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#431 Re: The Sunset Strip » Pink Floyd feud goes nuclear » 134 weeks ago
I saw Roger Waters in Denmark in 2006. GN'R was there too so it was a pretty damn good festival. Show was amazing. He played Dark Side from front to back and almost all of Wish You Were Here. I can say this, he keeps giving the fans what Gilmour has refused to do since 1994.
He was less obvious about politics back then, but I remember one song "Leaving Beirut" which I thought was embarassing even as a 23 year old. That being said, the last decade or so has taught me how rare genuine artists have become. Axl, Slash they were genuine once, but now they are just empty shells, married to the establishment. Waters amazingly has kept the fire going throughout his life. I might not agree with a lot of his politics, and no doubt he can be an asshole, but he's not there to be my friend. As an artist he commands respect. I listened to his latest album which he made when he was 75 years old. It's pretty damn good. I can imagine if you put the whole Floyd into the mix that could have been an amazing Pink Floyd record. How many rockers can say this? If Axl made an album today it would be shit. Same with U2, Metallica and all of them. They're just old now, which is normal sure, but that just goes to show how special Waters is.
I always had sympathy for Gilmour. He seems like a nice guy and it must have been a strain to suffer the dominance of a man like Waters. But now he has not only lowered himself to Waters level, he has gone below it. Calling somebody a racist and a sexist when it is not really true is not something you do in todays climate. It's not just below the belt, it is potentially life shattering in terms of consequences for the victim. And on top of that his wife is the one delivering the blow, he's too cowardly to do it himself. It's all just really low and I lost alot of respect for him.
Waters is still Waters. Some good, some bad, but he is his own man. Gilmour has revealed himself as a pussy and a coward. He is sitting there like Pope David and refusing to do anything with Pink Floyd. Waters and Mason would have loved to do a tour, but Gilmour has an ego thing about Waters and Pink Floyd.
#432 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 134 weeks ago
The cat doesn't eat it?
#433 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 134 weeks ago
Killed my first mouse today. I suspect it is the same fella I gave a break last week, but this time he had to go.
I have a fucking cat, but the psychopath he is he just likes to chase the mouse around and torture it. So I have to step in as executioner and I tell you it is not pleasant. I can't put out traps because the damn cat would just get caught in them, so I put on some gloves, corner the little fucker. He goes under a shelf, I go under the shelf. He positions himself between the wall and the shelf, so I move the shelf. I take out a large ruler to try and nudge him out, but he keeps coming back. Instinct takes over and I decide to knock him in the head with the ruler. Keeps moving so I knock him again, and again, and again. Finally he lays somewhat still. I grab his tail, he doesn't have much left. I grab him with my glove, "okay now what?". I can't just squash him, that would be horrible. I can't put him on the ground and crush him with a stone either, because then he could run away again. Last time I took him down to the river and gave him a fighting shot, but apparently he recovered from that. At least he looked really similar.
So I see the fireplace, and this time it is lit. "I guess that will do the job". It does. I open the door and throw him in. That's that I'm thinking. Then as I'm walking away I can hear the sorry bastard screaming! I decide to stick around, as some form of respect. It doesn't take long for the silence to set in. Violence is hard I tell you, even for a little rodent.
#434 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N Roses + NASCAR=? » 134 weeks ago
In the CD era it was much the same thing, but then you knew Axl was trying to put something together. He had ambition.
Now he just wants to be a wedding singer.
#435 The Sunset Strip » Pink Floyd feud goes nuclear » 134 weeks ago
- polluxlm
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David's wife sent out this nice little tweet and Gilmour later replied that he agreed with every word:
Sadly @rogerwaters you are antisemitic to your rotten core. Also a Putin apologist and a lying, thieving, hypocritical, tax-avoiding, lip-synching,misogynistic, sick-with-envy, megalomaniac. Enough of your nonsense.
— pollysamson (@PollySamson) February 6, 2023
Roger Waters hit back with this:
Waters’s problem with the rest of Floyd, he says, was that they “can’t write”. “Well, Nick never pretended. But Gilmour and Rick [Wright, the keyboardist]? They can’t write songs, they’ve nothing to say. They are not artists!” He shouts the last two words. “They have no ideas, not a single one between them. They never have had, and that drives them crazy.”
Now Waters is planning to release a rival version of Pink Floyd’s most famous record, without Pink Floyd’s permission. I’m no copyright expert, but might there be some obstacles to that? Waters smiles: “I have no idea.”
Waters is adamant that Dark Side is his to muck about with however he sees fit. “I wrote The Dark Side of the Moon. Let’s get rid of all this ‘we’ c--p! Of course we were a band, there were four of us, we all contributed – but it’s my project and I wrote it. So… blah!”
‘You play the guitar and sing and do as you’re bloody well told’
WATERS ON GILMOUR
#436 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash selling his house » 135 weeks ago
Yeah I would not be surprised, these rockers generally have some weird homes.
With Axl I guess you get that "living on top of Malibu" vibe where that in itself is sort of grand and impressive. Slash looks like he just lives on some street, in a nice home yes, but there is nothing about the surroundings that scream global rock star. Then you get inside and it looks like your grandmas house. His gym is literally depressing, like how you would set it up if you were working a dead end job.
I take a look at my own home and I think to myself, okay I'm not rich like Slash is but at least I have my own style.
#437 Guns N' Roses » Slash selling his house » 135 weeks ago
- polluxlm
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I think the decoration is a bit shit.
#438 Re: Guns N' Roses » What song do you hope are going to be the four song slash talked about » 135 weeks ago
I hope there is another Oh My God because the one we got is a mess. The verses are fantastic, about as good as anything GN'R ever did, and Axl sounds killer. Then comes the chorus and you go wtf? Just doesn't fit with the overall vibe of the song.
#439 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 136 weeks ago
Damn, who needs guitar?
I was never much into classical music. Like most of our age I suppose. And to be honest I don't think this is representative of what classical music is either. This work to my estimation should not exist. Beethoven made 8 symphonies before this and the ninth pisses on all of them. It's the equivalent of GN'R making Def Leppard type records all their career, then in their mid 50s they suddenly release Appetite.
There's no other classical artist that could have inspired Beethoven to do this either. It's just him and this one work. Bach, Mozart, they never reached these heights. Not even close. I listen to this and it is peak music. From another world. Before if you asked me to name the best music ever made I would be lost in a sea of possible choices. No more. God himself was on drugs when he inspired Ludwig to compose this. And he was deaf too? It's almost supernatural.
This is much better quality but I couldn't get it to preview:
#440 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Slash interview - some stuff about TSI » 136 weeks ago
It was a good era. They sounded great on that record.
The insleeve picture on TSI always reminded me of the end of the band. You get that feeling. Now I'm thinking it signifies the end of an era. No more rock n roll. What other classic rock type records came out after 93? That were any good?
