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#51 Re: Guns N' Roses » UFO Cover Album » 68 weeks ago
Gotta agree. He sounded quite good on this. Yeah some of the parts you could kind of tell are processed but you know what I’m not that bothered by it since he’s in his 60s now.
I might end up listening to this one more than some of the leftovers.
#52 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 81 weeks ago
slashsfro wrote:I saw these somewhere else. And since Lofton posted a couple of these pages ago, I found these cool since you don't see them anymore
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Love these. Instant and potent nostalgia fuel.
I also miss the old cable guides we used to get every month from the cable company in the 70s and 80s.... essentially TV Guides but only for HBO and Showtime. They'd also have pics and sometimes interviews in them.
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I remember these! They were all glossy unlike TV guides at the time which still had those newsprint pages. There was as section in those old cable guides where they'd have a grid schedule. Also they had previews of almost everything, I remember reading WWF PPV previews.
As a kid, I liked reading the summaries and they had pictures and it was free and a good time waster. Think there may have been a monthly crossword thing in these guides, not sure as it's been decades since I thought about these things. Thanks for the memory lane flashback!
#53 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 82 weeks ago
I saw these somewhere else. And since Lofton posted a couple of these pages ago, I found these cool since you don't see them anymore
#54 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
Does anyone here still listen to either of these songs?
It's funny how we FINALLY have The General and I don't even listen to it.
No, I don't . I've listened to Paradise City more the past few months than either of those two new tunes.
The problem is that they are just not very good/or catchy songs and once the novel and historical value of the songs (being part of the CD sessions) passes. You don't really go back to them for whatever reasons (that the song doesn't appeal to you).
I mean I'm glad they finally got released. Oh you can also use the same rationale for any of the leftovers that have been released in the past few years. Once you get past the curiosity level, there is just something missing with all those tunes.
#55 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 86 weeks ago
lol, I swear they pump out one of those type of articles once a year just to show the fanbase that they are doing something.
Ultimately as we have learned over the years it’s basically nothing but lip service.
#56 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Official Website » 90 weeks ago
Gotta love Team Brazil for providing unintentional humor all the time.
Why on earth has he chosen this point in time to finally establish his own personal website when there is nothing going on to promote?
Visiting the site itself, there’s nothing there and it’s a really dull site. I mean they can’t even give an effort on the “about “ section . I think there’s like 2 sentences on that section.
#57 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 92 weeks ago
That level of impact can never happen again. We live in an era of internet, smartphones, a thousand cable channels, and short attention spans
Those days are lost now where a show can cross race, age, socioeconomic status and just kind of be something people can rally around and talk about. Ditto with album releases as events.
I think we should all be happy to have experienced it (face it we are all the same age here) before it got lost and extinct to the ravages of time and progression.
#58 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 96 weeks ago
When was the last time Axl Rose talked about writing and recording and releasing new music? That is all you need to now.
The other guys (and this goes for the last 30 years) can say whatever they want . They are not the ones holding it up.
#59 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 97 weeks ago
The whole thing (the CD saga) was just one massive swindle since day one. I no longer believe there was ever a genuine attempt at "moving forward". It helps explain the Helter skelter nature of the project.
It started on day one....
OMG and Live Era in 99
Look which one got the big push.
I didn't realize it at the time but that helped set the tone.
The reunion era was just a continuation...it was not a legitimate reunion/reboot of the "band".
Having said that, I thank them for releasing the few songs we have.
This is just guessing but I still think at some part/point in his mind that he expected Slash and Duff to come back and help him finish the record. That's why you had all the stuff about the reunion that almost happened in 2005. In retrospect, I have to wonder what the hell Slash was hoping to accomplish by showing up in Las Vegas at the House of Blues in 2001.
As far as the current band goes, it's basically a continuation of 1993 EXCEPT that the parts are a little different and that they haven't solved whatever issues led to them breaking up in the first place. This reunion is just all for touring revenue and nothing else. There is /will be no attempt to write and record new music as a band anyway, even with the spectre of AFD turning 40 in a few years.
#60 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 97 weeks ago
It's that awkward unique period between 70s and 80s where it wants to be the gritty 70s but the 80s is seeping into it.
I need to watch even more movies from this period.
Most of these are found within 1980-85. After that I'd say the 80s seeps in and it can be gritty but that 80s cheesiness is a damn drawback, Black Rain which was released in 89 is a good example.
Anyway, stuff like Ms. 45, and Cutter's Way are classified as 80s films but they belong in the 70s. 52 pick up (released in 1986) is really sleazy and I don't suffers as much as other film released in the second half of the 80s.
