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Re: Guns N' Roses reunion??

#176 Post by Bandit72 » Thu Dec 08, 2016 6:37 am

Interesting post I saw on Facebook by Ian McNabb of 80's alternative band The Icicle Works.

Guns 'n' Roses tickets: £95 for the nosebleeds and £225 for halfway back. Add to this booking fees, overpriced food and drink, parking fees and travel. Most of us will be watching a screen. Now then. These bands DO NOT NEED to charge this amount of lucre for their shows. We're glad they're still rockin' and we're happy to go and see them, but money is scarce and they are selecting an audience that earns good to very good wages and fuck anyone else. Their songs speak of the streets but their ticket prices speak of luxury apartments. So, no thanks chaps. Enjoy your pension funds. I x
Some truth there. I was kind of excited when I saw GnR playing the UK next year, then this post put me straight a bit.

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#177 Post by Pandemonium » Fri May 04, 2018 12:53 am

Check out the insane prices and all the useless swag for the two biggest versions of the upcoming Appetite For Destruction box set.

https://gnrmerch.com/collections/appeti ... estruction

Nearly a grand for the big crate and no live shows included?!? Geddafuckouttahere.

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#178 Post by chaos » Fri May 04, 2018 6:01 pm

Pandemonium wrote:Check out the insane prices and all the useless swag for the two biggest versions of the upcoming Appetite For Destruction box set.

https://gnrmerch.com/collections/appeti ... estruction

Nearly a grand for the big crate and no live shows included?!? Geddafuckouttahere.
This reminds me of an interview where Gene Simmons talks about "the vault" (I think it was on Hardtalk on BBC). I think you get more for the money with Simmons though. :lol:

Here is a Blabbermouth article about it:
GENE SIMMONS Explains Decision To Hand-Deliver 'The Vault' To Fans' Homes
January 4, 2018

Gene Simmons spoke to the "Hair Jordan" show on the KSHE 95 radio station about "Gene Simmons - The Vault Experience: 1966-2016", the comprehensive box set of his solo material that comes packaged in a safe. The set includes 150 previously unreleased songs spread over 10 discs, a leather-bound photo book, a Gene Simmons action figure, an "In Gene We Trust" gold medallion and a "surprise item."

Describing "The Vault" as "literally and physically the largest box set of all time," Simmons said that it stands "three feet tall" and "weighs 38 pounds. You need two arms to wrap around it and two arms to pick it up, 'cause it's over 38 pounds," he explained (hear audio below). "It has metal hardware, metal wheels. I'm really proud of it."

Simmons added the price is only $2000, and "there are only gonna be a few thousand made on Earth. After that, they will be gone and they will never be done again. It's not available in stores — no nothing. And I'm gonna be going around the world and hand-delivering it to the fans who buy it. Starting January 6 in Los Angeles, I'm gonna be hand-delivering the very first Gene Simmons Vaults."

According to Gene, he will "take a year off and literally travel around the world and hand-deliver the box set to whoever gets it. And the reason for that is… I'm really doing this for myself. Imagine you dreamed as a young kid you'd be a broadcaster and you finally get there and the people that allowed you to get there are the fans, right? The people who listen to you every day. So, because you're so enormously rich and powerful, what you wanna do is you wanna put on the biggest party of all time, but if you're the only person there, it's not much of a party. So my experience is, I'm on stage, but there's a separation between the stage and the fans; there are security guards and I can't get close to them. And when you go through a hotel lobby or some place, there's always a security guard who's keeping the folks away. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna change all that and I'm gonna go myself, pay for my own flights, hotels, security, insurance — I'll do that — and I'm gonna be going around the world, yeah, even to New Zealand, and hand-delivering the box sets. This starts in Los Angeles January 6th from 11 a.m. till 7 p.m., I'll be at the legendary Capitol studios. And the fans are gonna gather there. We're gonna have some alone time for quite a few hours."

"Gene Simmons - The Vault Experience: 1966-2016" spans the rocker's entire musical career, from 1966 to 2016, and includes the first song he ever wrote at the tender age of 14. There are tracks co-written with Bob Dylan, songs with Eddie and Alex Van Halen from VAN HALEN (a band he says he "discovered"), Joe Perry, and a slew of other luminaries.

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#179 Post by Mescal » Sat May 05, 2018 7:14 am

How's he going to hand deliver a few thousand of these vaults in only one year?

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#180 Post by Pandemonium » Sat May 05, 2018 8:19 am

Mescal wrote:How's he going to hand deliver a few thousand of these vaults in only one year?
He's been doing intimate get-togethers with small groups of fans in big cities although he's also gone to some individual fans homes, sometimes with other current or former members of KISS.




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#181 Post by Mescal » Sun May 06, 2018 2:11 am

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Mescal wrote:How's he going to hand deliver a few thousand of these vaults in only one year?
He's been doing intimate get-togethers with small groups of fans in big cities although he's also gone to some individual fans homes, sometimes with other current or former members of KISS.



Well, that's cool.

Great way to thank the fans.

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#182 Post by Pandemonium » Fri Sep 20, 2019 2:55 pm

Guns n' Roses is doing a "warm up" show or whatever Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium leading into the 3,000th leg of their unending reunion/pension tour. Up until now, I haven't bothered to check out the tour, mostly because of over priced arena or stadium settings, plus, I've seen them numerous times through their glory years in '86-'93 and even one show in 2006 with Axl's band o' scabs that was actually pretty impressive (plus Izzy joined in for about 8 songs). So I kind of half-heartedly was checking out tickets this morning and shock of shocks, I managed to score one for the show so now I have something to do tomorrow night!

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#183 Post by Mescal » Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:04 pm

Great! Enjoy :rockon:

The band was great when I saw em last year. Axl was missing a few octaves though

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#184 Post by intertwoven » Fri Sep 20, 2019 11:58 pm

Honestly I'd probably consider them my favorite band these days. Appetite and UYI 1 & 2 get lots of play from me. Never saw 'em live, though.

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#185 Post by Mescal » Sat Sep 21, 2019 1:09 am

Yeah, might be nostalgia though... but I also think the albums have aged well.

Axl 's vocal delivery on afd is :yikes:

Locomotive is also a recent favourite

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#186 Post by Pandemonium » Sun Sep 22, 2019 10:30 am

So late this morning ....recovering from last night's show.

To give a bit of perspective, this was my 9th time seeing them, first being when they opened for The Lords Of The New Church back in early '86 at Fenders Ballroom, last being in 2006 during the Universal Amphitheater run when Izzy guested for a 3rd of the super long set. Since they reunited a few years ago, I've wanted to see them again but have been totally put off with the stadium/arena tour and the very Use Your Illusion era setlist.

Anyway, tonight's show was solid up through about 2/3rds of the 24 song set. The last 3rd dragged quite a bit mostly because of the pacing of the tunes included such as back to back covers of Wichita Lineman and an instrumental Wish You Were Here. I'm aware this was a mildly condensed version of the arena/stadium set but I have to say, if I paid good money to see this especially at a crappy stadium, I would have been bored much of the show and probably pissed afterwords. The set was mostly the usual AFD tunes, the key Illusion tunes, a few ChiDem songs, ("Better" kills live), a Velvet Revolver song (Slither), and the usual covers such as Duff doing "Attitude." Probably the deepest GnR cut they played was "Coma."

I got to the Palladium and parked just before 8pm when they were just about to start letting people in. The line which apparently started early in the morning wrapped almost completely around the block the Palladium and it's parking lot is on and it took almost exactly an hour to get in. I saw only one guy selling a few hard tickets for about $300+ each. I didn't hear anything about a ticket drop earlier in the afternoon.

Once inside, the place filled up really quick and by about 10pm, people were starting to get restless. There were a *lot* of trashed people stumbling around, puking in the restroom well before the show started. Lotta 2nd Gen not-so-good-looking millennials dressing like it's 1988. Close to 10:30, band came on and launched into It's So Easy and the crowd was into it and the band and Axl sounded pretty impressive. Slash especially sounded awesome. Fortus was often so low in the mix it sounded at times like a one guitarist band. I noticed the keyboard chick was really helping on backup vox when Axl was hitting higher notes.

What quickly became a weird distraction was *every* instrumental break, guitar solo, etc, Axl would duck off stage into this little black tent on the side of the stage. Often, he'd come out in a new shirt or a hat or whatever. I think he changed clothes more than Stevie Nicks w/Fleetwood Mac. I get sometimes a singer might feel awkward or want the band to have the spotlight but in this case it seemed like Axl wanted minimal involvement on stage if he wasn't needed to actually sing. I dunno, maybe he has a weak bladder or needs to hit the oxygen tank. Vocally, I thought he was pretty decent, certainly not the range of the good ol' days but I've heard worse. I have to say, I haven't been paying much attention to his health or appearance since the very beginning of the tour a few years back so I was a bit shocked that he's become such a chunky monkey. Anyway, at least he didn't utterly suck singing like a David Lee Roth or (cue douche chills) Vince Neil.

The major thing that made this a good show was the relatively intimate setting (the Palladium) and the band itself. I've never been disappointed musically by whatever lineup Axl has surrounded himself with, hell I thought the 12/19/06 show with Bumblefoot and Scabs was actually better performed than the bloated '92 UYI tour LA Coliseum show I saw. I think the late start, the instrumental breaks, the slow and unfamiliar tunes especially after Sweet Child Of Mine took a bit of wind out of the show. People were streaming out after SCOM and the back of the floor thinned out considerably for the last half hour of the show.

Still a good show but it certainly scratched the itch to see them one more time.


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#187 Post by Artemis » Mon Sep 23, 2019 2:59 pm

Awesome review as always, Panda! :cool:

The last time I saw GNR was in 2002( I think) when Buckethead was in the band.

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#188 Post by Bandit72 » Tue Sep 24, 2019 2:17 am

I saw them in london 2017. One of the best stadium gigs I've ever been too.

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#189 Post by creep » Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:34 pm

why do the vocals like this?

i don't get it


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#190 Post by Hokahey » Sat Aug 07, 2021 8:01 pm

creep wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:34 pm
why do the vocals like this?

i don't get it

I THINK it's supposed to be Sex Pistols-ish

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#191 Post by intertwoven » Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:49 pm

In time, Chinese Democracy will be regarded as an untouchable classic.

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#192 Post by Matz » Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:59 am

it's actually a bit better on second listen ...wtf :confused: :scared: :yikes:

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#193 Post by Hokahey » Sun Aug 08, 2021 7:53 am

intertwoven wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:49 pm
In time, Chinese Democracy will be regarded as an untouchable classic.
I promise that will never happen. And I like Chinese Democracy.

For one, it's nowhere near that good. It sounds like what it is. Axl sniffing a jar of his own farts, trying to sound contemporary, with no one to tell him no.

For two, no one will ever care enough to reconsider it.

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#194 Post by Mescal » Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:46 pm

Hokahey wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 8:01 pm
creep wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 5:34 pm
why do the vocals like this?

i don't get it

I THINK it's supposed to be Sex Pistols-ish
I've read that before in the comments. Just because he's singing in a queens English kinda way it doesn't make it Sex Pistols-ish.

Anyway, it doesn't sound like Axl. I like the melody but there's too much effects and autotune going on to be punkish.

It's like Prodigy meets GnR.

Apparently it is a rework of a Chinese democracy outtake. Made me think of what JA did with Suffer Some. Must be that they're not really overflowing with ideas or really working together.

So, don't really hate it but definitely don't love it. Doesn't give me the same feeling like when I heard you could be mine for the first time.

If they make a new album, I think it will be meh

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#195 Post by Mescal » Sun Aug 08, 2021 1:47 pm

intertwoven wrote:
Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:49 pm
In time, Chinese Democracy will be regarded as an untouchable classic.
No it won't

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#196 Post by Hokahey » Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:44 pm

Mescal wrote: I've read that before in the comments. Just because he's singing in a queens English kinda way it doesn't make it Sex Pistols-ish.
It actually really, really does. :lol: The vocals at least. That's clearly what he's going for.
I like the melody but there's too much effects and autotune going on to be punkish.
I don't think anyone is suggesting the music is punkish

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#197 Post by Mescal » Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:32 pm

Hokahey wrote:
Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:44 pm
Mescal wrote: I've read that before in the comments. Just because he's singing in a queens English kinda way it doesn't make it Sex Pistols-ish.
It actually really, really does. :lol: The vocals at least. That's clearly what he's going for.
I like the melody but there's too much effects and autotune going on to be punkish.
I don't think anyone is suggesting the music is punkish
Well aren't the Sex Pistols more or less credited for having started the punk movement? :noclue:

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#198 Post by Hokahey » Mon Aug 09, 2021 11:06 am

Mescal wrote:
Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:32 pm
Hokahey wrote:
Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:44 pm
Mescal wrote: I've read that before in the comments. Just because he's singing in a queens English kinda way it doesn't make it Sex Pistols-ish.
It actually really, really does. :lol: The vocals at least. That's clearly what he's going for.
I like the melody but there's too much effects and autotune going on to be punkish.
I don't think anyone is suggesting the music is punkish
Well aren't the Sex Pistols more or less credited for having started the punk movement? :noclue:
Vocals and music are two different things. I could sing like Johnny Rotten to a Whitney Houston song if I wanted to.

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#199 Post by kv » Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:59 pm

Mescal wrote:
Sun Aug 08, 2021 11:32 pm
Hokahey wrote:
Sun Aug 08, 2021 4:44 pm
Mescal wrote: I've read that before in the comments. Just because he's singing in a queens English kinda way it doesn't make it Sex Pistols-ish.
It actually really, really does. :lol: The vocals at least. That's clearly what he's going for.
I like the melody but there's too much effects and autotune going on to be punkish.
I don't think anyone is suggesting the music is punkish
Well aren't the Sex Pistols more or less credited for having started the punk movement? :noclue:
Ya by people who didn't know what was already happening in the USA

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#200 Post by Everybody's Friend » Tue Aug 31, 2021 12:26 pm

Put on a good show in Missoula.

Same exact setlist as 2016, but a smaller venue so that was worth the ticket price.

New song was lackluster, but allowed fans time to jump back into the beer line. ;)

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