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#61 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tim Palmer's two days on CD » 463 weeks ago
Who fucking cares.
Seriously I am so ready for this CD era to be behind us. I am ready for the new era to start with Slash and Duff involved.
Not... gonna... happen
Sorry to break the news SG, but get ready for all of the diehards to now, with Slash & Duff back, sink their teeth into the CD process EVEN MORE than in the previous 15 years.
I've been convinced for years that the entire CD era, plus the album, was the Halloween III-moment of the band. The diehards are going to romanticize this period (already have), specifically the 1998-2004 period, post-breakup of the old band, during the revolving door of producers and bandmates, recasting, rebooting, new songs, new ideas, false starts, all of the above, etc.
And it's legend will grow and grow more. The casual audiences have labeled it a piece of shit (ala Halloween III) and moved the fuck on years ago. But the diehards will romanticize it to a point that it'll become the best album and direction the band ever took.
I'm convinced of it. And Slash & Duff playing the songs live with Axl, will add to it even more. The real period that SHOULD HAVE BEEN romanticized was that 1994-1996 period where the original band attempted to record a new album and the breakup happened, but apparently Robin Finck & Buckethead are more interesting than Slash, Duff, Gilby & Matt, mainly because the latter four all talked about that time period ad nauseum, so everyone moved on.
But the Chinese period remains a mystery. No different than the Halloween anthology idea, the lack of a new concept Halloween IV in the years after, and the fact that a new script by John Carpenter was ready to go with Myers/Loomis by 1986, and then got shelved in lawsuits. Halloween fans have romanticized that period as well, even though the casuals were more than happy to get Halloween 4, and 5 & 6 & 7 and move the fuck on.
Either way... the legend has only begun my friend. Only begun. And the fact that everyone has a different story, and Axl's behavior, as referenced in this piece, remains so bizarre... it can't get weirder. Or can it? Remember the jizz lobber rumor about Bucket? That one took the cake.
#62 Re: Guns N' Roses » Better - Studio Version of 2016 Live Arrangement(fan mix) » 463 weeks ago
FlashFlood wrote:Everyone knows this whole intro is just the bridge riff right?
You're spoiling the winning formula: Take new GNR stuff, dumb it down, and have Slash play it and it's "the greatest".
This x a million
I get people's love of the new Better intro, but even after seeing it live + the dueling vocals of Axl & Melissa on the song... it's cool. A new take.
But i'll take that aggressive, wanting to prove something, 2006 Guns N' Roses on Better with Robin Finck ANY DAY over the 2016 performance.
And I say that as someone who thinks Robin is overrated.
I say that as someone who thinks Slash & Duff & the 2016 lineup have improved all CD songs, except...
Better & TWAT
Better is Robin's song. Period. Without Robin, it's a cover. Just the way I feel. I just didn't feel the soul in the song I saw live in 2016 that I saw with Robin in 2006.
TWAT... TWAT needs work. Axl vocally nailed it when they played it, but Slash and the band was all over the place. Slash also dumbed down Bucket's amazing solo, and frankly Robin's guitar work too, into just random shredding.
TWAT is the best track we've heard of the CD-era imo, and Slash just kind of played it like a random, stock, modern rock-radio track and DID NOT give it the respect it deserves.
Other than that rant... Slash & Duff have fucking owned every other thing from that catalog. Considering how good that new Better intro is, I'D LOVE to hear a Slash & Duff take on Scraped. They could probably make Scraped their own with a little work. Same with I.R.S. & Madagascar.
#63 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl and the Haunted Piano at Houston » 463 weeks ago
To me, Axl is NOT taking his meds. That's the reason he's more stable.
He seems to be a man at peace now. Truly. He seems to have put the ghosts of the past... in the past. From his upbringing, to the start of GN'R, starving, becoming the biggest band in the world, falling apart, the promise of a rebuild that never got off the ground, the failure of Chinese, pushing on, and ultimately coming back full-circle.
The man walked out the door into what amounts to a 23-year nap, and became the biggest rock star on the planet again for the Summer of 2016! What's not to be happy about?
Axl... Slash... Duff.... they made it. What they're doing PROVES they survived and they made it. They are all millionaires, getting to do what they love every night, in front of fans, who love them, making the biggest check they've ever made, and all of them get to fuck beautiful women every night if they choose, whether married or not.
They're older, sober, and secure with themselves. The negativity is long gone, and it's obvious with the way they're performing EXACTLY why Izzy & Steven & Matt were all left at the house. Izzy wanted to be negative about money, wanting a bigger cut (allegedly), Steven got to finally play with GN'R in front of a stadium audience (although is full-time member status is long gone... and he knows it), and Matt Sorum is a douche that is in his own band now with Alice Cooper, Joe Perry & Johnny Depp, that's pretty kick ass themselves.
There's no more wars to fight. No more screaming to do.
Which is what worries me that we'll never see another Axl Rose-fronted album. Axl always wrote from a standpoint of adversity. When that was gone, the pen ran out of ink. Axl is no longer the outcast. He's the life of the party. He's the face of rock n' roll all over again, but this time with the Yoda-wisdom he didn't have in 1991-93.
#64 Re: Guns N' Roses » Ideal Setlist Part 1: Don't Cry vs. Patience » 463 weeks ago
Patience to me has been kind of... eh... since they had the Imagine medley in 1993.
I thought it was decent in recent years in the DJ/Ron/Richard-era with the extended intro & outro, but still Axl left me missing something. Of what i've heard in 2016, it's improved having Slash & Duff back, but still... ehh.
But considering GN'R still has the UYI-era nucleus of Axl, Slash, Duff & Dizzy, from what i've heard, they all absolutely NAIL the UYI-tracks, and from the Don't Cry I heard live, it hasn't sounded that good since 1993.
But Don't Cry is the better song overall anyways, so...
#65 Re: Guns N' Roses » 8/9/16 San Fran Show » 463 weeks ago
I fucking love that litho. I love the Florida one, but the SF one eclipses it.
Make my day mother fucker
#66 Re: Guns N' Roses » On this day in 1988... » 463 weeks ago
Jungle
Still the best, most straight-forward, instantly-accessible, band-defining song they ever wrote.
And still is
They could play the fuck out of that tune in 2016, and go home, and everyone would feel like their teeth got knocked down their throat.
#67 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl and Buckethead/Robin? » 463 weeks ago
All of this depends of whether Axl will ever be brave enough to branch out and have a solo career. Call it "AXL" and go out there and play clubs and theaters, maybe open for groups like Aerosmith or Def Leppard, and be willing to grind it out to sell a solo record.
With AC/DC now in Axl's back pocket, and Angus looking like he wants to reboot the entire brand with him on lead vocals and push it another 10 years past its expiration date, I don't see Axl needing a solo career at this juncture.
So in other words, I think the Robin/Bucket-era has "flown the coop" so to speak.
Axl can branch out and do straight-forward rock with low expectations with AC/DC, and he can come home to HIS band Guns N' Roses, and do GN'R tracks with his flavor. His Slash & Duff are there, but Dizzy Reed & Melissa Reese are also there, and can branch into the more broad spectrum, IF, he wants it.
I'd be utterly stunned if Axl had a third solo act going at some point, in addition to GN'R & AC/DC. Now if the AC/DC thing ended, then yes, the obvious move would be to see if Robin & Bucket along with say Paul Tobias & Tommy Stinson & Brain & Pitman would want to tour with him as AXL and push his industrial rock/avant-garde type stuff.
I just don't see in the climate we're in today musically, Axl fronting 2/3 of the only stadium rock acts left in the business, willing to launch a solo career to play half-full amphitheaters. That's not even counting the state of his voice.
Axl & Slash are locks for GN'R going into the future. And if Axl or Slash quit/die, then it'd probably be over for good. They can definitely re-cast the band going forward from Duff up through the rest.
So I see no real reason for Axl to ever reunite with them. They are now a stadium act again, and Bucket would, again, be a disaster for them image-wise. Most of the casuals going to these shows don't even know the B-sides from UYI, let alone the Chinese saga.
But whatever happens would have to revolve around that dynamic, and if Slash is game, Axl can pretty much do whatever he would like solo-wise with the band he currently has.
Sad though... it was a snapshot in time... and like the anthology idea for Halloween III: Season of the Witch, it was lost, because everyone from top-to-bottom completely dropped the ball.
#68 Re: The Garden » Amber Heard divorces Johnny Depp » 463 weeks ago
It's all a big setup. The man has had not one, but both of his ex-wives, as well as daughter, speak out saying they've never, ever, seen any of this kind of behavior out of him towards them. He's also had ex-girlfriends speak up for him as well.
Yet Amber Heard was also accused of the same kind of manipulation by her previous fiance, a woman, of being manipulative, physically abusive, and inflicting marks on herself, then blaming them on her girlfriend. Now she does it with her husband. Habit?
Either way, sadly this is nothing new concerning today's women. I have had not one, but three cases of friends of mine who have done this exact thing. They push the buttons of their husbands, get them enraged, then flip on the video camera, and act all like "i'm so innocent, and I have no clue what's going on, and I love you and why are you yelling at me, i'm so scared", then they blackmail them, make them look like monsters, when they're not, and all over money, money, money.
Worst case scenario I saw was of a friend, a doctor, who did not know his wife was intentionally taking prescription painkillers (from her doc), while she was pregnant with their daughter. Daughter gets born, and is horribly disfigured. Will need constant 24/7 care for the rest of her life. Daughter gets born, THEN wife files for divorce, gets him enraged over the incident, films him going off about it, and tries to sell it to a judge as being in fear for her life, but all of that can go away if you give me 80% of all his earnings for alimony & child support & medical care.
Initially the judge bought it, until she started to no-show visitations and the child and money started to go missing. Then the judge reversed course and really slammed her. She lost her divorce benefits and gave the doctor full custody.
Her solution?
She went and found another doctor and did the EXACT - SAME - THING. Drugs + mutant kid + payday.
Gimme gimme gimme... i'm abused. He's MEAN to me. I'm scared.
I've seen two other cases of the exact same thing. Poisonous relationships with both needing out of it, but instead of just splitting and walking away 50/50, like the men wanted, no we're going to take two men, who have NEVER been abusive, push their buttons and enrage them, then let the hidden cameras roll.
When shit like this happens, that's when guys like myself and Axl and others are more than happy to be single and NOT married. Especially if you're older, rich, and banging a younger woman. You're just asking to be screwed over.
I used to think Amber Heard was kind of hot, but this bitch... even according to her ex-girlfriends... is fucking crazy.
#69 Re: The Sunset Strip » Suicide Squad/Justice League Films » 463 weeks ago
Let's be honest and tell it like it is.
Marvel has RUINED the comic book movie
DC set a wonderful tone with the Nolanverse in The Dark Knight Trilogy. Now, because Marvel basically do hokey comedies disguised as dramatic films, Marvel films appeal to ALL audiences and rarely (Deadpool) are anything more than PG-13 rating.
Whedon and TPTB wanted to keep the Nolanverse alive, and get darker and darker, more like the DC-era from the mid-80s into the 90's, and just get hyper-violent with it. WB won't let them, because kids can't see R-rated movies, and R-rated movies don't move toys.
They should've just made their film, which to my knowledge was going to be A-LOT more like BvS:DOJ, and far less like the Guardians knock-off Suicide Squad became. After the lukewarm reaction from fans & critics to BvS, and massive "it sucked" memes for BvS, WB panicked and immediately demanded re-cutting Suicide Squad to play more like a comedy, ala the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Instead they gutted a film that was probably so-so to begin with, and just turned it into a trainwreck.
Bottom line, imo, is the directors and writers of these DC films are making the films for DC FANS AND DC FANS -- ONLY!
WB however wants ALL audiences, and the producers continue to push wanting to copy Marvel/Disney's platform to sell their product and ultimately they've shot themselves in the foot.
I wouldn't be shocked with the critical and fan reactions to BvS & Suicide Squad if more films aren't cancelled on their docket. They were supposedly planning side-films for Aquaman and pretty much everyone in Suicide Squad, and all of that has been put on hold for now, even though WB isn't admitting it. There's even talk that they're demanding a re-cast in Leto's Joker.
#70 Re: The Sunset Strip » TEMPLE OF THE DOG PLANS FIRST EVER TOUR (JAMES FOR YOU) » 463 weeks ago
Yeah, I gotta agree it seems to be a day late and a dollar short. I don't really see them doing this as anything other than an excuse to milk a long-lost brand name.
Temple really was the evolution of Mother Love Bone into becoming Pearl Jam, kind of like a metamorphosis.
To go back to this, and now the members are saying that they won't do it without Eddie Vedder involved (which is pointless, he was a no-name guest star on the original outing), so it all feels like nothing more than a cash grab, and not for the GN'R reasons, but for the sole reason that they feel like they've milked the living shit out of Soundgarden & Pearl Jam, and now they're going to try to resurrect Temple of the Dog.
I also don't understand the logic of recording a new album either. All of these guys record with each other in some way, shape, or form. You could accomplish this reunion simply by having Cornell guest on a new PJ song, or having Vedder guest on a new Soundgarden song. Boom... done.
I wonder if they're doing this, because McCready tried to resurrect Mad Season a couple years ago? Barrett Martin claims he, McCready & Duff are actually writing a new Mad Season record. Who knows?
But I just know that in the last couple years, both Mad Season & Temple have been resurrected, and it just comes across as frankly -- kinda lame. Just start a new band. The music is so put to rest, multiple performers have since deceased... move on.
jmho
