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#121 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 268 weeks ago
Wagszilla wrote:tejastech08 wrote:Can y'all catch me up to speed? What is going on? I accidentally stumbled onto the YouTube video for this song just now. YouTube suggested it to me on the home page. I'm too lazy to read the thread, but I appreciate any insight y'all can provide. Thanks!
7/31/21 - Hershey PA
Guns N' Roses starts a new tour - the first show is a trainwreck, Slash is sloppy, Axl sounds worse than ever8/3/21 - Boston
Gn'R played "Silkworms" renamed "Absurd" the next tour date. Axl sounds very slightly improved.8/5/21 - MetLife NY/NJ
Gn'R plays "Absurd" again
Axl mentions "Absurd" will be available for download at midnight EDT. Axl sounds improved again8/6/21 - Today
"Absurd" released
You are hereAdded extra info. It is crazy that this week started with a disaster of a first show.
I think the days of hoping for good performance from Axl are gone down the tubes. The only thing that could get him to really bring his A game back in 2016 was the fact he worships Angus Young and AC/DC. It's really a shame we didn't get the GN'R reunion in 2006.
#122 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 268 weeks ago
Somewhere Axl is laughing his ass off.
Silkworms is their first single. Not Hard School.
Silkworms.
Yeah, this sounds like crap to me. Pretty much My World & Oh My God on steroids. Yuck. Even most of the material on Chinese Democracy has more of the classic GN'R sound than this new song. The title is pretty funny though. If you took the typical GN'R fan who is only familiar with Appetite, Lies, and Illusion albums, they would call this song ABSURD. 
#123 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 268 weeks ago
Can y'all catch me up to speed? What is going on? Will there be a new album?
#124 Re: Guns N' Roses » WTF happened to…Catcher in the Rye » 271 weeks ago
He wasted so much of his prime after 1993 that I wish he just stayed a hermit and never tarnished the public’s memory of him. We’ve gotten this strange hybrid deal of reclusiveness mixed with embarrassing downward trajectory in stage performance. Would have been cool if he never performed live after 1993, but focused all his energy into releasing as much new studio material as possible.
#125 Re: Guns N' Roses » WTF happened to…Catcher in the Rye » 271 weeks ago
I dunno...I maintain 2006 Axl still had a charismatic vibe.
Like he looked older, but in a kinda tasteful classic rock way....the braids weren't for everyone but I thought in this era he kinda rocked them.
The voice was a long way from prime yet he was doing amazing screams that were bringing the house down and the odd moment of sheer brillance.
The only problem was people didn't really care for the replacement band, and that it was a classic hits tour (handful of CD songs excepted).
I think the NITL reunion done in 2006 (which nearly happened what with the slash visit earlier) would have been a mind-blowing comback....or hell...even the CD stuff dropped in 2006 not 2008 and then followed up with a more material would have gone better.
I mean nothing will be like UYI tour....but I think 2006 Axl had a bit of petrol in the tank.
2006 was cool. The problem is 2002 was complete shit, and much of his performance/image after 2006 is complete shit as well. Permanent retirement in 1995 would have been better than what has played out the last 25 years.
#126 Re: The Garden » Posters who vanished long ago.... » 271 weeks ago
I disappeared for quite awhile, but I'm back at the moment.
#127 Re: Guns N' Roses » Don't Cry music video release date? » 271 weeks ago
I always thought that Don’t Cry came out months before UYI. But I guess even back when they were actively working, there were still delays.
I have a question for anyone here that was a fan of the AFD harder sound, what was your initial reaction to them releasing Don’t Cry as a lead single for UYI?
I would say it was a pretty good choice. GN'R had already proven their ballad chops with Sweet Child & Patience. The summer of 1991 featured You Could Be Mine kicking ass with Terminator 2 in theaters.
My favorite aspect of Don't Cry is a 1986 performance where the audience talks over them because the band is completely unknown at the time. 5 years later, the song goes Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. And another 30 years later, the music video has a crazy number of views on YouTube for a 1991 song (640+ million). That 1986 performance is one of the only acoustic versions ever...and it features unbelievable vocals by Axl in the 2nd half of the song. Meanwhile the audience has no fucking clue what they are seeing.
#128 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite For Distortion - Episode 256: 90s and 00s Axl Stories » 271 weeks ago
I bought Art Tavana's book awhile back, but just now started reading it. Axl really is a nutjob in terms of the spiritual stuff he believes. I had no idea that Erin Everly testified in court that Axl believed he had successfully transferred the souls of their dead dogs into new dogs. And that's just the tip of the iceberg with his beliefs, I'm sure.
#129 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Better » 271 weeks ago
Remember when "Better" was in that Black Sheep TV ad for Harley Davidson? Fanbase was super excited. This was not long after Axl went on the Eddie Trunk radio show and claimed the album would be released in Fall 2006. And then the whole thing fell apart. We were strung along every week by Axl's manager, who kept saying there were such and such number of Tuesdays left in the year.
#130 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 271 weeks ago
Not In This Lifetime is a proper expectation.
