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#1261 Re: The Sunset Strip » Stone Temple Pilots Australian Tour » 790 weeks ago
Interesting you say that, a number of my friends have commented the same thing seeing VR. A few people described him as a Mick Jagger want to be without Jagger's inante coolness and machismo that lets him get away with that kind of efiminate prancing.
That's a good call actually I even thought that myself at the time, a couple of instances he strutted like a bit of a Jagger imitation but it just didn't quite cut it.
Possibly as you say too his waif look combined with him dressing like he is auditioning for Talking Heads doesn't help.
In fairness he didn't overuse the megaphone it was only used on 2 songs. I have a hatred for it from the VR boots I have watched. There is one song (it might even be sucker train blues) where at the end or somewhere in the middle he just had the siren on it it wailing and wailing for ages. It annoyed me to the point where I yelled at the TV to STFU. 
Tickets were $90 so it wasn't cheap. The tix had apparently sold out here too but it was a small venue and the top half of the basketball stadium seating it was in was shut off. Even the lower half seated area didn't look full. But a slightly longer set would have been better value for money.
#1262 The Sunset Strip » Stone Temple Pilots Australian Tour » 790 weeks ago
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Went to the Perth gig last night. Strangely it's actually the first time STP has ever toured Australia.
Thought the gig was really good. Sonically the music was great and the songs sounded very close to the album versions which was impressive. Scott's voice also sounded really good.
That said I was disappointed that the set only went for about 1 hour and 10/15 minutes. They played most of the stuff I wanted to hear though which was stuff from Core and Purple I didn't care much for their later stuff past these two album and possibly parts of their Tiny Music album.
However I have to make a comment on Weiland's stagecraft. I never got to see VR when they came to Oz. I had my ticket for the Perth gig on the Contraband tour and that show was cancelled and obviously things imploded before the Libertad tour even got to Australia. Anyhow, I have to say I don't like his stagecraft. He looks gay at times the way he struts/moves around. I dunno it just doesn't work for me.
It probably didn't help that he came out for the first song and he had that FUCKING MEGAPHONE with him which I HATE! It's funny I was talking to my wife about it (she didn't go to the concert but has been forced to watch VR boots in the past). She said exactly the same thing as me. I started to tell her about how he looked and moved on stage and before I could finish she says - he looks gay the way he moves about.
Anyhow, that aside it was a good concert, albeit too fucken short IMO. The other stupid thing is we went to go and get some more drinks at 9:30 (STP hadn't even started) and they had shut the fucken bar. Seriously we live in a nanny state here it's pathetic.
#1263 Re: GN'R Downloads » Request: Unwanted Illusions » 791 weeks ago
Hey Tommie, yeah I've got this. Im at work at the moment but I will try and upload it for you tonight.
#1264 Re: Guns N' Roses » Transcripts of missing interviews with Barbi (RocketQueen)Von Grie » 791 weeks ago
Yeah isn't that Stolat - she is some nut job that lives in South Australia. She was signed up here under the name Bari Von Grief a while back. It happened after she was banned from HTGTH.
Reading that was completely laughable. I don't believe Axl was ever in Australia in his younger years, what a joke. As for some of those alleged connections she had with song lyrics and so on, they sound completely laughable. Some of the stuff is plainly incorrect as well.
Obviously there is a real Barbi Von Grief and Rocket Queen was about her, but unfortunately this ain't her.
#1265 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Suing Activision / Guitar Hero » 791 weeks ago
dave-gnfnr wrote:So Beta is the one who claimed there was an agreement, Axl did not get it in writing, and Axl did not hear it from actiivision he heard it from his housekeeper.
No matter what anyone thinks of beta, she's been more than a housekeeper for a while and has been his "personal" manager.
And verbal agreements do matter.
Very true they do matter but unfortunately are much harder to prove. I wouldn't have left something like that to a verbal agreement if it was that critical.
#1266 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Suing Activision / Guitar Hero » 791 weeks ago
aussie do you still have the .pdf? it was removed some time ago. I think there was mention of emails to be used as evidence.
Here it is:
http://www.radaronline.com/sites/radaro … %20doc.pdf
#1267 Re: Guns N' Roses » proshot HOB » 791 weeks ago
^ Very true for all we know those screen shots could be done by someone that this guy (Incognito) was trying to trade with.
Incognito finds this guy that really has the HOB video Incognito asks him to prove it by holding up a screenshot with that note in front of it, which the guy does.
Incognito then tries to use those pics to pretend he has the video. He then uses it as trade bait hoping someone stupidly sends him something.
Just a thought.
#1268 Re: Guns N' Roses » proshot HOB » 791 weeks ago
^ and that's the way it should be. If it is freely distributed sure I will be curious to watch it. But if this guy simply wants to big note himself and/or trade for other stuff that he wants to keep to himself too, then I would prefer he does it in private.
Doing this sort of thing must be close to the line too. I mean it's not his footage to begin with so trying to make dollars or trades with it sails pretty close to the wind in my book.
#1269 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Suing Activision / Guitar Hero » 791 weeks ago
Neemo wrote:dave-gnfnr wrote:They got permission to use WTTJ, they got permission to use slash's likeness, that is all they needed. It does not matter that a slash avatar is playing WTTJ, they got permission to use the song did they not?
but if axl made it a condition that the song was not to be used in conjunction with ex gnr members in any way then Activision still used slash;s likeness to promote the song then it becomes an issue
depends where publishing rights come into play...if axl soley owns publishing rights then it doesnt matter what slash wrote
depends if this was a verbal agreement or not as well...if axl doesnt have anythign in writing he may be SOL
Didnt Axl claim it was a verbal agreement and not in writing? If so, its he said she said thing. If Axl does not have it in writing or in audio form, then he has zero case. I also wonder why it took him to so long to file and not right when the game came out.
That's right, apparently the queen of business acumen said that she was verbally given assurances of things. Remember these are some of the choice quotes from the lawsuit document:
Riley sought to reassure Rose, through his representative Beta Lebeis, that in no uncertain terms, if given the authorisation to use Welcome to the Jungle in GH III, no VR related material would be included and no Slash imagery would be used at all, let alone in association with Guns N' Roses and Welcome to the Jungle.
In numerous conversations occuring in May of 2007, Riley reassured and represented that none of the rumours Rose was reading on the internet regarding the planned use of Slash and VR in GH III were true. For example, in one conversation Riley flatly denied the rumours stating "Come on Beta, you know you can't believe everything you read on the internet".
While the form and substance of these conversations may have occasionally varied the central message and operative language used did not. Riley "guaranteed" that provided Rose agreed to approve Activision's use of "Welcome to the Jungle", there would be no use of Welcome to the Jungle and no VR in GH III.
On February 14th 2010 Guns N' Roses played a Valentines Show at The Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York city. Tim Riley from Activison was in attendance and approached Rose after the show. In tears, he apologized for the way in which Rose and Guns N' Roses had been mistreated by Activision. He said "I can't sleep at night" and asked Rose to forgive him.
Activision may very well have said these things verbally so should be held accountable if they did. But if Beta and co. were stupid enough not to get critical points like this in writing then you would think they are going to be pushing shit up hill to win this.
#1270 Re: Guns N' Roses » proshot HOB » 791 weeks ago
I sent him an email late last night saying I could only offer cash. But if he came up with a dollar amount, I could get the money to him today. Now today, I received a notice from PayPal saying the account linked with that email address had an attempted hacking.
I might be paranoid, but I've had that account for over a decade and never once received that warning. I believe one has something to do with the other.
Wasn't that site he linked to dodgy to start with? People at mygnr were saying that the site was initially posting up everyones IP address that was a guest viewing the page.
It was also triggering a few peoples anti virus stuff.
