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#21 Re: Guns N' Roses » Desoto Civic Center 5th December - CANCELLED » 709 weeks ago
You and me both. Indy's supposed to be my first GNR show ever. Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to be a diehard fan of a normal band.
#22 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Pretty Reckless (Taylor Momsen) will open for Guns N' Roses » 711 weeks ago
Thanks, Irving.
#23 Re: Guns N' Roses » Gene Simmons says ‘a good beating’ would have helped Axl Rose » 711 weeks ago
I also bust a gut when Axl without missing a beat said that. But I thought it was more of a slag on Iron Maiden in my memory than KISS. I remember Axl went through a feud with Bruce Dickenson. Years later Dickenson was on Eddie Trunk's radio show, and Bruce is a personal hero of Eddie's and I thought I remember Bruce running down Axl when asked by Eddie about him. This was years ago tho.
Frankly you know what the whole thing comes across as? It comes across like KISS have the same relationship with Axl & GN'R that Axl & GN'R had with Nirvana.
KISS seemingly came across as fans of GN'R and GNR's total lack of respect and interest and acknowledgement of KISS really irritated them. No different than when Axl tried to kiss up to Kurt & Nirvana and got shut down.
That's actually a pretty good analogy. I hadn't looked it from that angle.
Rather than keep digging through my skewed memory and putting words in the man's mouth, I decided to find that Donnington interview. I never got the impression that Axl was the biggest Kiss, Van Halen, or Iron Maiden fan back in the day, and he touches on all of those here.
While I've never heard that Dickenson-Trunk interview, I just listened to the Axl-Trunk interview again recently. Axl didn't really slag on Iron Maiden that night. Frankly, Eddie and the guys were asking him a bunch of goofy metal questions, and every time he'd say something like "I listened to Dr. Love back in the day", they'd burst out into a huge celebration. Heh. The part about Maiden was "Who do you like better: Maiden or Priest?", and his answer was "Priest - But I kinda liked Di'Anno-era Maiden". To which, of course, celebration rang out once again.
Moral: Axl's not the biggest fan of any of these bands (Slash wasn't either until guest appearances became his bread and butter). And Eddie Trunk's a huge dork.
#24 Re: The Garden » The Howard Stern Thread » 711 weeks ago
I'd say there's some truth to all of that, but for what it's worth, I think the show's been *really* good lately.
#25 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff/Axl vs. Slash/Matt/Gilby 1994 Album » 711 weeks ago
I consider "Sorry" a rocker. Maybe it's just me.
50/50 sounds about right.
#26 Re: Guns N' Roses » Gene Simmons says ‘a good beating’ would have helped Axl Rose » 711 weeks ago
Besides the Paul Stanley/Slash stuff that's already been mentioned, a couple things stick out in my mind..
If Axl was ever anything more than a casual Kiss fan, it had already passed by the time GNR was touring "Appetite". I remember the interview from Donnington, I think, where the interviewer asks "What do you have in common with the other bands that are on the billl (Kiss, Iron Maiden, etc)?", and Axl answered back "Hopefully nothing". I almost spit the first time I watched that - But, at a time when most of the hair metal scene praised Kiss, I can't imagine Gene finding it so funny.
Also, even after all of that, I remember reading something about Gene inviting Axl to be on his solo album "Asshole" during the hermit years, and never hearing back from him or his people. If true, that couldn't have helped feelings any.
When you really get down to it though, they're totally opposite personalities. Sometimes that's reason enough.
#27 Re: Guns N' Roses » IF November Rain and Estranged was left as ONE SONG » 711 weeks ago
I've got to say, I think Axl (?) made the right decision on this one. I'm a fan of "November Rain" and a huge fan of "Estranged". If they'd been released as one continuous 25 minute song though, I can't guarantee that I wouldn't take a nap every time they play it in concert. Not to mention the fact that it would have almost definitely turned a major hit and another minor hit into the ultimate fringe song/"deep cut" (and, likely, one that all the message board/Bumblefoot begging in the world couldn't have resurrected in 2011).
#28 Re: The Garden » The Howard Stern Thread » 711 weeks ago
For whatever reason, I get the impression that Howard turns down a lot of things these days. I remember something about him taking over the Barbara Walters specials. Then he mentioned in passing that he ended up telling them no. If you don't have access to Sirius, it's almost like the guy's disappeared.
#29 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2011-12 Guns n Roses Tour » 711 weeks ago
I was a little surprised by how high the GNR tour ranked, but not nearly as surprised as I was by how much money Toby Keith's pulling in compared to everyone else. Ridiculous.
#30 Re: Guns N' Roses » tommy interview » 711 weeks ago
Like everyone else, I'd like to have any kind of new material. If I had a choice though, I'd take the best of those 22 “Chinese Democracy”-era tracks, and put out a Part II as soon as possible. Then they could start fresh on the DJ material in a couple years.
