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#211 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » DUFF Hopes To Tour With IZZY » 734 weeks ago
The question in my head now, is... If this happens... and if it comes to America if it does... How far am I willing to go to see it?
#212 Re: The Garden » Too Old for Doc's? » 734 weeks ago
The 34 year old sitting here in Chuck Taylors says no you're not too old... For whatever that's worth.
#213 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Weiland joined VR for money » 735 weeks ago
monkeychow wrote:jorge76 wrote:[but to me thie difference between him and an Axl, Slash, or Weiland is he isn't trying to climb back to where he was in 92 most of the time.
I don't really see Axl as trying to climb back to where he was in 1992.
Surely if that was a legitimate goal he'd do press interviews, release music more often, do promo competitions and activities like they old "MTV is selling Axl's house" thing and all kinds of stuff like that. While GNR was always been GNR, it's fair to say that it generally functioned a little more like a normal band back in the day in terms of publicity and so on.
Let alone the obvious formula for gaining mainstream acceptance back: patch it up with Izzy and Slash/Duff/Matt - record an EP and tour that.
But that he chooses to do what he does now, suggests to me that he is happier not doing those things than to dance the dance and whatever else would be needed just to get back to the top.
Yeah, I don't see Axl in that light either for the reasons Monkey mentioned. I assume you're referring to living off the old lineup's catalog? I guess I could see that, but if not, I don't see it at all. I don't think he's anything like he was in 1992 in terms of popularity, drive, success, you name it.
Yeah, that's at least partially what I meant, along with diva-like behaviour that you can somewhat get away with when you're on top of the world, but most people won't accept when you're in your late 40's and not burning up the charts anymore.
Also, and this is obviously all just speculation on my part, I think Axl fully expected the world to come to him without him having to get off his ass and dance the dance. To add Weiland and Slash in there, when they were told they needed to write better songs I think they just thought "fuck you, we're a supergroup, we can do what we want and people will come to us" and just knocked out Libertad as quick and easy as possible.
There's just a million things that lead to a state of Arrested Development that I'll bet would be hard not to develop given the situations they were put in at the ages they were.
Maybe it's all more the fault of sycophants and yes-men but in their heads they're much closer to the level of fame/success they had in the early 90's than the reality of where they actually are now.
#214 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Weiland joined VR for money » 735 weeks ago
Patton is a great vocalist, but he doesn't know shit about what people want or like. He's so eccentric, that even Praxis seems mainstream.
He might know, but he doesn't give a fuck. FNM was mainstream enough to be selling out for Patton, but to most of the world FNM is about as avant garde as they're willing to get. The later FNM albums were getting closer and closer to Mr Bungle all the time.
A lot of people claim not to give a fuck, but when sales aren't there they freak out. Patton's perfectly happy to do what he's doing and is well aware it's not going to set the world on fire.
I'm not saying that he didn't put out a few solo albums where he seemed to be saying "I dare you to try to like this", doesn't come off as pretentious a lot of the time, and that the recent FNM shows weren't just for the money... but to me thie difference between him and an Axl, Slash, or Weiland is he isn't trying to climb back to where he was in 92 most of the time.
#215 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy now $1.99 » 735 weeks ago
Since all the Breakdown love is here... Maybe this is super common knowledge to anyone that gives enough of a shit to post at a GNR board, but maybe not... They knew they wanted a banjo, but no one at the studio knew how to tune one, so they said fuck it and just tuned it like a guitar.
I've always found that interesting for some reason.
#216 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH: Next Solo Album To Arrive In March/April » 735 weeks ago
I actually didn't originally intend this post to turn into an Axl-esque tirade. But it's truely my opinion on Slash. I think if you culled his absolute best material over the years post-GN'R, you might actually have one album (kind of like Axl) worthy of listening to.
It was somebody here (I'm looking in Neemo's direction, but I don't know that for sure) who I first saw say not long after Chinese Democracy came out that "Chinese Democracy is better than any album Slash has put out since GNR, but if you let me pull together one single Slash album from all that time it would be a different story"
I've quoted/paraphrased that a ton of times in conversations. Although I usually preface it with "I'll be lazy and make the Axl vs Slash arguement", it's the perfect example to defend and criticize both Axl and Slash for some of their biggest shortcomings as artists.
Myles needs to take it down a register or two on the next album, and see what happens.
^This. Or I'll have tuned out by halfway through the album and they won't get my attention back.
#217 Re: The Sunset Strip » Black Label Society » 735 weeks ago
BLABBERMOUTH.NET
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY's Next Concert DVD To Feature String Quartet, Pedal Steel Player http://dlvr.it/TFVsX
I so fucking hope this is real and not him just making something up.
#218 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy now $1.99 » 736 weeks ago
metallex78 wrote:Breakdown kinda starts as cheese, and has cheese moments in it. But the moments if brilliance in it, far outweigh the moments it is bad.
I was always hoping Slash would bust out Bad Apples with his live band, but Slash seems to play it fairly safe with his choice of GN'R material too.
Breakdown has way too much cheese for me, so I'm on the otherside of that. But it definitely does have some brilliant moments.
Try listening to it again, but at the end when Axl goes into the "there goes the challenger" shit. Pan your speakers all the way over to one side to get just the guitar. I think that'll help you see what everyone's saying. Although you'll be pissed that Axl has been talking overtop of it all these years.
#219 Re: The Sunset Strip » Aerosmith Discussion » 739 weeks ago
BLABBERMOUTH.NET
Review: STEVEN TYLER's Memoir Is 'Filled With Lame Puns, Stolen Jokes, Colorful Words' http://dlvr.it/QTk3V
If this surprized someone they've evidently never heard Tyler's lyrics before.
#220 Re: The Sunset Strip » Black Label Society » 742 weeks ago
Steven Tyler, Iggy Pop, Zakk Wylde... Get rid of the dumb kids singing shitty pop songs I could get into American Idol.
