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#251 Re: Guns N' Roses » AFD_30 » 460 weeks ago
They played Jungle in the encore?
I can only go by what I saw live a month ago and they did sound really good. Clearly it's a very different experience being there in person to dissecting a youtube video. I'm sure the overall atmosphere covers smaller deficiencies if you're there in person but they haven't been playing to 50k plus each night and serving up complete shit. People (and by that I mean people at the shows) wouldn't put up with it and word would spread. Yet reviews have been great from fans and reviewers alike. The London show I went to I went with two friends who knew the hits but nothing else and both left saying it was one of the best shows they've ever been to. That was only 5 weeks ago.
#252 Re: Guns N' Roses » AFD_30 » 460 weeks ago
Even the media was into the concept that something big was going to go down:
http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/guns-n-ro … struction/
Teasing a show at the Apollo? No shit.
#253 Re: Guns N' Roses » AFD_30 » 460 weeks ago
to me it seems that Fortus is the only guy onstage who always keeps his huge grin. the others seem to be hardly interested at all and bored as hell. this is becoming more and more embarassing (and I thought the 2012-14 stint was the rock bottom... it wasn't).
We can discuss who does or doesn't look interested but to claim this is somehow worse or more embarrassing than 12-14 or even 02 is laughable.
#254 Re: Guns N' Roses » AFD_30 » 460 weeks ago
I love the Slash/Fortus Wish you were here/Layla jam, there's real chemistry.
Anyway yeah, expected the same show and that's what we got. I suppose it's promo for the US dates as much as anything.
#255 Re: The Sunset Strip » Chester Bennington Commits Suicide » 460 weeks ago
TMZ reporting Chester Bennington has committed suicide.
http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-pa … s-suicide/Kinda really got into rock with Hybrid Theory. Last record blew. Shocking news.
Same, Hybrid Theory and Blink 182's first album were my first rock records.
Sad news, he had 6 kids as well.
#256 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 460 weeks ago
All your examples are of individuals, who of course can change for better or worse over time due to different factors. In this case though we are talking about a nameless group of soldiers. I'm not drawing any comparisons between GOT soldiers and real soldiers but in GOT world do you not agree a teenage girl wandering alone was taking a hell of a risk approaching a group of Lannister soldiers, not to mention saying she was heading to kill Cersei?
Even if those soldiers have had a lovely character arc that's made them see the error of their ways, Arya doesn't know that, yet she walks up to them like friends in a bar.
I suppose you could say it was deliberately reflecting the differences of an army being lead by Tywin compared to Jaime but I'm not sure I believe that was the intention.
#257 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 460 weeks ago
A Private Eye wrote:monkeychow wrote:Enjoyed it.
Although I've felt the past season or so they've dragged their feet to play it out longer. Like I felt the whole plot development from this week could be told in about 5 mins or something absurd if you recount it to someone else.
The show is still great, but I think the pacing these days is a bit slow if you compare it to an Episode from season 1 or 2 where it seemed things happen more often.
I think they've struggled without Martins source material. They clearly have dots they want to join but without the books to help flesh it out it has, at times, felt like the past couple of seasons has been ponderously moving characters around the map until they get to where they need to be for the season climax.
I'm hoping now we near the end everyone will have a bit more purpose.
Still enjoyed the episode, typical scene setting but it was good all the same.
I'm curious how Arya was able to just approach a group of Lannister soldiers and eat with them when in previous seasons the impression was Lannister soldiers killed pretty much anyone who approached them.
Arya's plot armor. She can single handedly murder two men and bake them into pies without drawing attention. She can be stabbed in the stomach 4 times, swim through raw sewage, then run and fight at full speed without being hindered. She could rule the twins for weeks without fucking up and was able to murder all male Freys.
After all that, the Soldiers not being pricks is what grabs your attention?
Well yeah kinda.
It's a show with dragons and ice zombies in it, I suspended my disbelief at the door. Some logistical and practical inconsistancies over how difficult it would be to murder and cook a couple of guys or rule the twins for a couple of weeks I can live with. No doubt difficult things to pull off in the real world (face swapping impossibilites aside) but not impossible and I don't need to see it in order for the pay off to work.
The soldier scene just didn't really gel with anything we've ever previously been shown. We've spent 6 seasons watching Lannister armies be avoided like the plague so you don't get mirdered, raped or both. Yet now girl on her own approaches Lannister soldiers, they share food and drink with her, she tells them she's going to kill Cersei, a Lannister and the Queen no less and they laugh it off.
I can live with it, just felt like a very clumsy way of crowbarring Ed Sheeran into a scene while pointing Arya back north.
#258 Re: The Sunset Strip » HBO's A Game of Thrones » 460 weeks ago
Enjoyed it.
Although I've felt the past season or so they've dragged their feet to play it out longer. Like I felt the whole plot development from this week could be told in about 5 mins or something absurd if you recount it to someone else.
The show is still great, but I think the pacing these days is a bit slow if you compare it to an Episode from season 1 or 2 where it seemed things happen more often.
I think they've struggled without Martins source material. They clearly have dots they want to join but without the books to help flesh it out it has, at times, felt like the past couple of seasons has been ponderously moving characters around the map until they get to where they need to be for the season climax.
I'm hoping now we near the end everyone will have a bit more purpose.
Still enjoyed the episode, typical scene setting but it was good all the same.
I'm curious how Arya was able to just approach a group of Lannister soldiers and eat with them when in previous seasons the impression was Lannister soldiers killed pretty much anyone who approached them.
#259 Re: Guns N' Roses » What GNR songs are still in your rotation? » 460 weeks ago
Pretty Tied Up is a great Izzy track.
#260 Re: Guns N' Roses » European Tour 2017 Thread » 462 weeks ago
It's worth remembering in 91 tours were to promote albums. I'm sure the UYI tour still made serious cash but it's primary purpose was to showcase the new UYI albums. This is the tour we hold up as the gold standard and what everyone compares other GNR tours to in terms of setlists etc. This tour was to promote a new 30 track strong album. Factor in the popularity of AFD and the necessity to play 6+ tracks from that each night plus solo spots and you have space for around 10-12 UYI tracks each night. That means typically nearly 2/3rds of the album went unplayed at any given show. It made sense to change up the setlist as they had a lot of new songs to play.
In 2016/17 it is entirely different. The show is about the reunion, there's no album to promote it's about getting as many people in the stadium as possible. Whilst Axl and Slash together is reason enough a GH heavy setlist is more appealing to the 90% than a setlist full of UYI and CD deep cuts.
