beautifulanddamned

43 minutes ago, bikka said:

off topic, but your profile pic - where is that one from?

I believe it's from the LAYN Rocks benefit concert in 2009. Duff and Adler were there too.  

I wonder if we are going to get that Izzy interview that Art Tavana talked about on the podcast? He said it would be out in about a month and that was about a month ago...

4 hours ago, SerenityScorp said:

Whichever is fine, I just need tht for  portrat drawing, high resolution/good quality pics makes it easier for Me to draw detail

@beautifulanddamned

thx for the pics but I wonder if You have more with good pose 

 

 

 

btw

 

Happy Birthday to All of November Children!

I don't really have many young Duff pics but here are some of my favorite young Izzy pics:

44 minutes ago, SerenityScorp said:

Anyone have good quality, big size of young Duff N' Izzy pics?

There aren't many of them. Only in group situations or when they were passing each other onstage. Interestingly most Duff and Izzy pics are from 1995 on. My theory is that Duff and Izzy, as addicts, were very different. Duff, even drunk, seemed like kind of a good-time boy (booze and blowjobs!) who stayed generally responsible and craved a normal life. I think Izzy did some dark shit. He was a drug dealer, which is miles away from being a drug user, and openly admitted to pimping girls.  They sobered into similar individuals and became friends. I think that part of Izzy's reluctance to engage is that he doesn't want to be confronted by the past.  People like Kevin Lawrence still seem to have negative feelings about Izzy in particular and Marc Canter said that he lost Izzy's interview when he told him that Dezi was involved. I don't balme him, really. Anyway:

Oh yeah. I almost had a heart attack. This election night has me jittery AF. 

Same as this 

40 minutes ago, SerenityScorp said:

 

 

WHAT? 

2 hours ago, money honey said:

that book sounds interesting, what is it called?

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution 

I really enjoyed it. Lots of gossip on all the bands and musical artists of the era.  There was a chapter on the worst video that ever aired on MTV- Billy Squier's Rock me Tonight that stands out as being sad and hilarious.

And I gotta stick up for the man here- I think Izzy aged the most graciously out of the AFD five. He didn't botox out and he is very thin which has a tendency to make your face look older. Even if he was onstage he wouldn't be attempting to rock a tank top that showed his man boobs or a tshirt with a woman in a trash can. His "prosperous mobster" look from 2012 was a great one- the button down, vest and hat all still called back to his younger stage image, but in an adult way. Honestly I think they all look pretty good, considering. But here's a palate cleanser:

Here's old  Izzy to go with old  Axl.

The last one is new.

12 minutes ago, Jane M. said:

I don't know, maybe I have my stories mixed up (most def) but I think Izzy's face was fucked up before Vince punched him because his dad's dog bit him.

So many november rain babies, I need a calendar.

Edit to add: Angela dumped Izzy for Andy McCoy so she can kiss my ass. 

I think the break up was probably mutual. Angela was a druggie and Izzy was desperately trying to stay sober at the time- the arrest on the plane had already happened.  She's a piece of work though. And apparenty wasted no time- 0:50

48 minutes ago, SerenityScorp said:

2 hours ago, beautifulanddamned said:

When was these?

This one is from the GNR BBC special this year. The kicking one is from a Ju Ju Hounds show when some guy jumped on stage and tried to steal Izzy's pick. 

Here are a few more from the BBC thing...

7 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Looking for sources on the picture of Axl with the black eye, I came across this on Izzy's black eye(s) and the Vince Neil incident. It's from a book on the history of MTV and some of the most popular videos.

And this about the SCOM video:

Ha! I have that book- it's actually a very good book on the era. It also talks about the Patience video and how Izzy was so messed up on coke that it was dripping out of his nose but he couldn't feel it because his face was numb. And the dog was the director's dog- Angela was there. 

2 minutes ago, Jane M. said:

@beautifulanddamned Thanks for those gifs.

I'm melting

I know, right? That's my favorite Izzy era.  I have a ton of pics but I don't know what's rare and what isn't- you ladies move so quickly here! 

Young Izzy:

All of this is why I never got the "Izzy doesn't have very good stage presence" thing. If you look at videos of him from 2006 and 2012 he is doing the same thing Slash and Duff are doing now. Stand and play. Walk from point A to point B. Stand and play. Smile at crowd. Stand and play. 

I loved the show I went to but I can also acknowledge that I was seeing a giant corporate rock show. Nothing more nothing less. I expected it to be a little cold and impersonal so I wasn't dissapointed. 

1 hour ago, Kris_1989 said:

 

Jokes aside, I wonder why he doesn't just do another q&a with Will like he used to. At least it would be drama free and pretty painless.

I don't know that it's Izzy's goal to remain drama free anymore. His choice of song covers, his tweets about the GNR cover band and John Oliver's video about how people that participate in April Fools day shit being dicks (on the day of the secret Troubadour show), his song about money with Matt Sorum. Even his post Axl/Duff interview tweet (Bullshit!). They were deliberate shots- fired publicly.  Unfortunately the GNR thing is such a huge machine now that it will take more than some deleted Tweets to make an impact.  The dogs bark but the caravan marches on, so to speak. 

Of course it's Izzy it wouldn't surprise me if he backed out of an interview at the last minute or made sure that it was soley about his new material. 

41 minutes ago, dgnr said:

She was so beautiful in the cover of all that magazines that she and her daughters post by time to time. Mae looks a lot like her.

I'm not a big fan of all the botox she has and let alone the super big boobs, I think it make her look fake and she's a natural beauty, she didn't need any of that. But her body, her rules and I really, really like her. She seems very down to earth and she's nice with fans and of course a big support to Duff. I think they really love each other, it's cute.

I find it interesting that Susan chose to go with this particular aesthetic. She's ten years younger than Duff and really more of a 90's girl then an 80's girl. But she chose to go with that bleached hair, big fake boobed 80's video vixen thing- even though it essentially put her high fashion days behind her. It's a Playboy look, not a Vogue look.  It also, unfortunately, is not an aesthetic that ages very well.  But Duff seems to enjoy it so...

I thought the most interesting part of the podcast was learning that we are going to get an interview from Izzy next month. So we might learn a little more about the financial negotiations. Maybe. Any guessses as to who the lucky publication is? Rolling Stone seems the obvious choice (Andy Greene?) but it's Izzy so it might just as well be some random journalist from Norway or something. 

5 hours ago, MillionsOfSpiders said:

Izzys Twelete account. 

Ha! Oh, Izzy.

So I have been reading Pamela Des Barres' book and it made me wonder- where are all the groupies of the 80's? I remember back in the early 2000's when Groupie Central was a thing and even then it was dominated by the 70's girls- Des Barres and the GTO's and crazy Bebe Buell. A few voices came out to talk about the bands of the 80s- but it was rare. It was Zep and Aerosmith and the like and then it skipped ahead to the terrible bands of the late 90's.  I just think it's strange. The 70's groupies seemed to consider themselves muses for the musicians and the 90's groupies were just in it for the, um, Rock and Roll Dick really. Which is fine, whatever. But the 80's seem to be the lost generation in some ways. I remember a few voices rising above the din on those message boards (which were a blast), but most of the groupies from the 80s have been lost or gone silent. 

Come on Now Inside is just beautiful. I'm surprised it doesn't get more attention. And I love Shuffle it All and Baby-Rann.

13 minutes ago, Jane M. said:

Not a performance but it's from 2013. Izzy at 1:56 behind Steven Tyler, don't blink or you'll miss him.

 

What did I just watch?! It's weird to see Izzy without sunglasses and ....WTH, Perla?

They have definately proven that they don't need Izzy to sell out stadiums or put on fantastic shows. That being said, it is a miracle that those five guys, having put their bodies through absolute hell, are still alive and able to perform. They are all in their 50's now and that is also when shit starts to take you down- cancer, heart attacks, arthritis, hearing problems etc. It would be such a damn shame if something were to happen to one of them and they hadn't all been on stage together when they had the chance.  Especially if the problem was money. And that seems to be the case. 

I do wish we knew exactly what was keeping Izzy away. But my guess is that there is such a weird combination of money/business and personal/friendship issues that it would be near impossible to put out a fair, simple statement.  I feel both ways about  the money issue- my gut says it's Izzy give him whatever he wants but... Izzy sold his share of the business in 97 or so, right? It must have seemed like a good decision at the time- they weren't making much money and Izzy apparently never enjoyed the lawyers and lawsuits and shit that went with the business side of things. So does he get to come in 20 years later and take a victory lap with the rest of the partnership? Izzy is my favorite member and his contribution in the "classic" years is so vast. But he has been paid very well for that contribution. He was essentially able to retire at age 32 and live off that contribution (I love his solo stuff, but since The JuJu Hounds they are hobby albums that he is good enough to share with us- I doubt he makes any money off them). 

Anyway, i'm still betting he shows up at some point and the Izzy saga has been one of the most interesting things about this reunion.