Powderfinger

Weiland was a great frontman live…

On 6/8/2023 at 9:39 AM, James Bond said:

Click Baito

Sounds like an Operaman tune waiting to be written.

5 minutes ago, Dean said:

Shades of Dublin '12 with those screams. Unreal

Did someone shout fuck off ya Tennessee cunt? 

Never got the flack thrown at Libertad, I liked it first time I heard it and still like it. The hidden track reminds me of something GnR would have written with Izzy. 

3 minutes ago, Tom2112 said:

Tune the songs down or transpose the song into a key that suits the 60+ yr old Axl. It really isn't that difficult, I don't know why they are still in the same key for a lot of these songs. If he was nailing it a decent amount of the time, then sure leave it! but when he struggles almost every night it's insanity not to try it in a different key.

Where do you go? 
D?
C#?
The tunes were recorded in Eb… 

7 hours ago, Billy Cundy said:

Interesting! What great gigs to attend. Jealous! 

The best of those gigs, the Point Depot gig in March 96, was featured in the Supersonic documentary. First time was in 95 supporting REM, that March gig the second and I saw both nights in Cork summer 96 also. 
The Prodigy supported both those nights in 96 and they were at their peak. The Bootleg Beatles were also on the lineup. I only went the second night as I got a ticket for £10….. 

Saw Oasis 4 times between 95 & 96. Those were religious experiences. The 2nd gig in March 96 being the best of the lot. Absolutely zero aggro at any of those gigs outside of crowd sways at the Slane gig in 95. I travelled at least 30-40 yards without ever getting more than one foot on the ground and at times none. They stopped the gig a few times to get to sorted out. 

3 songs!!! 
Im not going to your Island… I’ll fuck off to one that allows Desert Island Albums….

Mr Brownstone, Out Ta Get Me, Paradise City. I’ll listen to those 3 over dessert. 

Saw them live 3 times but never with Taylor… They were ok for the first 2 albums but they’re not my thing. 

Slane 92 

10 hours ago, Subtle Signs said:

I'd guess both will appear at the final show in LA whenever that is.  Or maybe sooner if Live Nation thinks there's money to be squeezed from a tour billed as the AFD 5. 

They kinda screwed themselves with Izzy for an AFD 5 gig… What cash will he demand seeing as they wouldn’t split the loot with him for NITL. He can hold out for big bucks for an AFD5 tour or shows. 

10 hours ago, Stiff Competition said:

Duff with MC50

Where did this happen? 
I caught 3 shows on that tour and it was excellent. 

Solos are weird, They don’t have to be long and epic to be great. Last Nite by The Strokes is on there and it’s a great rock n roll solo, importantly it serves the song.

TWAT solo is killer though. First time I played CD, TWAT was the first song I played again after it had finished. 

5 hours ago, MrSoftie said:

I've always believed that there was something on his vocals in 2010, hard to explain but the 'rasp' just seemed enhanced somehow.

I caught them in 2010 and what I saw and heard was all Axl. I was front row and he sounded pretty much as good that night as he did in 2006 a little more Mickey maybe, but still mostly strong raspy vocals. 

2 hours ago, Ratam said:

Is ridicoulous that not appear Slash in GNR.

 

 

Slash has released 2 new songs with GnR in the 21st Century. Hardly ridiculous he didn’t make the list! 

Just now, Billy Cundy said:

The implications of the technology will plague ‘human’ music too. I think most modern music, particularly heavy rock, metal and pop, sound dire because everyone uses the same drum samples, the same amp modellers, melodyne, and all the same obnoxious digital software to homogenise their music. AI will seep into our studios. It will seep into mixing, like beat detective has seeped into drumming and removed all life and feel from a drum take. Feel and groove and interplay will die out. People will use AI to mix and pitch correct. It’ll kill what made all the records we love great. 

You can look towards the late 80s and see this happened within mainstream rock music. The 80s drum sound was as processed as you could get. Metal was all about precision and speed. The 80s rock dude look was a processed look even. All it took to rid the world of that 80s cock rock was a voice like Kurt Cobains. The raw emotion in his voice and the sloppy human quality to Nirvanas muwic just cut through that fake studio sound of every other band at the time.

I guess I see AI music as fake, and there’s already been a lot of fake music out there for years anyway. AI is just Milli Vanilli without the dudes to me.

1 minute ago, Billy Cundy said:

You’re more optimistic than I am. Music won’t die but people being able to maintain a career within it and create something great will die. 

In a way it’s always been like this.
I have at least 3-400 demo tapes and CDs of bands back in the 90s no one has ever heard of, some really great music. Truth is most people never made a career out of music. It’s always been that way. For every Band the major labels present to you, there’s 1000 bands behind that band just as good. The “music industry” is just fashion trends, whatever is popular at any given time is what they sell you. 
 

Playing in a band is mostly like playing 5 a side soccer, your not playing for Man United, but you’re still having fun. Playing music will always be fun.  

4 hours ago, lukepowell1988 said:

Daddy never loved me.

2 hours ago, Billy Cundy said:

Death of music. Streaming put the industry on life support. AI will kill it dead. I think the whole thing is despicable. Soulless.

Music won’t die. In the 80s it was major labels that had the music industry on life support. It was almost like AI. Same shit, same bands, same looks, same cheesy sound. “The Industry” is the last place to look for anything to do with real music. It picks a band and says like this, buy this. But who were they to ever decide what art was? 
 

Underground music is alive and well and always will be. 

On 5/2/2023 at 12:24 AM, BucketEgg said:

Duff should live up to his nickname. Wear assless chaps for the next tour and show his duff to everyone.

I’d say he already is living up to his name:

(dʌf )

Izzy

Axl

Duff

Slash

Steven

On 4/1/2023 at 11:26 AM, BucketEgg said:

She is Françoise Hardy, a french pop singer who became popular in the 1960s!

Here's a picture of her with Mick Jagger

She was married to Jacques Dutronc who is killer, she’s in the last video

6 hours ago, DTV88 said:

Anyone else here have the Appetite for Collection 12” set? I remember seeing this at a record store and having no idea about the UK 12” single phenomenon. Buying this is what got me into singles with bonus tracks. I used to have every Metallica CD single with demos, covers and live tracks.

Were 12” singles not a thing in the US?I had forgotten about this box, good addition to the thread!