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#521 Re: Guns N' Roses » Looks like rehearsals have started! » 538 weeks ago
Brain: his personal style doesn't merge well with Old Gnr material, as he is a more funky fusion drummer, not much a hard rock type.
Uh huh.
Brain struggled since Day 1 of his audition, as he was trying out with a fusion setup. Then, he just scaled it down and started hammering. That shift to straight-laced power drumming is how he found a way to cope with the back catalogue. More than once, Axl singled him out after they played November Rain live. 'Good old Brain, bashing the hell out of a love song,' etc.
#522 Re: Guns N' Roses » Looks like rehearsals have started! » 538 weeks ago
That's much better! Maybe he was nervous in the live setting?
I'm the last one to make excuses for Adler, but it was his biggest show since Farm Aid. He also had more substance abuse issues than he does now (he says). Add in the short notice and despite knowing the AFD songs like the back of his hand, he was showing up at RRHOF as a handicap.
#523 Re: Guns N' Roses » Looks like rehearsals have started! » 539 weeks ago
I just saw the HOF performance for the first time, and I gotta say I was unpleasantly surprised with Steven's performance.
Here's Adler in 2015. Granted, it's a rehearsal setting with a backing tape, but how do you like his drumming?
#524 Re: Guns N' Roses » Something is up with Pitman » 539 weeks ago
Back when it was a peninsula. 
#525 Re: Guns N' Roses » Something is up with Pitman » 539 weeks ago
He's going aggressively against some members of the band. In multiple threads. Over and over. Excessively. Again and again.
We get it.
Well, his needle jumped because of the car wash.
Imagine Slash's bass player will tell you Guns will reunite next year.
Just before everybody goes wild about it.
It's a pretty big deal to just fall out of the sky for you.
Then, Adler, his boy, starts pissing in the wind again.
Suddenly, it's an even-Steven whether Guns will do without.
Black Sabbath already shafted their drummer, so it happens.
In far better-oiled machinations than Guns, obviously.
He's just toiling with that Coachella doubt, now.
Here's hoping it'll simmer down.
#526 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alan Niven interview 01-08- 2016 » 539 weeks ago
Sometimes I feel the myth of Axl, or anyone famous really, gets blown completely out of proportion.
I concur.
let's not think his shit doesn't stink like everyone's, y'know? Is he really that special & unique? Not sure I buy it..
Well, he's honest.
By which I mean, he's had "emotional problems" with the songs.
Estranged and Civil War took a long time get on the list.
A mere money-hungry person would've cared less.
He's had issues with his writing and his performance.
Each song touches base on some gut feeling.
Notice how far he can get? Check this out.
Eyes closed, he's outta Hammerstein, that's for sure.
Shaking his head before 'I don't wanna know it now'.
He's conveying the emotion the lyrics carry on him.
Eyes open, he snaps back on, to his defensive mode.
The show itself is Axl's personal space, so he takes it.
Hardly professional as such, but at least there's heart.
#527 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alan Niven interview 01-08- 2016 » 539 weeks ago
Still the best description I've ever read.
"And after each line he is gazing at the crowd with those strangely startled yet fearless eyes, as though we had just surprised him in his den, tearing into some carrion."
That's how he's been in life, as well.
#528 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alan Niven interview 01-08- 2016 » 539 weeks ago
I would believe Axl is a legendary tyrannical uber-dick... but "high functioning Asperger's" ? No.
We only have his past behaviour from which to draw general guidelines. A DSRM classification is just one way of describing a quantity of things linked to his personal viewpoint on life. If anything, for sure.
A case can be made that in the past, Axl has repeatedly had issues with interpersonal security. These issues have caused him with possible stress and anxiety and have strained his various relationships, working and otherwise. The source of such issues can often be tracked back to an unhappy childhood. Feeling neglected by one's parents is often a contributing factor. Axl, by his own account, had an unhappy childhood.
Another defining factor is Axl's combativeness. In the face of adversity, it's as if someone violates his personal world. Very often, middle ground has been brushed aside and he's come out, fuming.
The key to this may be that every time a stress point hits a chord with a remembrance of past trauma, Axl leaps into a defensive mode, as his very own is at stake. Often he attacks the close to him, because he may feel (rightly or not) that they have betrayed his trust, while knowingly existing in his personal world.
If you ask me, sorry for his issues, but he should just grow a bit more of that business layer on his skin.
#529 Re: Guns N' Roses » MATT SORUM Refuses To Comment On GUNS N' ROSES Reunion Lineup » 539 weeks ago
Back when all this started, it was clear Axl wanted cd2 or whatever it will be called released before the reunion buzz.
This is all my speculation, but maybe they are trying to do that still. The new plan may include Slash and Duff on a song or 2, but the rest of bit being Axl's songs. That's why we don't have the full announced lineup. They can always rebuild the reunion buzz, but the window to dump the cd leftovers is very small.
Bitman tweeted this a week ago.
happiness is a warm SSL,,, been a very creative year. I wanna thank Capn Crunch
#530 Re: The Sunset Strip » Ash vs. Evil Dead » 539 weeks ago
I personally always felt the 1981 original, although ambitious, was a film that needed work and was largely overrated by horror aficionados.
Many of us saw the 1981 film after the 'video nasty' regulations happened in Europe.
Horror films were scarce on commercial VHS, and their 'R' rating was actually PG-13 of today.
Imagine Evil Dead, the film that started the governmental hysteria in London, getting banned.
Video merchants actually hid boxes full of tapes in a church and sold them below-the-counter.
The film was also bootlegged and 3rd generation copies, battered and worn, were a high commodity.
When you got a tape like that - in your hand - you just knew that this was the real deal of the day.
The effect was something like this:
