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#311 Re: Guns N' Roses » Predictions for the next decade? » 147 weeks ago
yeah it's hard to say.
Axl seems to pride himself sometimes on thwarting expectations - singing higher than humans can - doing 4 hour shows etc. Slash will want to play till the end - so a part of me sees them trying to outdo the stones and we eventually see 90yo Axl and Slash delivering above the standard for their age.
But realistically with Axl's vocal problems these days it's hard to see how it's possible. Especially with the way almost the whole song catalogue is brutal to sing.
I could see them continuing on but taking some steps, like tuning down to easier keys, dropping the hardest numbers, getting the crowd to do the big lines in a song, only playing occasional shows for charity events or special occasions or something. Maybe that would be a compromise.
Overall your projection seems pretty reasonable, maybe drip feed the remaining singles over a few years of small tours rather than drop a full album until the end. Then do a goodbye tour or something maybe.
The other thing I worry about is heath. I mean guys in their 60s and 70s with a history of hard partying and drugs for decades. I hate to be negative but I wonder if at some point someone just develops something that makes it all a bit hard..if not like tragic endings just something like many of our grandparents had....like arthritis and so on.
I mean i'd like them to continue on like Alice and Steven etc. But i'm not sure they'll be able to.
#312 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR or NIN? » 147 weeks ago
NiN has a creepy feel which I could see working in a random T-1000 sequence, but for the iconic bike chase stuff you really needed that GNR vibe....I mean teenage John Connor although a kid kinda summed up the rebellious outlaw vibe of GNR.
Interesting though...like the YCBM clip and the T2 crossover was a big deal here (and I assume globally) I mean GNR was already famous of course but I think it probably got a whole wave of casuals into it. Hell...I know those UYI singles were huge on me and my friends as teens.
#313 Re: Guns N' Roses » No new single this year? » 148 weeks ago
I loved the live version of sailing. It's criminal Axl had a voice like that and just sat on it for decades. I pray there's more like that in the vault.
#314 Re: The Sunset Strip » House of The Dragon » 148 weeks ago
Milly Alcock is apparently australian, maybe that's why she's not ugly to me.
To my eyes she has a kind of european model look or something. Not saying i'd leave my wife to become her fan or anything, but like if i'd met her in bar I would buy her a drink back in the day...:haha:
But then i'm an old guy...the older I get the more I see attractiveness in all kinds of traits...as a young bloke I was a lot more exclusive in what I found hot.
#315 Re: Guns N' Roses » Think About You - opinions? » 148 weeks ago
I only kind of like it because I'm a GN'R fan and any song from that era is worth having. It really isn't a very good song. Shouldn't have been on AFD. Could have scrapped Anything Goes too. They don't fit in. They sound like "what if GN'R was a hair metal band?".
I always thought that too. They are the two skippable tracks on an otherwise consistently themed album. That said cos they are GNR even the skippable tracks are kinda cool lol.
To me think about you is really saved by Axl. Like if it had some other singer it would be total cheese, but it's one of those songs where the shear presence of Axl's voice kinda makes the track.
#316 Re: The Sunset Strip » House of The Dragon » 148 weeks ago
Stranger Things is another example. Or Terminator Dark Fate. And it's not a matter of "oh my god she's such a good actress either", they are all average performers, so why don't you give me something pretty? The girl in Dark Fate is actually pretty but they tried to make her as manlike as possible in the movie.
I think those are quirks though. Like stranger things has winona ryder who has always been stupidly attractive, although admittedly in her 50s now, but she's rocking it.
Millie Bobby Brown I agree is non-type for hollywood but she's also only 18 and was cast at 12 to be a freaky looking kid in the show. The fact it's successful and dragged on until her adulthood now makes her a star and a thing. But like if she was an unknown coming into a leading lady roll at 18 I'd be pretty surprised.
Dark Fate I've not seen yet but I agree with what you said from the trailer, but then James Cameron always has a boner for tough semi-masculine women, and general feminist stuff in his flicks. So while I agree I'm not sure if it's the best example.
Myself I dunno if it's so much "rise of the ugly" people as a rejection of male sexuality in society. Like feminism now has us believing that any expression of male sexuality at all is demeaning to women and offensive. So it's like they go to a lot of trouble now to make people unattractive to traditional male values or something.
Like I think of humans as a sexually selective species. So what could be more normal than a man finding a women physically attractive, but the media will tell you that's gross.
#317 Re: Guns N' Roses » No new single this year? » 149 weeks ago
yeah, i mean you never know what they will do, but based on how they tend to change up the set order /add a cover every few legs - I would think they would do a full cycle globally of the Absurd/Hardschool set list or something very close to what they did last time.
Then when it's time to freshen up for a new new tour drop another song, and swap out a new UYI song or something. Which would probably put it at mid 2023 pr maybe later if there's not a lot of shows.
So i suspect the shows in Australia late this year are just the other half of the words version of the shows north america had last December etc. Something different is probably a year out.
But then who knows with GNR. Could drop the whole album randomly just to subvert us lol.
#318 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 150 weeks ago
I don't think he's dumb.
Maybe he's got policies one doesn't like, or personality traits that people don't like.
But I mean he's been successful in real estate, television and politics over 40 years. If he was truely stupid that wouldn't be the case.
#319 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 150 weeks ago
My thing is I feel if you went digging on any politician from either side long enough you will find something distasteful. Or any CEO type powerbroker person too. Sadly it seems you have to be pretty ruthless to get ahead, or at least, have a lot of money and be at least some what pragmatic when it comes to rules and getting stuff done. Those are just the kinds of people who seem to win in our type of society.
So I mean it's not that I like a lot of things trump has said and done, it's more that I ask myself why the media and everyone was suddenly so deeply offended by conduct I see as stock standard from everyone in his whole class of society. Like was he really objectively worse, or did he just package things up a bit differently?
#320 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 150 weeks ago
I tend to disagree with most of the conspiracy stuff on here....but I must say this kinda just looks to me like finding something/anything to charge him with to disrupt chances of him running in 2024 or generally discredit his standing enough so that the political conversation can move beyond him.....
I mean love or hate his policies, he was president of the United States last term, it's not really normal in our big western democracies for the next government in to investigate and arrest the leader of the previous one. It's just not a good look for society. I mean even if you want to be anti-republican there's plenty of shit you could look into in the bush governments and the wars and stuff but they didn't. The difference to me seems to be that Trump remains a figure who might run again.
