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#1 Re: The Sunset Strip » Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here » 8 days ago
Hard to say what my favorite band is. I feel that Pink Floyd, if we include Roger Waters solo, made the better music. But I can't just dismiss GN'R either. I say that because whereas I'm always interested in unreleased GN'R stuff, I have zero interest in Pink Floyd or Roger Waters box sets, or any other band for that matter. If GN'R was my favorite band by a clear margin that might make sense, but it's not, so I have no idea why that is.
Perhaps it is because I enjoy the individual talent of Axl, Slash and Duff. But with PF and Waters it is the whole that matters. I'm not particularly impressed by their guitar or vocals skills. Waters was ace on the vocals in the 80s, but that was a very fleeting thing, not raw talent like Axl Rose. With Axl I am interested in his voice in all eras, with Roger it is just a couple of albums in the early to mid 80s.
Great set though. Would like to own it just for the sake of it. But probably won't bother since I will never listen to it.
#2 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tracks missing from the leaked CD's » 9 days ago
I was gone for a couple years here. Is it me or was The General a huge letdown? I recall alot of hype behind that one. Seems its going for an Estranged concept, but pretty big swing and miss if you ask me.
I think it's a great song at its core. Definitely a big gun. Perhaps not as epic as we were lead to believe, but fantastic nonetheless. Axl sounds amazing on the chorus. CD in general lacks good choruses (all these unintentional puns!).
What I don't like about it is the production. That hip hop drum or whatever that drones on in the background sounds terrible to me. Feels like you are playing a scratched record almost. And it gets worse as the song progresses. You get sort of used to it, but it would have been better with a more rock n roll beat.
#3 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 10 days ago
polluxlm wrote:Watching Avatar this weekend. First new movie I'm watching in 2 years. So much shit out there now. If it's not an old director I'm not interested. People working at studios today are fucking clueless. The art has been completely lost.
I was reading up on it a little and just the way it works now in terms of movies is quite depressing. Also all the telecommunications/big guys just buy out the legacy studios.
look at all the big four /five movie studios : all got bought swallowed up by bigger media companies:
20th century Fox=disney
MGM=Amazon
Universal=Comcast
Columbia Pictures=Sony
Paramount=Skydance
They have pretty much cut down on physical media. That’s killer for new films. Matt Damon talked about it years ago.
Yeah, the old studios cared about money, but they also had decades and decades of talent in their ranks. Those guys knew how to make a movie. Even movies that I considered average are head and shoulders over new productions.
Just look at the first 15 seconds of this clip. Great directing, great score and incredible acting by John Travolta. It's not just the facial and eye expressions, but the rhythm of it. It's musical the way he reacts. Absolutely brilliant.
It's those little things, those little touches of art that is completely missing from a modern production. There is just nothing there. A highly sanitized product. And that's before I even mention the politics that ruin everything.
#4 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 10 days ago
Watching Avatar this weekend. First new movie I'm watching in 2 years. So much shit out there now. If it's not an old director I'm not interested. People working at studios today are fucking clueless. The art has been completely lost.
#5 Re: Guns N' Roses » Monsters V20.25 » 10 days ago
I don't have this so please send me pm as well.
#6 Re: Guns N' Roses » Children of the Revolution » 12 days ago
They should have released it in ‘02, would have done alright commercially on reputation alone, then when the crowds died down, get the reunion going in 06.
Album sales were much higher in the early 00s too. By the end of the decade the industry was falling apart and CD had acquired a reputation as a joke. 00-02 was the perfect time to do it. Axl should have just paid for the marketing himself. Surely he could afford it.
#7 Re: Guns N' Roses » Children of the Revolution » 12 days ago
It was either abandoned in that 99-00 period due to the negative reactions to both OMG and Silkworms or possibly still around with one of the updated song titles. They sure loved changing song titles all the time... probably out of boredom.
Frankly the idiots at Interscope are to blame for that fiasco. Roy Thomas Baker among them. The only way a rewamped GNR could work is if it was totally different from the old band. At least Axl seems to have understood this at first. You can't have Finck and BH on stage playing Nightrain. Predictably people would just ask where the fuck is Slash.
The 2000 album would have sold more than 2008 CD if it was released. And once the shock was over they could have built on that with interesting, alternative rock n roll for years to come.
When the record company rejected it, Axl should have just gone for the reunion then and there, but understandable why he didn't considering how much he had invested.
Could he have just forced them? Say, ok you wanted an album, here is the album. Either release it or fuck off. I suppose they would have just sat on it. No wonder he felt between a rock and a hard place.
#8 Re: The Garden » Rob Reiner - Legendary Director Killed at Home With Wife » 12 days ago
From a standpoint of "dishing it back" this is fine and expected. Not a discourse I particularly agree with, but at the same time you can't just let yourself be run over all the time. If your opponent is gloating then you are allowed to gloat. This isn't bible studies. A reflection of society more than anything.
#9 Re: Guns N' Roses » Mustache » 13 days ago
Circus Maximus has never been confirmed to be connected to Ides Of March and should not be postulated as such. It's just a theory.
Unless Axl wrote multiple songs based on Ancient Rome it seems to be a good theory.
#10 Re: Guns N' Roses » Nothin' » 2 weeks ago
I agree, a real old-school Slash sound solo
Old school? To my ears there is very little old school about either Axl or Slash. OMG vocals is probably the closest to old school Axl that we have gotten. Not surprising when he made an deliberate attempt to sing different to preserve his voice. Slash too has changed his entire style from the 90s. He's much more slick now, clean. Plodding. He never bends like he used to. His best Nightrain solo is still from 1992.
Good? That's subjective, but old school feels off base to me.
