Yeah...a friend of mine who does photography recently discovered the out of town racetrack where GNR played here in 1993 has become derelict.

It sort of blew my mind as going to that show as a teen was one of the really formative experiences for me. To see it now - grass grown over the stands...all fucked up....it was surreal.

A similar thing for me is looking at the footage of the pontiac silverdome in ruins....when I must have watched Wrestlemania 3 on VHS thousands of times back in the day. It makes you feel old that's for sure.

Anyway sorry for the mostly OT post...just like it's kinda odd to me that it's almost like civilisation has risen and fallen...and I'm still hoping for some more GNR music hahahahahah

Thanks for posting this stuff.

Yeah i get the thing about the leaders being hypocritical.

To me the solution to that isn't that the rest of us give up trying to keep safe  and join the leaders though, it's more that the leaders should be forced to also do what's safe even if they don't like it either.

It's tricky though.

For me I've got a baby around - and I didn't realise until the mask situation became necessary how much the baby relies on facial communication cos she doesn't have language yet. But at the same time i have to think about what will happen to people my parents age if they catch it - or many of my other friends with questionable health. Whole thing sucks so hard.

Yeah...my thing is I don't like this stuff either but it's not forever.

Like vaccine is apparently coming here in march.

That's like 2 more months of this and then things start to ease.

But so many people straight up refused to cooperate in recent weeks that my city has gone from no active cases to an outbreak happening again. So far small - but we'll see how it progresses.

I mean it's one thing when with lockdowns people are being asked to trade their whole livelyhood for a saftey - I can see why that's a problematic choice - but I'm just talking about basic stuff like not hugging and kissing friends - refusing to wear a mask when you go to the supermarket.

Like i'm not saying they have to wear a mask for the rest of time, I'm wondering why in the fuck they can't wear a mask for 8 more weeks if that's what will make the difference between hundreds of people dying or us just coasting along until the vaccine is widely available. Like to my mind that's not even political it's just kinda common sense.

Over here we have people saying stuff like "my great grandpa died so that I have the freedom not to wear this mask" but like damn...half those same grandpas would probably have signed up to the wars in the first place out of a sense of community and desire to do their part for society and protect the public interest. Sure they believed in freedom and didn't like big government all that much - but they wouldn't like the straight up selfishness and drama some of these people are making either.

I just can't see why people have turned it into politics when half the world is going to shit around us.

It blows my mind - like I would have thought in an emergency the problem would be people looting and that kinda shit - but I never would have anticipated the main problem in my region would be people just bluntly refusing to do what's clearly in their own self interest because it's mildly inconvenient. WTF.

So true...and i'm part of the problem, but I do feel it's somewhat justified for once in this instance.

Like taking a step back - they haven't released a proper album together in 30 years, or any album in 12. Then the history of things would suggest that even if something does come out - it will be the last time for a further decade or more if not forever. When you combine that with the fact that their bread and butter is stadium touring....I think it's forgivable that they don't want to "waste" their reunion album by dropping it when they can't tour with it.

It's not like Axl would write and release a follow up shortly after - you'd be resetting the 20 year clock lol

Yeah I agree that's the problem.

I think it's reasonable they didn't want to blow the album - but I would have liked to have seen them do a live stream type gig like steel panther were doing - or better yet put together a fun cover or something a bit different online. There's ways they could have been creative and or given back during the pandemic and still kept the album card up the sleeve for the future.

Yeah that's one of the frustrating parts. The material is there and the potential is strong. Like it's good stuff in basic form - and it's not like adding Slash and Duff to these and or adding Axl to any of their stuff is likely to go bad. It's going to be good when it happens. It's just a long time coming. It worries me that the pandemic may have reset the clock for us too. But either way I can't see how they can continue forever with nothing new. At some point they need to at least do an EP or something just to freshen it up you'd think. But I guess James' point about the stones is a worry.