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#991 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR Auditionees To Date - 21 Demos avail. » 921 weeks ago
I hope Sam gets it, I just love his voice, its like a perfect mix of many great singers.
I hear an Axl, Weiland, and a bunch of other influences in MotherFucka
He does seem to mix the two. I think the lyrics are almost a rip off of previous Scott lyrics from VR.
The more I listen, the more I hear Scott's writing on Contraband, and a little STP in there as well.
And he sounds bad when he goes high.
#992 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR Audition with Gord Prior » 921 weeks ago
Not impressed. Definitely does not float my boat.
Me either. I wouldn't buy any record with this guy judging by this.
I'm surprised people would want a second-rate Axl to front this band. I'd rather have them form their own sound... since you know, their name is Velvet Revolver not GNR. Even Axl formed a new GNR sound.
#993 Re: Guns N' Roses » RUMOR: Axl "will not be cooperating any further on the albums release" » 921 weeks ago
No way any of that info can be confirmed 100% true until the passage of time, but I'm not buying the excuse for no video. M.I.A. uploads her own vids on youtube, and she's on the same label. The days of people thinking there should be an asterisk next to GNR just because its GNR need to come to an end.
Its amazing that every other artist/band is able to release videos, do promo,etc. except GNR, because there are these phantom Mt. Everest sized obstacles always in the way.
Not buying it. If he doesn't want to do promo or videos, just admit it and move on to whatever it is he does want to do, even if that's nothing.
Hopefully he at least decides to tour. I was actually getting a bit psyched at the possibility.
The excuses of GNR having these gigantic obstacles in their way don't add up with the rest of the world.
Bands bigger than them are able to do a massive amount of promo, release videos, tour and release two albums in the same year.
#994 Re: The Garden » Has Obama Buried Reagan? » 922 weeks ago
The private sector also offered help during the war, which helped get us out. I guess I should have put "helped" instead of making it a definite.
We saw massive growth through private enterprise.
The issue of sustainability is coming up, and I would have liked to see how Reagan would have handled that. Private enterprise isn't cut out to deal with sustainability in it's current form. A free market will meet demand, and if demand is for goods that are ultimately wasted, it can't meet the needs of sustainability.
Obama's right when he says that there needs to be massive changes to our country. He may just be wrong about the changes and how to get there.
#995 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR Audition with Gord Prior » 922 weeks ago
Actually, the guy sounding almost exactly like Axl is kinda a big deal. Personally, I won't take the band seriously if they are basically trying to find someone who can sound just like Axl, but without the writing skill.
I love how they are 'crappy Weiland songs' when Scott didn't write the music.
#996 The Garden » Controversial New Denny's Breakfast » 922 weeks ago
- Saikin
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Denny's has a new breakfast called the "Nadya Suleman."
It's got 14 eggs, no sausage and the people in the booth next to you have to pay for it.
#997 Re: The Garden » Has Obama Buried Reagan? » 922 weeks ago
Obama burying Reagan is hilarious. I couldn't believe it when I saw this. I thought you'd get a kick out of it James. 
One thing I like about this article is the message to Republicans. I really think if Republicans took sometime to educate people of my generation (the ones who don't pay attention to much history besides the past year) of exactly what Reagan did and what his ideas were, then we could start getting an economy that may be recovering within a year.
What Rush Limbaugh was trying to tell that conservative audience in so many words was, Don't be embarrassed. Don't be embarrassed about embracing the world of free markets, competition, entrepreneurship and profit. If you don't know how to talk about it, reread the apostles and evangelists of private economic growth -- Ronald Reagan's "A Life in Letters," Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose," Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson."
Politics, it has been recently demonstrated, is about ideas and language. The conservative movement is not at a loss for proven ideas, and in the U.S. the most powerful of these -- running in an upward line since the Industrial Revolution -- is the idea of private economic growth. The Democrats don't want the private economy anymore and conservatives have forgotten how to talk about it. Democrats are betting their opponents will forget even where Ronald Reagan is buried. They should be so lucky.
Private economic growth. It got us out of the first depression. It helped us become the biggest economy in the world (though we aren't anymore). I really don't get how Government is going to magically fix our problems by basically ignoring private growth and just spending a ton of money.
#998 Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » VR Audition with Gord Prior » 922 weeks ago
- Saikin
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This one almost sounds like Axl singing back up vox. And not the UYI/AFD Axl, Axl now.
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#999 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R showing signs of being labeled an "epic fail". » 922 weeks ago
There's no way this album has a chance at an AFD style response. No way. AFD was culturally significant. It was very much of it's time. Chinese Democracy is about Axl. It won't be culturally significant the way AFD was, even if they promote the hell out of it.
Like James said, if GNR had done this right (like U2), there would have been a significant increase in sales.
#1000 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Time went by and it became a joke ... » 922 weeks ago
misterID wrote:Actually. the album has done pretty well, considering. Not unless your standards are ridiculously placed in a fantasy land. But seeing 500,000 (2 million world wide) albums (so far) ain't bad for a 'current' rock album, especially this album. No matter how many people want to label it a failure it isn't. The new direction, though not as successful as it would have been in 02, is not a failure and it isn't because people said no thanks.
And if you're judging by active "posting" on message boards to measure success, these boards were never deader than 03-05. It happens. There's little to talk about, except for Axl's so called interviews where he directly made oldvsnew a topic. And I guarantee you if there was news on a new leak the activity would jump.
I mean you can say no one cares..... But you sure seem to.
And when people bring up the myspace hits it always reminds me of Kartman showing up at youtube to get his internet dollars
There's little to talk about? A "great" current rock album was recently released and according to you is doing phenomenomly well. Why wouldn't all the fans - I don't know - talk about that?
Where have you been the past 7 years? The majority of this album was in our hands before it was even released, some songs have been talked about since they were first heard live back in 2001, and the rest of the album was speculated over.
This album has been talked about to death. So yes, there really isn't much to talk about. Nice way to prove your point though.
As for the majority of the fans not liking the new band- that's bullshit. It may be your opinion, but you don't speak for the fan base. You find what you want to find, and you are a magnet for negativity when it comes to Chinese Democracy and the new incarnation of GNR. I don't even get why you bitch anymore about it. The old band is dead. The new 'band' (I put that in italics since we don't know who is officially in/out) is here.
