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#41 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 144 weeks ago
Anyway, for all you negative cunts here, I pretty much listened to the live YCBM on repeat the whole drive to work, and it’s just awesome. The intro is a train wreck but they pull it together and it’s just killer!
Plus, I can hear Izzy! Even with him playing what seems like the wrong key at the start, his rhythms alongside Slash is great to hear in a proper live mix.
Slash fucks up the solo, it’s gloriously sloppy but great, in the way that UYI era Slash had just an amazing feel and choice of notes.
And then, on top of that, Axl messes up the bridge section lyrics. But he sings it with so much venom and passion, it doesn’t matter!
You guys can complain all you like.
UYI era is MY era, and I LOVE THIS SHIT.
GIVE ME MORE!!!
Hey, weren’t you an old timer back on MyGNR years and years (at least 10) ago? Your username seems really familiar. Anyway, your enthusiasm is really infectious dude. Hopefully it’ll not be better than it seems as such 
#42 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 144 weeks ago
So someone on the Discord pointed something interesting out.
Usually these digital releases follow the physical disc edition tracklistings. Well look at "Disc 3" on that Qobuz tracklisting page.
It's impossible to fit everything under Disc 3 on one disc. It would take about 4 CDs to fit both those shows.
It only makes sense for that to be listed as Disc 3 if Disc 3 is a Bluray. We maybe are getting some proshot.
Which disk? Link?
#43 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 144 weeks ago
Incredible.
That artwork sure is “incredible.”
#44 Re: Guns N' Roses » UYI Box tracklist unveiled? » 144 weeks ago
I bet they don't even have those early mixes of the records anymore...his snake probably slithered away with em 30 years ago.
I bet most or all video is gone too...or simply rotted in same spot it sat for decades.
It's just so underwhelming...and I'm getting tired of this approach any time they decide to do something.
They have the early mixes and the video, dude - Axl just doesn’t give a fuck cause he knows the rubes will buy it. He seriously does not give a single fuck anymore. That guy who had balls, ambition, a desire to prove himself and do cool shit - he’s long gone.
He’s either medicated into apathetic oblivion, or has become so rich and so jaded and burnt out by CD not going the way he wanted that he looks back on his younger more ambitious self as a sucker
Expect nothing but consistent, soul crushing disappointment from Axl and you’ll be a happy person.
#45 Management » How can I email James? » 144 weeks ago
- Wilco
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I want to ask him something I’d prefer not be asked on the forum
How can I otherwise reach him?
Thanks
#46 Guns N' Roses » If CD came out in 2000, 2001 or 2002? » 144 weeks ago
- Wilco
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I was between the ages of 10-12 in 2000/2002. To my perception, as I remember it, in 2000-2001, Blink 182, LB and Linkin Park were the only big things in rock, and in 2002, the entire year was centered around Eminem. I don’t recall any of my peers talking about rock bands.
At that time, I had the sense that stuff like the White Stripes and Strokes and such appealed to older people (meaning at that time, people in college and such).
Rock seemed a wasteland to me as a rock fan; the Strokes, White Stripes, Audioslave and Queens of the Stone Age were the only things that seemed out there - and none of my peers were into that. I felt like a very odd man out. If anyone liked rock adjacent stuff in 2002 it was Linkin Park, they were popular with my peers, but much less so overall than Eminem. It wouldn’t be until the next year (03) that Evanescence came along and was a huge hit with people my age.
Being 10-12, I don’t recall any band with a sound like GN’Rs being at all relevant, a lot of the kids my age at that time hadn’t even discovered grunge yet. I remember the day after the VMAs in 2002, no one talked about GNR. It was all 50 Cent and Eminem.
All of that being said, the membership of this forum is probably older than me and would have greater clarity than I would have:
If CD had come out between 2000 and 2002, with the mixes and arrangements of the Village versions of the tracks, perhaps with Atlas switched out in favor of one of the other songs, do you objectively feel it could’ve been a commercial success?
If so, why?
#47 Re: Guns N' Roses » How big of a deal was Steven being fired when it happened? » 144 weeks ago
I'm not the biggest fan of Sorum but at the time he was a godsend. Things moved very quickly once he was brought in. He also jumped into the hype and played a big role promotion wise. Majority of interviews at the time is Slash, Matt, and Duff.
Hindsight shows us that UYI probably comes out in 1990 if the Adler situation was dealt with immediately in 1989.
I sympathize with Adler...I really do...I know what it's like to be the out of control drug addict. Unfortunately for him, he was no longer a functioning drug addict. He had to be cut loose. The band's survival depended on it.
The real end of the band is the moment Izzy walks out the door. I'll never forget the MTV news segment announcing it. I knew it would never be the same....and it wasn't. Not a single original song by them after he's gone...the next three years running on fumes touring and releasing covers.
In hindsight Izzy said "nothing worked" after Adler was gone.
Bullshit
I remember his interview summer 91 where he said they were the best band in the world...and he was right. They briefly were...and it's a huge reason why the world needs The Perfect Crime. The world is forgetting how much that lineup was on fire.
What I tend to think too is that the way Izzy was sidelined even before he quit was just as bad. Outside of a very few shows, you really can’t hear Izzy live in 1991. On the UYIs he’s very much buried. They didn’t realize what a gift they had in Izzy. Or they did and thought they were better.
#48 Re: Guns N' Roses » How big of a deal was Steven being fired when it happened? » 144 weeks ago
They were never going to be the AFD band again after it blew up. I get people have nostalgia and have their favorite members, but some people get pretty ridiculous over Steven.
They might never have been the starving urchins after the blow up, but it didn’t also have to become the ego and Axl driven clown car “Gimme Some Reggae” thing it became by 1993 either. Steven being fired was just symbolic of the band not caring about where they came from and abandoning their roots
#49 Re: Guns N' Roses » How big of a deal was Steven being fired when it happened? » 144 weeks ago
I never understood the Steven love. End of the band? Really? All Steven really brought to the table was the groove to Rocket Queen, which was him playing along to Word Up! (it was a Cameo song, anyway). Izzy and Duff had to steal his symbols and shit recording AFD to keep his playing under control.
Don Henley took a piss and a line of coke and replaced Steven cold on a live TV show without missing a beat. Matt was the right guy for UYI.
Few reasons why:
It marks the period in which GNR went from a “band of brothers” to the Axl, Slash, Duff project
Steven was an original member, had a fun and enthusiastic personality and also brought a great groove and funk inspired element to their sound. He played ahead of the rhythm as opposed to behind it
The music was more lively with him, Matt is and was a great drummer, but his style is too perfect
Dizzy was hired by Axl without consulting anyone just before Steven was fired, a harbinger of things to come as Axl took more and more control
1990 also marked the beginning of Axl’s trip into egomania, and also, starting in 1990 at Farm Aid is when you have Izzy turned off in the mix and can’t hear him live
It’s not so much Steven’s firing was the end, as in Steven’s firing symbolizes or was the biggest sign of all the changes GNR had undergone, and would go through over the next 3 years.
With Steven gone, the AFD era was truly dead. GNR’s start toward becoming both a corporate band and the Axl circus had begun
GN’R came out the other side of 1990 a very different band in many ways than they were at the start of the year
#50 Re: Guns N' Roses » How big of a deal was Steven being fired when it happened? » 144 weeks ago
I don’t think Matt played on the Days Of Thunder KOHD….just saying
Matt confirmed he did in response to a fan a few years ago
