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#1841 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 958 weeks ago

madagas wrote:

They are not a stadium band in the US...don't know what country you live in ...they are a typical arena rock act.

I'm in the UK and the last shows they did here were sell out shows at the Milton Keynes bowl, the same venue GNR played at in 93. It holds approx. 70,000 people. I assumed the rest of their tour was on a similar scale (I know they finished the tour in Australia at a similar sort of venue). I must have mis judged their popularity in the U.S.

#1842 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 958 weeks ago

madagas wrote:

They could rival Green Day easy with a good album out...only a reunion could come close to matching U2 at this point.

It's possible, Green Day only cemented themselves as a stadium band with American Idiot, if CD's good enough they could rival Green Day in terms of tour scale but it's still far from a given.

#1843 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 958 weeks ago

If they tour without an album it'll have to be in South America, it's the only large market left to them that they haven't visited.

James, even with an album out it's unlikely GNR could tour the US on the same scale that most of those acts you listed will. In terms of tours they don't get bigger than U2, Stones, Greenday and potentially Led Zep, GNR have to set their sights lower than that. Whilst it'd be great if it happened, it's a big assumption to think CD could put GNR on a tour that would rival U2 or Greenday. Whenever CD gets released their aim should be filling those arenas that had thousands of spare seats in 06, if they can do that then maybe they should look at booking a stadium or two, but lets not run before we can walk 16

#1844 Re: The Garden » Black Knight » 958 weeks ago

Pretty interesting. I've never heard of this before although I have heard the theory that man was technologically very advanced thousands of years ago. People have pointed to things like the egyptian pyramids to support this theory. It leaves a very big question though if you accept that we could go to space thousands of years ago, what happened in the period in between? Civilizations thousands of years ago were sending satellites into space yet the technology to do so was only developed in the last 50 or so years. How did we forget to do that? What happened to humanity to put us back to the stone age in terms of knowledge when we could supposedly fly into space thousands of years ago?

What's more likely, the satellite was sent by man thousands of years ago or the satellite was from another planet entirely?

#1845 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Some more interesting points in Slash's book that I never knew about » 958 weeks ago

Deniz wrote:

Thanks for the info 22

A Private Eye wrote:

Slash wrote the music, probably with some influence from Axl.

If Axl was cursing to Slash for writing a tune so hard to come up with lyrics to go to, that info doesn't make much sense. Probably another attempt from guys at htgth to try to maximize Axl's contribution.

I'll stick up for HTGTH here. The thread was on HTGTH where I found all this info but the info had been taken from gnrinfo and then just pasted into the thread on HTGTH. So it's gnrinfo that put probably with some influence from Axl. It's not an unreasonable guess that Axl offered suggestions how to improve the song or tweaked it to fit his vocals and lyrics, but none of the articles I've ever read about the song give anymore credit to Axl than lyrics. So I think it's guesswork on gnrinfo's part.

#1846 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Some more interesting points in Slash's book that I never knew about » 958 weeks ago

Here's some info on Coma that I found in an old HTGTH thread. Most of the info was taken from gnrinfo.tk

Written by: "Coma" was written by Axl and Slash. Axl wrote the lyrics, while Slash wrote the music, probably with some influence from Axl.
Written in: "Coma" was written in or before 1990.

Performed live: "Coma" was played live at least 4 times between 1991 and 1993. It was performed live for the first time in Richfield, OH, June 4, 1991.

Addiional Information: "Coma" was originally called "Girth"

In Their Own Words:

Slash: I wrote some really cool shit when I was high. There's a song called "Coma", a long song, really heavy, and I wrote that loaded.

Duff: We have actually got this song calld "Girth"... Well, it's not going to be called "Girth" on the album, it'll get changed, but it's such a heavy song we call it "Girth" for now. It's named after this guy West [Arkeen], who writes with us sometimes. He's a real little fucker, right? but his dick, it's only about this long but it's like this wide, man! so he got the girth, right? so we call this song "girth"...'

Axl: It's like 11 minutes and 45 seconds long, with no chorus. And I think there was only like one verse that somewhat repeats itself. It's Slash's baby - it's his monster. The song used to be called Girth.

Izzy: It's fuckin' 15 minutes long. And I still don't know it, man. I have to take a special chord chart with me whenever we play it. There's like 50 chords at the end of it and I just can't follow them.

Axl: Writing "Coma" on "Use Your Illusion I" was so heavy I'd start to write and I'd just pass out. I tried to write that song for a year, and couldn't. I went to write it at the studio and passed out. I woke up two hours later and sat down and wrote the whole end of the song, like, just off the top of my head. It was like, don't even know what's coming out, man, but it's coming. I think one of the best things that I've ever written was maybe the end segment of the song "Coma". It just poured out. I thanked Slash for that, because I used to curse him, going, "Man, that son of a bitch has written this thing and I've got to write to it and don't know what to write." It was so hard; it made me feel like, "I don't know how to write, I should just quit." But I finally did write it, and I ended up feeling a lot better about a lot of situations that I expressed in that song.

Slash: I like "Coma" a lot. It's got a defibrillator in it - you know, the instrument that starts your heart when it's stopped. And there's some EKG beeps too. We were just fucking around, but the song is heavy, and Axl's vocals are gorgeous - I mean really amazing.

Axl: I started writing about when I OD'ed 4 years ago. And the reason I OD'ed was cos of stress - I couldn't take it. And
I just grabbed this bottle of pills, in an argument, and just gulped them down. And I ended up in the hospital. But I liked that I wasn't in the fight anymore. And I was fully concious that I was leaving. I liked that. But then I go - all of the sudden my first real thoughts were that 'ok, you havn't toured enough, the records not gonna last, it's gonna be forgotten, listen man, you have work to do. Get out of this!' And I went 'no', and I woke up, and pulled myself out of it.
But in the describing of that, some people could take it wrong, and think this means 'go put yourself into a coma'. And, so, it's really tricky, and I'm still playing with the words, to figure like, how to show some hope in there.

Duff: "Coma" is monstrous!

Slash: Mike put something on the little rhythm part between the chords. I don't know what he used. I was going for a certain kind of a sound. Since I don't use effects, I don't know anything about them, except for echoes. I told him what I wanted, and he managed to pull it out of his rack somehow.

Gilby: "Coma" [gave me most trouble] without doubt. I still don't know it. It's like this 15- or 20-minute song with no
repeats. Oddly enough, I really love playing "Coma" because it's different every time. I also like "Pretty Tied Up" and "Locomotive." I like playing the fast, hard ones.

#1847 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Some more interesting points in Slash's book that I never knew about » 958 weeks ago

Deniz wrote:

I thought Slash wrote most of the lyrics. I remember the story like this; Slash got real high, and the next morning he found a pizza box infront of him with some lyrics written on it. He then merely remembers writing it the night before.

I only read it once years ago in a forum so it could be biased.

I've heard that about other GNR songs, but not Coma. All the articles around the time of UYI all say that Slash wrote the music and Axl wrote the lyrics. I think in one interview Axl said it was a real bitch to write the lyrics for, and he passed out or something trying to write lyrics to the song and then came round and they all just poured out of him. That's from memory but I've read something like that before, I'll try find it.

#1848 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Voted Classic Rock Magazine Album Of The Year 2007! » 958 weeks ago

It's good GN'R are still being brought up in the media in a positive way, even if this does come across as slightly embarrassing considering the album isn't out. This was the same magazine that's heard Prostitute and Atals Shrugged so I guess they're in a better position to comment than most on the album.

Looks like Classic Rock are looking to keep favour with GNR for whenever the album comes out. Someone's going to get that big first Axl interview, it seems CR are throwing their hats in the ring to get it.

#1849 Re: The Garden » Former Italian President: "911 was an inside job" » 958 weeks ago

monkeychow wrote:

They would have picked the places with the absolute most oil weath and stretegic power and made it OBVIOUS that the people came from there..and then gone and taken them directly.

The place with most oil and strategic power in the middle east is Saudi Arabia, not even Bush is stupid enough to attack them.

#1850 Re: The Garden » Best of 2007 » 959 weeks ago

Well for movies I thought PotC and Die Hard 4 were pretty good, nothing extraordinary but enjoyable enough.

Music, erm, probably the GNR leaks, there's been some decent songs out this year but no band or artisit has really caught my attention greatly.

Sports, Leeds Rhinos won the Super League Grand Final in October despite being the underdogs for the game. We hammered St Helens when nobody gave us a chance, great feeling. Football has been pretty bad this year, Leeds got docked 15 points before the season even began although we are holding our own in the league now. England failing to qualify for Euro 2008 was also a big dissapointment.

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