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#11021 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Velvet Revolver Still Mulling New Frontman » 903 weeks ago
Thanks for posting that Faldor!
My feeling was, on the hiatus, is that they really wanted that Spacehog guy and it didn't work out and that set things back.
Scott was a great frontman/songwriter for STP, but he just wasn't on in VR. It was some of his weakest material for whatever reason, imo.
#11022 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson Elimination Round 7 » 903 weeks ago
I want to say Beat It, but Rock With You needs to be put out of its misery.
#11023 Re: Guns N' Roses » So where does GN'R stand right now and what is the current news? » 903 weeks ago
So you prefer the demo of Twat over the album version??
Hell yeah, I'd take the leak over the studio version. I don't need Cookie Monster's background vocals or the seventh guitar riff.
I think the 2002 leak was the best. Even the vocal effect on the "Lonely Tear Drops" part made the song better. And the orchestra was more prominent, which was a killer arrangement, which can be even more appreciated on the 99 version.
There are 6-7 guitars on this track (and others). That's ridiculous.
There's nothing that Ron brought to the songs that the other guys couldn't have. There was already a crazy Bucket Riff during the live version of CD, which was replaced by Ron's riff on the album. If you listen to the original The Blues or the 2002 live version, Robin is playing along to the music with almost the same riff, and in the intro, that Ron did, but his actually fits the song.
I know this looks like I'm slamming Ron, but I'm not really. I don't blame him. This was Axl's decision to have him play on top of someone elses music, instead of creating his own. The album has grown on me, but the leaks were something fantastic. All they needed was to be mixed, and mixed right. But Axl decided to stay in a studio tinkering with it just long enough until he removed everything that was organic with the music and the band fell apart.
#11024 Re: Guns N' Roses » So where does GN'R stand right now and what is the current news? » 903 weeks ago
Going by leaks, starting from the original 1999 leaks, Tommy's bass was all over IRS and TWAT. It was the cool part of every Chinese Democracy leak I've heard. It changed on the album with Ron's rytham guitar. He also clutters The Blues and Riad and is out of place on Prostitute, imo.
Ron and Axl's tinkering contibutions on If The World is the only real upgrade of the leaks.
#11025 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 903 weeks ago
The gay thing I could believe, he's always definitely been fem... The Nazi thing, maybe. But dressing like one around the house?... The dressing up like a woman and meeting muscular Asian construction men in roach infested hotels in Vegas... I don't know... The Lisa Marie banging and marrying him to get him into Scientology I have a hard time believing, too.
#11026 Re: Guns N' Roses » So where does GN'R stand right now and what is the current news? » 903 weeks ago
If by Ron's rytham guitar and Axl's tinkering "helping" you mean in helping bury Tommy's bass and cluttering the songs. Then yes... It helped a lot.
#11027 Re: Guns N' Roses » So where does GN'R stand right now and what is the current news? » 903 weeks ago
One day, Axl will look back and blame this set of guys for something that he did, too.
karma
The Robin posts by JIP and Fat Drunk really make me pissed, man.
This album was ready in 2004-2006. The little shitty add ons the songs got from 07-08 were not some mystical addition the album needed to be perfect. It was actually the opposite. No matter what your disposition is regarding this album, no one can defend the time spent between 04-08 and say that the additions you got by Frank and Ron and Axl's fucking "tinkering" were worth that much time wasted, or the destruction of a fantastic line up. It's bullshit. 
Axl blew it.
#11028 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 903 weeks ago
Fantastic. It actually got better the more the movie went on. There's going to be a huge comparison to Hostel, which I understand to a degree, but this film has a much larger plot, better chracters, a "deeper" story. And all round more twisted. Not that its more graphic, I've seen worse, but it's not so much the gore that's unsettling here, it's the "ewwwww" factor that's just as disturbing... When you see it you'll know what I'm talking about. Not to metion there are some moments that will make you say "God Damn!" The best comparison is Hostel meets Deliverance. But instead of a bunch psychotic, ass-raping hillbillies, its a bunch of psychotic, mass-murdering neo nazi's.
And I had no idea this was part of the After Dark film festival series. It's nothing like most of those films. This was A quality filmmaking.
WARNING: This is not a spoiler so much, but a warning. But if you don't want the hint here to make the film more enjoyable then skip...
Frontier(s)
4/5 stars.
I just watched Mirrors. It was okay. It could have been really good. And it would have been much better if the characters were better written and more well rounded. And not have Keifer Sutherland spontaneously yelling at people like he had terets.
Mirrors
2.5/5 stars
And also, not all horror movies need to have the bleak ending. Seriously. They try so hard now to give a dark conclusion that it seems forced, when an actual semi-happy, "they get away but will never be the same" type ending would fit better. There's nothing wrong with a happy ending when done right.
#11029 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson Elimination Round 6 Song Saver » 903 weeks ago
Rock With You
#11030 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba Live Chat » 903 weeks ago
Just read some of the transcript.
Looks like he is still in GNR, even though I never doubted that.
I only read the GNR parts. He seems like a nice guy, but either he was told not to say anything (which is what I think) or he's scared to step on anyones toes.
Not horrible. He did answer that he's still in GNR which a lot of people around here were swearing up and down that he was out.
Don't know what else anyone could have expected. Realistically, anyway.
