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| ToxicTwin |
 Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:52 pm |
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GOATLORD wrote: No matter what you say - those goin to Hellfest will be throwing their best air solo during November Rain.
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| revilegreg |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:53 pm |
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Quote: Who gives a flying fuck about 'Chinese Democracy'?
Me, there's at least 7 great songs on it. I fail to see how someone that appreciated the earlier albums wouldn't find something of worth on it. Street of Dreams, There Was A Time and This I Love could have appeared on the Use Your Illusion records, Sorry is pure Black Sabbath worship and elsewhere there are other great songs, even if the style has shifted somewhat. |
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| Crunch |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:54 pm |
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Quote: Who gives a flying fuck about 'Chinese Democracy'? It's Appetite an the Illusions material people want to hear.
Not so. The Democracy stuff was great last night. Judging by the crowd reaction it seemed like most people there wanted to hear it. I know I did. |
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| Invictus |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:55 pm |
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| I appreciate that some people like Chinese Democracy but it is disingenuous to suggest that people are going to see GNR to hear those songs alone. I've listened to the album a good few times and while it is OK, it's just an Axl Rose record done under the GNR name. To me, it sounds like a film soundtrack and not a cohesive album. |
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| Shando |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 12:57 pm |
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| Glad to hear that everyone got their money's worth last night. Did Axl make any sort of remark about what happened last time? |
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| revilegreg |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:01 pm |
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| Just "Thanks for not throwing shit" and "As you may have heard I had a little accident. I'm learning what I can and can't do. I hope you don't mind me moving less than usual," "although I'm probably moving a whole lot more than I was the last time I was here" |
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| Crunch |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:02 pm |
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Quote: but it is disingenuous to suggest that people are going to see GNR to hear those songs alone.
Who suggested that?
Quote: Did Axl make any sort of remark about what happened last time?
Yea he made a joke about it a couple of times and at the end said thanks to the crowd for not throwing shit at him.  |
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| Invictus |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 1:32 pm |
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Crunch wrote: Quote: but it is disingenuous to suggest that people are going to see GNR to hear those songs alone.
Who suggested that?
It is being suggested by proxy cos of the way people are viewing the hired guns (heh) in the Axl road show.
I'm pretty sure if they stated that they would only play tracks from the last album they'd be playing in the Olympia and not the O2. |
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| Crunch |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 2:26 pm |
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Quote: they'd be playing in the Olympia and not the O2.
How many nights?  |
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| GOLIATH |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 4:45 pm |
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Crunch wrote: Quote: they'd be playing in the Olympia and not the O2.
How many nights?
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| xspudx |
| Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 7:12 pm |
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| Glad to hear it went well. 3 hours of tunes is definitely a big step up from last time. I hope their show at Graspop will go as well as this! |
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| jgmeadowlands |
| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:15 pm |
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| pedro |
| Posted: Sun May 20, 2012 9:03 pm |
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| classic lineups are great, it would be great to stop time and keep these guys looking like they did in 1980 whatever...but life isn't like that. I think people need to move on sometimes, GNR are one of the greatest bands in the history of rock n roll. As far as I'm concerned its a privilege to be able to see them in any form now. Chinese Democracy is actually a really beautiful record if given time. I have to say the first few songs almost let it down because once you get to Street of Dreams the album just takes off. The song Prostitute at the end, serious songwriting, This I Love would have been another November Rain easily if it had come out 20 years ago. It follows on from the great singer led albums written by the likes of Queen, Elton John, Aerosmith, huge power ballad stuff. Anybody who cant get over the personality side of bands and just focus on the music is really missing out, its class stuff altogether and I fuken hope its not the last. |
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| Hellbound lifer |
| Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 1:18 am |
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pedro wrote: classic lineups are great, it would be great to stop time and keep these guys looking like they did in 1980 whatever...but life isn't like that. I think people need to move on sometimes, GNR are one of the greatest bands in the history of rock n roll. As far as I'm concerned its a privilege to be able to see them in any form now. Chinese Democracy is actually a really beautiful record if given time. I have to say the first few songs almost let it down because once you get to Street of Dreams the album just takes off. The song Prostitute at the end, serious songwriting, This I Love would have been another November Rain easily if it had come out 20 years ago. It follows on from the great singer led albums written by the likes of Queen, Elton John, Aerosmith, huge power ballad stuff. Anybody who cant get over the personality side of bands and just focus on the music is really missing out, its class stuff altogether and I fuken hope its not the last.
Well said, took awhile to get into, at first it has a disjointed, movie soundtrack vibe as mentioned a few posts back, but definitely worth the repeated listens, great songwriting and all great musicians. |
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| Era VulgaChris |
| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 8:14 pm |
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Stumbled on an article saying he was an hour late on stage at Manchester but still played a 3 hour set.
And regarding everything else... I think what Axl has done is far, far less sacrilegious to the name Guns 'n Roses than what Dave Vincent has done to the name Morbid Angel. And I'd prefer to see Axl and company play a solid set of hits plus the new material with the guys who wrote it with him than to see Vincent and his cock-brigade stand on stage playing their classic hits like as if they shouldn't all have already stabbed themselves in the fucking face, starting with the ears, over that enormous middle-finger to metal they released and if they even raked the first note of one of the new songs I'd probably have apoplexy on the fucking spot. Axl has essentially ONLY changed the line-up and this to allow him to continue doing what he wanted to do which was the Illusion style rock. I would have preferred, and any self-respecting MA or just metal fan has to say the same, that, hypothetically, Vincent sack every other member and continue doing, at the very least, Dominations style stuff rather than the whole band mutually sucking each other (off) down into a mire of rancid cottage cheese techno and festering remants of metal cadaver.
So, pot calling the kettle black and all... enjoy the trip over to the travesty-auto-ass-raped MA gig. |
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