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#1381 Re: Guns N' Roses » Coachella Festival profile and rumours » 566 weeks ago
TheMole wrote:johndivney wrote:I think it was leeds '02 were a part of the campsite got washed away by rain/floods.. could've been somewhere else tho another european festival.. fuckin rain.
Pukkelpop '02 in Belgium. Great show, but the weather was absolutely horrible. And they came on an hour late, which pissed a lot of people off who were gonna miss their trains.
Still glad I got to see the line-up with bucket and Gothic Finck, but nothing beats an Axl-Slash line-up.
I think there was a lot of trouble at Leeds 02 after GNR's set. They moved the venue of the festival after that, don't think it was specifically GNR related though.
nah it had nothing to do with Guns.
Guns played on the friday (& would've been closing Reading on the Sunday except they were doubled booked & played another festival on the Sunday night). there was no trouble after the GnR show - probably because it finished relatively late(!)
the only problem with GnR was their tardiness & Axl saying from the stage about how he didn't come all this way to england just to be told to go the fuck home, & they got an extension of curfew to play the rest of their set.
the trouble started on the sunday night. it seemed to be the traditional thing of the time at that particular festival, to set the bogs on fire & have a mini riot.
believe it or not i managed to sleep thru the entire thing!
i woke up on monday morning & my mates were like, how the fuck did you sleep thru that?! there was like a riot right outside your tent! & i was just like, let me grab my shitty bootleg gnr tshirt & get the fuck home cause i am just fucking wrecked, didn't give a fuck about the bombsite the camp had turned into.
leeds festival had a weird atmosphere. quite young, juvenile sorta crowd. it was like the parents had packed their kids off to leeds for the weekend tbh.
#1382 Re: Guns N' Roses » Coachella Festival profile and rumours » 566 weeks ago
that is one shit festival lineup tho. ONLY the afd 5 could save any interest in that. they can have their hybrid & that shite festival lineup, i'll be more than happy to stay @ home.
guy clark jr rocks tho.
there is literally 3 or 4 acts on the same day as Guns that i would go to only because i was already at the festival & had nothing to do. but no one band, bar guns, would make me think, i really want to go to this.
so yea, i kinda feel like i'm not missing out on much. can't imagine it having the kinda atmosphere that'd be my cup of tea. prob the weather tho, that'd be my cup of tea alright. i think it was leeds '02 were a part of the campsite got washed away by rain/floods.. could've been somewhere else tho another european festival.. fuckin rain.
#1383 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses-Velvet Revolver hybrid? » 566 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:I don't buy this doing it for the fans. Where were those concerns when they left the band in the first place? Why would they suddenly accept the bullshit associated with Axl? He hasn't changed, they know it as well as we do.
They didn't need the money in the mids 90s, but perhaps they do now. Families, ex wives. It adds up.
Or these "problems with Axl" were exaggerated from the get go.
Duff said that his wife getting pregnant made his decision to leave very easy. I think he just needed to get away from the huge rock band thing altogether. And Axl has changed at least a little bit. When is the last time he caused a riot? I could see Slash looking at that and thinking it's at least a little better than the old days because Axl has chilled out some.
i don't know about this. the last riot was 2002?? i think the chances of people rioting at a GnR show are very very unlikely & would depend more on a handful of people in the crowd than on Axl's behaviour. i think the fans & the public are just so war weary of Axl's BS they don't even bother anymore, they just accept it with a shrug & walk off the other way. i think it's more the public & society has changed rather than Axl has chilled out!
i do think tho, in the last tour or so, someone found a way to compromise with Axl (specifically about start times). so yea, maybe he has reined in the nutty, diva-type stuff to a degree. but i cant believe he's suddenly become this affable relaxed carefree guy.
i think, rather than Axl having changed, that it's maybe more Duff & Slash are at a place now where they're easier able to deal with Axl's issues?? whereas before, Slash especially seemed to lose patience with Axl's whims..
going back to polluxlm's post - they're doing it for themselves. someone else said in another thread maybe he fancied a trip back to the top of the mountain before it was too late, & i think that sorta ambition is what's driving it (as well as substantial funds).
if we're taking the current floating 8-man VR hybrid as the lineup atm, who all out of that lineup is sober/teetotal & who still drinks?
#1384 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose To Talk "Guns N Roses" on Jmmy Kimmel Live(Not Happening) » 566 weeks ago
disappointed he's chickened out of this. would've offered some scope for some explanation - which is maybe why he's ducked out of it??
p lame moving the announcement of coachella to that random website (tho maybe that website they'll be able to hold pre-sales for tickets..??).
clearly axl's only intention was to sell coachella & avoid questions of slash's return/lineup changes.
unless they've something else cooking just not ready to announce yet..??
i doubt that tho. think this is just another example of the big guy pussying out/not showing up for his own reasons..
#1385 Re: Guns N' Roses » The thingamabob Axl needs to break out? » 566 weeks ago
getting a worrying insight into aussie's sex life here..
Less pies is a start.
this.
just don't pick up that chocolate bar, axl. next time you're bored don't go stuff your already overstuffed face, go do something proactive.& we'll see you in a couple of months.
#1386 Re: Guns N' Roses » Official Statement coming from Guns camp tonight. » 566 weeks ago
if they show the same chemistry as in the UYI/Tokyo dvd's we're in for a messy few months of touring..
i think people being disappointed in the lineup are legitimate, & i don't see why you people who are happy about the situation have to be so down on people "bitching".
it's a legit claim that we're being denied a proper reunion. no matter how relieved & excited you are to have slash back. it's fair game for people to criticise this approach, if you don't like the conversation then ignore it but you don't have to go around crapping on fellow fans because they don't share your vision. typical of the community to quickly turn on itself. on any dissenters. oh well.
fwiw: i'm freaking hyped to fuck believe me, but i also acknowledge it's not everything that it could be.
#1387 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose To Talk "Guns N Roses" on Jmmy Kimmel Live(Not Happening) » 566 weeks ago
so what is Axl going to say in regards the relationship(s) being mended?
obviously he's there to sell the shows but they're bound to touch on the whys and whatnots of the story..??
is he just going to brush it off/under the carpet as a lot of time has passed yada yada yada, or is he going to get a bit more personal, or is he even going to get into specifics??
i can imagine he'll play nice & polite, offering generic response before selling the shows.
but i can also see him going, "oh slash said sorry & that made a really big difference" 
he'll maybe get into specifics & go on one of his unhinged rants if he's in full flight during filming.. fingers crossed 
it's interesting he's the interviewee..
i wonder if slash & duff'll call him boss..
#1388 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses-Velvet Revolver hybrid? » 566 weeks ago
Also if they're going to do Fall to Pieces that's going to serve as my piss break. In much the same ay as The Blues became my piss break song during the CD tours..
#1389 Re: Guns N' Roses » Potential Opening Acts » 566 weeks ago
Trailer Park Boys..
#1390 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses-Velvet Revolver hybrid? » 566 weeks ago
edit: I don't blame him at all for losing interest in that 09-14 lineup. Just awful on several levels. I don't even want to imagine the music that Ron and Ashba sent him for consideration.
Haha!
I like to imagine this scenario as being the definitive reason why Axl's brought the old guys back in. Listening to DJ/BBF should've been the nadir, Axl hitting rock bottom with his Chinese vision & at that moment he's like just completely exhausted and sees Slash & Duff as his way out of the mess he made for himself.
