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#481 Re: Guns N' Roses » Big Surprise - We're almost all on the same side! » 536 weeks ago
I'm probably the only one but I'd really like some CD songs to be in the set.
I challenge that exclusivity.
How's that for a schism 
Gimme The Blues, TWAT, Catcher... Better & IRS.
Gimme Dust N' Bones w/ Izzy and other deep cuts.
Screw an AFD setlist, embrace the band legacy.
#482 Re: Guns N' Roses » Happy 54th return, Ax / 52th for Duff. » 536 weeks ago
It's from the 2014 residency, the latest show with Duff, I think.
I would go on to suggest the mere presence of Duff motivates Ax.
He was moving around again and picking up on his 2010 form.
Now he has to come back from hiatus and that's been an issue.
Two months, Ax. Antsy yet?
#483 Guns N' Roses » Happy 54th return, Ax / 52th for Duff. » 536 weeks ago
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Hope to see that fighting heart of yours light up the stages this year.
Edit. Totally forgot the Duff-Man, who is actually born a day before. Luckily, they're both in the video 
#484 Re: Guns N' Roses » What GN'R members thought about CD » 536 weeks ago
That video is actually wicked funny. Certainly underlines the fact that the 2011-12 period was a nadir.
#485 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Story Of Guns N' Roses' To Air On BBC FOUR In U.K. » 536 weeks ago
I'd never seen an Izzy music video on TV before
I've seen one.
#486 Re: Guns N' Roses » What GN'R members thought about CD » 536 weeks ago
As for Tommy...
Most of the songs that are on the record now were done 10 fucking years ago. But all the talking heads in the mix were saying, “Make ’em sound better! Make ’em sound better!” So we kept redoing this and that.
And it ended up coming back down to the same fucking songs that they were 10 years ago, except that now they were a super-dense mishmash of a bunch of instrumentation.
#487 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R Twitter Updates » 536 weeks ago
Slash going to Axl's house in 2005 and basically admitting defeat on that ongoing war (their words, not mine) was, in my opinion, what fueled Axl to give 110% in 2006.
That's a great point, actually.
I do hope that Slash can fuel him again now.
Axl wants his band to be adored. Slash and Duff do help out in that.
I only hope he's reclaimed his creative fire, because it's now in demand.
His best break career-wise since 2006, I would say.
#488 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash's 2010 solo album » 536 weeks ago
A few points.
1. Axl had his friend Paul Huge, an unknown guitarist at the time, alter Slash's parts on Sympathy for the Devil. GNR was already famous for Slash's guitar solos so it suggests that he felt this solo wasn't good enough.
Slash initially recorded his own take on the solo. Axl scoffed it and wanted Slash to reproduce the Keef version. Then, Paul Huge was brought in to play the same Keef solo in a different tone to give the end result that 'call and response' effect. A compromise would've been to use the Slash version and have Slash himself do the underlying response.
2. Axl auditioned Zakk Wylde to join the band. Zakk is a famous lead player like slash and so this move challenged the exclusivity of Slash's role in the band. Seems wholly unnecessary.
At the time, Zakk had been on tour with Pride & Glory and was managed by one Doug Goldstein. They were in negotiations with Ozzy regarding Zakk's touring contract. Meanwhile, Guns was set to become inactive with Slash about to leave town to promote IFOCS. The whole thing might've happened with Goldstein facilitating a bargaining chip for Zakk - to insinuate to Ozzy and Sharon that he'll play with Guns unless they meet his price. It also made Guns seem more active than they actually were at the time. But certainly, it was Axl's call - yet Goldstein may have persuaded him to give it a shot.
4. Axl has said Slash was the reason they couldn't do an AFD sounding follow up. Maybe he was referring to the politics but it makes you wonder.
That's a weird comment from Ax, as Slash would've probably loved the idea. It's more like, the absence of Slash prevented him.
6. Matt's account of quitting says Paul Huge was mocking Slash's ability, and that when Matt contradicted them and stood up for Slash, Axl got in his face and confirmed that Slash was unnecessary. That was the last of matt even though apparently they'd had other disputes over the years.
Apparently, Matt and Axl did indeed have an argument - the thing is, Matt was fired. He likes to tell the story like he was the stronghold of integrity in the band and that the argument was about Slash. Just that I think this is a bit revisionist history on Matt's part. Early on, he admitted that he was indeed fired, and Duff likewise noted that the argument was about band scheduling and that Matt felt Axl was wrong in his predictions.
Calling out Axl on his master plan was a bit of a dumb move, I guess. Hard to say how Paul exactly fits in, but he was the one who went after Matt, asking him to just come back and to say he's sorry. Matt was pushing his luck. He was just going to walk out, thinking Axl will call him in a day or so. Just the fifth or so time he'd been fired from the band, a day at the office.
Having said that, Axl was waiting for an excuse to let Matt go. The atmosphere in the band, at the time, could be described as toxic.
#489 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash's 2010 solo album » 536 weeks ago
That to me suggest the real issue was Axl controlling the band and Slash resenting it.
That certainly seems to have played a part in it. Also, Slash was picking it up as a guitar hero, doing guest spots and appearances. I would say that Axl was a bit envious and afraid that he'd lose Slash to other artists. In any case, I would say both contributed to the fallout - saying it was solely one or the other is oversimplifying it.
#490 Re: The Sunset Strip » The X-FILES Thread » 536 weeks ago
Most of those episodes weren't light toned. "War of the Coprophages", Jose Chung's From Outer Space", Humbug" weren't reflective of most of the show (written by this same writer though). The show still flirted with horror and was serious.
Darin Morgan, right?
The show was serious but a bit oddball, too. Mulder collected porn early on, if memory serves me right.
