Blackstar

On 4/29/2019 at 6:13 PM, EvanG said:

Didn't know where else to post this. A couple listens to One In A Million for the first time and reacts to it without knowing anything about the song. I like their interpretation, because instead of getting offended like a lot of people, they seem to understand what Axl was trying to say here and end up giving it a 10.

I haven't watched the video yet, but I think this is an interesting interpretation too:

http://www.a-4-d.com/t99-one-in-a-million#12127

20 minutes ago, soon said:

One day of recording. I get that Slash has a schedule to keep but its like a session player, isnt it? I hope someones been warming up those tubes for him!

I actually wonder if Slash is hesitant to commit to weeks of recording before he sees proof that Axl is now capable of pulling the trigger? Would be more than fair. Whereas Slash has described SFTD as "an effort wasted" with regards to getting Guns back into studio mode. A Terminator soundtrack slot could see "an effort succeeded." I hope!!!

We don't know if there have been other recording sessions recently though, do we? Isn't it possible that he used other amps but needed this one to get a particular sound in this session?

 Vince Neil's ex-wife, Sharise, also did a podcast episode recently about the Izzy incident that involved her and the subsequent Axl/Vince feud. She said that Riki doesn't remember the story well and she may be on one of the next episodes of his podcasts to tell it again.

48 minutes ago, vikute91 said:

Has any of you ever seen that late 90s musical that was supposedly inspired by Axl, White Trash Wins Lotto? Never even heard of such thing prior to the episode on GnR Central yesterday, but I got an impression it was quite big at the time. 

I haven't seen it (apart from the video @soon posted) but here is an article:

http://web.archive.org/web/20190427160054/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-aug-08-ca-11079-story.html

Since other pictures have been posted, I guess it's okay to post this one too (from 1956)

8 minutes ago, Edward Nygma said:

What's this recent 'Storage Tapes' purchase?

Some old tapes that were forgotten in a storage space and the owner notified the band. Most of the tapes had to do with Duff and collaborations outside GnR. There was only one that read "GNR Demos April 1995" and it was songs Izzy and Duff wrote at that time.

1 minute ago, Tori72 said:

Strippers and Sanity. Sure, Stradlin!!! 

What a gem, @Blackstar, thanks. Never read it. How and where did you find it? 

You're welcome I found it (and the other one) the usual way, digging up old newspapers collections around the dates of the shows

6 minutes ago, Tori72 said:

Hahahaha Classic Izzy. I love that. Also great article. I guess she had a boring interview with him but wrote a readable piece about it. Lol 

He was more talkative in this one (maybe because of the strippers?) 

http://www.a-4-d.com/t3841-1987-08-21-the-calgary-herald-rockers-revel-in-naughtiness-on-off-stage-izzy#14213

On 4/17/2019 at 10:27 PM, RONIN said:

This might be just me but from the interviews I've read from Slash over the past few years, I don't get the feeling that GnR is his band. He doesn't talk about Guns in the same way that he talks about SMKC. There is no sense of ownership from him like in the past when he referred to GnR as "my band". The subtext I get from his words seems to suggest more of a handsomely paid hired gun with some high level managerial/creative cache - he doesn't sound like a part-owner of that brand/band. Put another way, he acts like a 20-25% shareholder who sits on the board of GnR corp with Axl, the chairman, controlling 50-60% of the company.

I think that's why people feel this is just another iteration of Nu Gnr - because Axl still appears to be fully driving the band's affairs while Sluff are simply along for the ride. Hence, the non-committal answers from Slash and Duff about the future of the band with some positive prognosticating because the three partners re-discovered how much time and money they pissed away with their foolish feud. 

All that being said, Marc Canter mentioned in 2016 that the partnership is active again so who the hell knows. Given Axl's MO though, it seems highly unlikely that the old partnership has been rejuvenated without some major amendments to it so that Axl can legally continue to run the band as he sees fit without interference. @Blackstar thoughts?

I got the same vibe from the recent Slash interviews. But I don't think it has to do with the legal status of the band, the partnership and ownership percentages.

I think it has more to do with the fact that with SMKC Slash can make the music he wants in his own terms and pace. It's, in his own words in one of the latest interviews, a "painless" band. And it's a steady thing, not a collaboration like with MJ and zillions of others or a side project like Snakepit - even Velvet Revolver, as it seems, was for Slash more about proving something than being in his comfort zone and not a painless experience. SMKC is his band and the steadiest thing Slash's ever had outside and post GnR; and that's a big difference from the past.

This can be a good thing (considering also the latest news) as Slash can be more open to do different things with GnR (although I think he probably has become more open in general with time), since he has another vehicle to do exactly what he wants creatively and has full control of.  But it also means that with GnR he has to make compromises in this regard. And, even though Axl seems to be easier to work with now than in the past, GnR is still a complicated entity compared to SMKC - it's not a comfort zone.

4 minutes ago, Ratam said:

Interesting,  here Kurt seem to be well disposed toward Axl and GNR, is very true that the press exaggerate enough anything.

Well, he talked some shit before that part 

http://www.nirvanaclub.com/get.php?section=info/articles&file=10.00.93-musician.html

15 hours ago, Ratam said:

Oh thank you, i not know it. At least somewhere had recognition for GNR 

"Still, Kurt admits Nirvana could learn a thing or two from Guns N’ Roses. 'They fuck things up and then they sit back and look at what they fucked up and then try to figure out how they can fix it,' he says, "whereas we fuck things up and just dwell on it and make it even worse." 

KN: "No, we didn't call him 'gay', 'cause I don't think we'd ever use 'gay' as a derogatory term, you know what I mean? It's weird, there's some kind of weird feud that started - I think Axl started talking some nonsense onstage in Florida, he said some mean things. Then, when we were at the MTV Video Music Awards and Kurt & Courtney said something to him, - I think Kurt was holding their baby and Courtney said, like, 'Axl, you're gonna be the Godfather! You're gonna be the Godfather!' He got mad and told them to shut up. Then one thing led to another, it was really silly, and then we said some nasty things about him at a show in Portland, Oregon. It was a benefit show for the No On 9, this measure that was gonna discriminate against homosexuals in Oregon - some fascist law, you know what I mean? Franco would've been proud! And then what happened? And then he said some bad stuff about us onstage in Seattle, but he got booed, because he couldn't get away with that in our town. And we haven't heard anything else from him. It's basically really silly stuff, y'know? I think it's kinda funny, and if I can instigate more stuff, I will, just for heck of it. I'd like to meet him. I met him once briefly, y'know, 'Hi, how are you?' and that's it. But I'd like to meet with him and maybe discuss things, resolve a few things, maybe engage in some kind of dialogue. Maybe we can have some negotiations mediated by David Geffen in his office, y'know? We'll have our list of demands and they'll have their list of demands, and through ssome process of elimination we'll find common ground and - it'll probably hold like a Sarajevo ceasefire, but it'll be worth a try." 

14 minutes ago, Kwick1 said:

By their vast differences I was really alluding to Kurt not overcoming mental disease. I don't know that Axl has or has ever had a mental disease but we all know of his challenges and struggles. Axl to me is someone with great strength that is capable of overcoming any obstacle and symbolizes hope. Kurt does not. Even in 91 when all was spiraling down for Axl personally and Nirvana growing in popularity, I never saw hope in KC. I only saw depression and trouble. 

I don't think Kurt Cobain emanated only despair, hopelessness and depression. There were instances, interviews etc. where he came off as positive. After his death everything he said and did was interpreted in hindsight, but before that there wasn't anything in his public persona that was particularly alarming - or, at least, not more alarming in comparison to others (Axl, for example, since we're making the comparison) - that would make a fan and, in general, anyone who didn't know him personally say "this guy is certainly gonna self destruct" or "he's gonna kill himself."

The combination of mental condition and drug abuse was probably fatal, but, had he overcome that, no one can really say what he would have developed into in regards of sorting out whatever differences he had with anyone. And those differences or feud with Axl were also magnified in hindsight after his death.

He could do one of the ballad-y songs, Rock N' Roll Suicide for example.

The uploader of the video posted on instagram that the audio is from Live Era.

22 minutes ago, shotsfired cro said:

True the pics. But I don't recall he has made any comments about music being made, links to GNR songs etc

He has posted about November Rain being recorded on one day. He even showed the inside of the studio and where Axl's piano was.

1 minute ago, shotsfired cro said:

Correct me if I am wrong.  This is the first time Matt posted something GNR related since NITL started.

He has made quite a few GnR related posts since NITL started.

3 hours ago, TeeJay410 said:

What's so weird is that Johnny Rotten doesn't get the respect he derserves for spearheading not one but two music movements, Punk AND post-punk. Public Image Ltd. is unreal. Between the Pistols and PiL, nearly half of music as we know it owes itself to some degree to John Lydon.

This is an overstatement, I think. Punk (as a socio-musical movement), I'd say yes. But there were others that were going to a post-punk direction at the same time as him, and even before. And before that, there were those who influenced it (David Bowie, Brian Eno, krautrock bands, etc)

Had he actually invited them?

Neil Young (I like him, but this is hilarious)

Full lineup announced:

https://louderthanlifefestival.com/lineup/

The day GnR headline is the best, imo. Some interesting names there.