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#41 Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Wicked Stone » 569 weeks ago
- Mikkamakka
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According to Slash2baz, the admin of SlashFrance, this is Wicked Stone. Sounds very promising.
#42 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash & The Conspirators new album WORLD ON FIRE due 15 September 2014 » 569 weeks ago
Slash should play Give in to me! Such an amazing song, epic Slash performance, Myles' voice would fit the song and it would be an intriguing addition to the set. I'd love to hear it, for sure! 
#43 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Stone Blind » 569 weeks ago
Sounds like a Snakepit 2 leftover. It is good, but the style is so familiar that it sounds like we would've heard it before.
#44 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tokyo '92 vs Vegas '14 » 571 weeks ago
So you feel that way about Gilby and Matt's playing? They are "living" it and not just playing what's called for?
I guess what I don't get is how you can call it the band's prime, or essential gnr, when you're missing two key members. That's why The Ritz does it for me
Well, I LOVED the energy of the original GN'R. But Steven and Izzy were weak links live. The band was still amazing, no matter how drugged up and boozed they were, or how little they knew about music back then. I love that sincere, explosive approach. But I also love the more musical approach of the UYI era live band.
Yes, I think both Gilby and Matt lived those songs - more important the band as a whole lived them. Of course it was more of an Axl N' Slash N' (to a lesser extent) Duff driven force, while the original band was a real band. To tell the truth I can't and don't wanna choose between those live periods - I love both.
#45 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tokyo '92 vs Vegas '14 » 571 weeks ago
I guess I won't surprise anyone, but it's not even close. Tokyo is the true essential of what GN'R were in their prime. I always liked this show (I heard it as a bootleg first, long before the dvds came out) and didn't understand why others don't. The best DTJ ever would win against any Nu-band show for me. (Side note: I didn' really like Estranged for months, and this show made me an ultimate fan of the song.)
I only saw those 3 songs off the Vegas dvd they uploaded and I did't like those. Not talking about Axl's poor to horrible performances, since this thread is about the band. But they don't play the songs they way it needs to be done. Guns N' Roses were an alive, sleazy spontaneous (sometimes sloppy...) rock band. They really played, if you know what I mean. It wasn't an over-directed performance - they played and this made the music alive. Slash always searched for The Fountain of Music (I know I'm getting psychedelic) and more often than not he found it. The old band, even with Gilby and Matt was more of a medium that let music flow through them, while the new band is made of professional session players, who deliver the notes (more often than not, sans DJ Ashba), but they only perform the songs and not live the songs.
That's the difference for me.
#46 Re: Guns N' Roses » Didn't see this posted, so what the hell. Dizzy says soon is the word » 571 weeks ago
Why would they need a setlist when they know what they're going to play by heart. So, I get what he's saying there
The only period this was true was that 2009-10 period when you didn't know if they'd play three songs off CD or play the entire album.
I don't think he's predicting anything, other than they have two-three albums worth of material ready to go, which I believe. I don't think the song selection was the hold up. My only questions are: Will it be a double album, which would be nice to finish up the Chinese sessions, and is the artwork finished.
A little reminder from Axl himself, from January, 2007:
In regard to a release date for the album itself, certain minor - and I do mean minor -- additions, as well as contract negotiations, need to be completed. Barring any unforeseen complications, these things have now been adequately scheduled...we do wish to announce a tentative release date of March 6
The album came out almost 2 years later. I don't think they are as close to be done with CD2 now than they were with CD1 back then. Plans fail, change, get forgotten, the Muse doesn't show up etc. I agree with you that they more than likely have at least an album worth of material, close to finished, but it'll still be a long, long journey even from the day when Axl will finally say "the second motherfucker is done, get it out". So I think the advice for the next years is still from Axl:
We do hope you can hold on just a bit longer, and if not, please take a break and we’ll be more than glad -- if you so choose -- to see you again later.
#47 Re: Guns N' Roses » Didn't see this posted, so what the hell. Dizzy says soon is the word » 571 weeks ago
Since he's lying again about something really trivial, their "unpredictable and non-existent" setlist, I don't know how on Earth could anyone believe his words about a new album.
#48 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash & The Conspirators new album WORLD ON FIRE due 15 September 2014 » 571 weeks ago
Damn that was awesome. Myles needs to sing that last part, "you could be Miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiinnnnnnnnneeeeee YEAH!!!!!!"
It was excellent. As great as it can be without the UYI-era GN'R mates.
#49 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash & The Conspirators new album WORLD ON FIRE due 15 September 2014 » 572 weeks ago
Simply amazing. This man always delivers.
#50 Re: Guns N' Roses » Matt Sorum open to Playing with Current GNR Line-up » 572 weeks ago
Mikkamakka wrote:Sky Dog wrote:I'll say my story....fact is Axl, Izzy and Duff are still friends......fact is a fact...where is the other guy in the discussion?
Just like Slash, Duff and Izzy. So...?
BTW the Axl-izzy and Axl-Duff friendship are reborn/rebuilt friendships. We all know those heated interviews and lawsuits. In these cases they were able to forgive what happened (and what Axl thought that had happened). We also know that Slash would have made peace with Axl (remember the dropped lawsuit and the visit at his house)...but the answer was a bitter psycho's answer.
His point is Slash is the only one Axl can't make peace with. Whatever happened between them is something else than the typical dictator/fun was gone/drugs messed it up angle we hear from the rest of the band. If Axl being a dick was the major issue, why do everybody pretty much get along except for Axl and Slash? And even there it's not about what Axl did to Slash. Slash has shown he's more than willing to reunite and be back in the band. It's Axl who has a problem with him.
And that's why this whole quoting Izzy and Duff from 20 years ago is poor evidence for Axl being a destructive force in the band. Back then they would cite all kinds of whodunnits for why they "had to leave the band", but now we know the real reasons. Steven got canned because he couldn't keep it together, Izzy left because he discovered he'd rather chill on a farm in the desert than travel with a rock n roll circus in a jumbo jet, Slash left because he regretted one of his many weak willed decisions when he signed over the rights to the band. So he made Axl an offer he couldn't refuse. Axl refused. Then Matt was dumb enough to think his absence would be that extra straw which would make Axl cave. Duff left because the others had left, and/or because keeping clean required a change of lifestyle. 4 junkies and an angry redneck was why it all fell apart, not any one mans megalomania.
Nobody ever left the band because they had a problem with Axl Rose. He's just an easy target because so often he was the personality standing in the way of imposing their own will on what the band should be. It became a battle, he "won" and they all became bitter. But as time goes on Slash has come back crawling, Duff has no problem doing some gigs, Izzy is fine with being a contractual employee as long as he's paid and gets to keep his own schedule, Matt would mow Axl's lawn if he was let back in the band. Steven? He'd probably quite literally give him a blow job just for a one off gig.
Axl Rose living life like a Chinese Emperor may be part of the reason the band fell apart in the first place, but Slash and whatever happened there, is the only reason a reunion is out of the question today.
I've just learnt that the board has only biased Slash fans and objective GN'R fans with well-balanced opinion, so yours is an unbiased post surely.
But as a dark Slashite, I believe Axl played a major factor in their leaving. It's typical revisionism to say that old interviews don't matter, cause they are now friends (to a degree, lol, just read how Axl trashes Izzy's payment needs). Hell no. Without Axl's crazy antics and dictatorship they'd probably still be together with like a dozen amazing albums released. Just because Duff and Izzy (and even Gilby and Matt) was able to forgive and forget Axl what happened then to spend an hour or even two weeks together (cause they managed to grow up), it doesn't mean that the Axl shit wasn't unbearable back then. It's not a coincidence that everybody left (was fired). It was one of the biggest bands of all time, you just don't leave it for shit and giggles. Truth is that ONLY those old interviews matter, not their diplomatic bullshit these days.
On the other hand. Axlin has this theory that Axl must be right, cause his story wasn't told in the past 20 years. Sorry, but you need to be very keen on conspiracy theories to think this. I believe that if you had 20 years to tell your side of the story and all you gave was vague and cryptic comments, then your story is BULLSHIT (if it even exists). He can man up and start a riot anywhere in the world, but can't come up with the big "why Slash is the Devil" debunk. Please.
