Randy Jesus Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 What is the dress code and what time should we show up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) 'Does DJ Ashba have the memory of a fruit fly and suffer the delusions of a man on his third day lost in the sahara? I am worried for his demented sanity since claims the setlists are unpredictable and never follow the same pattern and there is apparently too much new material to make a new record from.'Whenever someone asks me an important question, I think "What would Ashba say?". Then I say the opposite. Maybe there will be WWAD bracelets soon. I think Axl needs to fly to NYC and appear on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Jimmy is a huge GNR fan, so I think Axl should give him an interview.Absolutely. Fallon did a great service to the new band at the 2002 VMAs.Maybe Axl knows that night would inevitably be brought up, and prefers to forget it. I would go as far as saying that Fallon's GnR announcement is the greatest thing about the 2002 VMA's. He was genuinely fucking stoked and it was very infectious. I still maintain the performance itself was pretty poor, but the sheer mystique about it was fantastic and Fallon contributed to that a lot. Axl was fucken terrible in it except for Madagascar. Paradise City and Jungle sucked vocally, it was embarrassing. Obvious that he did not prepare for such a momentous occasion.Watching it now. Yes, Axl sounds poor on Jungle and PC. Typical high-pitched 2002 voice. But at least he can hold a note twice as long as he can now. The pitch is terrible, but at least it's not as fragile as now. And there's some hunger, power and mystique to the band. Despite Finck looking terrible and Buckethead looking like..well...Buckethead, it still has something powerful. If anybody would have told me 10 years ago that I would one day defend the VMA performance I would have laughed in their faces. This realization makes me sad. Edited May 11, 2014 by username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yesterdays-Civil-War Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I say no one asks them jack shit.Return their apathy.Don't give TB any ideas.2015 Vegas Residency, "Apathy for Democracy" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Rose Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 What I'd like to know is who came up with the name No Trickery and what was their punishment.Axl having a pop at Flea for using a new but pre-recorded bassline for the Superbowl. He clearly forgot that he re-recorded most of the vocals for Live Era because that's not a bit of forgiveable trickery at a huge show with crazy logistics: it's putting out a 'live' album that isn't live at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) What I'd like to know is who came up with the name No Trickery and what was their punishment.Axl having a pop at Flea for using a new but pre-recorded bassline for the Superbowl. He clearly forgot that he re-recorded most of the vocals for Live Era because that's not a bit of forgiveable trickery at a huge show with crazy logistics: it's putting out a 'live' album that isn't live at all.A lot of live albums get touched up and some parts re-recorded and other shit. Kiss Alive! is not really alive. But that was a good "live" album. I like the re-recorded higher register vocals for Nightrain in the chorus. Edited May 11, 2014 by Rovim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Comstock Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I threw Live Era on recently... Did he re-recorded all of Nightrain? It sounds weird.The re-recorded parts in Estranged are so blatant that it's actually depressing... Did they forget that they'd already released that version on the UYI Tokyo tapes, or did they think nobody would notice? It's so unnecessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 I threw Live Era on recently... Did he re-recorded all of Nightrain? It sounds weird.The re-recorded parts in Estranged are so blatant that it's actually depressing... Did they forget that they'd already released that version on the UYI Tokyo tapes, or did they think nobody would notice? It's so unnecessary.This will be a great question to ask during the Vegas Q&A. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 What I'd like to know is who came up with the name No Trickery and what was their punishment.Axl having a pop at Flea for using a new but pre-recorded bassline for the Superbowl. He clearly forgot that he re-recorded most of the vocals for Live Era because that's not a bit of forgiveable trickery at a huge show with crazy logistics: it's putting out a 'live' album that isn't live at all.A lot of live albums get touched up and some parts re-recorded and other shit. Kiss Alive! is not really alive. But that was a good "live" album. I like the re-recorded higher register vocals for Nightrain in the chorus."We've done that (gone back in the studio) in the past for certain songs where we've had train wrecks. We have so many live albums, first of all, that we've had just about every live album experience. The first one (All the World's a Stage) was totally raw and totally live and it really bugged us for years that we didn't fix anything. And then with the second one (Exit Stage Left), we fixed way too many things and it sounds a bit sterile in retrospect. And then you learn what to mess with and what not to mess with. You want to present the best possible show for people, but you don't want to get so nit-picky about it that you lose what's interesting about a live performance." - Geddy Lee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 (edited) What I'd like to know is who came up with the name No Trickery and what was their punishment.Axl having a pop at Flea for using a new but pre-recorded bassline for the Superbowl. He clearly forgot that he re-recorded most of the vocals for Live Era because that's not a bit of forgiveable trickery at a huge show with crazy logistics: it's putting out a 'live' album that isn't live at all.A lot of live albums get touched up and some parts re-recorded and other shit. Kiss Alive! is not really alive. But that was a good "live" album. I like the re-recorded higher register vocals for Nightrain in the chorus."We've done that (gone back in the studio) in the past for certain songs where we've had train wrecks. We have so many live albums, first of all, that we've had just about every live album experience. The first one (All the World's a Stage) was totally raw and totally live and it really bugged us for years that we didn't fix anything. And then with the second one (Exit Stage Left), we fixed way too many things and it sounds a bit sterile in retrospect. And then you learn what to mess with and what not to mess with. You want to present the best possible show for people, but you don't want to get so nit-picky about it that you lose what's interesting about a live performance." - Geddy Lee Axl is insecure, and on many occasions he doesn't know how or is not capable to step back and say: "it's done". Big problem for any artist. Edited May 11, 2014 by Rovim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayster138 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 "will there be new songs at these shows? and im not talking about something like yesterdays or breakdown or even Izzy showing up and guns closing with goodnight tonight....I mean new songs even if its stuff from the chinese democracy leftovers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Throw these at the stage: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 That blow up globe is cute. I would like one.So is this Q&A going to be online or in Vegas or both?I doubt anything new will be discussed and if anything new will be happening at these Vegas shows, I would think the band would keep it a secret.I wonder how the shows are selling this time around? I would love to go, but it's too expensive for a couple of nights. Plus I really wasn't impressed with the hotel at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 What I'd like to know is who came up with the name No Trickery and what was their punishment.Axl having a pop at Flea for using a new but pre-recorded bassline for the Superbowl. He clearly forgot that he re-recorded most of the vocals for Live Era because that's not a bit of forgiveable trickery at a huge show with crazy logistics: it's putting out a 'live' album that isn't live at all.A lot of live albums get touched up and some parts re-recorded and other shit. Kiss Alive! is not really alive. But that was a good "live" album. I like the re-recorded higher register vocals for Nightrain in the chorus."We've done that (gone back in the studio) in the past for certain songs where we've had train wrecks. We have so many live albums, first of all, that we've had just about every live album experience. The first one (All the World's a Stage) was totally raw and totally live and it really bugged us for years that we didn't fix anything. And then with the second one (Exit Stage Left), we fixed way too many things and it sounds a bit sterile in retrospect. And then you learn what to mess with and what not to mess with. You want to present the best possible show for people, but you don't want to get so nit-picky about it that you lose what's interesting about a live performance." - Geddy Lee Axl is insecure, and on many occasions he doesn't know how or is not capable to step back and say: "it's done". Big problem for any artist.It was hard enough to try to create a sonic experience of a GNR concert that made you feel like you were at the show, and not because they had a contract obligation. I don't know if i agree with a "highlights" live album as much as putting full length shows out as a "legal bootleg", that's something fans will always debate about. There's probably a few "benchmark" concerts GNR could put out now and be blown away by without having to do anything to it, including in the 2002 and 2006 tours. Axl knows that if no new music is coming, the archives are going to be mined, because people want the full shows, esp. if they were at the shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 That blow up globe is cute. I would like one.So is this Q&A going to be online or in Vegas or both?I doubt anything new will be discussed and if anything new will be happening at these Vegas shows, I would think the band would keep it a secret.I wonder how the shows are selling this time around? I would love to go, but it's too expensive for a couple of nights. Plus I really wasn't impressed with the hotel at all.It's not on the Strip which is a disadvantage, and they should be shaking the setlist up each night, esp. when you're getting people to see 2 or more shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 That blow up globe is cute. I would like one.So is this Q&A going to be online or in Vegas or both?I doubt anything new will be discussed and if anything new will be happening at these Vegas shows, I would think the band would keep it a secret.I wonder how the shows are selling this time around? I would love to go, but it's too expensive for a couple of nights. Plus I really wasn't impressed with the hotel at all. It's not on the Strip which is a disadvantage, and they should be shaking the setlist up each night, esp. when you're getting people to see 2 or more shows.Tbf, they played TWAT about 5 times at the last residency, and Catcher replaced SOD halfway through. 14 Years was played with Izzy a couple of times. He really struggled with TWAT in 2012, though, don't think we'll ever hear it again (the one song I wanted to hear most, as well... :/ ). I think The Seeker was introduced at Vegas? They need to drop it now, though, never gets much reaction at the shows I've been to, might as well play a deep cut instead of a cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 That blow up globe is cute. I would like one.So is this Q&A going to be online or in Vegas or both?I doubt anything new will be discussed and if anything new will be happening at these Vegas shows, I would think the band would keep it a secret.I wonder how the shows are selling this time around? I would love to go, but it's too expensive for a couple of nights. Plus I really wasn't impressed with the hotel at all. It's not on the Strip which is a disadvantage, and they should be shaking the setlist up each night, esp. when you're getting people to see 2 or more shows.Tbf, they played TWAT about 5 times at the last residency, and Catcher replaced SOD halfway through. 14 Years was played with Izzy a couple of times. He really struggled with TWAT in 2012, though, don't think we'll ever hear it again (the one song I wanted to hear most, as well... :/ ). I think The Seeker was introduced at Vegas? They need to drop it now, though, never gets much reaction at the shows I've been to, might as well play a deep cut instead of a cover.Catcher and Shackler's was on the South American leg so they're probably going to pop up in Vegas. I think Seeker's one of those songs that doesn't kick Axl's ass and he did that at most of the shows. It was good news hearing he opened with something other than ChiDem, but he probably has a whole routine and ritual getting ready to go on stage with that song. It's almost like it's the song he does to warm up his voice and check the audience out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyrobot Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 We should boicot this Q&A if its Bumblefoot or Dizzy again parroting the same shit over and over.There's only one question that matters and that is "when is the new album coming out?". If no answer for this then BYE BYE.Twitter is cruel and they know it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 There's only one question that matters and that is "when is the new album coming out?". If no answer for this then BYE BYE.But that's not even remotely what this Q&A is about.We need to know if there will be trickery or not at this newest Vegas residency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinyrobot Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 There's only one question that matters and that is "when is the new album coming out?". If no answer for this then BYE BYE.But that's not even remotely what this Q&A is about.We need to know if there will be trickery or not at this newest Vegas residency.what is there to be asked about Vegas residency?? It's like the friggin' third time they do it, isn't it?Plus I live in hell, no chance of going.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguy Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 I'm curious as to what varieties of Monster energy shots DJ will be giving away. I hope we get that question answered! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 When is this supposed to happen? Today? I have some interesting questions about Axl's favorite country to play and BBF most difficult solo to learn. No trickery. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lio Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I think it's on today. It's a Q&A about Vegas. PLEASE don't ask them to come back to Brazil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maynard Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 I think it's on today. It's a Q&A about Vegas. PLEASE don't ask them to come back to Brazil!I'd gladly ask them to stay away from Brazil for at least a decade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlrosefan4life Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 My question " any plans for goin down to be played " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NGOG Posted May 14, 2014 Share Posted May 14, 2014 Dj and Richard are doing the Q&A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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