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1 hour ago, marlingrl03 said:

This cracks me up every time! Oh Axl!!!!  I could watch those clips of him teasing Slash/Duff during KOHD all day!

Girls, my tired eyes can't keep this thread... it moves so fast, the last time I saw I was looking at the Duff's .gifs <3 <3 and when I blinked the discussion was already in parts of the anatomy of Angus haahahahahaha This thread is amazing. Thank you girls for the .gifs from the last show!

Yes, I hope they record all shows in Latin America, the audience here is wonderful!  I live on the other side of Brazil, I hope that other dates are announced in nearest locations to see if I do not go bankrupt haha

@nn18 and @Lumikki  Thanks for the welcome <3 I just love Stevie Nicks, to me she is an inspiration!

About the girls, Grace is beautiful, parents are beautiful, it would be difficult not to be; D Meegan is beautiful, her daughter would not be different, what good they are getting along!
 

36 minutes ago, Lumikki said:

Off to the buffet they go!   (They need to be quick and get there before Duff does, so he doesn't lecture them about their food choices again. Or worse, before he makes them eat salad )

And I can't see the picture that @nn18 posted, but I saw it somewhere else. I think it's sweet that Duff's daughter gets along so well with Slash's step daughter. And yes, both of them are beautiful. I don't know who Lucy (?) takes after, but I'm probably pre-disposed to automatically find Grace pretty because she's a female version of Duff

Also welcome @Barbarella !  Way to start posting here with the first post on the 100th page

 

By the way, I also recently came across the Rolling stone article with the Herb Ritts band picture on the cover and I think it's really interesting. I've somehow never read that one before. Axl talks a lot about dealing with his temper and his issues with women in there. And it has some interesting stuff about all the other guys in the band as well. It's a really cool article I think:

While he waits for his meal, his attention is captured several times by attractive females passing on the street. After his second or third double take, Rose grins embarrassedly, then explains that girl watching is something he has come to enjoy. For a long time, he says, women just tended to make him mad.

"I know what the problem was," Rose says. "I had an extremely volatile relationship with Erin [Everly, Rose's former wife]. And I was projecting strong negative feelings about myself onto other people. I was attracted to people with similar dysfunctional traits, people that I was going to end up not really getting along with. And it wasn't good for me or them; it just made me despise being with anyone or meeting anyone or having good thoughts linked to someone."

For a man who's so often thought of as unreasonable and unyielding, Rose has spent a lot of time trying to get a handle on his famous temper. For the past several months, he's been involved in some heavy therapy; during one intensive period the singer underwent five-hour sessions five days a week.

"I'm getting a lot more comfortable with things," Rose says. "I'm still not very good at handling stress, and I was told that that was because of the way I was raised. I basically had my family screw up any positive, productive form of release. Rebelling in my music kept me from going to jail." ("Somewhat," he adds with a smile.)

"I have to retrain myself," Rose says. "It's not something that's gonna happen overnight. And my sexual attitudes and attitudes toward women ... I went through some heavy things in childhood. I formed really strong, serious opinions, lodged them in my subconscious and have been acting on them ever since. There were ugly, violent situations, and they affected me negatively."

Rose doesn't intend to stop with healing himself. "I'd like to be part of an organization working with child abuse," he says. "Sexual abuse and child abuse. I figure you gotta start there."

[...]

He takes off the knee-high splint that was designed for him yesterday by a group of doctors and tennis-shoe designers after he discovered that performing in the clumpy plaster cast he was wearing (he injured a foot during a New York warm-up show) was going to be painful. Rose is proud of the fact that rather than flying into a rage when he discovered that the cast was going to be a problem, he kept the reins on his temper and found a rational way over the hurdle.

[...]

"I guess I get mad because of some form of fear about my own weaknesses," Rose says. "Everybody has theirs, and mine happen to be in what I do. And what I do is sing and run and get my picture taken. I've always needed high maintenance to keep my act together. Nothing really comes naturally except the desire to sing.

 

Also this bit about Duff was really fascinating. This is from 1991, but already Duff was talking about quitting drinking, having kids and his plans of going back to school He wanted to go to Harvard even and study law Also says he never cheated on his wife while on tour and is still dreaming of finding Mrs. Right. Clearly Duff's shocking 180° turn around wasn't actually that shocking at all, if he already had all these plans and dreams during the hey day of GnR.

(Side note: I didn't know Duff's dad was a drinker. He only mentioned that he cheated on his mother and left the family in his book, I think. Anyway, that makes it even more impressive how he managed to turn his life around and how he's doing things completely differently with his own family )

After things began to look more secure, McKagan decided he had had enough of the booze. He quit for seventy-one days and still considers that a milestone; he also says he plans to return to abstinence eventually. "When I have kids, I will stop drinking for good," says McKagan. "I'm not gonna be like my fucking dad. I came to that conclusion when I was in the second grade."

McKagan's bull-in-a-china-shop manner gives the impression that he doesn't put much thought into anything, but he'll surprise you. For starters, he's not stoopid. McKagan was an honors student before he dropped out of high school to tour with various punk bands, opening for acts like Black Flag and the Dead Kennedys; he says he intends someday to pick up where he left off. "I talked with a counselor" McKagan says. "I have to take one year of junior college. But if I ace junior college, get up in the high threes or a four-point figure, I can get into Harvard, 'cause they like weird people at Harvard these days." McKagan says he'd like to study law; as hard as it is to picture him hobnobbing with the Ivy Leaguers in his leather pants, it appears he's serious.

Other intriguing findings about Duff McKagan: He detests being called a rock star and threatens to "fucking strangle'' the next person who does so. A musician's musician, he's working on a solo album on which he plays every instrument. He's the true-blue type when it comes to women. ("I was married on our last tour, and I never cheated once," McKagan says. "I guess that makes me a schmuck.") Despite a divorce that left him smarting, he still longs to meet Mrs. Right ("She'll be the happiest woman in the world, goddamn it!")

 

And Slash (!) being difficult and acting like a bratty teenager :

Earlier today, Rose decided to organize a spur-of-the-moment band dinner; at around ten, Guns n' Roses and their entourage departed for the Old Homestead steakhouse, where at this very minute they are running up a $3000 tab on champagne and surf 'n' turf. Everybody, that is, except Slash.

Rose conceived the get-together as a come-if-you-want affair, but by the time the invitation got to Slash it sounded like attendance was mandatory. As a result, the guitarist is boycotting the event.

It isn't hard to figure out which room is Slash's — you just follow the sound of Metallica's "One," which is blasting from behind his door. The guitarist, hair still wet from a shower and wearing a pair of shorts, opens his door and immediately throws down the glove. "I don't know what there is to talk about," Slash says.

 

Slash also talks about how his and Axl's internal time schedules are so different that they clash and that his is a lot faster than Axl's and that the slow pace of Axl's really stresses him out. And about his horror at the idea of the band falling apart, because Axl is so talented and charismatic, he can go out and do anything, but he would forever just be the ex-GnR guitar player. (Well... he did become the ex-GnR player, but his fears about Axl were pretty unfounded as time showed )

Axl also talks about how he was buying land in Wisconsin with his step father and that he wanted to be buried there. And about feeling suicidal for a long time.

Oh and there's also this about the beautiful Herb Ritts pictures we were recently talking about. Apparently Axl didn't want to do those at all. Maybe that's why he looks so... intense in them. Pissy Axl makes for great pictures apparently

Rose doesn't stop there. Clearly, he is on a roll, and Rose, when he is angry, has an excellent memory. He spits out a few choice words about a Herb Ritts photo session yesterday (Rose didn't want to do the shoot on the day before a show and only did so because it was the only opening in Ritts's schedule)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/guns-n-roses-19910905

Those videos are so amazing LMAO!!!!!

19 minutes ago, Andy14 said:

Welcome! You're post was the first on the page 100. Cool 

Hope to see you post here more often. Once you start there's no way back 

 

@Lumikki the videos are great 

You always come with the best stuff.

 

The show is great...I like the wind in his hair 

What an honor! Thanks for the welcome, girls, promise comment here! OMG this hair <3