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#281 Re: Guns N' Roses » 9/7/16 NISSAN STADIUM, NASHVILLE, TN UNITED STATES » 513 weeks ago
I don't understand why they thought they needed to do anything in 94. SFTD not required, and the tension caused by Gilby's firing/Paul's hiring was the last thing that should've happened. Iron that shit out privately. Couldn't they see that the world was just recovering from a GNR overdose?
It was Geffen Records and Tom Zutaut, the long-time A&R man, who came back for a famous spell on CD with Roy Thomas Baker in 2001.
"Zutaut arranged the whole thing and it was a great idea: it's an amazing, classic song, the movie was going to be huge, theoretically, it would get us all in the same room working again, and it would give the public "product" to tide them over. We weren't touring The Spaghetti Incident and we had no plans to start writing a new album, so Tom was being practical - this might be our only new release for a while." (Slash, Autobiography)
#282 Re: Guns N' Roses » 6/7/16 PAUL BROWN STADIUM, CINCINNATI, OH UNITED STATES » 514 weeks ago
Wow. That poster Adler came out great. Complete left-field, looking happy as a clam, and killing it with those two songs. I'm impressed.
I'm really happy for Steven, but this image plays in my head of this situation and what it could turn into:
I dunno. Adler just got a huge chip off his shoulder, as he outlived Farm Aid, that pathetic Civil War session, and a lifetime of bad choices - all in one quick swoop. Here's hoping he keeps up with his sobriety and stays away from past enablers.
Frank is on average bar band level and is the weak spot of the band. It is obvious to everyone. It doesn't bother me, 1it is what it is. Adler too is superior from pure chops.
Well, I have to say. OTGM sounded killer with Adler. The rhythm section was oozing with groove.
Imagine Adler on Coma - shoud be interesting.
What Frank does bring however is no drama... Seems like a great dude and puts off good vibes and that is worth something.
Add up dependable and knows the entire back catalogue. He knows this is his lifetime opportunity, has been for a decade.
a minority of fans know / care about not even an original drummer in the band named: Matt Sorum.
Yup. Who'd really be pining for Sorum over Adler, seriously?
If it would come down to picking one over the other, it'd be Adler - provided he can keep it real.
Based on that Cincy show, he can. 
#283 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose joins AC/DC » 514 weeks ago
*Paging Duff Mckagan to the front desk of AC/DC headquarters*
Yeah, it's hardly a stretch now. Credentials in songwriting, live shows, and team play? Duff checks all.
I have a feeling Angus will go out like Lemmy, taking the band with him. Health permitting, he's hardly to retire now. Fair enough, it's his band and he could care less about what some jokers on the Interweb would rather have him do.
Reminds me of certain someone... 
#284 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Bumblefoot Loudwire GnR interview July 6th » 514 weeks ago
If the way the tour was managed in 2014 was anything like the previous years, the band got a relatively late notice.
“We could be planning something [for my solo project] for next April,” he told Radio Futura. “And then Guns will book something March 31 for April... suddenly you’re in this situation where you have to choose... I’m choosing my own life…and if [the band’s management] are not willing to help me keep the two functioning well together, then I’m out.” -11/30/13
Come next tour cycle, he walked in with his mind made up.
I let the band members & crew know I was leaving on March 1, 2014, soon as we met for the first rehearsal for the tours.
This slightly alters the narrative put forth by the Guns camp.
Bumblefoot... quit in South America. He told Axl he was done and (Las) Vegas would be his last run with the band. -07/31/15
Bumble was a real class act on it, tho, with the assumption that the band would go beyond Vegas.
I offered to help with finding my own replacement, offered suggestions and to train whoever it would be so they'd be 'show ready', and finished all booked shows.
Only it wasn't.
“Band members have been told their calendars are free following Vegas,” a source close to the band tells RadarOnline. -05/21/14
What Axl was considering to retire was the current lineup.
During the tours I started hearing rumblings about the 2016 plans (from crew/other)
And that was muchly Duff's doing. In all likelihood, talks had been going on since Duff played with / opening for them in 2010. But Slash was still cancer and much negativity needed dispelling. Axl wanted to try his wings after CD. Even RRHOF seemed too early, apparently.
Was Ron quitting and Duff coming in the incentive Axl was looking for? "The hell with this, I'll just wrap things up and call Slash." Reunion by chance - typical Guns. 
#285 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Set-List » 514 weeks ago
I'm lost, aren't you guys saying the same thing?
We are.
In plain,
'86-'93: Lacking a regular opener.
'01-'07: WTTJ (ISE-MrB)
'09-'14: CD (WTTJ-ISE-MrB)
I remember one 2014 show with Duff opened with YCBM and it caught people by storm.
#286 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Set-List » 514 weeks ago
on the uyi tours it was a different setlist only in 1991 and after it was basically the same for each leg but with different ordering. Keep in mind that the production was much much simpler back then and lighting, pyro and fireworks tend to make the setlist more rigid.
True that. The UYI tours went into rock lore as 'lacking setlists'. In actuality, by the Gilby days, they had a strict pool of songs with a flexible sequence.
You have no where to go if you do WTTJ first. ISE cuts in right away and kicks things off. WTTJ lets you back off and then crank it up again. There's a reason.
That reason is Axl. WTTJ became a staple opener on 01/01/01 and stayed that way throughout the Robin era. CD was made priority only after the album drop. In between, even on the now-legendary '06-07 season, it was an AFD show. IRS and Better became regulars, but the UYI deep cuts were non-existent. It had to do with Axl's self-admitted 'emotional problems' with the back catalogue and the desire to promote an unreleased album. The only thing they had to fall back on was AFD, or so they thought.
Having Slash and Duff back has reinstated him with a whole of self-assuredness. They can now do something like Coma, which is bordering on obscure and represents a certain musical deep-end for Guns during the UYI-era. And he's fine with picking that thread up again, because the current lineup validates the inclusion. Axl has less to prove right now as his main men have old-school credentials.
What do you REALLY want?
Podium seats and an in-line mic so I could call out the next song beforehand.
Civil War, Estranged, Coma are NOT SONGS YOU DO IF YOU ARE LAZY.
Ironically, Estranged re-emerged in Rock in Rio 2011. A high point of the show. A lazy show.
#287 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Set-List » 515 weeks ago
Looking at some random '92 setlists, they are extremely similar to what we've got now. Back in the day, NR was preceded by It's Alright (a Black Sabbath cover) and Patience was a regular with a Wild Horses intro. Duff's TSI song of choice was Attitude by The Misfits; he now does the Johnny Thunders cover. Of the UYI deep cuts, they did Bad Obsession, with Teddy ZigZag on harmonica.
Now, Coma is the deep cut (and props to that, it's a toughie). The most notable inclusions are the three new-era songs, CD, TIL and Better. Other than that, the bulk of the setlist is comprised of their '87-'91 heyday, to the point wherein Slash even resurrected his Godfather solo. They'd need new original material to make things interesting again, but meanwhile, they're doing the hits alongside whoppers like Estranged and Civil War.
I'd love to hear Locomotive or Breakdown, but we'll see.
#288 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses to headline Glastonbury 2017? » 515 weeks ago
I thought Axl blamed the Lisbon 2004 cancellation on Buckethead qutting?
Uh huh. Just being facetious at Mirror.
Fucking Merck. If not for him we would've got the 2006 tour with Buckethead, and things would've unfolded very differently indeed.
I doubt Bucket would've held on for another two years. Maybe he could've gone away and come back on retainer, but there were many caveats. He wanted out.
As to why, look at Ron. As a person, he's outgoing as much as Bucket is insular. Ron worked hard on the gig (much of it under the Lebeis management) and the duress, last-minute scheduling and the general roughness that went into it still got the better of him. The lunacy of the gig is what happens when an AWOL Axl is running the show.
Things are likely a lot better now, with Slash and Duff back in the fold with their support teams. In comparison, a sensitive guy like Bucket has little chance to make it in the long run. All he needed to do was to skim around the msg boards to see what many 'fans' thought about him. Despite how shallow and immature the comments were, they would've bummed him out.
I bet all that hostility on the outside and the jerry-rigging on the inside just screamed Amityville Horror on him.
#289 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl at the Chinese Exchange » 515 weeks ago
Gotta love the reference to that infamous VMA '02 soundbyte. @14:35
We are working on new stuff, but like I said a long time ago, I don't know if soon is the word.
I've got a lot of stuff together and I've played some stuff for Slash and Duff.
They like it, and they might be on it, we don't know (as of yet).
@32:55
I'm a big fan of our previous lineup before getting back with Slash and Duff. We did a lot of work with that and with our drummer, Frank, and Dizzy and Richard... To Slash's credit, what I've got to say is that, he and Duff... Duff had played with the last lineup for a few shows, and came in and played the way we did the songs. And then, getting ready for Vegas and Coachella, they all worked very hard and Duff and Slash came in and worked very hard with Frank on the rhythm. That's how they like to work with the drummer, and the drummer having a relationship with Richard worked really good, they liked Richard, they liked each other...
I didn't have to tell Slash anything about working on the Chinese Democracy songs or how to play them. He just embraced them and worked really hard on them. I had no idea how they were going to sound; I'd never heard him play [in] certain ways. In the last times we talked [in '96], he was saying, 'I don't wanna work that hard'. For him to take on Bucketheads or Bumbleheads parts... (catches himself) Bumblehead... Bucketfoot... Bucketheads or Bumblefoots parts, and to just step to it on his own and work on it and enjoy it, that helped a lot. So, they worked really well in rehearsals together.
@42:15
My bucket list... I haven't really thought of that. It would probably be doing soundtrack material, or something like that. And I just... I do want to put out more music with Guns N' Roses. I don't know if that has to do with Slash or not underneath the Guns N' Roses thing, but if he and I write something, or he wants to play on something that we have, that'd be great. But I've been working, kind of, to where things are. I mean, Guns N' Roses, to me, didn't happen by chance or whatever. It was always looked at as a possibility, but it never just seemed right or felt right.
The nervous guy next to him is David Tang, known for the Shanghai Tang clothing line he founded in the mid-90s. He and Axl go back. Tang came off as pretty patronizing in the course of the discussion, moreso towards the audience than Axl - if you look at Ax's reactions at times, you'll see he's less than pleased about how Tang tries to dictate the course of events, warning against "middle-class behaviour" like selfies. He emphasized the need for Axl to get a low-key exit and Ax was just like, I got some time, I'll sign stuff if you folks want it. Then Tang, quickly, pushes a notepad on him to get the first autograph.
#290 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses to headline Glastonbury 2017? » 515 weeks ago
Axl Rose and Slash getting back together after 12 years for a series of gigs in America
Yeah, I still remember the press release wherein Axl cancelled Rock in Rio Lisbon because Slash quit.
(Make that 20 years of abstinence.)
