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#881 Re: Guns N' Roses » A re-post from MyGNR, A GN'R fan convention » 885 weeks ago
Everybody's saying CA or NY for a USA destination... come on... Everybody wants to come to Iowa... Right???.... I mean, it's right in the middle.
#882 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2008 Offseason Thread » 885 weeks ago
NY Giants82 wrote:With Rodgers as QB, it'll be either GB or Minnesota winning that division. With Favre, GB wins that division. Minnesota is a good QB away from being really good, but we first need to see how the new player mesh.
One way or another, GB will have to get ready to move on with Rodgers (or Brohm down the line potentially), but they are built to win now. Favre gives them the best chance now. Remember, they were an overtime away from the Super Bowl.
I think this whole situation will end up ugly, unfortunatly.
It was also Brett Favre who threw that horrendous INT in that OT to help lead the Giants to victory. As great as Brett has been in his career and was last year he has a penchant for making some great plays and some awful ones. He's a gun slinger who'll just throw it up for grabs and he has more misses these days than he used to. It's time for Green Bay to move on.
I really don't think he had more misses these days, I think it just got to the point where everybody sees it and says, "He's a legend, he should fucking know better than to throw that". It's easier to criticize a guy who's been around for a long time.
When you're young, being considered a risk taker is endearing, when you get old and still do it you start to look stupid... In football or in life.
#883 Re: Guns N' Roses » A Random Forum Post about Finck » 885 weeks ago
I'm about to say something controversial. So hopefully this won't shit everyone off too bad. An idea just came into my mind on a related topic. But I think maybe each of the lead guitarists was hired by Axl to be somewhat of a one-trick pony in this band. I know that sounds like madness, but let me explain what I mean.
If you think of the Robin solos...the parts Neemo listed that he hates...they are all pretty similar...massive bends..dissonance....its all very much in the exact same style..and that's what he has added to the old songs too. Love it like guys like JB do, or hate it like Neemo. It's always the same thing when he plays a solo...
Then look at bucket. Sure he has the technical ability to play anything. But what has he been reduced to doing in most GNR songs? To my ears its like the same three things: 1. A sudden burst of insanely hard to play shred - such as his solo in IRS, or when he "tags in" on the latter part of the CD solo. 2. Octive shift peddal madness...such as in Rhiad and his solo in Song #2 and 3. What i call a "spider run" because I don't know the technical term - its the two handed tap thing where he plays upside down on the fretboard using both hands over the guitar. As used to great effect in "Jordan" etc. But you hear him doing this in Better in the short burst, and then again in Rhiad near the end. Bucket is an amazing player and i'm not saying this to knock him at all...i'm just saying its like all they wanted him for in places is a bad ass run for 10 seconds leading up to the choruses and stuff. Mostly he overdubs a solo. Basicly he's been asked to do the same few tricks over and over again.
I don't think that's controversial at all, I've thought that same thing for a long time.
I thought it enough, that I kinda assumed everyone else did too. So maybe I was wrong and it's just you and I.
I don't think there's anything offensive about it though. Make no mistake, these guys were all hired to help bring a specific vision to life(ok, typing specific vision made me laugh, but you know what I mean). That's much different than starting a band together. It would make perfect sense for them to all be hired for a specific position, just like anyone else would be in a corporation building to a specific purpose.
#884 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash plays with Blues Ball and a Teddy Zigzag » 885 weeks ago
So, is this the Vegas thing that was mentioned as VR was breaking up?
#885 Re: The Garden » The NFL 2008 Offseason Thread » 885 weeks ago
I've never been a big fan of preseason either, but its better than the offseason. The games are too meaningless. It should be reduced to two or three games each.
I didn't used to feel that way, but then I started listening to every single player, every single coach, and every single analyst that used to be a player or coach, and they all say that it should be shortened.
You would think the NFL would listen to what the people who actually have to go through it think, but all they see is dollar signs where they can charge people to watch more games... Games where they won't get to see the stars they want to see do anything but sit on the bench.
#886 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » *GNRevolution Exclusive* A Candidate for the Open Slot for VR Vocalist » 885 weeks ago
James Lofton wrote:I need to download some of this I Mother Earth. Never even heard of the band until you got this info.
I Mother Earth was one of 4 major canadian Bands from the early 90's, the other 3 being Moist (David Usher who bono always raves about), The Tea Party and Our Lady Peace (prolly the most US successful of the 4)
This is way off topic, but I saw Our Lady Peace open for Van Halen in '96. It was odd for me when they all of a sudden had a hit a few years ago. I really hadn't heard anything about them since seeing them.
#887 Re: The Sunset Strip » Motley Crue Discussion » 886 weeks ago
James Lofton wrote:Definitely skipping Cruefest. Someone at tonight's show posted a setlist:
Kickstart My Heart
Wild Side
Shout At The Devil
Saints of Los Angeles
Live Wire
Tommy and the Titty Cam
Motherfucker of the Year
Don't Go Away Mad
Same Ol Situation
Primal Scream
Looks That Kill
Girls Girls Girls
Dr. FeelgoodEncore - Home Sweet Home
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Thats a fucking joke. Way too short of a set for a headliner, and for a band supposedly extremely confident in their new material, only play two new songs.
Fucking lame.
I'm really getting sick of these nostalgia acts trying to act relevant.
Seeing as their last tour consisted of the doing 3, 1 hour sets with alot of deeper cuts being played, maybe they're just doing a smaller, hits based set for the hell of it this time. Plus, I'm pretty excited about most of the acts on the tour, so Crue is just part of it for me.
I'd just call that a festival set. I know Metallica did something really similiar when they were playing Lollapalooza in '96.
I'll also give a warning to anybody going to see the Crue. I saw them on the last tour a couple years ago and it was the worst show of any kind I have ever seen in my life. Nothing even comes close to the kind of clusterfuck that show was. I'd like to think they have their shit together, but I saw part of a press conference for the new album that wasn't much better.
#888 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Ultimate Showdown #3...WINNER ANNOUNCED! » 886 weeks ago
Zakk, for all the reasons Slinger mentioned in the original post
The only reason it was a hard decision for me is because Rhoads went too soon, and who knows what kind of crazy shit he could have come up with later(if memory serves he was a classical guitar teacher).
When judging it just on which Ozzy albums I prefer though, it's Zakk pretty easily. Plus I shouldn't include this, but I can't really separate it, I really think everything outside of Ozzy Zakk touches has turned to gold.
#889 Re: GN'R Downloads » Finally got around to... » 886 weeks ago
Aussie wrote:I also like the really early shows in 1991 like Noblesville Indiana and the St Lous Riot show. Axl seems a like a man possessed. The first song for the St Lous Riot show - Perfect Crime, Axl seems like he is spitting venom as he sings, he seems so psyched up and hypo it's almost scary.
Nothing will ever match the intensity of the 1st leg of the UYI tour. The show I went to was two weeks after the riot, but the atmosphere from that riot lingered in the crowd. You had no fucking idea what the band was gonna do. Show up? The show end in 20 minutes, or do you get a three hour show from the best band in the world?
Regardless of the performances themselves, the pre UYI release part of the tour took major balls. It wasn't an AFD jerkoff session. The band was confident in their new material, and unleashed it in large doses. After reading the metal mags for years, it was like a religious experience getting to hear all those songs for the first time.
Yeah, I couldn't have put my thoughts on that better at all. I saw the second show of the tour at Alpine Valley (obviously pre-riot), my first concert ever, and probably a big reason music still means as much to me as it did 17 years ago. It didn't matter that I only knew about 1/2 the material, the energy/bravado they came out with made you unable to take your eyes off the stage.
Then I got to go home and lord the fact that I had heard all these new songs over my friends who wanted to go but couldn't. I still remember pretty vividly talking about the one that went "Double Talkin' Jive Motherfucker, Motherfucker".
#890 Re: The Sunset Strip » 21 hilariously hyperbolic pro-America songs » 886 weeks ago
Now "America, Fuck Yeah" is gonna be stuck in my head the rest of the day.
I really haven't heard probably half of these songs.
Also, Iced Earth is far from Death Metal.
