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#2061 Re: Guns N' Roses » North American Tour Stats for new Gnr » 740 weeks ago
Monkey is somewhat right, everything you need to know about Axl then and now is in his lyrics...not really sure what this has to do with the topic or the ID/Monkey circle jerk but something has to break the ice...
Well some say I'm lazy
And others say that's just me
Some say I'm crazy
I guess I'll always be
But it's been such a long time
Since I knew right from wrong
It's all the means to an end, I,
I keep on movin' alongRadicals and racists
Don't point your finger at me
I'm a small town white boy
Just tryin' to make ends meet
Don't need your religion
Don't watch that much TV
Just makin' my livin', baby,
Well that's enough for me
top 3 GnR tune ^
think i disagree w/ur idea tho skydog, about all you need to know is his lyrics.
this may sound like a dicky thing to say, but that may well have been the case had he died/fucked-off/retired/done something else. but there's too much has passed to let him off the hook in this day & age.
obv in an ideal world all that would stand as testament would be his body of work. & maybe given time that will come to pass. but if you're gonna judge axl you have to factor in his behaviour, specifically as to how it relates his own material & his search for newness, which as we know is virtually non-existent.
& crucially, in comparison to those he's competing with, he isn't cutting the mustard. the staleness & reliance on formula is very upsetting from someone who promised so much.
in fairness, taken as a singular context, his work contains some of the greatest rock songs ever. but his performance outside of those core songs does not measure up: it doesn't measure up to his potential, his promises, or to those other great mystics/entertainers. he had the chances & he's blown near each & every one of them.
that's what you also need to know about axl. he will let you down even when he told you he wasn't going to. BUT in his defense on that accusation, "every promise that's made & bragged is meant, if not kept.." credit is due for his intentions & honesty. but at the end of the day there's a lot of epic fail resting at his door.
#2062 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Flashback to 1989 (Erin Everly) » 740 weeks ago
her kids have stupid names.
shame for them axl didn't knock some sense into the bitch.
#2063 Re: The Sunset Strip » How In The Hell Do We Not Have A Breaking Bad Thread? » 740 weeks ago
also:
#2064 Re: The Sunset Strip » How In The Hell Do We Not Have A Breaking Bad Thread? » 740 weeks ago
Anyone else want the show to just keep going on? It's some of the best television made in recent years (if not ever, as well).
i actually thought it coulda ended last season. that they dragged it out a little too long.
but i was wrong.
they are ending it too soon!!
#2065 Re: The Sunset Strip » How In The Hell Do We Not Have A Breaking Bad Thread? » 740 weeks ago
polluxlm & i were talking about it briefly in the recently watched movies thread...
this season has been superb.
it does bug me this idea of splitting the final season into two. but it's a minor quibble really.
i do have a litany of minor quibbles w/the show (i've always hated jesse for example.. most of my mates seem to identify w/him tho, i can't fucking stand him & wish he'd been killed off in s01 lol!)
but overall all it's such an entertaining & fun show, it really is top notch tv.
i kinda assumed they're were going to go down this road plot-wise a few seasons back, or whenever it was they finally announced when the show was ending. but it's still played out p well.
i won't miss his annoying wife, her sister or jesse when the show does end. i do miss
. but walter is one of the great tv characters ever, up there w/tony soprano & stringer bell. one minute i fucking love him & would love to be him, the next minute he does something so despicable it's not even cool! & it's been that rollercoaster from the fucking get-go. it has been a great show.
& it's great for loadsa reasons. the direction & camera shots for example have been incredible - shovel-cam anyone?! & the mash-up of genres & styles, one minute it's like the a-team trying to concoct some crazy scheme or explosion to rescue a dire situation the next minute it's a soap-opera then it's a police show. & there's so much more...
it's just the standard bearer of what great tv should be. it's brilliant brilliant fun, & often very very funny too.
#2066 Re: The Garden » Lance Armstrong » 740 weeks ago
I don't really "get" this whole situation. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lance never failed any drug test that he was administered. How is it that he's assumed guilty? Just because his teammates claim he was doping? Again, I could be wrong, but there's no physical evidence to back up these claims, is there? It wouldn't shock me in the least if he WAS guilty, but I don't understand how all his titles can be taken away based on the testimonials of others.
he had a system of power & intimidation, of people out to protect him.
it was covered up. until he retired & the system & support he had collapsed & the truth was finally brought into the open.
#2067 Re: The Garden » Lance Armstrong » 740 weeks ago
well i always assumed he was a cheat. from the moment he got mixed up w/ferrari.
the old adage was there for a reason: if a cyclist is too good to be true then he probably is.
i'm glad he's finally, kind of, admitted the truth. or that he's been forced into it. whatever, just that the truth is finally out.
i do like the idea of allowing athletes to dope tho. they're gonna do it anyway, so let's have it. & besides, the amount of legal or legitimate crap a lot of them put into their bodies already alienates them from natural performance.
there's an irish comedian who does a bit about holding the drug olympics in donegal, sure if someone wants to run the 100m in half a second just let them.
however, on a serious note. it is sad what they've done to tarnish what is one of the planets great sporting events. it really is an amazing, awe-inspiring competition. a competition that for too long was beholden to armstrongs influence & team of lawyers, & riddled w/cheaters.
#2068 Re: Guns N' Roses » North American Tour Stats for new Gnr » 740 weeks ago
no. the lack of output & the quality of the output both indicate a lack of quality/creativity/spark/muse.
i'm not trying to say anything for definite. i wouldn't. i'm just speculating.
if axl had something he needed to say/release, he'd have done it. like he needed to when he did AFD & UYI. he didn't need the fire after & it died. so it goes.
& besides, lack of output is p strong evidence. you have nothing to back up your story. so what, he sat in malibu writing & recording billions of great songs straight from his heart & then decided to release Shacklers instead? he still has the force that wrote SCoM & Patience, but he puts out Riad instead? where's your evidence lol?!
#2069 Re: Guns N' Roses » 12 GN'R shows in Las Vegas » 740 weeks ago
johndivney wrote:'appetite for democracy' is such a stupid thing to say. Ffs. Wtf is that even meant to mean? Some pro-democracy/rock the vote type tripe?!
Get in the ring. That's a cool name for a tour banner. Appetite for democracy has no balls. Confused & lazy, in a sense it's a perfectly shitty slogan for this band.I think the point is to celebrate the entire history of the band, from AFD to CD. Of course, cue the obvious. But this isn't the old band, etc., etc. I get it. Hey, maybe the AFD lineup will show up and rip through the album front to back one night.
Ok, maybe not.
i get it. it's just a pussy, unethical, lazy & uninspired banner. & another betrayal of core values of what GnR once was.
#2070 Re: Guns N' Roses » North American Tour Stats for new Gnr » 740 weeks ago
This spark stuff is nonsense to me.
The issue is entirely a personality issue.
It's got nothing at all to do with creativity.
The creativity is still there - they just need to end the war. The problem is entirely personal.
i dunno mate.. they both are still capable of exceptional, GnR-worthy material. but in terms of consistency there's nothing to indicate they're capable of creating a LP as wall-to-wall perfect as AFD or as stuffed full of gold as the UYI's.
& i mean Axl... i know i've been harping on about it ad nauseum, ironically enough, but the guy just doesn't have anything fresh or interesting to say imo. it's the same snarky trip since '91, except the lyrics have gotten immeasurably worse.
lookit this way - his creativity/lyrics/whatever are the same as a muscle, if you don't use it it atrophies & weakens, it decays. & a lot of that is due to his own work-ethic (for want of a better term). like the talent is everlasting, but it isn't as potent or energised as when he was at his peak. it's the same in a lot of walks of life - sport for example.
"the fire's gone out but the light is never dying" kinda trip.
i think the spark was gone. i think axl's muse was tired or non-existant. i think you can see that by his output & lack of output. & i think you can see it in the quality of slash's output too. they will never be as good as the guy's who couldn't fit YCBM onto AFD - & i mean, that's not slight against them. it's just they were perfection then. now? not so much. the spark's gone. that necessary factor that helped them write the best rock songs ever, it died out & all we were left with is talented guys instead of magic.
