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#1931 Re: Guns N' Roses » 11-07-2012 - The Joint, Las Vegas, NV » 731 weeks ago
so, was finck really at the show?
& did axl not invite him onstage, on his birthday, out of spite?
#1932 Re: Guns N' Roses » 11-07-2012 - The Joint, Las Vegas, NV » 731 weeks ago
ooooohh cacther in the rye again
it's such a shitty song yea..
it's just another day like...
good setlist (no sorry tho?)
ty for updates gibbo
wish i was @ one of these gigs...
#1933 Re: The Garden » Call the election » 731 weeks ago
u guys seem p certain obama's gonna win. (atm anyway, after like, 11 votes). defo not the impression i get from the media, tho the message also seems to be about romney not able to get the 270 electoral votes.
just from history i wouldn't ever be surprised about who would win.
having said that tho, as a rational person w/only the slightest interest in this, it's just plain weird how close it is (& often is).
don't get me wrong, i find my own politicians just as laughable & contemptible, if not more so.
but what i love about the US election is the noise & razzmatazz it brings. it's like the oscars only a little more important & exclusive.
#1934 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Beatles » 731 weeks ago
y'know, they're bringing out the mono set next yr...
#1935 Re: The Garden » US Presidential Debates » 731 weeks ago
So who is going to win?
As a casual, distant outsider I can't understand why it's so close, or meant to be close. But yea is it really like 50/50 atm??
#1936 Re: Guns N' Roses » 11/03/2012 - The Joint - Las Vegas, NV » 731 weeks ago
Love Hangover is such a fucking tune like the grooviest thing ever
#1937 Re: The Sunset Strip » Traveling... Need entertainment recommendations! » 731 weeks ago
curb your enthusiasm
where'd you get that rash?
oh, i stuck a doll's head down my pant's, doctor. it feels good to me.
#1938 Re: The Sunset Strip » Boardwalk Empire » 731 weeks ago
I know they are supposed to start focusing on the rise of lucky luciano and al capone, as well as Nucky's fall....let's not forget this is loosely based on some real history
this is p much why i'm interested in it, as a dramatization of the origins of the mob. i'm a sucker for mob history so i'm glad they've advanced the story forward this yr regarding this stuff.
#1939 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose - USA Today interviews » 731 weeks ago
Axl wrote:After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to, and I don't know if that was the best thing for Guns. I do want to lean more toward lyrics and melody."
Interesting this comment from Axl. I've long wondered if he just ran out of ideas for Slash's hard rock Aerosmith style track. Don't mean that disrespectfully - just like AFD was his take on that music and inspired by their hardcore lifestyle - then the guitar tracks on UYI Axl added stuff about what was going in his life - his neighbours, being famous, etc, but his own music was more focused on ballads and his love life...then his interest in industrial and that My World type headspace...then maybe Slash comes in with 5'Oclock and a bunch of riffs and there's just no inspiration to do more of that stuff. It's noticable that CD has more UYI style epics and industrial tracks only...there's not really guitar based rockers at all.
Axl broke it in a way, the songwriting/direction they were going. PTU/DTJ/Coma/Locomotive that psych-tinged hard rock, YCBM even, was the angle he should pursued & let them pursue. the ballads always meant too much too him, a decision he's gotten badly wrong. the magic was in the variety, of course, but it got overloaded w/ballads when Izzy had to go... & Slash lost control. & the new guys can't write, & aren't GnR even when they do write a decent tune.
but yea i assumed 5 o'clock was kinda like what we woulda got as a template GnR album if Axl had just shut up & sang..
monkey, do you think CD was worth having Slash out of the band & all the turmoil of the last 15yrs?
#1940 Re: Guns N' Roses » 12 GN'R shows in Las Vegas » 731 weeks ago
Axlin12 wrote:But without new music live, there isn't much reason to listen to GN'R perform live with 2012 suck Axl. Because you can just pop in better shows from 8,569 other performances of AFD that Axl was alot better.
That's the reason GNR desperately needs new material IMO - to add that sense of excitement back into the shows.
I'm not saying I never want to see him do PC again or anything - but when the setlist is very similar to a decade earlier, it sets up a situation where there's diminishing returns. Every year the same 8 songs - and every year everyone in the band gets a little older and so on. I guess it's just life but it would be WAY less obvious if they changed things up more often, or if they added in new musical stuff to go with the hits.
fundamentally i agree w/the bolded part.
however, i don't think now is the time nor the place for the setlist debate, or for the setlist to be overhauled, especially w/new stuff.
now you know me, i'm usually first in line to complain at the start of the new tour leg that the setlist is exactly the same & that CD is actually about 13 yrs old give or take. BUT, these shows are a different context; they're an advertised celebration, particularly the 25yrs of AFD. what was wrong before was in the context of what's expected from a vibrant, valid band.
the setup for these shows is pro-actively pro-nostalgia. r/evolving setlists or new material shouldn't be on peoples list of expectations.
it's weird as doing exactly the same is now the correct thing to do. it's just they were wrong before they're not wrong now - they've got the chance for part of the world to slow down to their speed for 15mins.
& i can excuse them playing the same set when they go to India &/or wherever they're headed to, cause a lot of those people'll be experiencing them for the first time.
there's a lot of setlist complaints i can't excuse, but i can these.
