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#2481 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Live From Rock In Rio » 724 weeks ago
How do we know that's "The General"? Did somebody in the and say this?
#2482 Re: Guns N' Roses » Santiago, Chile - October 5, 2011 » 724 weeks ago
Let's see if it affects US tour ticket sales, like you claim.
Ali
How in the world would one prove a correlation one way or the other?
#2483 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Spaghetti Incident » 724 weeks ago
This album always got negative reviews. The biggest problem for me was that it was their last release. I wish we could have gotten one more album of their songs before the split. Other than that I think it's a pretty solid bunch of covers. I don't listen to it often though.
#2484 Re: The Garden » Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs dies at age 56 » 724 weeks ago
I wouldn't be doing what I do for a living without Steve Jobs (I'm an iPhone developer these days, not the old job). He will truly be missed. I haven't bought a non-Apple computer in at least 10 years.
Was the old biz simply too saturated to make any money at this point?
#2485 Re: The Garden » Hank Williams Jr. Compares Obama to Hitler » 724 weeks ago
He isn't a "bad dude".. When the tornadoes hit Alabama and thousands of people lost their homes, he was one of the first giving his time and money and organized a huge concert to raise millions of dollars of relief when nobody else in the country really gave two shits cause it wasn't "new orleans" or "japan" or "haiti". And do you know else was there? Who the first Hollywood star was that came to Alabama? Charlie fuckin Sheen. So even though they may do bad stuff and say things they shouldn't, they do have a heart, and in this case, they cared when not many outsiders did.
I don't think he's inherently a bad person. I just think he's a dumb redneck and because of that he'll often act like...a dumb redneck.
#2486 Re: Guns N' Roses » Santiago, Chile - October 5, 2011 » 724 weeks ago
How much is a stone anyway?
#2487 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Live From Rock In Rio » 724 weeks ago
The front page of Yahoo:
#2488 Re: The Sunset Strip » Jani Lane Dead, only 47 » 724 weeks ago
What I've learned in my years of sobriety is that you're either going to do it or you are not. It's that simple.
When I got sober in 97, I detached myself from all my "friends" at the time and moved to a different part of town. I went to AA meetings every day, sometimes twice a day, and had a person I could call at any time for help if I felt the urge to drink. I realize that my way created all my problems and that listening to somebody else and following their direction was the best choice I could make. If that person told me I had to stand on my head in the backyard for 30 minutes each day to keep sober, you bet your ass I would have done it.
Instead what I found was that by surrendering my ego, and letting go of self was necessary to grow and subsequently save my life. Also giving 100% of my life to getting sober. Everything else was second, if I couldn't stay sober nothing else would matter anyway.
It sure wasn't easy (sometimes I'd go just 15 minutes at a time), but taking the easy way had created a huge pile of shit for me to sit in for nearly a decade. Hospitals, jails, homelessness, loss of family, friends, jobs...you name it.
I begged my best friend to get sober with me back then too. Slowly as the months added up, I got a car, and would still visit with him. We weren't as close as we had been; I refused to hang out with people who were using. Of course we had a decade long history together of cocaine and alcohol fueled binges, so the notion of "hanging out" was absolutely dangerous to me and my new sobriety. I had a higher chance of going back out, then he had of cleaning up, if we hung out together. It was hard cutting people out of my life, but ultimately it was my life to save, and I could not risk fucking it up.
About 8 years ago I wrote him a final letter, ten pages, outlining how to get sober and change his life. He had recently been arrested for cocaine and battery charges and I knew he was either going to prison or going to die. I never got a reply to that letter and he died about two years ago from a cardiac arrest at age 38,two days after my birthday. I felt tremendously sad about that and guilty. But in the end I knew it was his choice to make, he chose not to try and get clean.
I will never forget that. Mostly because he played out the alternative to my life if I had not gotten sober, but also because he was my best friend.
#2489 Re: Guns N' Roses » Santiago, Chile - October 5, 2011 » 724 weeks ago
I really wonder now whats happened, mabye how CD was recieved just killed off any drive Axl had. Judging by how that album limped out in the end, mabye that drive was gone long before that...
For me though, Guns N'Roses is my favourite band, but not these guys - the real Guns N'Roses I grew up with.
I thought what Axl was building had so much potential, and the little original material we were exposed to in the early years I loved, so I didnt mind those guys stepping in the shoes of the old guys and being GNR, they were working on taking GNR forward.
But those guys are gone now and its a new cast and it seems like they have even given up the pretense of taking the band forward, digging into the the old bands and other bands discography seems like the height of their ambition and I'm not really down with that.
They are good performers sure and they put on a great show... I guess my problem is that the penny has finally dropped on me, like so many people have said here in the past, they are just the worlds most expensive cover band.Bit of a weak ending to the once mighty Guns N'Roses.
That's how I feel, (or how my feelings evolved about this band) pretty much 100%.
#2490 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Live From Rock In Rio » 724 weeks ago
You know what I'm sick of.... people on this site who think that because some of us discuss this band in a passionate way albeit not in the way they would like that our personal lives are shitty. To that I say go F yourself. None of us have any idea what each other's personal lives are actually like and twice now in the last two days I've seen posts by members suggesting other memebers personal lives must be really shitty based on their opinions on Guns N' Roses.
Honestly if you can't handle the difference in opinions stop posting altogether because the moment you start telling others their lives must be pretty crappy based on them posting their opinions that you disagree with on this band or this concert on this site you've become a major douchebag.
Unlike others (ahem) who claim that those with different opinions must be complaining simply for "Shock value", right? Or is it different when you make a sweeping generalization of somebody who has an opinion that differs from yours?
