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#1 Re: The Garden » Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) » 3 weeks ago
End of an era.
We're going to see a LOT more icons pass in the next 5-10 years. It's frightening.
The 20th century is wrapping up. What will be left in it's place is going to be horrific because the 20th century icons were never replaced.
That’s quite a brilliant insight. They weren’t replaced.
You know when i checked out of pop culture musics wise? (For the most part)
It was 1996…there was a seismic shift in how things were done. It was the beof synchronized dancing and boy/girl groups. I was 14 and already knew it was over. GnR officially breaks up and slutty teen age girls were peddling jail bait. Then in 1997 a feminine straight men and gay guys were teaming up to also dance in synchronization. The singing was either lip synched or heavily enhanced my electronics. The appeal was in their matching outfits and cheesy dancing.
And from there…i slowly checked out. And i was only 14. I didn’t know it at the time…but it was a seismic shift in pop culture from which I’d never recovered.
Remember Maroon 5? A group of corporate executives focus grouped the shot out of them and created a ‘create a band’ mode like it was a video game.
Now? Pop culture in music is men singing in high falsetto voices whining and women mostly naked in thinly vailed stripper routines that oddly appeals mostly to other women.
I never thought the 80s culture would ever come back (at least not since becoming an adult) but it was still comforting to know that the culture was still alive in a small way. I’ll have nothing left in the way of connecting to mainstream culture soon.
In Chicago, we just lost Ryne Sandberg. Just make it stop even if only for a little bit.
#2 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Album thread 2025 by sp1at » 5 weeks ago
What the hell do incels have to do with anything?
Conspiracy theorists surrounding this band have been around since the late 90s. However, who could blame some people? Axl rarely if ever does public appearances and the way he operates is enough to make anyone questions whether or not we landed on the moon. Slash and Duff are nice enough but any time any topic comes up surrounding Gn'R they give vague, elusive answers. Ask them about anything personal, and they become an open book.
Pretty much every band from that era continued to create new music fairly consistently over the 32 years since Spaghetti Incident was released. Hell, even Bon Jovi found a way to recreate the same songs over and over again in slightly different formats. Most of us have been asking why that's been the case since that release. I think there is room between conspiracy theorist and fascination with how/why this group of people does what they do.
Am I grateful that the current version of the band exists? Hell yes. Do I also acknowledge that they may have wasted a lot of prime years of creating new music? Yes, I do.
Word of advice to Axl though: don't read these message boards!
#3 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Album thread 2025 by sp1at » 5 weeks ago
metallex78 wrote:sp1at wrote:There is, yes. When I asked earlier in the year, there wasn't
August and September was the American tour. It is obviously not any longer. It'll come when it comes
Just go with what Duff said. And just go with whatever they say.
If you notice, there have been less interviews, so what I do is counter intuitive. It breeds mistrust, which is not what I set out to do, I was more looking at it as a guiding light of sorts.
Anyway, I'm just staying out of everything now. The band need space and trust, which is fine
So all this time you’ve been saying you’re some inside link to the band, you’re now back tracking, and saying you’re just like the rest of us, and don’t know anything…?
Ok…
I am, moreover was, a promoter working between Australia and the UK I know alot of people just from work over the years. I can contact management's of different people, I go between good then distant relationships with various people. People on my old website will know how I work.
It's just becoming harder to get information. This and that is supposed to happen and it doesn't.
I do alot more than here for other people, getting things from bands for people's birthdays, getting them to go.to charity events, I'm just getting to a point with GN'R where I'm struggling to do anything useful.
If that makes any sense.
That actually does make a lot of sense. I can relate to this from another profession's perspective. The most unfulfilling experiences I have professionally is essentially what you just described.
I'm going to ask you a question that may be difficult to answer in a public forum, but I'm going to try anyway. What is the deal with this band? Are they even a band? This version of the band since they reunited has just be a nostalgia tour imho. I guess what I'm getting at is why are they so unmotivated to do things that actual bands seem to do on a consistent basis?
The chemistry that was so special from 86 to 93 is just so different from the feeling I get from them now. They almost seem to just be going through the motions.
#4 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Album thread 2025 by sp1at » 6 weeks ago
Seriously still talking about the new album? Jesus Christ, just ask AI to do it at this point.
#5 Re: The Garden » If A Documentary Was Made On The GnR Forums 'Chinese Democracy' era... » 7 weeks ago
I think you’re correct. And imho it was better than the album version.
#6 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 9 weeks ago
Biden from 2008 or 2012 might have been a good president. Biden from 2020 to 2024 was an embarrassment. And this comes from someone who voted for him. It's clear that for at least 2 years of his term that he was not really the one making the decisions.
Mark my words, the Dems will pay for the absolute farce of a show they put on during the 24 campaign. and if they continue to choose minority women because they're minority women as their candidate, they will lose again in 28.
Kamala as the perfect DEI candidate.
#7 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl: I would play the new songs but haven't received a marketing plan » 13 weeks ago
Let’s not forget that Duff said about 6 months ago that “new music is coming out sooner rather than later”
I’d love to know what kind of a world they live in where 6 months and counting is “soon”
I read your first sentence and went into a rage....then I read your second sentence and thought, 'ah, he gets it'
#8 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 13 weeks ago
I agree...soo much irony ID. And I'm so repulsed by what the Dems did in 2024 I was finally cured of TDS. 
#9 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 16 weeks ago
Gavin will have some trouble explaining away some of the issues California is currently having but I do agree...anyone or thing is better than this.
AI is predicting AOC will be the Democratic nominee in 2028. The Dems are going to continue to go hard left on everything until they lose everything.
#10 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 17 weeks ago
It's amazing to me that the Dems still have learned no lessons. 'We're not Trump' is not a campaign.
Neither party is doing shit for me personally...but Im especially disdainful of the Democrats. Take my vote for granted again...I dare you. People want to know where 8 some million votes went? Then ask me, I'm one of them...
But that won't happen. All I'll get is social media posturing bullshit.
And...it's time to admit that the Democrats might covertly hate most men. and on more and more occasions that do it overtly.
So as a life long registered Dem, all I have to say right now is thank you, fuck you, bye.
