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#1491 Re: Guns N' Roses » Marc Canter Talks on MyGnR » 833 weeks ago
My opinion. I think Axl took a psychological beating when Slash left. His best friend leaving him in the Lurch. He couldnt make a GnR record without him. The pressure was on Axl to deliver and Slash bailed when it got through. At least I think thats how Axl would see it. Being hyper-seneitive this probably left him "emotionally scarred" he preobably decided to cut Slash out. ((Note my use of words probably and possibly). Possibly he may harbour resentment towards Slash for that , he could ,maybe, never forgive Slash. Slash left hjim in his hour of need and the Media blasted Axl for it. Now Slash comes to him during his own personal hour of need. Axls prob thinking revenge. Leaves Slash in the Lurch and informs the Media so that he can see the shit Axl had to go through when Slash left him.
Thats what I get from it all anyway
I disagree with some of this. At the time Slash left in 1996 their relationship had pretty much fallen apart. The Michael Jackson and Slash collaboration in Give it to Me clearly irked Axl. They weren't best friends in 1996 and hadn't been for a long time.
I do agree that Axl is still pissed at Slash for blaming the GNR demise upon Axl's shoulders. It takes two to tango here and Slash was just a big a factor as Axl in the band splitting up. Axl gets most of the shit for breaking up the band while Slash (in Axl's eyes) is seen as a cool guy and all that other stuff. The rants in the chats last year was Axl way of venting off steam that had been buiding up for a long time.
monkeychow--I think Slash was removed because he was drunk and Axl probably knows how unpredictable that Slash can get while he is drunk.
#1492 Re: GN'R Downloads » Guns n roses at Download Festival 2006 (Full) » 833 weeks ago
Why is Disc 1 and Disc 3 PAL and only disc 2 NTSC?
#1493 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Television Madness Nomination Thread » 833 weeks ago
When is this starting?
#1494 Re: The Garden » Steve McNair Found Dead » 833 weeks ago
Do you really think, that I think, that Michael Jackson did all his stuff out of the goodness of his heart? 50% of his motive, if not more, was to appease his own ego. Same with McNair.
I'm not on a soap box, i'm just calling it like it is. Any man that cheats on his wife, is a fucking scumbag that deserves everything he gets, including death. That's just the way the wind blows sometimes when you play with fire. Sometimes you get burned for good. Just the way life goes. I don't care if he pulled kittens out of a tree on a daily basis, he cancelled it all out when he laid down in a bed of a woman, other than his wife.
So Warrick Dunn who I believe helps single parent families with the financing of new houses every year does it out of ego gratification, not because he wants to actually help these people avoid the problems of poverty similiar to what he suffered growing up? Or Derrick Brooks who takes school children to Africa every year? McNair and Farve assisting in the recovery of Mississipi post-Katrina did all that for pub and not because they actually live there and have placed down roots there or that they saw it was being neglected. Mississippi is annually noted as being the poorest state in the nation.
Regarding your second point, what if a marriage can't be saved? Assume that a couple has gone through every concievable channel--counseling, therapy, etc and they still can't get along? They don't want to get divorced because it would cause problems for their children--then what? Would you be so harsh in your condemnation? So one--or both--of the spouses cheat, not because they want to but because they seek love that they can't have in their marriage? Would that person still be a fucking scumbag?
I am not defending McNair on his vices. I just don't think he deserves some of the stuff that is being thrown his way. He isn't Pacman Jones or any of that ilk.
#1495 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 833 weeks ago
He had a weird discoloration there because of a skin condition he had. So that was unusual and the kid was accurately able to describe it.
That piece of alleged evidence has always bothered me. If the kid was making it up how would he know such intimate details of his anatomy? I'm pretty sure that type of stuff would not have been released to the press.
#1496 Re: The Garden » Steve McNair Found Dead » 833 weeks ago
I
liked McNair as a football player but I lost a lot of respect for him with this ordeal. Cheating on his wife with not one but two girls.
Where does it say that? She only thought he was cheating on her. We also have no idea the state of the McNair's marriage either. By all accounts, he was extremely involved in his kids' lives unlike others--Travis Henry comes to mind.
Typical NFL, self-absored, "dumb fucking jock", as my main man Lucas said.
No, it makes him human like the rest of us. I guess I'll stand up for him because he was my favorite player for my favorite team. He has weakness like the rest of us--alcohol and women--ultimately led to his demise. Neither of us are perfect. This shouldn't diminsh some of his off field charitable works. Get off the soap box.
#1497 Re: The Garden » Steve McNair Found Dead » 833 weeks ago
Apparently, she bought the gun after she was arrested for DUI last Thursday, which is interesting since she is only 20yrs old. McNair was killed with four shots--two to the head and two to the chest.
I'll remember McNair for all the great things he did on the football field--the 69yd td run to beat TB on Sunday Night football in 1998, the mad scramble and throw in the play prior to the last one in SB34, going nuts during the 2003 season and leading the Titans to several blow outs during that season. In some ways he is a pioneer as he came from a small school--predominanetly black--to become an NFL star. He was also the first of the new wave of black scrambling qbs (ok Cunningham deserves a lot more credit here)--McNabb, Vick, Culpepper.
It's interesting that I can actually plot out his career in stages:
1995-1999 Primarily a scrambler, helped by Eddie George who was a pro bowl caliber RB at this point.
2000-2004 Developed as a passer. Deadly on third downs. Very accurate at throwing on the move/rolling pocket. Aside from 2000, Eddie George was useless as he posted awful numbers as a RB. From 2001-2003 McNair carried the Titan offense culminating with his 2003 NFL co MVP award.
2005-2007 His skills began to erode because of poor conditions and injuries finally taking a toll. He became a caretaker qb with occassional glimpses of the 2001-2003 McNair.
Unfortunately, I don't think he has enough numbers to get into HOF. McNabb will get there; I don't know about Cunningham. He was my favorite player on the Titans.
Oh yeah, James I don't think he did much in that 99 playoff game. The offense aside from George was awful. The Bills special teams--and coaching (Rob Johnson starting?)--screwed the pooch on that one.
Farewell Steve and may you rest in peace.
#1498 Re: Guns N' Roses » When All Is Said And Done... » 833 weeks ago
the guys who responded to my post (too lazy to quote). so you guys actually say axl thinks the way he is doing it now is better to the gnr legacy according to axl? this helps gnr according to axl?
lol.
he knows the way he does it now is not the best for the band. not promoting it through the media pimps, not going on ellen, not appearing on american idol or what the fuck like your idol slash :B
axls doing it this way because hes had enough of it. he only wants to do promo if it is not media whoring. and without media whoring, you wont get far, although being a media whore doesnt get you it all either...ask slash or bas (and yes, they are media whores, like to hear it or not) :3
if axl started media whoring, cd could have been huge....could have if he sucked enough dick in the biz. then it would have been all over the place, shoved down everyones throat until they bought it, come hell or high water. he chose not to, except some small promos and without sucking the balls of the media pimps, he was out.
take scom, that song isnt that good. seriously, corny poprock. but because it was shoved down your throat 24/7 you got brainwashed by it and liked it, its sounds familiar to you, makes you remember some things that happened to you etc. so you think its amazing.
you think the music industry is about art, creativity or music? you really are that clueless and naive?
the biz is under such massive control, way more than 17 years ago. it is more of a brainwashing institute now than anything else. we (lets say, studio folk who record stuff), got even taught about the relationship between hypnotism and sounds to manipulate the listener and those things are all over hits.
ive been working in it for 7 years, done some work for known bands, and the 'bosses' who decide everything are the fakest, most pathetic, vilest creatures you will meet...no-talent fucks who got there because of their connections. and without whoring yourself out to these lowlife, dont expect hits.
so its easy sitting behind your pc tapping away about how axl should suck their dick and deal with them on a daily basis, give them more power over your art etc but you wouldnt do it too if you had some decency left in you.
'i wont ask of you, what i would not do'.
What a strange, long rambling post. No one expected Axl to go on tv and do a massive media blitz. All the fans wanted were some interviews that went into detail about what the songs were about, his feelings while recording this stuff and his general impressions about the album or whatever. A music video where they could put up on youtube should have been released. Speaking about the album you have just released isn't media whoring, all bands do that to either--entice old fans or to make new ones. This stuff is standard operating procedure. I have no idea why Axl didn't bother speaking about Chinese Democracy in those two interviews he did. I'm not sure how not talking about your music makes you appreciate what Axl is doing. I'll give them credit for actually streaming the album on myspace though.
As James alluded in a previous response--GNR sold out a long time ago in the early 90s anyway. Regarding SCOM, the video for WTTJ was far more infleuntial in the rise of GNR than SCOM. I remember seeing that interesting video (WTTJ) at night in spring 1988 and being facinated by it. I still dig that part where Axl is being hooked up to those impulse electroudes and vibrating. SCOM just built on the sucess of WTTJ and added the casual less hardcore fans.
My modest expectations are simple: just update the fan base once every few months about what is going on and planned. That is it. I don't expect weekly or daily updates.
#1499 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson's This Is It Discussion » 834 weeks ago
The other two however, the childhood friend and the former publicist (?), I believed alot more. Their stories make more sense, and almost present a pretty realistic idea of Jackson. That originally Jackson's "Wacko Jacko" stuff was actually just a persona, P.T. Barnum-style, fed to the media, in order to create a mythic legend about Jackson. However it seems at some point Jackson bought in to his own legend, and got lost in his own illusion, for which he never returned. Jackson in his later years seemed to surround himself by a ton of "yes men", which led to the firing of the publicist after nearly 20 years. Jackson also tried to cut him out of his severance and vacation pay.
I also took the investigator's claims with a grain of salt. I think the painting of Jackson as Darth Vadar of little boys, was just too strong and too much, lessening it's possible validity imo.
Those two figures were the strong points of the documentary to me. The friend, J. Randy Taraborelli, wrote a 625 page book on Jackson in 1991 which I borrowed from the library. I think both Diamond and the investigation seemed sleazy, especially Diamond who used to host A Current Affair, a tabloid show in the 1990s.
The smoking gun/ shocking revelation for me was when they spoke to the ex-publicist Bob Jones about the World Music Awards in Monaco in 1993. The excerpt where they said only Michael and Chandler stayed in the room during the entire day due to flu like symptoms was somewhat damming. The publicist didn't have a good explanation of that day. I think that he suspected there was something going on between the two by the way of his skeptical answers to some of the questions. He also provided the detail of Chandler sitting on MJ's lap while Jackson was seated next to Prince Albert which bolsters his claim.
#1500 Re: GNRevolution Madness » GnREvolution Television Madness Nomination Thread » 834 weeks ago
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Cheers
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