UltraMav

As someone who spent a large amount of his late teens and early 20s waiting on Chinese Democracy and getting hyped up after every new leak and development (on this very forum, no less), I've honestly given up on this band as an "active" entity aside from tours. If another album comes, great, but I don't expect any new studio recordings until Axl's death, and even then I'm not sure.

I don't really post anymore, but still lurk around. This thread has brought up so many good memories for me. I was right out of high school at the time and knee deep in excitement for CD. The 2006 concerts were my proof to all of my naysayer friends that NuGN'R was a force to be reckoned with. The stream of leaks and constant buzz about the album being around the corner made for some truly exciting times on this board.

A shame it turned out the way it did, but I'll never forget seeing them at Inland Invasion in 2006. One of the greatest nights of my life. (Once the rioting stopped and the show got started.)

Regardless of the current state of the band, I'm happy that I had a great year of live shows to watch in '06 and a great album in '08.

I'd really like to hear a studio version of the song. It definitely has potential. If Axl dropped the faux accent and got really aggressive sounding it could work as a UYI-esque false-bravado song. It's probably been abandoned at this point, I imagine. Also, I'd much rather hear Oh My God again as well, awesome song that just needs a proper solo.

Its true, this is the rule. Also if you are driving a fair distance to see a band you shouldn't have that band on the stereo all the way. Its just not the way to do things.

Always heard this as well.

Huh, see I got this one backward. If it's a long trip I'll try to get through the whole catalog by the time I get to the venue!

...have you ever seen anybody in a GN’R T-shirt booing and complaining that Axl’s late again… Nope.

Not booing, but bottle throwing and fire starting.

Besides, fans like us catch so much shit for wearing Gnr shirts in public because Gnr offends the mainstream, so Gnr concerts are a cathartic experience for us.

What? GN'R is about as "mainstream" as you can get for anyone not born in the 2000s (besides Chinese Democracy).

...he's a person not a Windows update.

This made me almost spit out my coffee.

I too thought that this was a commonly known "unwritten rule" of concerts. Good thing I own like, two band shirts so I don't really worry about it either way.

I hope this dreadful performance doesn't put anyone off buying a ticket for the upcoming North American tour. Axl's voice will be awesome by the time he gets here. He was absolutely killer when I saw him in Montreal last year. Let us never speak of this RIR performance again.

What puts me off from buying a ticket is that he cancelled both of the shows I was scheduled to attend in the '06 tour the day before they were set to occur.

No chance. But at 01 we had new songs

You didn't have new songs, nor estranged at rock in rio 06. Everyone seems to forget that rio existed.

they're referring to rock in rio 2001.

rio 2006 was notoriously ill-received here, but a lot of that was blamed on the poor sound mix.

I don't recall being disappointed or excited by Rio 06. Was just kind of... there. I do remember being pissed that the stream I was watching kept cutting out all of the Chinese Democracy songs.

No chance. But at 01 we had new songs

This is true. Not to mention Oh My God. (Yes I'm one of "those people.") :-P

You guys think this was worse than RIR 2001?

Huh, watching some of the clips on YouTube now. It was pretty awesome to hear a new spin on Estranged after all of these years. Unfortunately from all I've seen so far, I can't get past the feeling that Axl has given up.

Well I couldn't watch the show as unfortunately YouTube couldn't seem to stream it reliably for me. Sounds like I didn't miss out on much. I ended up watching The Ritz '88 on my TV instead.

One more for the road. Joined back in high school, anticipating any nugget of news about Axl, CD, the new band. This site was my home page since I found it and until CD was finally released. With this place gone I'll probably drop out of the loop altogether, having no idea if and when any significant gnr news is happening. I refuse to go to htgth, and I don't think any of the smaller forums can fill the gap, unless there's a consensus on which one to join by the majority of posters here. Oh well, we'll see what happens.

It's been a good ride, mygnrforum.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

so much "news" for no news is really just NO news.

Post by Guns n roses Twitter a few mins back..

I can not decipher what this is trying to say.

Definitely a change of tune since the 2006 shows. Good to hear.

I think the OPs curiosity about Brownstone stems from the fact that the timing of the lyrics seems to perfectly sync up with Axl saying "fuckin time". I've always felt like it sounds edited out, but like others have pointed out, that doesn't really make sense when the song has plenty of other f-bombs littered throughout. I usually find myself filling in the "fuckin" in my head when listening to Appetite nowadays.

It's pretty ridiculous that we haven't gotten an update from the official GNR Twitter or Facebooks after those accounts were the ones telling us to wait for answers after such a long time. Can't say I'm surprised, though.

Well Dill ruined that show so I hope it's not congruent with the band's situation. :-P

All a matter of opinion, but Dill did not ruin the show.

Yes he did.

This thread is now about Rugrats.

Vastly more interesting than this band's shenanigans nowadays.

Well Dill ruined that show so I hope it's not congruent with the band's situation. :-P

I'm not sure if it's worse that Axl's Twitter got hacked, or that this band is so disjointed that we have to "wait 48 hours" before they can figure it the fuck out. Why on this green Earth can't they just fucking ask the guy?

I'm more concerned that he doesn't know the difference between "through" and "threw".

Wow, I forgot how awesome this sounds. I really hope if we ever do get another album that they include this.

Anyone got a link to an audio rip of that video?

Great to finally hear Axl's side of the story. I never expected it to be right here on the forum, of all places.

Oh, and how many more times do you think you guys can quote his entire post? That never gets old...