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#1021 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 671 weeks ago
What does Walker have without FF?
A Monster in the Closet?
#1022 Re: The Garden » War hero was kicked out of Nirvana and Soundgarden » 671 weeks ago
Cool stories and this,
I was in the cool bands – I was psyched to do the most uncool thing you could possibly do.
is reiterating the advice Josh Freese got from Paul Westerberg when he joined GNR.
"You should do it. Go do it! If everyone's telling you not to do it, you should go do it". 
#1023 Re: The Sunset Strip » James Gandolfini dead at 51 » 671 weeks ago
I liked him in Killing Them Softly, one of his last roles.
Looking back at it, it's a bit eerie. He plays a hitman whose career and personal life have gone down to the skids and he's turned into a liability.
One can only wonder how much of that role held its ground in his everyday life at the time...
#1024 Re: Guns N' Roses » Curious Sorry/Shackler mention » 671 weeks ago
So basically EVERY song is from 99-01?
You didn't get the memo, then?
We did most of the music as a total collaborative effort a while back, most of the music was recorded four years ago. In the last seven years, in the last four years, it's been pretty much done. [...] It's been through a couple of producers' hands, some have been good, some have been bad." (Tommy, Rhinocast, 01/16/06)
"It was a bummer. Most of the songs that are on the record now were done 10 fucking years ago. But all the talking heads in the mix were saying, “Make ’em sound better! Make ’em sound better!” So we kept redoing this and that." (Tommy, AV Club, 05/19/11)
"We started over, we continued adding songs, continued recording and recording." (Axl, Rock & Pop FM, 01/22/01)
"It ended up coming back down to the same fucking songs that they were 10 years ago, except that now they were a super-dense mishmash of a bunch of instrumentation. That whole era pretty much sums up what happened to the record industry." (Tommy, AV Club, 05/19/11)
Better 03/04 period
What? What info is there that dates this song to that period? The CD train had already derailed at that point.
It's a Bucket/Brain -era song, which puts it around '00-03. Stilll, it's in the same general timeframe as the other CD songs.
#1025 Re: The Sunset Strip » James Gandolfini dead at 51 » 672 weeks ago
Coke, booze, out of shape, 51 years old. Sound familiar? RIP Mr. Soprano. Feel very bad for his wife and young daughter (born in October). Hopefully this is a bit of a wakeup call for Axl.
Them lads in happier times.
#1026 Re: Guns N' Roses » Curious Sorry/Shackler mention » 672 weeks ago
Indeed, found it.
“Shackler’s” was a song that Bucket and I wrote a Iong time ago, just jamming. Axl asked if anybody had any songs or grooves, so we brought that in. It was a riff that we'd been jamming on since the Praxis days with Bill and Bootsy and Bernie. Axl loved it and put some lyrics to it, and it became “Shackler's.” That one might have more of a swing because it came more from me.
#1027 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rose » 674 weeks ago
The narrator has, during the song and before it, stood down as a Beast/Goat/Snail has been eating a Rose. There's some Devil allegory there, and one could dismiss the other thing as flower, but the capitalization does intrigue. Rose being eaten by a demon (the record label / personal tribulation?), purity and beauty lost to a heineous party. Being asked to make further acquittals, compromising one's integrity. Caring too much to take it anymore. Celebrating one's freedom to make his own mind.
The decisive act ('rose') equals the object of concern ('Rose'). "Play this / kneel down / Gun-shy martyr, pitiful". To me, this suggests feigned martyrdom. There's the 'get on with it' aspect, which suggests the whole point of letting the Rose get eaten is just an excuse for oneself not to do anything about it. "My hands were tied" doesn't cut it.
As an Axl/CD allegory, I'd read it as Axl against the circumstances. Long story short, the lesson would be 'Get out there and do it', because you'll be thanking yourself later you did.
#1028 Re: Guns N' Roses » Curious Sorry/Shackler mention » 674 weeks ago
I believe those songs follow the Bob Ezrin comment "3 good songs". Axl was bleeding for new, ahem, better songs at the time and also went after Down by the Ocean, originally demoed by Izzy and Duff for the aborted '96 album.
Soon after, they started to moan about Brain rerecording Josh on CD and not sounding enough like Dave Grohl. 
#1029 Guns N' Roses » Curious Sorry/Shackler mention » 674 weeks ago
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Imagine it took all this time to run into it...
WINTER 2008
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!Guns n'Roses new album, Chinese Democracy, has finally seen the light of day. And with it are two songs that Rob and good friend Pete Scaturro helped create, way back in 2000. Yes, in the year 2000. Pete and Rob produced the tracks "Sorry" and "Shackler's Revenge" with literal guitar hero Buckethead and former Gn'R and Primus drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia, with Axl ultimately adding his voice. We were surprised as anybody...and look forward to our free can of Dr. Pepper.
#1030 Re: The Sunset Strip » Black Sabbath » 675 weeks ago
When set agains the golden era, 13 falls haplessly short. A few pointers:
- No great opener. Just think; War Pigs, Sweet Leaf, Wheels of Confusion... The End is the Beginning? I think not.
- No left-field insanity run. Snowblind, with a twist every other minute, could be said to encompass more creative ideas than half of the tracks on 13.
- No great ballad. Early Sabbath was actually an awesome band when they went soft/slow. Planet Caravan and Solitude are my personal favorites in this regard. The band that plays on 13 doesn't reach that, even if something tells me that with some effort, it could.
Currently, I pretty much dig the same tunes as Son of a Gun (Loner, Age of Reason, Zeitgeist) but to me, God Is Dead has grown as a sort of effable Ozzy doing his numbnut solo thing with Sabbath as his backing band (before Iommi and Butler wake up near the end of the track).
It's not a bad Sabbath album per se, just not an actual pinnacle, either. Depending on one's preference, 13 situates above or below Technical Ecstacy. Given how manically high the bar was raised back in the 70's, one has to give them points for trying and hope there'll actually be a next time.
