Pinball Wizard

3 minutes ago, sofine11 said:

What’s funny is that this now means one of two things: We did this to the Spotify search algorithm by being absolutely nuts searching for these songs…Or there is a full GNR album about to drop. That there is no in between is really pretty damn funny. 👌🏼

Hahahahahahaha

I wouldn't rule any of that out!

When I was going to release my band's demo on Spotify I had to upload the songs from a publishing site and set up a release date. I could find my band's page by searching for the songs before that release date, though... So...  There's that. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(My band's name is "mamma voodoo" by the way, check us out! 😁)

 Fuck it. I just got tickets for the concert and booked a flight to see them again in Porto alegre on the 26th. Just fuck it. In one minute I'm completely bummed about whatever when it comes to this band but then I get to see them live and everything changes 180°!

My 4-year-old godson was also there in Belo Horizonte with his parents. He had a blast. He sang his favorite tunes (easy, jungle, sweet child, absurd, Hardskool and paradise city). Just talked to him and he said "it was the best show of my life", but he's only 4 and this was the first show of his life! 😂

People around him thought it was the cutest thing him singing those songs. Life's good, guys. Let's enjoy it while they and we are still here!

I'm at a McDonald's trying to eat something. What a FUCKING show! Got front row, decided to go the last minute, duff and Axl interacted A LOT with the group I was with - I screamed BULLSHIT in patient after "I'll wait dear", Axl heard, laughed, look at my direction and finished singing the following verses in front of us. Amazing show, those sons of bitches...

2 minutes ago, DownUnderScott said:

Nice one. It seems he is genuinely grateful that 100,000's of  people still turn up to his shows around the world. It's good that he is. Happy for him that he is getting alot of pleasure and satisfaction out of performing live these days when in the past it was a more difficult proposition for him. 

Playing in Rio, and specially at this festival, is something really important to him. I'm not saying this because I'm from Rio (I fucking HATE this damn city) but I've watched Axl perform in 7 different states in Brazil and none of them holds a candle compared to how Axl goes on the stage when performing in Rio. It's just different, hard to explain, you have to experience it here to compare to other places. 

 When he walked on stage tonight I felt it in his eyes he was like "I can't fuck this shit up, must give my 110%". He was on game face mode for almost the whole show. At the end of paradise city he had a smirk on his face as if he was thinking "yeah, I still got it". I was there front row at rock in Rio '11 and '17. I could tell Axl wasn't happy with what he was giving. Tonight it felt different - even though I was at home this time.

A guns n roses show in Rio is just different. Even for Axl. And getting a tweet such as that from him like an hour after the gig's done just confirms this for me.

Call me a hopeless romantic, I don't care.  😂

Matt has a deal with a brewery here. www.thedrummerbeer.com

Every once in a while he's here with some people to promote something, play some pocket shows and shit like that. I even have friends who had played with him in some of those events. It could be just another one of those things.

Don't know about Gilby's relation to this, though.

34 minutes ago, Sosso said:

I think it's cool when people can still get exicited about something. 

 

I just saw a clip of a 74 year old woman holding a picture of duff in what looked like the front of the hotel, very excited about the fact the band is playing there.

These kind of things warm my heart.

https://twitter.com/gnrnewsbrasil/status/1565086710534475779?t=3c-6FCaIb518lGB-DWrrYQ&s=19

First off, let me start by saying I want a new guns n roses record. It is my all time favorite band, I started learning English with their songs, I wanted to have bands because of gnr and their songs even got me out of a few depression phases - one in particular where I tried to take my life away 3 times and catcher in the rye made me think things over.

So yeah, Guns N' Roses is a big fucking deal in my book. No wonder I have 6 gnr related tattoos on my right arm.

But as much as I love this band, I have to say it: they just "don't need" to release new music as far as they approach their business as they have been doing lately. 

I was talking to my best friend today (we've met at my old gnr message board and now I'm his little boy's godfather - another gift gnr has given me, by the way) and we were discussing this last show. They played cards with which they couldn't miss the game, yet managed to miss it every chance possible for some. But at the end of the day, 99% of the people there at the gig left with a good image of the concert, even with weak performances like sweet child, you could be mine, rocket queen and all those songs WE - THE CRAZY BASTARDS WHO WATCH THE BAND'S EVERY MOVE - are more than tired of cringing over the last few years.

But when I was watching one of the streams last night and heard a few people booing the band when they got into Chinese democracy (which had a good performance, tbh) and then heard the same people going nuts after the train wreck that you could be mine has become, it made me realize: if I were at their shoes, would I bother? Imagine you're in your late 50's, making a shit load of cash for playing 30-year-old songs with very little effort KNOWING people are gonna like it regardless. Would you risk losing this reception/acception/sure money by changing that safe bet for something new that people are, probably, not going to be as interested in simply because it doesn't ring on them a blast from the past Golden years they lived with those tunes as their soundtracks?

Gnr is a fucking phenomenon. You can't name a lot of bands with a catalog as small as gnr with such great songs that had impacted so many people during their prime. 

Yeah, Axl, Slash and Duff are back together. But imagine a new album written and recorded by them 33 years after appetite. They can't write about living dangerously in the streets of la because they are all old rich guys who get everything they want given to them on a silver platter. They can't write about more serious things they lived because "it doesn't sound like the most dangerous band in the world". People are lazy and laziness it THE way the public will receive a new album made by them, comparing the now with the then. And, guys, the "then" is unbeatable, because... people are lazy even for that. "I see you standing there, you think you're so cool, why don't you just fuck off?" Is a very powerful line to make people feel reckless inside their 3 piece suit, with a family to take care of and baby sitters to pay so you can go to a rock show and feel young for a couple of hours.

Seriously, imagine gnr going serious and writing songs that reflect their actual experiences over the last few years. For the big public, would those songs be as good as the easy-fuckoff-attitute-rocknroll-fuckyeah they feel when they play the old stuff?

And then, gnr throws some bones for the die-hard fans. We had coma, dead horse, locomotive, shadow of your love as some "deep cuts" to make us happy. But you can feel the general public's reaction to them. I remember being at an Aerosmith concert and me and 3 of my friends were the only ones going NUTS when they played Kings and Queens, chip away at the stone and rats in the cellar. But when they played I don't wanna miss a thing, damn, the stadium went down.

Sorry for the long post, but I had to take it out of my chest. Bands like gnr don't need to put an effort to release new music and risk losing 40k attendence per show during a tour if they have to replace the classics for new tunes the majority of the people won't care about. At least as much. Would they be ok to tour with the big three in 10k/15k arenas backing these songs that reflect more where they are today as artists and losing a lot of money in the process? Seriously, I don't think so. And I probably wouldn't too if I were on their shoes. Because the general feeling is "we don't need to prove ourselves anymore". If someone wants to risk something, go and release a solo record, play small clubs to have that rush and then come back to your day job at gnr to make more money to endorse your next project.

It saddens me to write this. I hope gnr proves me wrong. You can talk the shit you want about the old-new line up of 2009/2010, but then they really wanted to prove something, there was something in the air, they were all giving their everything on the concerts (just watch Osaka 2009 and the brilliance that is if the world). I don't feel/see this fire anymore. It's like, "why bother?"

It really turns me off. I'm gonna still follow the band as much as I can, I'm just not sacrificing anything in my life for it as long as things are this way. In a couple months they are playing Lollapalooza in sao Paulo, a 40-minute plane ride from Rio de Janeiro. But I see what they've been doing lately and I just don't want to give this destiny to my money, which only I know how hard I worked to earn it. Let gnr gets their easy cash by knocking someone's jollies for a change. 

If one day they decide to prove something again, I'm sure as hell I'll be there to support them, even if doesn't sound as good, but I'll respect it artistically. One of the main points that got me into gnr to begin with.