Original Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 No doubt. Snowflakes would have cancelled them in 10 seconds. - https://www.foxnews.com/media/slash-claims-guns-n-roses-wouldve-been-canceled-today-glad-we-didnt-have-internet-back-then 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post allwaystired Posted February 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2023 (edited) He's not wrong on that one. Times have changed. Probably for the better, overall. Edited February 16, 2023 by allwaystired 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post alfierose Posted February 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2023 Probably for the best but young Axl let loose on facebook or twitter would have been very special indeed. A few years ago one of the regular posters in the Women's Thread mocked up some pretend facebook beefs between young GNR which were funny. 3 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Killer Posted February 16, 2023 Share Posted February 16, 2023 I don't know if the internet can be blamed entirely. If anything, there might be lessons to be gained from how Guns N" Roses handled the print press and the endless articles about the band - in today's internet environment. I wasn't that old back then. Based on rants / Get In the Ring - GNR were tabloid fodder, right? They managed the relationship as well as can be. Thirty years removed, does anyone really remember the grocery store trash magazines? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post allwaystired Posted February 16, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 16, 2023 1 minute ago, Spike Killer said: I don't know if the internet can be blamed entirely. If anything, there might be lessons to be gained from how Guns N" Roses handled the print press and the endless articles about the band - in today's internet environment. I wasn't that old back then. Based on rants / Get In the Ring - GNR were tabloid fodder, right? They managed the relationship as well as can be. Thirty years removed, does anyone really remember the grocery store trash magazines? I have to admit- part of their appeal was all that sort of stuff. I'm not sure, without that stuff, their appeal would have been so exciting to kids like me, if we're bing honest. It worked both ways. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mystery Posted February 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2023 Having a phone in your pocket thats basically a computer with built in camera is a game changer. Some of the crazy stuff they were doing thats now legend would be caught on camera. There was much more privacy before we were connected 24/7 and rock stars were much more mysterious. Now Axl lets us know what he ate for breakfast. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratam Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 It Slash claims is now in everywhere news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamillos Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Oh absolutely. They couldn’t even come up with the same lyrics nowadays, let alone the same behaviour. Not if they wanted to be all over the media and have the same impact like they had in their prime. Then again, they probably wouldn’t give a shit. And we probably wouldn’t know they existed. It’s almost funny how it’s all shifted, isn’t it. I mean, the problems are the same (even worse), let’s not fool ourselves. But the public perception is now different, and there’s a huge game of pretence. But the attempt to control people behind it all, I think, is more and more visible each day. There are some nice things about it too, sure. People should be equal etc., by all means. The trouble is, we’re not there yet. We’re in the first stage, where nice ideas are taken, twisted and turned upside down, and used for nefarious means. Same with the green politics and other stuff. Deception, scam, one after another. Look, it’s 7 am here, and I’m only slowly working on my second coffee, ok? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystery Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 If the internet were around then we would have had footage of the Spaghetti Incident in 4K. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rovim Posted February 17, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 17, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, mystery said: If the internet were around then we would have had footage of the Spaghetti Incident in 4K. would have been fantastic. Or high res footage of a fucked up Slash running away butt naked from tiny imaginary predator-like creatures on a spa resort. Edited February 17, 2023 by Rovim 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 10 minutes ago, Rovim said: Or high res footage of a fucked up Slash running away butt naked from tiny imaginable predator-like creatures on a spa resort. That's when he ran into/over a maid who would have pressed charges of assault if Goldstein hadn't bribed their way out of it. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnrcane Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 9 hours ago, jamillos said: Oh absolutely. They couldn’t even come up with the same lyrics nowadays, let alone the same behaviour. Not if they wanted to be all over the media and have the same impact like they had in their prime. Then again, they probably wouldn’t give a shit. And we probably wouldn’t know they existed. It’s almost funny how it’s all shifted, isn’t it. I mean, the problems are the same (even worse), let’s not fool ourselves. But the public perception is now different, and there’s a huge game of pretence. But the attempt to control people behind it all, I think, is more and more visible each day. There are some nice things about it too, sure. People should be equal etc., by all means. The trouble is, we’re not there yet. We’re in the first stage, where nice ideas are taken, twisted and turned upside down, and used for nefarious means. Same with the green politics and other stuff. Deception, scam, one after another. Look, it’s 7 am here, and I’m only slowly working on my second coffee, ok? I don't know about the lyrics. Have you seen the lyrics in current hip hop songs? Other than OIAM, I don't think any of GNR's lyrics were any worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 1 hour ago, Gnrcane said: I don't know about the lyrics. Have you seen the lyrics in current hip hop songs? Other than OIAM, I don't think any of GNR's lyrics were any worse. can't do now what they did then. Axl Rose is not a rapper. He had his faults and it reflected in his music like in OIAM. Great tune. One of my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiritual_Chaos Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 On 2/16/2023 at 8:25 PM, Original said: Snowflakes would have cancelled them in 10 seconds. The kind of people using the term "snowflakes". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockphantom Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 I miss the pre-internet days. During the "Golden Era", the only other GNR fans I knew were kids at my school. We didn't have to deal with possessive people who have an issue with fans freely sharing live recordings, and in-turn take the fun out of being a GNR fan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stress Fracture Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Most of their peers were cancelled by grunge anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintari Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 (edited) I'm not endorsing Kid Rock here, but I think with his song, Don't Tell Me How to Live, he kind of proved what most of us have known all along: you can't cancel people. If Guns N Roses wanted to release One In A Million today, they could. Maybe their record label would drop them, but they could just record their own music in their own studio and release it themselves. No one can stop anyone from saying or doing anything within the law. Cancel culture has always been a sham. It's nothing but a slew of mentally disturbed people with fucked up childhoods and all sorts of mood/chemical disorders and complexes using the guise of social progress to be dicks to those whom they feel have it better than they do. It's about revenge and resentment and nothing else, and the first massive company, or movie studio, or television station that calls them out on it by not doing their bidding is going to be the first domino to the woke's downfall. Edited February 22, 2023 by Nintari 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanboy Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 young Axl vs. Facebook / Twitter / cancel cult would be a curious thing to see. They tried to cancel Eminem, he answered with a song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlfan88 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 On 2/16/2023 at 8:46 PM, allwaystired said: He's not wrong on that one. Times have changed. Probably for the better, overall. For the worse. Censorship is always bad. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hollywood_democracy Posted February 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2023 2 hours ago, axlfan88 said: For the worse. Censorship is always bad. Look up what censorship is. Canceling someone isn't censoring them. It's more like blacklisting them. They are still free to speak uncensored all they want. 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stay.Of.Execution Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Is cancel culture even a thing, or is it just a word made up by - mostly conservatives/right wings - to complain about people not being able to say/do anything they want without getting some kind of backlash? are there examples of people who got "cancelled" for no good reason? 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamillos Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 6 hours ago, hollywood_democracy said: Look up what censorship is. Canceling someone isn't censoring them. It's more like blacklisting them. They are still free to speak uncensored all they want. You’re right, but they’re close to each other, these two things. You get blacklisted, and while you still can say what you want, your voice will get to 10% of the audience you used to have. And all that just because some brainwashed bastard thought you shouldn’t be saying certain things since they are a no-no these days. Fuck that, censorship, and PC. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
©GnrPersia Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) Fuck PC + Censorship! Police and hooray for tolerance!s, that's right Get outta my way Don't need to buy none of your Gold chains today Now don't need no bracelets Clamped in front of my back Just need my ticket 'till then Won't you cut me some slack Immigrants and fagots They make no sense to me They come to our country And think they'll do as they please Like start some mini-Iran Or spread some fucking disease And they talk so many God damn ways It's all Greek to me Edit: The forum converts N word to "hooray for tolerance" lol Edited February 23, 2023 by ©GnrPersia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post axlfan88 Posted February 23, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 23, 2023 6 hours ago, Stay.Of.Execution said: Is cancel culture even a thing, or is it just a word made up by - mostly conservatives/right wings - to complain about people not being able to say/do anything they want without getting some kind of backlash? are there examples of people who got "cancelled" for no good reason? They tried to cancel JK Rowling for no good reason. Cancel culture is a form of fascism (or communism), it's based on hatred. 1 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Boy Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 They were cancelled though Some Promoters didn’t want them because of OIAM etc, some people refused to listen to them, other bands didn’t want to tour with them, journalists slagged them off, etc etc 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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