Powderfinger

Izzy seems like the kinda guy who’s entire life was the rock n roll life until he got sober and then it was just the music. He continued to write and release music all through the years. Sobering up changes perspective and maybe the want to write and play music with friends remained but the other aspects of a musical career didn’t seem worth it sober. If he chose sobriety over touring who can begrudge him. Axl may have played a gazillion shows as you say, but he sang songs Izzy wrote at every one of them. To be pissed off with a guy who left a band 31 years ago is a bit mental.

Some justice, I think for real justice to have been served he’s not breathing.

My My

How were they?

In my head it’s either a Kurt Loder interview or an interview with a magazine I didn’t buy too often possibly RIP…..

It was definitely known in the media pre album release that the Illusions albums would have some Appetite era material on it. Axl I believe said it to the media, he made a remark about Nov Rain saying something like “it wasn’t ready” for Appetite, I think he also mentioned YCBM & Don’t Cry in that interview also. Don’t forget TV & Music print media reached millions of people back in the days the same as websites do now. (It just took wayyyy fucking longer to get info)

Fluke in what sense?

Maybe for you, but there are a few of us appreciated her music and understood her art. If you don’t like someone leave it at that, don’t shit your judgement on a dead person. Sinead wasn’t the first nor will she be the last musician with a delicate soul.

Whatever judgement you want to throw on it is up to you. Brian Jones had 6 kids with 6 women, Mick Jagger has 8 kids with 5 kids women. I could carry on. Normal in your world may not be normal in another world. Is your problem she did the same as a woman?

Fucking Hell !! Glad he’s ok. I’m going to see them in Oct and have avoided any vids from the tour thus far so wasn’t aware there was talk about Nickos drumming.

GnR absolutely have the material to pull off a Licks type tour. Do they PLAY the material they have, not so much. GnR have the material to pull of an Acoustic club gig, A Theatre gig with an orchestra and A Stadium gig as a rock band. They have material of that scope.

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Id agree with you 100% stadiums were designed for sports not for music, rarely does a band sound good in a stadium. When Rock music moved to stadiums it became “a show” and not a musical experience anymore. Stadium shows are events rather than gigs. I would really love to see GnR do a “Stones/Licks” type tour. The Stones on that tour pulled into a city and did a Club, Arena & Stadium gig in most cities. I’d love to see GnR play a few clubs and get back to the roots of their music, rather than the “show” they’re forced into playing in stadiums. When you have the tunes GnR have, you don’t really need a show. The songs are strong enough on their own.

You saw GnR 25 times before 1993?!?!?!

Over saturation and over familiarity? They’ve toured pretty consistently in NA over the last 20 years or so and since 1991 at least a third of the current set has been played every night. It’s been 30 years of mostly the same old songs with not much new material released. There’s too many options for concerts this summer than to (over) spend on one GnR ticket. If it’s an option between a show you’ve seen maybe 4 times in the last 7 years that’s mostly the same again why would you buy that ticket over 2-3 tickets for bands you haven’t seen for the same money. NA is really only two countries at the end of the day. Both huge countries, but I think GnR have oversaturated both at this point.

You clearly didn’t read his post.

Unlikely a coincidence knowing Axl.

There’s a lot of bands touring this summer, and even for the current cheapest GnR ticket I can see 2/3 bands for the same cash. I can see them in clubs and small venues and get a better experience. If I were to go it would be the 4th time since the reunion with mostly the same setlist and it would be the second time I’d seen AIC open for them in those 4 shows. It’s all a bit stale. When I compare that to seeing The BrianJonestown Massacre indoors or Maiden with a great sounding Bruce or a still Interesting and great sounding Pixies. GnR fall down the list pretty quick Maybe an arena tour might have been a better idea as opposed to a stadium tour. GnR and AIC will shift 18,000 tickets most likely but will they shift 50,000.

RIP Sinead Some of us knew what you were and treasured that talent while you lived.

For me this is the miracle of GnR. For Slash, Izzy, Duff & Adler to be still alive is a minor miracle. I was sure when I saw GnR in 92 it would be the only time I would ever see them. Thankfully I was wrong.

I’ve always wondered if some of those “technical” players secretly hate guitarists like Slash or Cobain or Neil Young……You can learn an awful lot on the guitar, but you cannot really be taught what Slash has in his playing. The emotion, the melody, the passion, the phrasing, the tone, and most importantly the ability to put that all into the songs he wrote or co wrote, which there is a lot of. Nuno may be a great guitar player, but a shitty guitarist who could write great songs killed bands like his (Cobain) It has to hurt when you’ve spent 1000s of hours practicing sweep picking and dick whammy’s and then there’s a guy playing power chords at the top of the charts. Neil Young’s solos are out there, he’s using the feedback, the tone and the whammy, manipulating the guitar and it’s noise, its hit this note now make it scream and howl type soloing. It’s not technical it’s all emotion and vibe. You can learn how to play guitar, but it won’t help you playing the guitar and it won’t mean you can write melodic songs or solos or have a unique style of playing.

What am I not hearing? This tune he refers to doesn’t contain anything anything a crap guitar player like myself couldn’t do.

Which guitar player are you referring to

Even the original banned cover isn’t that collectible.

There’s a lot of old Blues tunes Axl would sound great on. Imagine Smokestack Lightening with lead vox from Axl!