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#151 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 125 weeks ago
This should be the big news not the Perhaps fuck up. I'll just wait for The General to drop on Apple Music. This one we don't have a real completed song to compare it with. Just snippets here and there. So that'll be interesting.
So is Oklahoma the last big gun? I'd figure they'd release Atlas at some point because it's more or less a finished song.
#152 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perhaps (2023) to Drop » 125 weeks ago
I give them credit that video was pretty cool. Just a bunch of concert clips, but hey so was Paradise City.
The song is better than when I heard it on the shitty jukebox version. The chorus vocals by Axl sound odd to me. They sound layered on, like obviously, it just sounds awkward to me. And the Robin to Slash transition is just really poorly mixed.
#153 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perhaps (2023) to Drop » 125 weeks ago
The problem with comparing it to normal things and giving passes is the fact we have a 17 year history of these people doing this shit.... manually.
This. I shit on them endlessly and this time it takes the cake. Honestly, I couldn't think of any other way they could screw this up after the Jukebox thing. They proved me wrong. Can someone tell me one thing this "management group" does well? You can't credit them for the tour (Livenation) or CD getting releaed (Azoff).
#154 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 125 weeks ago
I've watched a lot of movies and I wasn't aware State of Grace even existed. I vaguely remember hearing the name at some point now when you mention it, but that is it.
It's a very weird production when I look at the credits. Top of the line ensemble with A list actors and a legend like Ennio Morricone doing the music, but produced at a small time studio with a no name director and a Broadway writer who have done nothing in the movie business since. It seems very out of place for them to come together like that.
There's actually a really good story about how Morricone came to do the soundtrack on this. It was supposed to be U2 but they took forever to finish up Actung Baby and the director ended up having to go to Morricone to do the score.
#155 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perhaps (2023) to Drop » 125 weeks ago
Stupidest shit I've read in a while. The jukeboxes are a legitimate mass market offical channel. Was it accidental? Sure. If they don't like it they can sue their label or manager or distribution agent or the jukebox company or whoever the fuck made the mistake. But lets not pretend it's any kind of underground darkweb cyber spy-shit crime going on here. People went into a bar, paid money, and got streamed a song that was on a paid service - all be it possibility due to an oversight of someone somewhere. Referring to this as "giving instructions" as if it's terrorism or something is retarded.
This. This is just a song from a band who had it's heyday in the late 80s-early 90s. They make it sound like the worst thing in the world that this thing got leaked. Just comment on it if you want to and move on. Even use humor and joke about it if you want. They always make the wrong move/reaction when there are leaks.
#156 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 125 weeks ago
Casino Royale. Rewatched this since I was on an Eva Green kick. Brillant and really worthy of all the kudos it got for invigorating the flagging Bond franchise. This isn't really a "Bond film". It's just one of those 90-2000 noirish film that just happens to have more chase scenes/stunts and explosions. I think that makes it different. There aren't many jokes and the gadgets stuff is kept at a minimum. Oh it's really quotable, one of my favs:
Bad guy: Do you beilieve in God, Mr. LeChiffre?
LeChiffre: No, I believe in a reasonable rate of return.
3 Musketeers and D'Artagan--watchable adaption of the novel. In French. Supposed to be a second part coming in December. This is like one of those old school 80s-2000s Hollywood action films that are gone now. They actual have them using guns in addition to the swords as well, which I liked.
State of Grace--another rewatch. The only question that came to me : why isn't this better known or brought up when great crime dramas of the 90s are mentioned? You got great acting all over the place. This is probably my favorite Gary Oldman role as he goes full out here. Sean Penn, Robin Wright and Ed Harris are all great. You have 1990 (or 89) New York in it's full glory. Not quite sanitized but cleaner than the late 70s-early 80s grittiness. There's a bunch of psychological stuff and great character stuff and how each character is suffering in their own personal hell. Also some great cameo's as well. Hell it even has GNR song in it.
#157 Re: The Garden » Current Events... » 125 weeks ago
What's going on with public schools these days? What purpose are they serving anymore? My step daughter came home without any homework almost all of last year and I'm hearing that homework will be a thing of the past in our district. Everyone's getting As, everyone's passing...
Also, the girls are dressing like hookers at school. Boys are increasingly being taught that if they have a problem to go fuck themselves. Meanwhile, my property taxes go through the roof and the teachers are getting younger and cheaper and dumber.
What is the purpose of school? I guess based on the trends I'm seeing, it's a place you drop your kids off so you can go work.
Ok, I chat with a friend who has two kids (in middle and high school). Basically they don't teach anymore, at least not the way that you and I were. They don't read as much and lack neccesary skills. She has one daughter who she told me didn't know where to endorse the check and "signed" it in the front. A lot of the stuff is summarized. I'll try to explain this, I asked her, don't they all read in class. Everyone interprets passages/writing differently. She goes no, it's summarized for them and they are taught that. Also, they don't do book reports.
The schools are soft. My friend also say that if they have an issue with anything they can always claim "mental health" and not do things. It's insane really. These people are going to be running the country soon.
#158 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perhaps (2023) to Drop » 125 weeks ago
They just suck out all the fun of being a fan. And Axl is complicit with this. Reading those rules, that got posted the previous page, would anyone want to really spend money on them after getting talked down and lectured like that?
Fuck off with that shit. Dead artists treat their fans with more respect than GNR.
#159 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perhaps (2023) to Drop » 126 weeks ago
I could almost understand them getting upset if they had some grand master plan and this somehow detailed that. But what are the chances of that? They’ve given us no inclination that there’s any means to an end here. We got two singles a few years back and the god damn physical release was like a year later and even that was delayed. If they were even the slightest bit open and honest or ever spoke aboit anything noteworthy, this shit probably wouldn’t happen. But everything is shrouded in secrecy, so this is what we get. And we don’t get upset. It’s not worth losing sleep over anymore. We all learned that long ago.
Spot on. I just laugh at them at this point. It's really funny/weird how they seem to be in their own bizzaro world regarding this stuff. The secrecy stuff got old years ago. And it isn't 1991 anymore.
I do find it dumb how they delete this stuff (live clips uploaded by fans etc..) that would help them in the long run.
#160 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 126 weeks ago
They got the 40 and 50 somethings 6-7 years ago with the 90s nostalgia angle. If they can’t get Gen Xers to shell out $25 for a Friday night show in 70 degree weather, they really need to reassess their marketing. This show has been on every major billboard around here for months.
I think it's basically a "one off" tour as far as casuals go. If you've seen them once in the last few year's, there's no real reason to go again. I mean they aren't offering anything new. And you can claim to have already seen the reunited version. It's different if you're a hardcore/or mega fan.
They gotta count themselves lucky that the ticket sales have only started to plateau this time around. They basically need something else to hook in casuals. Because they obviously aren't buying tickets.
