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Velvet Revolver and Audioslave are obsolete dinosaurs.

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  • #32
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    There are plenty of good young-ish bands out there.

    On VR and Audioslave, I thought Scott Weiland's voice was a bit weak for the rock stuff, he was great for the ballads, The Last Fight and Can't Get It Out Of My Head are some of the few songs I like by them.

    Audioslave were hit and miss, I love the first album, Show Me How To Live, Like a Stone, Shadow on the Sun, I Am The Highway and Last Remaining Light are all great, listened to Revelations after Chris Cornell died and it was much better than I remembered, his presence is still badly missed.


  • #33
    cosatron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭cosatron


    Say Your Number wrote: »
    There are plenty of good young-ish bands out there.

    On VR and Audioslave, I thought Scott Weiland's voice was a bit weak for the rock stuff, he was great for the ballads, The Last Fight and Can't Get It Out Of My Head are some of the few songs I like by them.

    Audioslave were hit and miss, I love the first album, Show Me How To Live, Like a Stone, Shadow on the Sun, I Am The Highway and Last Remaining Light are all great, listened to Revelations after Chris Cornell died and it was much better than I remembered, his presence is still badly missed.

    who are the good young-ish band, im kinda out of the loop and would like some new music.


  • #34
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    cosatron wrote: »
    who are the good young-ish band, im kinda out of the loop and would like some new music.

    AC/DC, they're a young up and coming band out of Australia. Their frontman Bon Scott is definitely irreplacable.


  • #35
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    interesting that slash has no happy memories of VR at all


    generic


  • #36
    cosatron
    Registered Users Posts: 2,002 ✭✭✭cosatron


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    AC/DC, they're a young up and coming band out of Australia. Their frontman Bon Scott is definitely irreplacable.

    ha, did ye hear about this ginger lad out of hollywood, his got some wail


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  • #37
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: »
    AC/DC, they're a young up and coming band out of Australia. Their frontman Bon Scott is definitely irreplacable.

    All the young ones love bon scott!


  • #38
    Say Your Number
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 10,727 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    cosatron wrote: »
    who are the good young-ish band, im kinda out of the loop and would like some new music.

    Lari Basilio

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhO2v7NUgO4


    Joanne Shaw Taylor

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRiiL6Aqgag


    Beast in Black

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4waVZXKE0GU


    Cellar Darling

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHt3qR4gzM


    Unleash the Archers

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqUPGa15Oto


    Black Stone Cherry

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO4ib5xC7Fk


    Myrkur

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cNZQIzShc


    Most of these didn't exist when Velvet Revolver broke up in 2008.


  • #39
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,862 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    I'd also add Halestorm to that mix

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


  • #40
    Mecrab
    Registered Users Posts: 88 ✭✭Mecrab


    Furious-Red wrote: »
    I'd also add Halestorm to that mix

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

    That song is from 2012. Halestorm had promise pity they become pretty forgettable


  • #41
    D.Q
    Registered Users Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭D.Q


    This thread reminded me that 2006 was 15 years ago, please shut it down immediately.


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  • #42
    beauf
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    I've only recently discovered Audioslave. They have some epic tracks, but I couldn't get into any of their albums.

    I was a huge GnR fan and was around when they came on the scene, and was into a lot of the LA rock at the time.
    I've never liked Scott Weiland in VR. I just don't like his voice. Seems better on his own. VR I could never get into. Seems less than the sum of its parts.


  • #43
    berettaman
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭berettaman


    Saw this thread and I was wondering what had happened..:D


    Saw VR few years ago. Saw GNR live in 1992. Comparisons are unfair.


    You meet a nice girl when you are both 19, don't expect her to be the same when you are both 47!!;):D


  • #44
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Mecrab wrote: »
    Id say we'd all kill for a new rock band that's as good as Velvet Revolver or Audioslave in 2021..

    You will be waiting quite some time.

    Those two bands were the dying embers of the decadent rock 'n roll lifestyle that simply can't be replicated or indeed could continue for much longer.

    Rock and metal are at an all time low in terms of popularity right now. It tends to go in cycles; the 70s, 80s, 90s and early 00s (whatever you think of nu metal, it was certainly innovative with the groundwork laid by Korn back in 94) were seminal decades for the genres. There seemed to be a bit of a revival in the late 00s to very early 10s but that is long since gone. They could come back to massive popularity, but there needs to be an inspiration.

    Audioslave is a great album if slightly by the numbers and Out of Exile is great for how diverse it is. VR's Contraband is slightly by the numbers too but compared to redundant recent nonsense like Greta Van Fleet, it's basically a classic and Libertad worked in places.

    It's sad we lost two great voices of their generation. You won't see or hear the like of them ever again.


  • #45
    Granadino
    Registered Users Posts: 729 ✭✭✭Granadino


    On a side note, another Army of Anyone album could be a good thing. Richard Patrick's vocals really suited that project. While the current Korn drummer was on it, I think he went a bit OTT on some of the songs, but still a solid album.


  • #46
    bonzothedog
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭bonzothedog


    berettaman wrote: »
    Saw this thread and I was wondering what had happened..:D


    Saw VR few years ago. Saw GNR live in 1992. Comparisons are unfair.


    You meet a nice girl when you are both 19, don't expect her to be the same when you are both 47!!;):D

    I'd still do both of them


  • #47
    Ash.J.Williams
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    bonzothedog wrote: »
    I'd still do both of them

    me too


  • #48
    Davion Young Venom
    Posts: 0 ✭ Davion Young Venom


    Any good original hard rock/metal band knocking around small town Ireland the last few years? Stereo Nasty (Carlow/Kildare) really hit the spot when they were around. An 80s Ozzy buzz off them.



  • #49
    thebronze14
    Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭thebronze14


    Audioslave's first two albums were unreal. They went a bit stale by the third



  • #50
    CptMonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 468 ✭✭CptMonkey


    Loved the first audio slave album. Didn’t care much for the other ones.

    was the same for qotsa songs for the deaf. Loved that album, maybe even my favourite ever but never liked their other stuff.



  • #51
    Layne
    Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Layne


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117917586#Comment_117917586

    Couldn't agree more especially with QOTSA.

    Songs for the Deaf is one of my all time favourite albums. The rock radio interludes, the ferocious Nick Olivieri on bass and vocals (especially on Six Shooter!!) and the tone change on songs with Lanegan on vocals. A monster of an album. Almost everything from them since has been average by comparision imo.



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  • #52
    Joffrey
    Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭Joffrey


    With their own sound you say? well I dont think we can be accused of ripping of anyone in SWG

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




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