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#131 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R to Play Super Bowl Fest, Miami, 31st January 2020 » 290 weeks ago
I think with a new single or song, these days you only get one pop. If you put a single that gets attention, say for Dark Fate, but that means when album drops the public are over it.
I think that crossover appeal while still being legit with rock world maybe has always been a hinderance. It’s very hard to make a rock song legit mainstream like Jungle or SCOM are. Even Nov Rain is on 90s classics cds. So how do you get a new GNR song on this decades hit rock compilations.
So maybe a Super Bowl live appearance and playing Jungle is the way to promo a new album.
If the World was the shot in 2008.
We need a sports analogy people. Touchdown, Field Goal, probably Punt isn’t an option.
#132 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 290 weeks ago
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
It was alright, I expected something more sprawling. It was kind of like another Pulp Fiction set in the 60s. It was a fun movie.
Unless I’m missing something there’s nothing to learn from it or anything. Tarantino is Tarantino.
#133 Re: The Sunset Strip » New U2 single 'Ahimsa' » 290 weeks ago
This does seem a little tacked on. The last real era was the No Horizon album then they did that Apple sell out album. At this point you should be dipping bread into wine while you can.
#134 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Best of the Rough Mixes Disc 1-4, Round 1 » 290 weeks ago
Although I like Zodiac the other 3 are the singles.
#135 Re: Guns N' Roses » It's time to admit, Paul Tobias was actually a good writer » 290 weeks ago
The band was clearly so fractured and burned out at that point.
As far as writing is concerned, they needed one Izzy Stradlin... Gilby was a touring hand essentially and for whatever reason, Uncle Axl decided he was not up to the job of assisting with writing - how he came to that conclusion remains of interest
But if Paul Huge is the answer, the question being asked is wrong...
Axl said he coudn’t write WITH Gilby. Sure Gilby could write a tune or something. But with Slash not working with Axl he had no one to help with his stuff. That’s where Huge came in. Izzy was more of a feeder of Slash than an Axl enabler. Huge meant Axl could get his songs done without Slash. I think that’s how Huge gets credits on Shadow or Back off, he was hanging with Axl. He’d play a riff and Axl would use it. I think Huge worked on Catcher with Axl and that’s something from 98? Without Huge CD process doesn’t really get going.
Huge is the answer to how did Axl write IRS, Catcher, Twat, Prostitute.
#136 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Album Thread » 290 weeks ago
CD II featuring Slash. The perfect crime.
#137 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 290 weeks ago
Will the Republicans acquit Trump or is it Pence 2020?
#138 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Irishman » 290 weeks ago
I enjoyed it, seems fitting last Scorsese movie. It’s been criticized for just being the same old thing. But I felt it was different in being more melancholy. There wasn’t as much heads in vices.
I read I hear You Paint Houses so I was more aware of the story. I’m not sure the audience got that he was admitting to killing Hoffa who “disappeared”. Also he admits to delivering guns to fly to Dallas for the JFK hit. That also wasn’t obvious in the movie. In the book there is no doubt the mob hit JFK. It was more Bobby they wanted dead but you cut off the head. But Scorsese steered it to more about the personal story.
I think people wanted a Goodfellas but they got a slower more meditative film, still Scorsese but not all guns blazing. Much more like the banality of evil. Kind of like Stone’s Heaven and Earth.
Also thought Trump must take something from Hoffa’s style. The slogans and hats.
I just love the way Scorsese films stuff. Like that shot as the son goes up the steps. The way the car drives across the screen.
I could watch it again. It’s what it is.
Not sure DeNiro was good casting as the Irishman, he looks more like Jon Voight but still DeNiro was good. Pesci was alright, played that Bufalino role good. Pacino was good as Hoffa it seemed.
It didn’t show much of Sheeran’s drinking or much of how these guys lived. The big thing was dipping bread in wine. Not exactly Miami Vice.
#139 Re: Guns N' Roses » It's time to admit, Paul Tobias was actually a good writer » 290 weeks ago
wasted wrote:James wrote:It gets even more interesting if Slash and Duff are truly working on CD tracks for the next album. If Huge has credits all over it and Slash is ok with this, then the 95 breakup was beyond pointless.
New GNR fans definitely have to start giving him credit where it's due. A lot of these songs are just him and Finck. There's also nothing wrong with his rhythm tracks, especially now that we can hear them full throttle.
Didn’t Huge write Shadow of your Love? The comeback single.
It wasn’t writing wise, it was playing with him or something. The solution was to let Axl write with Paul and let Gilby record and tour. To break up the band over the rhythm guitarist was lame.
This might have been viable with Izzy and hopefully is still an idea being entertained.
But for Paul Huge to waltz in and assume that spot - I can see how that irked Slash et al... him being a charisma-vacuum wouldn’t have endeared him any either
While he may not quite be Paul “Yoko” Huge, he was still a power play pawn for Axl.
At any rate, Fortus is the perfect second fiddle to Slash in this current lineup.
Can play all eras including the technical Chinese era and seems largely ego-less to boot. And to the casual fan, he fits the bill like a glove in terms of looking like what the public consciousness thinks a member of GnR should look like
I think it was more that Slash had to play with Huge then him writing with Axl. They could have kept Gilby really. I think the actual problem was that Slash wouldn’t help Axl with his stuff. So Paul got that job on Catcher, Twat, Prostitute, IRS. To be fair having Gilby limited the band because all they could do was hard rock. All speculation.
There’s always been a ton of different writers in GNR. In someways I’m glad they broke up instead of them doing more generic Aero Stones material. Guns seem more like Zepp to me now, not prog rock but definitely progressive in someways.
I hope they do 20 minute song with a 10 minute Slash solo, like ITW meets Safari Inn. If Nothing gets flamenco’d and then Slash does a long solo I’ll fly to Burbank and hang out by the pool.
#140 Re: Guns N' Roses » It's time to admit, Paul Tobias was actually a good writer » 290 weeks ago
It gets even more interesting if Slash and Duff are truly working on CD tracks for the next album. If Huge has credits all over it and Slash is ok with this, then the 95 breakup was beyond pointless.
New GNR fans definitely have to start giving him credit where it's due. A lot of these songs are just him and Finck. There's also nothing wrong with his rhythm tracks, especially now that we can hear them full throttle.
Didn’t Huge write Shadow of your Love? The comeback single.
It wasn’t writing wise, it was playing with him or something. The solution was to let Axl write with Paul and let Gilby record and tour. To break up the band over the rhythm guitarist was lame.
