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#1 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 4 weeks ago

James wrote:

Even during the Chinese years, we were never allowed to get away from it. There's even an old logo plastered in The General video.

This seems weirdly nitpicky. Most bands have one iconic logo that they're associated with; when they hit their legacy years they revive it if they went through variations over the years. Pretty much all Beatles releases use the "drop T" logo (which never actually showed up on their releases in the 60s, but was knocked up for Ringo's drum kit), pretty much all the Oasis releases use the one from Definitely Maybe etc.

#2 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 5 weeks ago

polluxlm wrote:
elevendayempire wrote:

Hot take: I liked the "duelling solos" bit in Sympathy for the Devil.

Me too. Always felt Slash let his ego get in the way on that thing. Obviously Tobias was a decent player who could contribute both guitars and write songs for the band, and low key enough to not take any spotlight from Slash.

Apparently Slash had no issue trying out with Zack Wylde. That would definitely never have worked!

I thought that the Wylde/Slash thing was a bit of a disaster, wasn't it? Since the pair of them were at it like "A T-Rex and a giant anaconda."

Meanwhile, Slash now has no problem playing with Fortus, who takes more solo spots than any rhythm guitarist he's worked with before. He really was daft to blow up over Tobias, since Axl was pretty much proved right on that score; he was Chinese Democracy's Izzy, in the sense that he was arguably Axl's main co-writer for that album.

#3 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 5 weeks ago

AgesOfTheIce wrote:
Sky Dog wrote:

It’s literally insane….on one hand they won’t acknowledge Chinese, yet the only thing they release are Chinese songs and every rock critic and fan of rock and roll knows it!

I’m with Age, it’s way more embarrassing not to create something new. However Ice, they have no shame. The first single from the reunion was a Hollywood Rose song!!!!!

Last I checked Duff and Slash weren’t in Hollywood Rose either!

I also find it amusing that 3/5 of the singles they have released since the reunion (Shadow/Hard Skool/Perhaps) were co-written by Tobias, considering Slash not wanting to work with him was the main catalyst for the band breaking up in the first place.

Hot take: I liked the "duelling solos" bit in Sympathy for the Devil.

#4 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 6 weeks ago

Sky Dog wrote:

On a side note, just rewatched SCOM from Rio 2001……easily the best live version since the Illusions. It is far superior to the reunion years.

I miss Brain's drumming on that song, that little fill he adds during the ascending run into the wah bit of the solo...

#5 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 6 weeks ago

monkeychow wrote:

Regarding known song meanings....

In the online chats many years ago Axl was kind enough to answer a question I asked about the meaning of Shackler's Revenge. Seems it's a good example of how a song can be a response to a specific thing but also capture a feeling or mood or be about a few things. Here's what he said:

"Shackler's was inspired by the insanity of senseless school shootings and also the media trying desperately to make more out of one shooter's preference for the Guns song Brownstone to no avail.

That said, listening for my own enjoyment or if we were to make a video or performing it I lean more to the entertainment of a horror flick or something like Dexter, something with an interesting menacing character as opposed to real life."

IIRC at one point they were thinking of making a music video for it with Mickey Rourke playing the "Shackler," who (based on Buckethead's interests) I would assume was a Jason/Michael Myers type figure, which would fit with the "horror flick" idea.

#7 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 8 weeks ago

monkeychow wrote:
misterID wrote:

. I think he wraps a lot of people together in songs

I always got the feeling some songs examine an emotion from a variety of circumstances.

I think this is key to understanding Axl's songwriting, and why it's reductive to say a song is "about Slash" or "about Stephanie Seymour" or whatever. I mean, sure, the starting point for some songs is individuals (like Axl's specifically cited that arms dealer guy as being the inspiration for Riad), but they spiral off into free-associating stream-of-consciousness things that are meant to evoke an emotion more than anything else.

#8 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff writes new Civil War for GNR: "Amen" » 8 weeks ago

FlashFlood wrote:
jimmythegent wrote:

All due respect to Duff, but it's a long bow to draw to suggest he has it in his locker to write something of the calibre of 'Civil War'...

Have you ever read the writing credits or backstory of the song? He wrote the “black armband” part.

In your defense he also wrote So Fine.

There are at least half a dozen songs off his recent solo albums where I've thought, "Y'know, if you had Slash lay down a guitar track on that and had Axl singing the vocals instead of/alongside Duff, that'd be a damn good GN'R song."

I mean, shit, Bob Dylan called this his favourite song of the year:

#9 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 9 weeks ago

axlroselocke1 wrote:

Seen Axl and Gnr 02, 06, 14, 16, 17.

All different vocals, he was awesome at each show. 06 might have been my favorite. He was on fire and still had that dangerous side to him. But  vocally great each time in their own way.

2006 Axl is Best Axl, but I find myself getting frustrated by what could have been. We came so close to a NITL-style "reunion" in 2006, with Axl on peak form.

Failing that, we came reasonably close to getting Buckethead back, which would've enabled them to push ahead with the Chinese Democracy incarnation of the band as a going concern (it wouldn't have required more re-recording to add new guitarists, Robin probably would've stuck around if it was clear they were actually going to push new material out, the promo wouldn't have been compromised by the revolving door of band members etc).

Instead we ended up with a halfway house.

#10 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 10 weeks ago

carlossacanell wrote:
Miguelox26 wrote:

Between the delay and the trip I had, I enjoyed it as much as I could, but it was not their best show, vocally at times and the sound was not the best, an adventure!

Agree. In Badalona i went with several Friends and one of them was saying all the time 'but Axl voice is gone'. When the concert finished allí of us were surprised with the voice performance... He was great. Much better concert than Madrid 2006.

Over the years I've noticed that with each new tour people whinge that "Axl's voice is shot, it's all over." And then a few years later they say the same thing, and hark back to the previous tour as an example of how great Axl's voice was.

In 2006, people were going on about "fat Axl," laughing at that bit from Rock am Ring where he fell over trying to climb back onto the stage during Better, and saying his voice was shot. In 2016, people were saying that the WTTJ scream from that 2006 show was his best ever performance, and that he'd lost it since then, piled on the pounds etc. In 2023 people were banging on about how great 2016 was.

Just enjoy the show in the moment.

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