slashsfro wrote:

Sky Dog wrote:

I just can’t wrap my brain around the fact that someone couldn’t really get this thing back to where it deserves to be. Most of this stuff is just flat out common sense that any allegedly intelligent individual should comprehend.

The two problems (maybe) here are that we have no idea how motivated the red head really is in creating music.  And maybe he and Slash/Duff just can't write/record together (without Izzy) like the old days.  Slash obviously works on a different wavelength than Axl and maybe those differences can't/won't ever be resolved to where they can write and record normally as a band anymore.

IMO he's the Billy Joel of the 21st century but unlike Joel, he's not willing to release a statement saying he's creatively spent, the muse is gone, etc.

Other than a handful of studio sessions late 90s-mid 00s, he's a touring nostalgia act.

What makes this situation so unusual in comparison to other nostalgia artists/bands is the fact he/they have a hardcore base that fantasy books all sorts of scenarios that look like a U2 level comeback.

Of course reality always sets in which creates contempt and the fact they have a management team that has difficulty walking and chewing gum, it remains static to where it's like we're orbiting the event horizon of a black hole.

Luckily.... it's starting to look like something is happening....the second half of Chinese with Fink, Bucket, Ron, and Pitman gone and featuring Slash and Duff.

I’m still hoping, but the argument remains - why release an album when the EP’s not even been released yet? :

Because management has zero experience at this. There's a learning curve....

At least one good outcome from this whole farce is that everybody are now scared to death of innocent diseases or socially shamed to wash their hands in Stoli ten times a day. Life will become less infectious going forward.

Now that tyrannical measures are in vogue I suggest we punish people who are too careless to stay healthy. Get the doctor in and form an opinion. Out running in freezing weather because you're an idiot? You live at McDonald's? Here take this fine. That just seems a lot more appropriate than demanding people take shots made for profit from heartless corporations, approved by trustworthy politicians.

What bothers me on a basic level is the whole inheritance tax. All that money has been taxed already. If I want to leave it to my family, isn’t that my business? I get the generational wealth aspect but something seems wrong about it. Also the move to tax current value of your home and do away with step up basis for people that inherit it.

I used to be anti automation. But the way our lazy ass work force is refusing to work, FUCK THEM. Bring on the machines and cut off the cunts from the nipple. We have 11,000,000 fucking job openings and people sitting on their fucking ass.