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#1641 Re: The Sunset Strip » QUEEN Discussion » 765 weeks ago
Sonisphere's going to be an interesting gig. They'll be playing to a rock crowd - who'll have seen The Darkness doing their Queen + AC/DC schtick earlier in the day. And they'll be doing it with a singer who - rightly or wrongly - has a rep as a pop singer.
They'll have to come out of the gate swinging on this one. Maybe even open with the speeded-up version of We Will Rock You. I'd expect Hammer To Fall, I Want It All, Tie Your Mother Down etc to feature prominently in the setlist. Hell, they might even break out Stone Cold Crazy.
Which is a pity in a way. I'd like to see some of the quirkier numbers. Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy, Killer Queen, that sort of thing. Wonder if they'll have any new material?
#1642 Re: The Sunset Strip » QUEEN Discussion » 765 weeks ago
It's on:
http://sonisphere.co.uk/news/queen-adam-lambert/
Shit. I must have tickets for this. But how?
#1643 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R returns to the UK » 765 weeks ago
FUCK YES. Aaaand it's time to start camping out for London dates to go on sale.
#1644 Re: Guns N' Roses » Hall Of Fame Conspiracy Theory » 766 weeks ago
I agree. It'd rather have one awkward moment with hints of coolness or one night, than nothing at all.
Think if your single, and there's this ex-girlfriend you click with again catching up. Just because you end the night fucking, and it's okay, doesn't mean you regret it, and it also doesn't mean you have to marry her.
That's the 2012 GN'R reunion in a nutshell.
You… you want to fuck GN'R?
#1645 Re: Guns N' Roses » gunsnroses.com (Merch store now open, SALE!) » 766 weeks ago
If you go to the music section of the site and click on The Spaghetti Incident albumcover, you get this little funfact (which was new to me...):
The Spaghetti Incident
"Many of the tracks were recorded with original Guns N' Roses guitarist Izzy Stradlin during the Use Your Illusion I and II sessions and then were later re-recorded by Gilby Clarke. Those tracks were previously intended to be included in a combined Use Your Illusion album, consisting of three (or possibly even four) discs, instead of the two separate discs they ended up being."
Yeah, I'd love to get hold of Slash's "stripped-down" versions of the UYI tracks and the Izzy versions of TSI, and assemble them into one big Illusions boxset. 
#1646 Re: The Sunset Strip » QUEEN Discussion » 766 weeks ago
Quoth Lambert: "I'm talking to Queen about doing something."
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gen … thing.html
Could you talk to them about DOING A FUCKING TOUR AND AN ALBUM? Kthxbye.
#1647 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
it wouldn't be a reunion without Izzy...just another Gnr mutation....another mutt lineup of hired hands.
As I've said several times, though, in the eyes of the general public bands tend to have two key members - usually the singer and lead guitarist. If one of them leaves, It's Not The Band. Everyone else is interchangeable. When Noel left Oasis, Liam Gallagher had to rename the band - and yet every other member of Oasis had been swapped out by that point.
And in the eyes of the general public, GN'R is Axl and Slash. Axl could take exactly the same band he has now out on tour, subbing out DJ for Slash, and people would say, "Hey, you know Guns N' Roses has reunited?"
Yeah, from our point of view, you could only call it a reunion if the Appetite lineup was all present and correct - but we're not the ones who get to decide that.
And in my case - because I'm a realist and I don't for a second believe that Adler would be part of any "reunited" GN'R, and Izzy probably wouldn't want the hassle - I would accept Axl, Slash, Duff and two other guys as a "reunited" GN'R if it meant getting to see Slash and Axl on a stage together for the first time in my life.
Incidentally, in my fantasy land the other two would be Fortus and Frank, since 1) they have past history, 2) they're a killer rhythm section and 3) I'd cheerfully gnaw my own arm off to see Fortus and Slash interacting on a stage. Oh, and 4) Fortus would make up for the fact that Slash can't jump around any more.
#1648 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
It's bullshit....not one writing credit for Sorum....not one. Same goes for Dizzy. The Illusions would have been fine without both of them.
No writing credits, maybe, but they played on 90% of the album tracks. I dunno, I can't consider them to be hired hands in the same way as the UYI horn section, largely because I got on board the GN'R train quite late in the day – the Sorum/Gliby/Dizzy line-up was the first version of GN'R I saw.
I think there's also the nagging thought that in the unlikely event that GN'R were to reunite, it would probably be with Sorum (based on his ties to Slash and Duff, and Adler's flakiness) and without Izzy (based on his tendency to not give a shit). So Sorum ends up on a slightly different plane to the other session guys.
#1649 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
Plus I don't get the hating on Sorum. He was a key contributor on the Illusions records, I mean that drum intro to YCBM is iconic. And Dizzy, for that matter. Gilby I'm less sure of, but he was there for the tour and The Spaghetti Incident? so he has a studio credit with the classic line-up.
#1650 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
Don't Cry would be a good one, simply 'cause it's their first song. If they have time, I'd add it to the Jungle/SCOM/Paradise City setlist.
