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#901 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl doesnt consider CD a guns n roses album anymore » 247 weeks ago
What is there not to get?
slash and duff are back in the band. Why would you want to hear them cover the CD era stuff instead of Slash, Duff and Axl writing new songs from scratch with each other.
Axl should have just released an Axl solo cd after the break up with the CD era of the band and start to work on fresh songs with Slash and Duff
But now they have wasted like 5 years and not writing new music and all we will get is the CD era songs with slash and duff touch ups. that is just dumb
I can think of one reason. They're all too old to create something good enough. Working with material from their prime will at least get us some good songs. Even if Axl was able to do something his voice is no longer what it was and Slash has been out of gas for at least 15 years creatively.
#902 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 247 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:On the positive side the Afghan people have finally gotten self determination back. More than my country can say.
I generally define self determination in this context to mean plurality of a democratic vote. But you can certainly argue their lack of any defense and quick collapse to Afghan rule is indicative they never wanted a western government. Russia certainly agrees with your point for what it's worth.
Technically, but I think the immediate white flag from a numerically superior army with better training and equipment expresses democratic will a lot more than some recent elections I know about.
Of course some elements will never accept this premise because it would suggest there are people who prefer head severing theocracy over "the Western way of life". Might inspire some dangerous reflection.
#903 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 247 weeks ago
On the positive side the Afghan people have finally gotten self determination back. More than my country can say.
#904 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 247 weeks ago
People saying Trump would be the last President. I say it might be Biden. This is just the beginning.
#905 Re: The Garden » The Space thread » 247 weeks ago
On the subject of Von Braun, his initial vision for a Moon mission was bat shit crazy ambitious..... essentially a space station going.
He mocked the later plan of sending a small lander there...but then went along with it.
Here is a good series outlining the impossibility of the Apollo missions: https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
I think it is nigh impossible to read through that and still believe in the moon landing. The question then becomes, why fake it? The popular theories deal with space Nazi's and aliens, but I think it far more likely their 500 year old cosmic theory was simply wrong. Then suddenly the US and the USSR signed the Antarctic Treaty and that has been one of the most solid treaties in international politics. To protect the non existent wild life they say. Yeah right. The Russians want to drill on the North Pole (which actually has some wild life), but not the South. Funny that.
#906 Re: The Garden » The Space thread » 247 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:Randall Flagg wrote:Can you please elaborate on the premise beneath your question?
There's nothing going on up there. They discovered that with Von Braun's rockets. At a certain height they can't penetrate it.
Now it's just escapism for young men. Once you start looking at these space videos with the premise they were created in a studio or a computer you can never look back. A 2000 year old Greek theory they pass as real. But like Aristotle and every other ancient speculation, Pythagoras and Hipparchus were also wrong. The model of the Earth they use is based on a prop from a 1920s movie. Amazing prescience, or not.
So you don’t acknowledge the presence of interstellar objects visible with the naked eye? I just want to clarify what you mean by “nothing going on up there?” Do you believe chemical rockets can escape earth’s gravity? And if we don’t have geospatial satellites in orbit to include the ISS, how do you reconcile the use of ground satellite antennas and GPS?
Do you believe three dimensional space ends at some point in the atmosphere? Or do you believe our planet has an effective shield surrounding it.
We see lights in the sky. Not being able to reach them has allowed scientists to let their imagination run wild. Rockets may achieve something like that but the dearth of believable imagery from space suggests they have not done so. Von Braun once said it would take a rocket the size of the Empire State Building to reach the moon. No wonder he left a firmament quote from the Bible on his tombstone.
GPS is just triangualtion. They used a very similar system for the military before "satellites". If they are large antennas or weather balloons doesn't matter. You don't need satellites for it to work. 99% of all communications go through ground cables.
#907 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose at his best » 247 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:I don't know who's playing here but I think it's the best instrumental part in the CD vault. Quick Song clip.
Slash could go wild with that riff and the soloing.
The riff is Robin and the chorus guitar Buckethead.
I disagree. If you listen to the rough mix version without Buckethead... the chorus is basically a copy of smells like teen spirit (and not in a it just sounds similar way). Bucket's playing during the chorus is the only thing that hides it.
Well thank God for Buckethead then.
Yes he has obviously copied it but it's still a good compostion. It doesn't sound like teen as a whole.
#908 Re: The Garden » Taliban control of Afghanistan on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 » 248 weeks ago
America can't afford a perpetual sham war. They only went into Afghanistan to prep for the Iraq war, the real price, and no President since has wanted to soil their legacy by being responsible for the inevitable mess in Afghanistan. Alzheimer Joe it is. He won't care.
#909 Re: Management » GNREvo's 10th anniversary » 248 weeks ago
This will make for a better frontpage.
#910 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose at his best » 248 weeks ago
I don't know who's playing here but I think it's the best instrumental part in the CD vault. Quick Song clip.
Slash could go wild with that riff and the soloing.
