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#3541 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Why do people shit on Steven Adler? » 739 weeks ago
He was an original member that got booted by his own band. That doesn't happen often. The fact that he had the supposed easiest position to hold, a non writing drummer, adds to the embarrassment of his character. So does his attitude since.
Best drummer for GN'R, no doubt, but he really is a sad case.
#3542 Re: The Garden » Big Pharma lobbies against faster drug trials » 739 weeks ago
You need to start paying attention to reality. You're talking out of both sides of your mouth.
I've never once said the government was the answer to all our problems, but if you don't think it should play a role then you're fooling yourself. There are many people who have many great ideas to fix things. You should look around more. The wonderful thing about the American government is that it was designed to evolve. You may hate your government, but it seems you have a bigger problem with your fellow citizens.
I have no qualms about my feelings regarding fellow citizens who got the balls to even think they have the right to interfere in my personal affairs. Sadly that's the going norm these days.
Ideas do not equal solutions. I want world peace. Is that a great idea? Or just a fanciful delusion? I've looked around alright. I see a lot of idealistic people with no clear focus or real solutions wasting their energy on rigged dilemmas.
#1 is REAL campaign finance reform. Once you eliminate the money, you take away the influence. Along with the insider trading act, of politicians owning stock, or having any dealings with businesses while in office, like the president just introduced.
Not going to happen, and if it did it would be a pointless and controlled limited hangout. Cash is king, always have, always will.
#2 we need to reinstate the regulations over the finacial system that Clinton stripped away in the late 90's; most notably Glass-Steagall Act, which allowed the banks and Wall Street to go hog wild and what drove us to the edge. That's deregulation at it's finest!
Glass Steagall Act was a hoax funded by the bankers. It was so they could run the smaller banks out of business. Now that they've done that the gloves are off and it's steal as much as we can before the inevitable: bank nationalization. Total control to the foreign run FED. They are no fools these bankers.
#3 we need a sound health care system, one that works and doesn't waste money. We can retool the entitlement programs so that the people who need it (and deserve it) get it first, by putting it on an income scale and raising the ages of aligibility of people in higher income brackets.
#4 invest in proper education, fix the university tuition problems.
You make it sound so easy. Have you ever considered health care and education are bad because they want it to be? So they got a constant excuse to "reform"? On top of a tapped out, sickly and ignorant population too dependent to become any threat at all, of course.
#5 declare a national security emergency on energy and lower our dependence on fossile fuels. Put it in the hands of the military (they're actually doing that to an extent now)... You know, the same people who invented the internet, satellite and GPS systems... You know, the things that have totally revolutionized our economy (and our world) and created biggest boom in the private sector's history with the number of jobs and millionaire/billionaire entrepreneurs created? Yeah, that all came from government investment.
Our economies are in the toilet. What are you talking about? And you miss the fact that all those wonderful inventions are primarily being used to spy on you and enslave you. That's the military for you, that's government. Why do you think they gave it to us? For charity? You also miss the fact that they all came 50 years late, because corrupt officials are controlling the flow of inventions to maximize profits and control.
You're talking about the evils of corporations but you want to give them even more freedom and power and allow them to do whatever they want without any oversight. Corporations don't change, the government does. We actually have control over our goverment, not over corporations. And it doesn't matter how much money they use to rig the system, we can beat them.
We're fucked either way, but I'll rather live in an unjust and free society than in a forced bubble of mediocrity. That's the end path for every social government. No progress, no middle class, no freedom, no individuality.
It's not about giving more power to the government, it's getting back to what worked, back when people were saying EXACTLY what you're saying now 70 years ago, at the same time America soared. America has a history of showing how the private sector and government can work together succesfully, and empower the private sector. We've also seen what damage no regulations, big corporations and 1% of the population can do.
If you want to live in a cave, then be my guest.
The .0001% engineered the crack, financed Roosevelt and pushed in socialism and world war. Now they're financing Obama and the occupy movement. Are they suicidal? Or perhaps there's more to this game than you think.
The .0001% support socialism. They fund it. They created it. That should be reason enough to go the other way.
You can cry fringe theory all you want. It's all documented. You just have to have the will to look it up.
#3543 Re: Guns N' Roses » Mar. 12th, 2012 - House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA » 739 weeks ago
THIS should have been a GN'R song... Maybe it was at one point.
Maybe it still is. I think there's a much ballsier album than CD out there, more revolved around BH and Fincks personal styles and an "If the world"/"OMG" type Axl.
#3544 Re: Guns N' Roses » Mar. 12th, 2012 - House of Blues, Los Angeles, CA » 739 weeks ago
A lot of Buckethead fans complain that some of the best songs he's been playing live he's never recorded.
I WONDER if this is because they WERE GNR songs and Axl has the rights to them, like this song above.
Nice observation. Very possible.
Imo his best work came around the period he was in GN'R. That gig did him a lot of good. Only too bad he wouldn't keep doing it. It's not like these guys are especially active members. I'd reckon there's a lot of free time.
#3545 Re: Guns N' Roses » Charlie Sheen "Where's slash?" » 739 weeks ago
Charlie has good taste. Brownstone is my favorite GN'R track.
Somehow I don't think the music got a whole lot to do with that choice for Charlie. 
Good to see celebrities that know what they're talking about once in a while. Just obscure enough to show he's a proper fan.
#3546 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 740 weeks ago
In Through The Out Door and Coda isn't Zeppelin either.
It's not who is in the band, it's what you put out under the name. An original lineup couldn't salvage the aforementioned records, and I doubt it would have Snakepit 1 either.
So far Axl is treating the name with as much respect as he can given the situation. Have a band that plays the old hits faithfully, release an album that at least tries to honor the legacy and keeping gnr music away from wal mart commercials and trashy movies.
I don't think many want him to quit gnr for good.
#3547 Re: Guns N' Roses » Surprised label isnt capitalizing on rrhof » 740 weeks ago
This one's pretty easy: W. Axl Rose
#3548 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Man Claims He Tried To Download SLASH Album And Got Child Porn Instead » 740 weeks ago
Yeah, tell the government you have child porn. Like cps isn't just waiting for an excuse to snatch another body. Say goodbye to your kids buddy!
#3549 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » 20 Seconds of the new Slash Song "You're A Lie" from Apocalyptic Lov » 740 weeks ago
Nickelback is still a viable band, so they're probably being paid well to prop them up.
#3550 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Best Slash solo » 741 weeks ago
SCOM...hands down his one true iconic moment. His best solo on one of the best pop/rock songs of all time.
I got a soft spot for The Garden as well. I just love the way the solo fades in to Axl's trippy vocal.
That song is a lot better than I remember it. Great solo too. Really a gem when I come to think about it. Got that dreamy quality.
