spunko12345 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 When that song came out print journalists had a lot more influence and especially people like Bob Guccione. I loved that song when i was 11 listening to the album when it came out but listening to it now I can't believe it was written by grown adults. It seems so petty. It's hard to think that the people behind them publications that got a thorough sagging wouldn't hold a grudge I think it's a big part of why gnr went out of fashion. Ive got a book by Mick Wall called the most dangerous band in the world and he comes across as a passionate devout fan and he gets great access to the band. He does nothing but praise them and how great they are. He wrote about Axl offering out Vincent Neill but that's because it happened and he is a journalist so he reported it. I don't know what the others did to piss gnr off so badly but i think writing a song specifically about a group of journalists was a bit stupid and u necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spliff Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 not as much as the ballads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Not as much as Axl's diva ass bullshit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) Don't know about the band, but it sure hurts my ears. Edited July 25, 2015 by EvH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Most of the journalists were flattered to feel that they had annoyed Axl that much that he felt the need to name them on a gigantic multi platinum selling album. For anyone who has reached puberty, the song is excruciatingly embarrassing and childish. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 When Axl started saying Rolling Stone was why the band was 3 hours late and bitching about Warren Beatty.. all the song did was immortalize a handful of names, of course Mick Wall is proud of being on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Referring to the journalists by name made the song very, very dated, and the point of a song is to try to be timeless IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkuk04 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 If you take away November Rain, Estranged & YCBM from UYL's, where does that leave GnR in the 90's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Over all Sorry is a better song than Get in the Ring if it was directed towards the journalists, even though I think that Sorry was written for Steph and Slash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomfriend Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I imagine if Axl ever wrote Get In The Ring Part 2 at this point it would take up an entire side of the album.Then when he finally reaches a point of some self awareness, Get In The Ring Part 3 will last for 12 seconds and just be him saying "Actually I think the problem may be with me" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Towelie Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 (edited) Get In The Ring Part 3 will last for 12 seconds and just be him saying "Actually I think the problem may be with me""I'm sorry to you and sorry for me, my mommy turned me against you and won't set me free." Edited July 25, 2015 by Towelie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Słash Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Get In The Ring Part 3 will last for 12 seconds and just be him saying "Actually I think the problem may be with me""I'm sorry to you and sorry for me, my mommy turned me against you and won't set me free."Because she don't want to do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AIC04 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 As far as gnr songs go it's easily one of the worst. Next to their cover of charles Manson look at your game. Hell the critics probably smirked they were mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Bob Guccione Jr took Axl up on his offer to fight. Alas, Axl neither fought him or responded#INTEGRITY 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkuk04 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 Wasn't the song put together by Duff and somebody else and they talked Axl into singing it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 I don't think that song hurt the band at all at the time. If anything it's just become something that people look back on and shudder at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wkuk04 Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 This & My World, Shotgun blues should have been b-sides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted July 25, 2015 Share Posted July 25, 2015 get in the ring is fine up until the axl rant and then it goes downhill fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Wasn't the song put together by Duff and somebody else and they talked Axl into singing it? As Duff said, it was his song first, then Axl added some lyrics and made it to this personal little war song against people in the press he had problems with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcountry Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Axl has talked about this in an MTV interview and he said he was encouraged to the rant about media people by none other than Duff and Slash.Axl went on to say when GITR was put out on the UYI albums and he stared getting heat for it everyone else in the band stepped away and let him take all the heat.Yes Axl did say this but is it true I don't know.As far as what fucked GNR was in the end GNR not the media. Two huge egos being Axl and Slash in the same band will do one of two things work together and make great music or implode and implode is exactly what happened. Slash and Axl both are to blame for that not just the popular choice of saying Axl was the one who broke GNR up. When Izzy left the band the voice of reason between Axl and Slash was gone and they couldn't make it work, it is not Izzy fault he done what he felt he had to do but neither Axl or Slash stepped up to make it work. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trin9498 Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 If you take away November Rain, Estranged & YCBM from UYL's, where does that leave GnR in the 90's?Leaves them with Don't cry, civil war, yesterday's, locomotive, etc..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Clearly what hurt the band more was having Mr Cancer Slash as a member. Too bad they couldn't have kept tracii guns around. GnR would have been huge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ludurigan Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 When that song came out print journalists had a lot more influence and especially people like Bob Guccione. I loved that song when i was 11 listening to the album when it came out but listening to it now I can't believe it was written by grown adults. It seems so petty. It's hard to think that the people behind them publications that got a thorough sagging wouldn't hold a grudge I think it's a big part of why gnr went out of fashion.Ive got a book by Mick Wall called the most dangerous band in the world and he comes across as a passionate devout fan and he gets great access to the band. He does nothing but praise them and how great they are. He wrote about Axl offering out Vincent Neill but that's because it happened and he is a journalist so he reported it. I don't know what the others did to piss gnr off so badly but i think writing a song specifically about a group of journalists was a bit stupid and u necessary.Axl mentioed on a recent interview (if my memory serves me well) that he felt like he was left alone by the band when it came to taking the shit for this song... maybe someone can find that quote, I am not sure where to find itI think that hurted the band more than anything that you mentionI still think it is a great songGet in the Ring is not the best guns n roses songBBut still sounds a million times better than pretty much anything recorded by any rock band on the last 20 years... The instrumental demo shows how great the song is even without Axl vocals... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 Get In The Ring didn't hurt the band at all at the time. If anything, the kids loved it and it gave the band more PR.When that song came out print journalists had a lot more influence and especially people like Bob Guccione. I loved that song when i was 11 listening to the album when it came out but listening to it now I can't believe it was written by grown adults. It seems so petty. It's hard to think that the people behind them publications that got a thorough sagging wouldn't hold a grudge I think it's a big part of why gnr went out of fashion.Ive got a book by Mick Wall called the most dangerous band in the world and he comes across as a passionate devout fan and he gets great access to the band. He does nothing but praise them and how great they are. He wrote about Axl offering out Vincent Neill but that's because it happened and he is a journalist so he reported it. I don't know what the others did to piss gnr off so badly but i think writing a song specifically about a group of journalists was a bit stupid and u necessary.Axl mentioed on a recent interview (if my memory serves me well) that he felt like he was left alone by the band when it came to taking the shit for this song... maybe someone can find that quote, I am not sure where to find itThis is where you find song quotes: http://www.a-4-d.com/t126-get-in-the-ring#144 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangoSkank Posted July 26, 2015 Share Posted July 26, 2015 It's a ridiculous over-the-top song that I don't take it too seriously. Pretty fun hearing hearing Axl yell "What you pissed off 'cause your dad gets more pussy than you?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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