teknophyle83

I'll be there, section 130

My Nashville tix arrived yesterday

I wish Fortus had more of a lead role. I'm way over DJ.

I don't understand how something like the butchered DJ SCOM intro even happens.

I mean, damn, learn to take a mulligan DJ.

I have to imagine maybe he didn't have monitor feed or something - if I start playing a song that's literally a guitar solo, and it sounds like that, I'm going to stop after two notes and get that backup guitar.

Huh. Well, great. Right in the middle of the NR solo. /headdesk

This whole Golden Gods show has been a fiasco. This should be the last one.

Did the feed just cut out for anyone else? D:

Oops tuning problem. Quick guitar change, haha.

Suicide Silence: the former I am contemplating now in exchange for some of the latter

This is literally laughably bad. I'm just stunned.

I seriously haven't posted here in like a couple of years but I had to come back and do this because I didn't know where else to take my sadness about music.

I mean jeez, which bands WERENT nominated?

oh my god turn the sound back off

Rock is dead

I highly doubt this was meant as a shot at Axl. Jack Black, in live D shows, has mentioned Axl Rose favorably plenty of times. There are recordings out there of Jack and Kyle announcing themselves as Buckethead's replacement for GNR, etc. Not to mention the song's pacing, as someone said.

They're huge fans/friends of Ronnie James Dio, but much of their song "Dio" could be construed as not overly nice to Mr. RJD. It's just part of their humor.

Disappointed, but I totally get it.

In the concert industry, "production issues" frequently means "slow ticket sales". No one but DCC and GNR know for sure in this case, though.

I will say that unless your name is Eric Clapton, you are not going to sell $90 floor seats in the Memphis area. There's no money here, especially leading up to the holidays.

Holy shit, I never thought I'd see GNR come to the Memphis area. Glad I held out on buying tickets to Dallas!

ITW is easily my favorite song on CD, and probably in my top 10 all time.

That's pretty cool!

Not getting in this gnr v. beatles debate. Truth is nothing about the beatles has ever excited me. The Rolling Stones wipe the beatles off the floor.

And trust me, had Jagger or Richards died instead of Lennon in a high point in their career, and The Stones stopped making music, and Lennon survived and the beatles were still around, the tables would totally be turned right now. Everyone would be all over the Stones instead of the Beatles.

The trick is die in your prime, and your legacy will always stay in your prime.

Couldn't agree more, really.

As I recall, there was quite a long time when you could listen to Democracy in its entirety on GNR's MySpace page. I might be mis-remembering, but I know you could at least hear several tracks for free. Maybe even still.

"The N-word" really shouldn't be filtered as "black person". That is not the definition of the word.

Yeah, I'm over Kid Rock, too.

After digging around a little, I found this info. I cannot confirm whether or not it's accurate, so take it with a grain of salt. Hope it helps:

Guitars:

Stratocasters. Lots of them. His favorite was a '54 with a maple neck. He also had a bunch of 70's strats in various colors and a natural ash strat that used to belong to his good friend and master vocalist Glen Goins (RIP). I've also seen a picture of him playing a strat with a tele neck.

Les Pauls. He had a Black Beauty that he used to record all of his solo album "Games Dames and Guitar Thangs". He also had a standard les paul in sunburst.

Firebird. He used one during the early years of the Parliaments and Funkadelic.

ES-355. There's a picture floating around of Eddie playing a red 335. He's also standing next to "token white devil" guitarist Ron Bykowski.

Towards the end of his career/life, Eddie played various Jackson guitars.

Amps:

Fender Dual Showman heads and cabs (1967-1970)

Marshall JMP Stacks (1970-1974)

Music Man HD 120 combos (1974-1980)

He used whatever he could get his hands on after 1980.

Effects:

Crybaby Wah

Fuzz Face and other various fuzz pedals

MXR Phase 90 and EH Small Stone

Echoplex system

Well, sort of. Marshall is in the process of working with Slash to build an amp that will share qualities with the famous "rental" Marshall used to record Appetite for Destruction.

http://www.afd100.com/

Axl better not turn away any fans in Slash/VR shirts. Times are tight if that many guys in GNR have to share that small room.

Hah.

Congrats!

Is this the one with the Bumblefoot guitar lesson? If so, I want to know how that goes.