Rocketqueen76

On 10/5/2019 at 3:36 PM, janrichmond said:

I've removed several posts from this thread. Please do not be abusive to other posters or belittle them. 

This is exactly the reason why I only pop in and out lately....I actually miss being able to come here for the discussions 

58 minutes ago, triad said:

What's this?  What did I miss?

Just figured out I’m hella late LOL....been away for awhile so playing catch-up 

Maybe Slash going to Axl’s house is a good sign? At least they’re hanging out again.

8 minutes ago, dgnr said:

Really? I always thought it was because of 'South Park' and 'Stranger Things' and then all the memes made it a millennial thing. I'm such a clueless millennial  

 I knew the song before and always loved it but because of the memes all my friends know it also now. At the beginning of the year I was in an hipster club here in Portugal with my friends, listening to modern songs and meanwhile the DJ puts 'Africa' and everyone cheers and sings to it. I was in awe, thank you internet  

My mom listened to Toto when I was a kid so I just kind of fell into it. I had to be somewhere between 6 and 8 at the time it came out so it became one of those songs I would roller skate to.....that and double Dutch bus, but that’s a song for a different day LOL

OMG.....that song just takes me back. I remember that between Africa and Hold The Line I couldn’t make up my mind which I liked better. @killuridols the reason it’s a millennial hit is because some  young pop group just remade it LOL 

3 minutes ago, dgnr said:

Look at this Meegan comment and make of that what you will  


 

The pic she commented is this one:

 

Maybe he’s around just not being photographed? Or maybe he has constant contact via Skype or FaceTime?

6 minutes ago, Lio said:

You also have people like Sting or Elton John saying their kids won't inherit their fortune and will have to work for their money themselves, as they think being a trust fund kid is more detrimental to you than having to work for it yourself.

I agree with this sentiment wholeheartedly. Having to actually work to be successful will make them appreciate it so much more in the end.

8 minutes ago, killuridols said:

It's funny how much we can focus on a cake but don't give her any credit for dealing with a dying Slash, a drugaddict Slash, a Slash with heart problems......

Women are the main caregivers in society. Whenever someone in the house is ill, there's a woman there dealing with the whole shit, which is not glamourous nor fun. Men usually run away from those situations. Not all men but in general, who feeds the ill child? Who takes care of the aging parents? Who changes diapers of babies and adults?

99% of the time is a woman so.... Slash, the rockstar, he is a rockstar for us and we only see his bright light on stage, when he is showing off his talent and sharing it with the world, but at the end of the night that man is human, eats, shits and sleeps like the rest of us. Also gets sick like the rest of us and is aging like the rest of us, but none of us will be there in his darkest hour. 

Gotta think about that.

It’s not that we’re not giving her credit, but you don’t ever put your children in the middle of adult business in any way shape or form. 

11 minutes ago, killuridols said:

the thing is one has to analyze why you're being judgmental to a woman and not to a man who does the same things.

Here is one time that I totally agree with you. Society has had a double standard in this regard since the beginning of time, and I think it’s quite unfair. Men can fuck as many women or act as outrageously as they want and it’s seen as them just being men. If a woman does the same thing she’s the whore of Babylon, a slut or a tramp. Hell, I say what’s good for the goose is good for gander. 

That cake Perla had made was really in bad taste. There are just some things you don’t show your kids and that level of negativity toward the other parent is one of them. I know it was meant to be funny but she could have been a bit more tactful.

10 minutes ago, MaskingApathy said:

It's like those people who blindly support and follow Axl despite whatever he did or didn't do. There was this girl on IG recently who tried to pick a fight with me about it when I asked if she was going to go to any of the SMKC shows in Europe (if there was one near her). She got all upset because she's an "Axl girl" so I guess she can't support SMKC as well. Fans like her are really annoying and ruin it for everyone else.

 

I hear you, but would you jump ship if your favorite sports team lost a game or two? But I understand your thought process.

Just now, Tori72 said:

You definitely read other fanfiction than me 

Lol.....you’d be surprised 

1 minute ago, Tori72 said:

Ok, thanks. So we got it all sorted out again. Axl and Izzy being Indianians.

Not gonna mention the cornfields now.  

Johnny Carson once said “If you ever want to commit a murder and get away with it, go to Decatur, Illinois.” 

He was implying that the cornfields would help hide the body.

Just now, Tori72 said:

For real now?  I’m really interested in that. Is that a mentality thing? You’re not outgoing and all? What is it that people say the Indianians (?) are like, mentality wise?

I’m from Illinois and I am a bit reclusive in my own right. People from Indiana are usually pretty outspoken but tend to keep to themselves, so some tend to retreat into their heads more than others. 

2 minutes ago, Tori72 said:

I really don’t wanna discuss the whole did-Axl-split-up-the-band-or-was-it-all-of-them. It’s getting old. (As well as the Who-s-an-Axl-nutswinger-talk. *yawn*)

Just wanted to point out that the stories media was reporting on were real. 

Anyway, Axl can be as reclusive as he wants. Duff can be out there on social media with his private life as much as he wants. (But then don’t bloody pretend you didn’t get the discussions about Izzy being in the reunion or not that was on social media, Ned Flanders!) For me it is those missing Izzy and Steven, the whole fabrication of the threeunion and no-info-politics as well as the no-new-music-or-only-rumour-politics that fans have a right to have an opinion about. Every artist, celebrity, whatever should not be critzicize for being reclusive. - That coming from an Izzy fan, I hope you get that I really mean it. lol

Well said

6 hours ago, Tori72 said:

Was he exactly been burnt badly in the past? I mean it. What was the press being unfair about, seriously?

Sure, if you count the domestic violence, riots and going mental on his bandmates, which he totally didn’t do, so he’s fucking innocent? lol

You know what I mean? He just wasn’t a nice person and the press caught up on that. For some reason I do think he now is a nice enough person on a daily basis.

I think those Indy-boys are somewhat reclusive. Maybe it’s a mentality thing? 

Yes my dear, we midwesterners are notoriously reclusive with all those cornfields to hide in LOL

5 minutes ago, killuridols said:

Fans who cannot see things from an objective point of view like to repeat like parrots that media is to blame for his reclusive spirit.

I think he is a reclusive for fear of people and for being conscious of what he's done. Just take a look to the comments on any website where is reported that he's been criticizing Trump... In a nutshell, most comments advice him to clean his own backyard before criticizing others, they blame him for destroying the band, for walking out of shows and unleashing riots.

I mean, none of those things are "made up stories" by the press. Thousands of people attended shows that were cancelled because of his behavior and people have intact memories of that. Also, he's the one who toured for more than a decade with a bunch of guys he called Gn'R but they were not.... no one else but him did it.

When you have so many things to apologize for but you are not willing to do it, you obviously gotta go stealth with it.

The band destroyed itself by way of the members not taking care of their individual afflictions. Not a one of them is innocent in that respect. Sure Axl was an asshole and did some pretty shitty things....sometimes for the right reasons, but the rest of the guys did shitty things too and the press didn’t ride them as hard.  Do I think Axl is a saint? Hell no.....but I do think that the media... what was that phrase you used, blindly hates him so much that they can’t put his past behind them, and apparently neither can his fans.

Now that I’m done playing devils advocate, I understand completely where you are coming from and agree with your assessment to an extent.

53 minutes ago, killuridols said:

More like lol'ing at the social "rest".

Sure  thing.

38 minutes ago, killuridols said:

A dormant society wakes up to the notion of having one of them in the office, while they were sleeping and living comfortable not giving a damn about politics, people like Trump were paving their path to power.

Now they think that tweeting discomfort and disagreement will make a change. Lol at all of you.

Staying quiet isn’t going to change things, speaking out loud will start the wheels of change. I would never LOL about any country’s social unrest.

9 minutes ago, Georgina Arriaga said:

Honestly, the last two years there is only one picture of Axl in his downtime, was made from a guy that saw him walking his dogs in 2017.

I wish he has a lady like Meegan or Susan that post everything they do on Instagram but is not the case....sadly for us...good for him.

Can we really blame Axl for being media shy though? Press hasn’t always been kind to him.

2 hours ago, killuridols said:

Yes, that's how people on both sides of the fence are acting and it really doesn't help at all.

I agree that it doesn’t help, but the anger and dislike isn’t blind.

9 minutes ago, killuridols said:

This is a law that will last past his administration so he might use it to promote himself now but it is really beyond him and it's good for the artists.

Fanatism should not make people blindly hate someone to the point of denying rights to others. 

 

Blindly hate? Okay

11 minutes ago, killuridols said:

Nothing is going to change about what?

What does Kavanaugh have to do with music? 

I’M talking about Trumps poor choices.....and nothing is really going in the music industry under his administration....no matter what document is signed 

3 minutes ago, killuridols said:

His "political" tweets are just lazy shit, old man yelling at clouds kind of thing.

What is to complain about a law that is beneficial for musicians in an era where cultural industries are about to disappear? There's nothing political, not even a rant in what he tweets. He is just sitting on his comfortable couch enjoying his millions, while new artists are struggling to make ends meet because they can't live off their art anymore.

The problem is that nothing is going to change. Trump has not proven himself trustworthy in any way.....Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court appointment and his subsequent response is proof of that.  That’s why Axl is speaking out.

2 minutes ago, dgnr said:

I get it, I'm poor too, but we all just should live a little... If not, what's the thrill of living?  

I'm talking out of my ass, this meme actually sums it up pretty well  

 

But at the end of the day concerts are always worth it 

Very true.