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#371 Re: Guns N' Roses » Shout out to Philadelphia fans... » 553 weeks ago

tejastech08 wrote:
mrsaxlrose wrote:

Philly crowds can definitely be crazy..  Before they tore it down Veterans stadium was the only stadium that had to have a jail cell.

Rock and fucking roll. 16  9


Oh hell yeah. The 'ol Vet. Phillies fans are consistently ranked every year by Major League Baseball players as the worst fans in all of baseball.


Why?


Because they are a fucking nightmare on visiting teams to Phillies games. They will harass you and drive you fucking insane. There was a reason why Phillie fans loved guys like pudgy John Kruk and dip-spittin' con-artist Lenny Dykstra... they were a reflection of the attendees.


And yes, the Vet had a jail cell for a reason. To lock up Mitch Williams and protect him from the riot when he blew saves. Williams was very open about the death threats, for fucking reals 'yo, he got from the people of the city after he blew that 1993 World Series and the Blue Jays won.



Philly people don't fucking play man

#372 Re: Guns N' Roses » Comments by Mick Wall. » 553 weeks ago

I find Mick Wall's comments concerning Steven's appearance, and the lack thereof to be interesting. Specifically when he mentioned that his other source said there was another surprised planned... hmm...


So is Matt coming or Izzy? That's pretty much what Mick would be hinting at. And if Izzy is coming, why the fuck would you waste him elsewhere when you could've had him at the Troubadour show?

#373 Re: Guns N' Roses » Comments by Mick Wall. » 553 weeks ago

Smoking Guns wrote:
James Lofton wrote:

I was expecting it to be negative rant. Pleasantly surprised.

No, I wasn’t there. And neither were you, let’s not kid ourselves. But in spirit it, most definitely. We were all there.

Funny how all these years later things are much as they left it in 1993. Axl, Slash, Duff, in that order, with a couple of good guys filling in where Izzy and Steven once were. Dizzy was still there too. Along with a new face in Melissa Reese, the girl-genius Bryan Mantia probably introduced Axl to.

He's right. Axlin even mentioned it yesterday..we're in some twisted futuristic version of 1994.

The reaction, though, the electric buzz, the impossible vibe, that insensible yet tangible net of intrigue surrounding their every move before, during and after the show, that was all there like the last 23 years never happened. I love that. You don’t know how much it’s been missing from rock until suddenly there it is again.

He nails it right there. They're instantly back on the scene again.

Which is why we loved them so. Why a whole generation grew up while they were away and love them even more. And why we’re all here again, the young and the old, the innocent and the guilty, those invited to the party and those in the rearview. Because there’s never been anyone quite like them. Not Zeppelin, not the Stones, maybe only Lemmy and even he turned up for his shows on time. Never went away to live alone in the shadows. Never really felt the pain the way Axl and Slash and Duff did. Do. Still.

Their return even has him emotional.

The whole planet wants this.

Why did you leave out his comments about Adler?


So you were admitting you were looking!


Gotcha

#374 Re: Guns N' Roses » Secret show: April 1, L.A.? » 553 weeks ago

Smoking Guns wrote:

Fuck, I am so glad that shit show is over with. Listen to those bullshit guitars. The tone is God awful and you have DJ acting a fool. I am so glad Slash and Duff are back. Frank needs to get on Slash's page. If not, Sorum will get the call. This is an audition for him too. Slash will soon become the de facto "band" leader. Fortus is good and won't be leaving. Axl isn't scared to cut the cord. See Pitman. I think Frank will improve, he better, or he will be out too. You watch as Slash's power and leverage increases... It will. Axl trusts Slash with the band/music part in a live setting. He will side with Slash if Slash bitches over Frank.


Oh just shut up already with the Frank bashing. Still butt hurt Steven wasn't there I see. roll

Slash might become the band leader AND have part of the partnership, but he's still W. AXL ROSE'S EMPLOYEE. No different than the rest. Axl owns the name and thus has executive decision.

Slash isn't going to be dictating to Axl to fire Frank, unless AXL decides it's appropriate. Axl would let the whole thing collapse in on itself before he takes orders from Slash.


That is still a very delicate fine line... if Slash wasn't already fine with Frank, he probably would've never signed up. He probably would've demanded Steven be apart of it as a contingency to signing back with Guns.

Slash isn't ever going to cross that line -- ever -- again -- with King Dick. Slash learned his lesson the last time. Axl is willing to do Guns without him. And keep it that way. Axl Rose was willing to hire DJ fucking Ashba, so he didn't have to look at Slash's face.


Don't make him do it again. He will by God.


So unless you want DJ back in the band, I suggest you start kissing Frank's toes.

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#375 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Guns N Roses member Melissa Reese » 553 weeks ago

Dizzy Reed is in the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame, no different than Matt Sorum whom everyone beats off to.


I also want to point out with the continual passive-aggressive Frank bashing, that Matt Sorum has never written material that got him street cred in the rock community (he ain't Don Henley & Phil Collins), and Sorum has never, ever, been able to keep a job in a rock band (mainly 'cause he's a uber tube steak).


I wonder if Axl puts out Chinese II w/ Slash & Duff and it goes triple-platinum with Ferrer on drums, the next argument will be that he didn't write anything with the band (neither did Adler & Sorum).


If Frank gets fired tomorrow, I won't cry. I will hope they find a good enough replacement for such a talent, considering he's the best drummer they've ever had. Maybe they will, maybe they won't. But I won't cry. Why? Because GNR's drummer job has always been a disposable position in the band.

#376 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Guns N Roses member Melissa Reese » 553 weeks ago

AtomsNest wrote:

This is going to be the biggest tour in recent GNR history, I don't believe Pitman pulled out. He was happy to be onboard, his family also said stuff on twitter, about his daughter seeing her dad at Coachella. You don't get the wife and kids hyped up about your work if you don't plan to follow through.

Something happened.

It may have already been addressed, but that was Dizzy you thinking of. It was Dizzy's ex-wife and daughter that was marking out to his involvement on social media and we so proud.


And they have every right. Dizzy has the 2nd longest tenure in the band and has just as much right to be up there as Slash himself.

#377 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2016 Summer Stadium 'Not In This Lifetime' Tour » 553 weeks ago

deadsouth wrote:
mrsaxlrose wrote:
James Lofton wrote:

Did you see them during the Ashba years or were you still boycotting them? 16 15


Ha!!! I refuse to acknowledge the Ashba/Bumble years. I'm just going to attribute the last 23 years to an April Fools joke gone wrong, lol.


Heh, you and 99% of the GNR community.

This is going to become a very common component of GNR's legacy going forward. Especially if they put out new music with touring.

I think most fans will only acknowledge the Slash/Duff-ized tracks off of Chinese, and most will just look at the 2008 release of Chinese, no different than Whitesnake fans look at 1997's Restless Heart. A David Coverdale solo album. Nothing more. Same with Axl. An Axl Rose solo album.

As far as touring goes, they'll just look at it as July 18th, 1993 to March 31st, 2016 never ever happened.

To be honest, some of the tour dates history... i'd actually kind of like some of that removed to remove the clutter. By the 2009-14 Ashba/Bumble-era they were playing all over the fucking place and random weddings and parties.

Nobody's going to give a flying fuck about remembering that in GN'R lore.


Quite a few KISS fans did the same thing in 1996. As soon as the reunion was announced, as far as they were concerned every album after Unmasked through Carnival of Souls never happened. Of course there was alot of bullshit behind the scenes tho that was gonna doom that reunion later. Hopefully GN'R won't suffer the same fate.

#378 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Walking Dead » 553 weeks ago

Oh I was shouting at the TV last episode. This show pisses me off so much. For all of them to be such survivalists... they can be so stupid sometimes (poor writing... been saying it).


Morgan is the best character/actor on the show. Him and Daryl... love those guys.

#379 Re: Guns N' Roses » What does a reunion mean for Axl's Vault? » 553 weeks ago

I left that one off, because Axl seemed to struggle badly with it in 1991. It was only performed once I thought. NYC '91 is the only live recording I know of.

I just figured if young Axl in 1991-92 couldn't do it then... why now? Same excuse is why I left off Coma & Loco too.

#380 Re: The Sunset Strip » Suicide Squad/Justice League Films » 553 weeks ago

I'm not on that whole kick of flaws to Batman's character bs. I LOVED Keaton's Batman and up until Affleck, felt it was that definitive performance (see what I said there? More on that later).

Remember something, regardless of the Burtonverse, or Snyderverse, BvS was Frank Miller's Batman in alot of ways. Affleck/Goyer/Terio (?) were depicting The Dark Knight Returns version of Batman.


This is an older, beat down, nihilistic, hopeless Batman, lost in a dystopian world. Snyder practically spelled out that Batman & Superman's United States is the one Donald Trump is describing. Government is corrupt, wants to control Superman and the only reason Batman gets a pass is because Gotham and i'm assuming Commissioner Gordon runs interference protecting him. Holly Hunter was pretty much owned by Lex Luthor who depicted the classic Rockefeller (I inherited the world -- I AM GOD -- YOU WILL WORSHIP ME!!). Batman was Trying to find his way again. In response, Miller's Batman was an angry, extremely brooding, depressing and BRUTAL Batman who had kind of lost his rules, gave up on his parents dreams, and had adapted to the world that he had been given.

Affleck's Batman in BvS (basically Batman Begins Part 5), reminds me of Donald Pleasence's Loomis of Halloween 5. By that point, the character was so fucking fried from chasing Myers and watching horrible shit, he had slipped off the rocker himself and had become just as fucking crazy as Michael Myers himself. Pleasence was bad ass in that role at that point, but BOY was it out of character. Affleck is no different. He's playing Wayne/Batman as an older, hopeless version of Bale's Batman, if Bale had just started doing what it takes.

He was also haunted by his in-action to stop his parents, specifically mother's murder. And was willing with

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Martha Kent

to do whatever it took to save

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her life


To quote Batman Begins... "I'm not going to kill you.... but I don't have to save you"

Every scene that Affleck's Batman goes full Rambo/Martin Riggs on the baddies with wreckless abandon, he never outwardly does anything to kill them. They just happen to get killed from the circumstances ala Burton's Batman.

I have always been A-OKAY with this. I like my Batman a bit more a fucking badass and willing to say fuck it and do what it takes and not be a pussy about it. I'm not really into the limp-wristed Gotham "you can't kill murder, and you can't murder an idea" philosophical Batman of the current TV series.

My original choice back in the day of a TDK-Returns Batman was always an older, buff Mel Gibson. Full Mad Max in a fucking Batman mask baby. Affleck found some way to merge that with Bale's Batman and I fucking love him for it. He fucking nailed it.


I loved the depiction of Batman. And that was the weird, inconsistent thing about this film. It was more of a Zack Snyder Batman film, than it was Man of Steel 2. Superman just happened to be there. Affleck was certainly the performance and focal point of the film.

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