Absolutely, I know I post this yearly, but I think Snakepit 1 is one of the most GNR sounding records he did.

Like obviously it badly lacks Axl in terms of getting it to be a GNR record, but from a guitar POV there's stuff on there that's easily UYI level and some of it has kinda a 'back to basics' AFD feel about it.

I love it as is, but it's a real shame the proper band wasn't really cooperating anymore.

Even as is, it's weird that he hardly ever returns to it - most just Beggars....but stuff like Neither Can I, Dime Store Rock, Soma City Ward...I would love to see these get more love in his setlists.

Total disorganised shambles here...

It's such a joke in victoria, no ability to book online, call the number and it runs through a 3 min announcement about privacy then disconnects you saying they are too busy. This happens like the first 1000 times you call - occasionally u get lucky and instead of it hanging up it puts you into a call holding system where you wait for an indeterminate time to talk to someone. When you get someone they tell you that there's no pfizer left so you can't book a second shot.

Then you log onto facdebook and it's full of people who turned up with no appointment and we're given pfizer at random despite not meeting the criteria. Got to love it. Especially when they had 15 months to plan this.

Got my first dose today.

Government had been saying November/December for us but apparently they found some somewhere.

Goodnews cos we're back under lockdown in my city, looking forward to feeling like it's not as dangerous being around others again.

That's not due till late 2022 maybe 2023.

You can't expect the band to do something for the 30th year DURING the 30th year can you?

Box set includes a post card of the CD cover, a reproduction of a squiggle drawn by slash on an aeroplane napkin, a key ring with frank and melissa and a photocopy of a photocopy of the 1991 CD single cover of Civil War.

The expanded edition featuring an essay from Axl with a forward from DJ ashba on the appropriate use of the confederate flag and the bondage tit girl in 2022 was dropped after the label expressed concern that blaming the entire history of the band on slash could interfere with sales of Myles album.

Following an extended negotiation, we eventually get the purple box set version which doesn't end up using the cool artwork for an collectors edition that leaked in 2022, and in which all songs that were co-created by Izzy are withdrawn from the collection due to a dispute between Spotify, Izzy and Fernando. At the last minute Axl decided to swap out most of the Slash solos for the demo versions - Allegedly peformed in 1990 but clearly played through Slash's modern amp rig. Meanwhile Steven is pretty sure he didn't play those drums and matt was unavailable for comment but i'm sure it will be cleared up when Richard releaes his tell all book about the UYI recording process.

I preordered for $5000 but I'm confident the price will drop to $1800 or so before release date. Only real question is do i pay in USD or dodegcoin...

That's the danger though.

The problem we are in I think is that the current system has some serious inequalities and flaws, but yet, it's also the most successful system we have ever had, in that the cultural and technological developments our society has overseen have increased the lifespan and the standard of living of everyone, including the poor and disaffected, quite dramatically.

Meanwhile a lot of the alternatives to the western systems that have been tested out have been pretty disastrous - far right policies in germany, far left in russia - lets just say they didn't go well.

So I think the problem is - while we all agree there's things that suck about the status quo - it's very hard to figure out the best way to improve on it without some really dangerous risks.

I agree with what I think was your point that we're seeing various organisations tailoring content (or some would say pandering lol) to the female component of their audience. I think some do it politically cos it fits their feminist world view, I think others are just cashing in on a trend in society at the moment, and I think some are just trying to expend their marketshare. If you can get women into traditionally male hobbies or men into traditionally female hobbies enmasse you could theoretically double your audience - I think that plays a factor.

I'm not sure if it's the end times or not. TBH it often seems to feel like it these days - but then history would suggest it's most likely not. I do think we're at the end of a turning point in our culture though. Imagine flipping through a history book written hundreds of years from now about all the different eras. I suspect that people of our approximate age might be living such that our youths are featured in one chapter of the book, and the second half of our lives in an entirely new chapter with a new heading. It sure seems like that - even in relation to just before and after the net - or before and after 911 in terms of world affairs, or before and after ther pandemic, or maybe a much wider distinction yet to revel itself.