are no Rolling Stones.

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  10. My gut says they are done after this tour as well. I think Slash and Duff (and Izzy and Steven) have been ready for a reunion for a long time. Axl finally got to the point where he had trouble paying his employees and knew he was never going to make enough money with NuGuns to support his lifestyle in his old age. With the reunion everything came together for him- Duff and Slash were ready to join the Axl Show, Frank and Richard could be kept in to give NuGuns some validity, they wouldn't have to do any major publicity (he would never have to sit on a couch next to Slash and answer questions) and he could retire and live in the manner to which he has become accustomed. I think Axl knows he can't sing em' like he used to. And he has to be sick to death of those songs. There is a fire in Axl with AC/DC that he rarely shows in Guns now. If he wants, he can dabble in the music world with Angus and not be in charge, which will be a weight off his shoulders after all these years.

    Slash can get married again, support his blended family (hello there, prenup!) and go back to his solo work without selling his soul.

    Duff's kids will be taken care of into old age and he can become a writer and just be a guest musician with his favorite comrades. 

    They are old men now. And they aren't the Rolling Stones. They know the geriatric version of OTGM is going to be a tough sell.   

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