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#331 Re: The Garden » Disney says bye to fairy god-mothers » 153 weeks ago

It's strange cos cis hetro people are always going to be the mainstream thing even if there's secretly millions of hidden others or even if there's tons of publicly out and proud others. Queer etc people will never outnumber straight people. So like given corporations only care about money I'm not sure why they keep trying to alienate straight folks.

I guess they recognise that most straight folks have queer friends/relatives and have a desire to be kind to them, but as a society we need to find a way to be kind to them that isn't just endlessly shitting on the rest of us. For the record this particular thing of adding males to help style I don't mind...but it's more the general outlook of disney is warped. I wonder what walt would think.

#332 Re: The Garden » Favorite video games? » 153 weeks ago

Depends on the era:

Arcade Machines:

1942, House of the Dead, Sega Daytona Car Racing, Aliens Argegeddon.

Gameboy:
Tetris

1980s PC:

Sierra Quest Games, Test Drive, Obliterator, Centurion.

1990s PC:

Wolfenstein 3D, Stunts, Space Hulk.   

Ps2 era:

Tekken 2+3, Resident Evil Series.

ps3 Era:

Alien Isolation, Civilisation Revolutions, Dead Space series. Pixel Junk Monsters (i can play this till i die lol)

Ps4 Era:

Alien Isolation (again I love this game). GT5 (but in offline single player mode). All the Teltale Games. Batman Arkham games, Until Dawn.

Still trying to buy a ps5 lol

#333 Re: Guns N' Roses » Can you see Slash leaving again? » 153 weeks ago

Only way I can see Slash leaving would be if Axl somehow forced his hand - like hypothetically if Axl refused to tour at all unless Slash quit all side bands, or if Axl started having UYI era meltdowns on stage frequently etc.

Given Axl's current state neither of those things seems likely.

I think the guys realised they made a huge mistake in the first place going. GNR is a cash machine for them, and even if it wasn't it must have been aweful watching other versions of the band endlessly covering your songs etc. They are back home where they will be till death IMO.

Sadly I think Axl retiring due to vocal problems, or one of the guys just dying out of the blue or something is a bigger risk than any fights at this stage.

#334 Re: Guns N' Roses » What’s your opinion of the Spaghetti Incident? Rank the tracks! » 154 weeks ago

It was marketed in Australia as the new GNR record, so I was somewhat disappointed at first when I figured out it was all covers.

I agree with your thoughts - if you think of it as a genre piece, like a fun covers record - which it is - then it kicks ass. Worth mentioning the Great recording quality too - I still think sound wise it's GNR best sounding record.

Ranking the tracks....TBH i don't really rate Duff as a singer...so I lean towards the ones he's not on. Sorry duff...I actually love Duff's bass playing and he's a cool dude. He's good at that punk sound but it's not what I'm into musically...like I love him...but I didn't come to GNR to listen to duff sing sorry my man....like I don't go to BLS to hear Zakk play piano even though he's badass at it. It's just me I guess.

Anyways, so that's my first thoughts, but yeah specific tracks I like:

Since I don't have you....Axl sounds fucking amazing...odd retro style for GNR but damn does he make it work...classic Axl really in everyway...subverts what you think he's going to do but delivers in excess.

Down on the Farm is just awesome from front to back.

Human Being. Axl nails this hard. He's kinda hard to understand in places, but when you listen to this one more and more you realise it's just the whole band kicking ass over and Axl brings it on a level that most just can't. I wanna hear this band live today lol.

Black leather. Underrated track where Slash shows how everything he plays is sexy, even when he's riffing on the rhythm lines.

Aint it Fun. Can slash's tone get any better? like serious the opening few licks of this alone would make me buy a new amp. Or maybe new hands. it's beautiful.

Big Dumb Sex. Yeah it's fun and I like it. I know the soundharden pppl around here probably don't like it. But I always crank it.

Hair of the Dog - well...it may not have been written by Axl...but it just seems to apply to him so perfectly....feel like slash could have done a better solo here...but it's still probably my favourite track on the record.

The rest of the songs I just don't get into due to lack of Axl or just not kinda my style...but those ones I listed I love so deeply that I love the whole record.

#335 Re: Guns N' Roses » Could the first Snakepit album have been a good record with Axl / Duff » 154 weeks ago

I think all of CD is great writing lyrically.

Even Scrapped really captures that duality in Axl's thinking and hits the right mood for the song.

Listening to them both again, the only thing good about hardschool is the vocals - which as I've said elsewhere are themselves far from Axl's best work but still great. Then the guitar and musical parts of snakepit 1 are killer. Politics aside, if they were still friends at that point, Axl on it would have been a pure GNR record and it would be killer.

#336 Re: Guns N' Roses » Could the first Snakepit album have been a good record with Axl / Duff » 154 weeks ago

I believe them both.

At the time Axl was into industrial and stuff and synths and big production, so a pre-written finished record that's pure guitars not only doesn't respect his role too much as a singer/writer but doesn't immediately get the juices flowing the way listening to other bands was.  So in that respect Slash is probably right that Axl rejected it (in terms of it being AS IS) and wasn't keen on it.

On the other hand I also believe Axl that he would have put them into his Lab and turned them into stuff he did approve of. Problem is we all know that takes years/decades and even without a dispute you'd be looking at 2 years (see UYI/TSI) or so. Slash just didn't have the patience for that - some of which was because of the BS in the band already, and a good bit of it was because he uses more drugs when unproductive and needed to get shit going again.

So I think they are both at fault. Slash for being a junkie. Slash for being impatient. Slash for disrespecting Axl's superior lyrical abilities. Axl for pushing the band into new genres. Axl for creating a communication wall with managers/no-showing/late nights/agression that made it easier for people to do their own thing than keep trying to deal with it. Axl for not recognising how great some of that playing really is.

I think it's the lost GNR record really. The guitar sound and style is pure AFD style guitars. With Axl's re-structuring and his lyrics - the output would have risen above the genre record it became and be an absolute monster GNR record. I think it would have been a great return to AFD style rawness for those who found the UYI records bloated. Or alternatively you could add Axl songs like TIL and make a UYI3.

I mean I enjoy it as it is. But damn they should have sorted their shit out back then. Look at slash doing stuff like Dime Store Rock live and you see the power in the material.

#337 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash/Chester Bennington "Crazy" » 155 weeks ago

It's cool but it's hard to know what I'd make of it if I heard it raw as I'm so familiar with Dr Alibi from the eponymous album at this stage that I just automatically sing that in my mind while listening to it.

#338 Re: The Garden » RIP James Caan » 155 weeks ago

Just rewatched godfather trilogy last week. RIP.

#339 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns n Roses=a joke » 155 weeks ago

I have no basis for this really, but my guess is they will drip feed us a couple of new songs every time we're close to rebellion and assuming nothing has upset things each time.

In between they spin us along with the odd cover change up, or mixing up some of the old songs a touch.

I think it's that they don't have a lot of fresh stuff so they milk it to maximise the return. It's annoying but smart if you are them.

So like reunion was 2-3 years. Then gets old so add in the Shadow of Your Love era and a few covers. Do that another year or two. Add in Absurd/Hardschool. Do that a year. Change up some new covers Ac/Dc etc. Give it another year it will be stale enough and they will probably drop another 1 pr 2 songs to mix it up.

This way you can spin the 8 or 9 finished songs you have into a decade of touring then retire, especially if you mix in the odd anniversary or greatest hits type sequence here and there on occasions.

Now that Axl has vocal problems I feel like the rest of this tour will be damage control mode, new stuff next year. But I say this sort of thing every year. I start to worry old age will get us before we hear this fucking thing.

Only thing in your post I would disagree with is that it has anything to do with Slash and Duff rejoining. Slash has put out NINE full non-GNR records and countless guest appearances since he originally left GNR. Duff isn't a guy that's going to get in the way of putting out a record. Their presence on a record, as members of the classic GNR line up, would only encourage a label to support a release not detract from it. It's not them.

Also, not shitting on Axl...but being real....one thing or another be it fair or unfair, legal or the industry or him or whoever....but he has been finding it a process to put out material since at least 1999 if not earlier. Sometimes he does, like 2008 and recently with Absurd or whatever....and thank fuck for that cos I love his songs...but yeah...it's not like Slash is holding up the release.

#340 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 155 weeks ago

James wrote:

both sides comfortably slid into their roles.

I don't know anything about the specific shooting you were talking about but this sentence captures the problem with modern politics exactly to me. There's like the awkward pause when something happens to see where everyone will land - then someone chooses a side and people continue disagreeing with each other because it's just what they do.

Good example to me was Covid.

Both the dems and the republicans flip-flopped on it. Like when it started Trump was shutting stuff down and Nancy was complaining about spreading fear, after a while Nancy was calling for lockdowns and tump was all about moving on. Now it's logical for people to adapt their position with new info - but it's telling that no matter what happens people never seem to unite anymore.

What about the war? Like if anything should unite the USA it ought to be the USSR coming out of retirement for a grudge match against the west...but no...somehow half the people think USSR is just misunderstood and/or it wouldn't happen with them in charge and the other half think it's the fault of the other side's last leader for being too nice or whatever it all is. It's like FFS can you just agree on something please?

I really think we need some type of improvement on this stuff or our society is really going to unravel soon it seems. Like old people always say stuff is getting worse, but really, stuff is getting worse right?

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