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#571 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tommy on being the 'musical director' in Guns » 410 weeks ago
Interesting interview.
For all his artistic pretensions, Robin has always struck me as a blue collar type guy in terms of approach.
I seem to recall Robin pics with Tommy and the gang in the early years so it wouldn't be a stretch to think he partied with them.
I also know that Bucket doesn't drink.
#572 Re: Guns N' Roses » Oh My God and the Thesis of Chinese Democracy » 410 weeks ago
Strangely enough, it's on YouTube.
It seems at some point the music industry decided to raise the white flag on YouTube and go with the tide.
In hindsight I wonder how this song would've done in different circumstances. It was a TERRIBLE way to unveil new GNR....but it was a sign of things to come.
I thought it was interesting how Axl was somewhat retreating on the industrial thing in the Kurt Loder MTV interview in 1999.
It's also a shame how vibrant and excited Axl sounds in that interview. Not the guarded, tentative, weary guy who'd pseudo-surface in 2002.
#573 Re: Guns N' Roses » First photo of new lineup » 410 weeks ago
Great pic.
*bites lip*
*keeps bitting lip*
*gnaws off lip until it becomes a bloody crater*
#575 Guns N' Roses » First photo of new lineup » 411 weeks ago
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#576 Re: Guns N' Roses » atlas shrugged leaked? » 411 weeks ago
We will never get a new Guns N' Roses album while Axl Rose is alive.
I'm putting all my chips on black.
#577 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Tour Dates Added » 411 weeks ago
Round and round we go, all these years later.
Same old topic, same old song and dance, my friend.
The core aspects of any business are your people, technology, methodology, and end product. If you remove a core team member, the business is demonstrably affected. If you change your methodology, the business is shifting brand messaging and potentially markets. If you adapt your tech too quickly you fail to mitigate market risks and potentially alienate your clients or workforce.
CD is a record done in the vein of Guns N' Roses approximate to Axl's desired trajectory for the band. He tried to replace each piece as best he could. A punk bass player to replace a punk bass player. A powerful drummer with a great groove. And so on. But it's a clusterfuck of an album without an identity. Maybe it did once upon a time but probably not. He also clearly didn't know his ass from his elbow about business and turtled in his mansion for a decade.
In my view, Guns N' Roses is AFD lineup = AFD + Civil War + You Could Be Mine.
And these new Star Wars aren't Star Wars movies. You can call them whatever you like.
This coming from someone who likes CD and those bands.
For what it's worth.
#578 Re: Guns N' Roses » atlas shrugged leaked? » 411 weeks ago
What a shitty thing.
I hope it doesn’t come out. I want a new album. I don’t want another reason for Axl to be pissed and not release anything.
History would dictate if you want a new album, you want leaks.
#579 Re: Guns N' Roses » AFD_30 » 412 weeks ago
Apple got sued again so I've been determining what I want to spend my store credit on.
I checked out iTunes and AFD is $4.99. It's possible it's always been that price but I seem to remember it being $7.99 at it's cheapest.
I doubt it means anything beyond "buy it while it's sorta relevant".
I actually logged on to note Fleetwood and Stevie's greatest also being $4.99 but wanted to ass on the note as I am a man of the people.
Back to my cabin.
#580 Re: GN'R Downloads » Chinese Democracy alternative album covers » 412 weeks ago
I've always said the bike cover was a lovely artistic statement obscured by a giant bike. It's a shame that, like the album, it was destined to be glossed over and treated with distain and indifference.
The shot was snapped in Kowloon Alley in Kowloon Walled City. The picture is a functional metaphor on multiple levels. The first being that someone risked their neck to graffiti Axl's band name in the middle of a controlled arguably totalitarian state. It's something so far detached from the luxuries of American life that it's hardly to be believed.
From there, the walled-off city could double as a metaphor for Axl himself, walled up in his own mansion. Isolated, quickly returning to dust with unsettling pace. The general artifice of the place doesn't inspire confidence. An old decrepit building housing the low and the forgotten, best avoided at all costs. It could something mirror the Guns N' Roses brand itself. An old house on a hill held together by sheer will and a labyrinthian maze of tenuous connections. Something that was, if but for a moment.
Terry Hardin stumbling upon that message is about as rare as it gets. Truly a once in a lifetime sort of thing. You easily take two lefts instead of a right and well, the writing isn't on the wall, but he did and he was able to capture a relative miracle.
