Guns N' Roses Discussion Thread

Mental Mickey

LandonRicketts wrote: »

15 more minutes left MCD are saying on their facebook page. A slight delay

EDIT: Its robbie williams. 98FM are covering the press conference

Boooo

PTH2009

Has been twit

Hopefully a gnr announcement soon ideally before Xmas

Mental Mickey

Anything?

PTH2009

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Anything?

Robbie Williams in the Aviva

Looking good for GNR fans (obv will be announced at a later date)

Itssoeasy

PTH2009 wrote: »

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Anything?

Robbie Williams in the Aviva

Looking good for GNR fans (obv will be announced at a later date)

Oh the Aviva ? Ok well then GNR are still in play then. So the fat take that lad had a press conference to tell us he's playing the aviva ? Jaysus Robbies being getting away with it for years.

Itssoeasy

PTH2009 wrote: »

Mental Mickey wrote: »

Anything?

Robbie Williams in the Aviva

Looking good for GNR fans (obv will be announced at a later date)

Oh the Aviva ? Ok well then GNR are still in play then. So the fat take that lad had a press conference to tell us he's playing the aviva ? Jaysus Robbies being getting away with it for years.

fin12

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Oh the Aviva ? Ok well then GNR are still in play then. So the fat take that lad had a press conference to tell us he's playing the aviva ? Jaysus Robbies being getting away with it for years.

Robbie actually us a great live performer. He puts on a good show.

Mental Mickey

Why the **** is Robbie Williams STILL being discussed in the GnR thread??

Move on lads n lassies!!

Itssoeasy

Just reading Duffs book again and it's such a good read. There was one think I noticed in the chapter about duff meeting axl again in London.it's as he approached axls room and one of axls "people" tell duff "you can't go in there,man." Whoever that was should have got on his knees and bowed when duff mckagan passed him. It was probably a young pup who thought axl invented all the gnr music by himself.

Edit: something like this.

Itssoeasy

Itssoeasy

I love these two gifs or pics or whatever they are called. It shows a comfort level between axl and slash that is nice to see.

Itssoeasy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMWCMFSV6xw

Old popcorn showing frank how it's done. 'Hon popcorn.

Lithium93_

lord lucan

Itssoeasy wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMWCMFSV6xw

Old popcorn showing frank how it's done. 'Hon popcorn.

Was only just watching this,can't wipe the smile off my face. That groove he has,and still has after all his troubles,is amazing to watch.

EoghanIRL

Big gnr fan but I dislike the increased tempo they are using.. the songs don't sound right to me.
Why not just play them at normal speed?

Itssoeasy

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Big gnr fan but I dislike the increased tempo they are using.. the songs don't sound right to me.
Why not just play them at normal speed?

It's the drummer who was playing too fast but it seems he has slowed down a bit.

Bonzo Delaney

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It's the drummer who was playing too fast but it seems he has slowed down a bit.

I remember this been discussed here and other forms before and I too wouldn't be a fan of the faster tempo in songs especially Scom
but I'm nearly sure Slash was quoted somewhere saying that on the illusions tour they speeded the songs up because they were so wound up on stage that the faster tempo reflected the energy on stage and also they might squeeze in an extra song or two in the set
I'm sure regardless of Frank been there 15 years if Axl Slash or Duff thought the songs were been played to fast for their liking they'd pull rank like lively enough and tell him to slow the fuk down

PTH2009

rumours now is that the euro tour wont happen til Summer 2018 and the band will tour the US next summer

Bonzo Delaney

PTH2009 wrote: »

rumours now is that the euro tour wont happen til Summer 2018 and the band will tour the US next summer

hope your wrong
can't imagine theyd skip Europe in the summer since
there's a good chance it'd be a near sell out and going back to the US to tour less than a year after the last tour
wouldn't generate the same numbers again even if it was a tour with Izzy and Steven on board

Itssoeasy

It's a shame that one in a million is the chris Benoit of the GNR back catalogue. Musically it's a great song but lyrically it's obviously a no go.

Lithium93_

Just when I thought I saw everything, One In A Million being the Guns equivalent of Chris Benoit, well that takes the biscuit...

Itssoeasy

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Just when I thought I saw everything, One In A Million being the Guns equivalent of Chris Benoit, well that takes the biscuit...

Well am I incorrect lithium ?

Lithium93_

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well am I incorrect lithium ?

Your not, I'm just saying I never thought I'd see One In A Million compared to a murderous scumbag. Even though both are completely unrelated..

Itssoeasy

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well am I incorrect lithium ?

Your not, I'm just saying I never thought I'd see One In A Million compared to a murderous scumbag. Even though both are completely unrelated..

Okay maybe Benoit wasn't the best comparison. I was trying to say that both won't ever be mentioned again and the positives of both will never be mentioned.

Lithium93_

Seeing as Monday would've marked 20 years since Slash left Guns, still weird thinking come December 29th that he'll be a year back in the band, an insider view courtesy of Alan Niven.

My first impression of Slash was “Yeaarrrggggh ****ers!” A well-Jacked howl into a microphone teetering on the edge of the Troubadour stage as he lurched into Nightrain. Jack Daniel’s and Slash used to be very close friends. At the video shoot for Welcome To The Jungle in 1987, a frazzled grip came running up to me: “Ah, Mr Niven, you’ve got a bit of a problem.” There, outside the empty store we were shooting in, where Axl was strapped into a chair with a metal restraint around his head, was Slash stumbling around in the middle of the traffic on La Cienega Boulevard, brandishing a gallon of JD at the terrified rush hour motorists.

I grabbed him and took him around the back of the Winnebago we were using as a dressing room. I explained, in short syllable Anglo Saxon, and with a certain degree of firmness, that this was behaviour that was not suited to the circumstances. Slash looked me silently in the eye, then turned and walked home – some six or seven miles away.

Another night, in New York, Jack and Slash decided to wrestle the manager. Slash awoke the next afternoon, his face covered in rug burns, and Daniel’s was nowhere to be seen. When you went out with Slash and JD to, say, the Palace in Hollywood, they would disappear. I knew where to find them though. They would be sat on the floor of the Ladies’ toilets, slumped against the wall, just below the hemline, grinning with inebriated lechery at the girls coming and going.

Daniel’s and Slash threw a hammer through a window of Geffen Records, just for the hell of it. JD and Slash smashed a Gibson SG through the window of the band van. Jack Daniel’s and Slash trashed the apartment we stayed in on the band’s first trip to London, where Guns played the Marquee on Wardour Street. All the fragments of furniture were piled in a heap in the middle of his room.

Jack and Slash pitched a television down the stairwell of a hotel in Nottingham. “That television cost over £300,” wailed the hotel manager. The manager was informed otherwise. The television, as far as the band management was concerned, did not cost £300 – it cost £1,000! When Slash was informed as to the personal cost to him of the escapade, he was not very pleased with Jackie D. He never, to my knowledge, threw another one.

All things considered, I am really glad he chose to reconsider his relationship with Jack Daniel’s, and with other artificial euphoriants. ‘Euphoriants’? Yes, that is a euphemism for drugs. I will never forget Slash going through the pain and misery of ‘cold turkey’ in my spare bedroom; never forget having to clean up his vomit and count out the Valiums for him.

I will also never forget that on the day he finally surfaced, he left, early in the morning, calling for a Towncar to take him back to Hollywood. I called the limo company after he had left, to find out where he was going so early in the day – it was straight back to his dealer.

To get him away from such people I would have him kidnapped. “Hey, Slash, be at the office at noon tomorrow, you’ve got an interview with Guitar Player magazine.” Slash would arrive and be swept by [tour manager] Doug Goldstein into a limo and taken to LAX airport, where they would board a flight for Hawaii. There, surrounded by nothing but golf courses, Slash would have to get clean. All things considered, I am also very glad he survived to kick that habit.

We all, in some way, live with a huge monkey on our back. Guns n’ Roses was a magnificent and meteoric moment, one that millions wish to have reborn, revisited, and resurrected. That moment, however, has long since passed. To go back, to reform, without great new composing, would be a disservice to the legacy of the real Guns n’ Roses. They, the original band, should all be free to do whatever it is they wish to do today and tomorrow. Besides, the music lives, and so they all, Slash included, should be allowed to move on. All things considered, stellar playing comes from stellar writing, and I look forward to the day slash aligns himself once more with great writers, like Izzy and Axl. I’d love to see that.

A few years ago Slash and I sat in a Mexican restaurant in The Valley. “it’s good to see you and talk with you,” he said. “There aren’t that many people who understand what we experienced together.”

Absolutely, but first and foremost, I consider Slash a good friend, irrespective of Guns n’ Roses. He is someone I would have enjoyed the company of even if he were not a musician. Had he been, say, a graphic designer, he would still have been great company. He’s smart and he’s funny. He has a cool creative energy about him.

All things considered, Slash is a very cool guy. I never thought, when we first met, that he would morph into a global icon. Hell, I wasn’t even sure we’d get a record out of the band – they were so disorganized and dissolute when we first met.

The intention of Guns n’ Roses was to be a great rock’n’roll band, not to be infamous as the last great self-destructive rock’n’roll band, weighed down and ultimately destroyed by insurmountable expectation and over-pressured super-egos. Imagine too, having to live your life as an icon. All things considered, Slash does it all with grace and style, and all things considered, if he were ever to lose the top hat, I would still be pleased to know him as a friend.

ShooterSF

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Well am I incorrect lithium ?

Well technically Our Lady Peace's "Whatever" fits more perfectly considering they won't play it anymore because of Benoit...

WAY O.T

On topic I do like One in a million.

fin12

I love one in a million and your crazy, those songs are hilarious.

Lithium93_

Used To Love Her, people think it's about one of the guys girlfriends, when it fact it's actually about Axl's dog.

Itssoeasy

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Used To Love Her, people think it's about one of the guys girlfriends, when it fact it's actually about Axl's dog.

Yeah the late show performance of used to love her is brilliant as is your crazy the lies version.

Itssoeasy

fin12 wrote: »

I love one in a million and your crazy, those songs are hilarious.

Your crazy isn't a hilarious song but used to love her is a funny song when you know the actual backstory.

The whole lies album is actually a good album or ep or whatever you call it.

One in a million is a good song musically but in today's pc culture it's a non starter.