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#311 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
Yesterdays!!!!
#312 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
Not my favorite song but glad it was played. That Bucket outro just begs for Slash to give his take. I always thought it was Bucket's way of paying tribute to those Slash epics.
It'll be interesting to see which song got left out for its inclusion.
Yep. Buckethead is both one of the best shredders and one of the best melodic guitarists in the world. TWAT solo is proof of that along with so many other songs in his catalog. I think it's cool Slash and Duff are embracing a lot of CD material. That album is not a masterpiece, but it is not trash and it deserves a second look from many people who refused to give it a chance.
Coma was left out of the set to make way for TWAT. Don't Cry starting the Encore now. Seems it took the place of Patience.
#313 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
Axl went full rasp on Nightrain. Slash owned the solo big time. Crowd loved it. Fucking awesome gig.
#314 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
I heard the very end of TWAT on the Periscope stream. Sounded incredible. Axl had rasp in the screams at the end and I really liked what I heard of Slash's guitar. Just barely missed the climax of the song. Can't wait to hear the full thing tomorrow.
My Michelle sounded like vintage Axl, like 1988 shit. Pretty impressive. I must say the combination of Wish You Were Here, Layla, and November Rain is amazing. Imagine being a casual rock fan and going to one of these shows later this year with no idea that this triple threat of musical awesomeness is about to hit you. Classy choices on the instrumental covers.
#315 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
Axl and Slash both kicking ass big time tonight. SCOM sounds amazing.
#316 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
who is meegan?
Slash's girlfriend.
#317 Re: Guns N' Roses » 20/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
TWAT!!!!!
#318 Re: Guns N' Roses » 19/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
Well I agree with most of that I suppose.....especially how Cobain more than likely was listening to AFD. Everyone was listening to that 87-89. I doubt he was the lone holdout.
Yeah when that story came out how Duff was one of the last people to speak to him it definitely raised some eyebrows. It made you wonder if the feud was more or less a work to just hype the two.
Aerosmith may have sold out but it was the only way for them to enter the mainstream again. If they hadn't, they'd be at Foghat level now. Nobody in the 80s gave a rat's patootie about Aerosmith until Walk this Way with Run DMC. Just hearing that song now(which is a rarity) reminds me of this teen guy back then who would walk around with his ghetto blaster on his shoulder playing that song over and over full blast thinking he was the cat's meow, blissfully unaware how he looked like a total douchebag for buying the tape but only listening to that one song.
Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
God I hate that song. Then and now. It was their jump the shark moment. Permanent Vacation and Pump at least felt a bit genuine. That song was a massive summer anthem of 98 but they never recovered from it. In fact, I cant even name one song relesed after it. I remember the name of that Honkin on Hobbo album or whatever but nothing else.
Everything post-1980 from Aerosmith became way too pop-sounding. They were a great hard rock band, like GN'R. Their early ballads like Dream On seemed genuine. Even their rockers in the 80's and 90's seemed forced. A huge drop from stuff like Sweet Emotion, Walk This Way, Train Kept A Rollin, Mama Kin, Back in the Saddle, etc. 70's Aerosmith was on par with 70's AC/DC. One of them kept their integrity while the other one went straight in the garbage.
#319 Re: Guns N' Roses » 19/4/16 FORO SOL, MEXICO CITY, MEXICO » 544 weeks ago
Both sides of the extreme give Cobain too much credit....from those claiming he was Lennon of Gen X to the poser label. Cobain accidentally stumbled into his situation and never intended for it to happen. I'm not a Nirvana fan by any means(only like a couple songs, Teen Spirit not one of them)n and think he is massively overrated but without him the early 90s do not play out like it did. I think a musical shift was coming no matter what. Once Cherry Pie, Trixter, G rated rap, another dose of New Kids on the Block, etc, happened in 1990 the world was begging for something different on the airwaves.
All that was required to get things underway is a monster single. We Die Young/Man in the Box, Outshined, and then Alive/Evenflow were certainly a change and while I think those songs could have been pushed to the moon by MTV, they lack the universal catch of Teen Spirit.
Cobain and Cornell instantly hated the movement they spawned. It became instant parody the moment it got underway. Even though I loved some of those Seattle bands, I also hated how much it impacted everything and was not sad to see it fade away so quickly. Seeing rich girls shop at thrift stores and watching them, nerds, and jocks pretend to be depressed got old fast. Did you ever watch the TV show My So Called Life? It came out at the tail end of grunge but its a perfect snapshot of this culture here in the US. Enough is enough. This show was critically acclaimed but was canceled and rightfully so.
The reason I call him a poser is all that public fighting with GN'R. Axl was one of the earliest people to give Nirvana big push and even asked them to tour with GN'R. Kurt pulls out the stuck up nonsense about how GN'R is everything wrong with music or whatever. Total bullshit IMHO. A talented musician like him would know just how great Appetite was. I don't believe for one second that he truly hated GN'R like he portrayed to the public. Duff pretty much confirmed it himself with the comments about that plane ride before Cobain passed away.
While Aerosmith is a great band, I feel they did tarnish their legacy in the 80's and 90's. Same goes for KISS. Both of them became total fucking sellouts. Some might say the same thing about GN'R, but I think a lot of the UYI stuff was just Axl's bizarre vision. Over the top? Yeah. But it all felt pretty genuine in terms of his own pretentiousness. He wasn't running to some pop writer to help him come up with a song (Don't Wanna Miss a Thing), etc. November Rain was in the works when Axl was still a fucking gutter rat. Likewise with Don't Cry. Without those songs you lose half of the GN'R sound. Why call your band Guns N' Roses if you're really just Guns all the time?
#320 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose vs. Bruce Dickinson: who's the best? » 544 weeks ago
The running-around-like-a-madman doesn't necessarily elevate the performance for me, but that's personal, I guess
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That's the thing. Different performers choose different approaches. Axl approached it like it's a live show and felt he should provide extra entertainment than just the vocals. It's exactly why he is regarded as one of the very best frontmen ever. He gave people their money's worth, even when his voice wasn't at its best. Myles Kennedy stands there like a statue (and still struggles on the Axl material). If people want to hear the studio version, pull out the CD or iPod and crank it to 11 in your headphones. That's my view anyway. Axl once said at the Ritz 88 show: "People will think we're the sloppiest band in the world but I really don't give a fuck."
But I do feel there is nothing wrong with performers that want to absolutely nail the studio version as much as possible. Roy Orbison's Black and White Night featured a lot of guest celebrity performers like Bruce Springsteen, but Roy himself pretty much went for the studio vocals and absolutely nailed it. Incredible to hear a 50 something dude with such an amazing voice sound pretty much just like he did 30 years earlier on the classic studio versions.
