Guns N' Roses Discussion Thread

Must give that at read.
Axls,.... if its ever put to print would be a very interesting read

fin12 wrote: »

Like what trashing hotel rooms and anything basically for the sake of it.

I said he has a talent but not a nice person.

I found him very nice to be fair, i'm not a fan of drawing on guitars but the graphic he drew on my late (then very sick ) friends guitar was amazing

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

As he said himself he was consumed by drugs back then a functioning addict his only desire each day was to score his fix each day and play a little rock n roll in between fixs
Duff's addiction to alcohol would be a more sociable addiction .
Something I noticed when reading the biographies was that Slash seemed to have a more detailed account of what was going on while Duff admits to having little or no memory of various dates on the 91-93 tour. Guess it's the various effects of different addictions.

well at least he admits it. I mean just go and look at the GNR interviews from 1992-93 that involved duff. He looks and sounds like death warmed up in them.

I think it was said that slash kept a diary of sorts but I remember that some of them were lost/stolen at some point. In all three biographies of GNR members outside of changing names of people for obvious reason and some vague recollections of events which aren't vague(slash and the St Louis riot etc) they were enjoyable books.

As lithium said about Slash and his struggles. You have to remember slash became famous on a huge scale at 22. I mean he's not the first to fall to the things that fame and fortune bring but thankfully he's come out the far side as have all of the GNR lads.

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Thanks very much. Hold tight I suppose. I know that the fanclub are notorious for posting things late so we'll see.

I got my redemption code and have ordered everything - hope you got sorted!

badabing106 wrote: »

Slash must be completely fed up with axls inability to release music. They should call the next tour "welcome to the cash grab tour"

It's a complete joke but at least slash has got a sense of humour and can see the funny side of it

you do know that video is fake right?

No nobody with the band has died(it's the one thing I fear when I see this thread updated) but just wondering about gnr here on my break as to how they are all still alive.

Are they a cartoon band at this stage?

Bonzo Delaney wrote: »

God knows a few of them gave it their best shot not to be this side of 30 let alone mid 50s
I suppose Steven is the only one that carries the visible scars of their misadventures.
Both Duff and Slash must be of the same DNA of a certain Mr Richards.
If I remember correctly Duff only had one as good as dead episode
While Slash had two .
Any way Duff was 56 and Axl 58 during the week.
Happy birthday ****kers .

They did give it the old college try alright. Yeah Steven is lucky to be alive being honest. Slash had two ? I remember he "dying" on the UYI tour somewhere in the hotel(outside the lift) but what was the second one ?

Izzy leaving when he did probably saved him from ending up either dead or in jail(he had an incident on a plane from memory in 1989) and duff had one bang and that was that.

Axl never seemed to get too far off the reservation. He obviously drank and did stuff but he never got lost. Even after AFD came out in TV and magazine interview he's always the one who seems on guard. It's mentioned in one interview done in a hotel room of sunset boulevard by the guy doing the interview that axl is the only one fully lucid and stears the others away from saying something stupid.

Lithium93_ wrote: »

As far as I can recall, Slash's second one would've been 2001 when his heart gave out after all the years of drugs and booze. Originally given between 6 days to 6 months. He got a 2nd opinion, and thankfully he's still kicking about.

Axl, overdosed in '86, said overdose went on to eventually inspire Coma.

Oh yeah the pacemaker. I’d forgotten about that.
I know the song coma was written after an overdose but I don’t think it was 1986. My recollection was it when he marriage to Erin was breaking down so it was late 80s.

The GNR concert in Costa Rica which was scheduled for March 18th has been cancelled by the Costa Rican government.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well given the government here won't allow gatherings of 5,000 or more until September 1st it would seem the gig in Marley park is postponed until at least then(if GNR dont just cancel it).

Really hope it’s rescheduled instead of cancelled.

fin12 wrote: »

Really hope it’s rescheduled instead of cancelled.

MCD said thy wanted to have the full schedule done by yesterday - hopefully they are still working on a date as opposed to a cancellation

PTH2009 wrote: »

wasant see the first person to announce the return of Duff/Slash ??

going through a few old bootlegs of shows i was at and found one from GNR here in 2012 (not the axl walk off that was 2010 as we knw). It was a decent show and the hired guns were ok but my christ those extended guitar solos/jams. Its actually a pretty similar setlist to the shows on the NITL tour

Disapointed we never got a doc on the reunion but ya never knw it might come out someday

i was at the 2012 gig and it was a ZZZZzzzzzzzzz snoozefest, even ronan keatings exwife and the kid were gone before the encore, incidently Joe elliot was nearby too and he had the same hair as mrs keating, that' s how boring it was!

Slane 2017 on the other hand!

PTH2009 wrote: »

wasant see the first person to announce the return of Duff/Slash ??

going through a few old bootlegs of shows i was at and found one from GNR here in 2012 (not the axl walk off that was 2010 as we knw). It was a decent show and the hired guns were ok but my christ those extended guitar solos/jams. Its actually a pretty similar setlist to the shows on the NITL tour

Disapointed we never got a doc on the reunion but ya never knw it might come out someday

I think it was on an instagram live she did one of her friend said it.

There has always been guitar/drum solos in the previous eras of GNR. I’ve never understood why people complain about them during the last era. Matt sorum had very long drum solos. Axl left the stage between songs in the past, he also used oxygen during the UYI tour.

A documentary of this reunion ? We still haven’t seen the one that was recorded from 1991-1993 and Chinese Democracy took years to come out. Speedy releases of stuff isn’t this bands MO.

So Matt sorum's autobiography was delayed but it was available for a day in digital form and some fans have posted detailed recaps of it. Dear good little to nothing is positive about any of his former band mates. He barely says anything positive about duff and nothing good about slash. He said he he got shafted on royalties for the live era album because of the additional musician tag.

He says little positive about his time in the cult.

Basically it comes across as a giant moan.

Edit: also slash had something to do with him losing money on UYI.

Didnt they do a soundcheck in the 02 (3Arenas name at the time) in 2012 to make sure Axl was in the arena ??? Almost sure they had a later stage time down for GNR and they still came on late :D

Thin Lizzy were a great support band but they had someother band supporting which were a disaster. Cant think of there name

PTH2009 wrote: »

Didnt they do a soundcheck in the 02 (3Arenas name at the time) in 2012 to make sure Axl was in the arena ??? Almost sure they had a later stage time down for GNR and they still came on late :D

Thin Lizzy were a great support band but they had someother band supporting which were a disaster. Cant think of there name

I was at the 2010 and 2012 gigs. They were actually a little later on stage in 2012 iirc. I think the big difference was that Lizzy were a great support act, so people were in a much better mood. 2010 was one interesting night. 2006 was a great gig, but the sound could have been a bit better. Best lineup of the three from that era and definitely the best Axl performance.