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#981 Re: Guns N' Roses » GnREvolution Chinese Democracy Elimination 2015 - Round 2 » 583 weeks ago
Voted for This I Love over Scraped. Both are horrible but at least Scraped is somewhat shorter. The beginning of Scraped (vocal work) is pretty bad. But This I Love takes the cake because the lyrics are just so cheesy. And Finck's solo doesn't do anything for me, so despite my liking of both the piano and orchestra work, it gets the vote.
#982 Re: Guns N' Roses » GnREvolution Chinese Democracy Elimination 2015 - Round 1 » 583 weeks ago
Hmm...this is actually a tough choice for me since I find there to be several good (or bad) candidates here.
I've narrowed it down to either Shacklers, Scraped, and Riad. Scraped has the worst lyrics. Shacklers just isn't very good but I'm going to vote for Riad because I really hate that annoying guitar solo (it's Bumblefoot, I think) at the end of the song. It's a disjointed mess.
If any of the other two songs "win", I won't have any issue with it.
This I Love has awful chessy lyrics as noted but I did like the piano work and the orchestaral work so it gets a pass in this round as there are more deserving candidates.
#983 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ has left GNR » 584 weeks ago
slashsfro- do you have that patience clip?
The fun starts at around 4:40 (solo) and around 6:00 for Axl's reaction. He just stands there and looks at DJ with a WTF is he doing there reaction.
#984 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ has left GNR » 584 weeks ago
God that clip sounds terrible.
There's an even funnier clip where he butchers a "Patience" solo and Axl and Ron kinda start laughing at him.
#985 Re: The Garden » 2015 NFL & Fantasy Football » 584 weeks ago
I haven't watched any preseason. Crazy. I don't like the direction the NFL has been going in the 21st century. Still a fan but I don't watch ESPN/NFL Network daily like I used to.
I don't really like preseason as the games don't mean much and I really can't watch more than 2 quarters at the most. Thank god, college football is starting and the games will mean something.
And you're not missing much with not watching ESPN, they're garbage these days (aside from airing the games).
Did we ever have a survivor league set up last year or something? I know we had the pick em league with confidence points.
Actual news:
Brady won his appeal and had his suspension overturned and is now free to play. I only care about this because I got auto drafted Brady in another fantasy league.
And the Redskins are an entertaining joke with all that's gone on in the past week or so.
#986 Re: The Sunset Strip » Favorite foreign films » 584 weeks ago
I recommend a Spanish horror movie, "REC." It's a pretty solid horror movie with found footage.
I had a headache after watching this. I think it was with all the handheld footage.
#987 Re: Guns N' Roses » Question to fans of 01-02 lineup... » 585 weeks ago
Yeah, love Tommy on those demos. Even The Blues his bass is killer. One of the reasons I hate Ron's parts on CD is that it came at the expense of Tommy in the mix. His riff on CD is a big example. And really, Robin could have done that riff, but more grungy/NIN feel, which would be more organic. Just shows how out of place Ron was in this band. The only thing I like was his contributions to If The World, which was basically background fills.
Now that you brought that up, I went and listened to the 2001 Rock in Rio version of Chinese Democracy (the song) and then listened to the album version. The version that ended up on the disc was absolutely horrible. Honestly, I don't think any of those Ron solos are neccesary at all and really it's just noise as Lofton said. The 2001 version had more crunch and balls. His first solo where he solos over Axl's vocal fucks up the song, imo.
#988 Re: Guns N' Roses » RUMOR: GN'R Reunion @ Soundwave » 585 weeks ago
Adler deserves to be involved. If they're not going to use him for a tour I think he should at least get to do the whole first show when the entire planet will be tuned in. It's all the guy has ever wanted. I'd like to know Axl's current feelings towards that asinine lawsuit from Adler although we know they hung out in 2006(07?).
Yup, I prefer his playing over Sorum. And really just playing a few shows for him would provide enough happiness and closure for Adler. Even though I'm quite curious on how he would sound on some of those Illusion tunes.
I don't want any members of the CD lineup involved. If Izzy declines to be involved I hope they call Gilby. I don't want Fortus anywhere near it but I could see why they might go with him. He looks like Izzy and would be so low key during it casual fans filling stadiums/arenas might even think he is Izzy. Drummer wise they don't need Frank. If Adler cant do it or they don't want him to there's no reason that Sorum cant handle it.
I know the big enchiladas of a reunion are Axl and Slash but there will be complaints from fans and media if other members from 87-91 are left out.
One little interesting tidbit of a reunion would be if Adler is involved and of course Dizzy for obvious reasons, it will be the first time the two of them will have performed together.
I really don't want any of the CD lineup involved at all either. Pittman's fart noises don't really add anything to the songs. I'm pretty sure Izzy would be down for the reunion. He has said so in the past. Gilby is fine as a replacement if Izzy choses to bail.
A question I had--if this reunion happens, will Slash and Duff (and Izzy) be happy being employees of Axl or would he actually let them back into the partnership? Highly unlikely, but still something I find interesting.
#989 Re: Guns N' Roses » Question to fans of 01-02 lineup... » 585 weeks ago
I felt he should have just dropped the album in 2001. There was decent buzz coming from the two Las Vegas concerts and the Rock in Rio concert as well. There was also a very good Rolling Stone article that came out in 2000 as well. Again, things were aligned for him to release the album.
Personally speaking, while I'm not a big fan of that lineup, I was excited after hearing those new songs and wanted to hear what the entire album sounded like. After that there was like a cancelled tour (in 2001) and more silence, until he finally did the VMA thing in 2002. Ultimately though, I wonder if the band were better prepared for that VMA performance whether or not that would have led to a better outcome. This next part sounds really superficial but I wish Axl would have worn something other than a football jersey and Finck would have worn something normal. They really looked like freaks/weirdos in that performance and I think that turned some people off. And Axl should have been in shape/sang better in that performance. I went and listened to the Jungle part of that performance and it wasn't very good at all.
But anyway, even if they do drop the album in 2001-2002, does anyone not think that Axl would have screwed it up in some way or another?
#990 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash and Axl friends again? » 585 weeks ago
As for Axl/Slash, that is very good news for them personally. I doubt that this means reunion though. Slash is moving forward with a third record with Myles, Duff is working on a new solo disc, a new Mad Season album, and will probably also tour the second Walking Papers disc; and somehow I doubt Axl is willing to throw CD2 away. It might happen some years down the line though.
CD2 has zero value outside of the diehards (and even that is debatable). But my hope is that they finally release a Bluray of the Ritz Show or any classic show from the AFD era. It would be nice to see a documentary and concert of the UYI tours as well.
But if they wanted to release a new album I wonder if they could go the Van Halen route and just release unreleased tracks from 1990-1996. I'm not sure whether or not they have enough material to do that however.
I'm am happy that they finally seemed to have resolved their differences though, especially for Axl. It seemed like the feud bothered him a lot more than it did Slash.
