referring not to Axl but a former Autralian leader of the Labour Party was asked of the current Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during the recent election campaign.
Amusingly, I note that if you look at the setlist 5 tracks consist of instrumental jams and extended solos from each band member including a piano solo from Axl....groooo!
How is this whining, irrelevant and tedious bunch of hasbeens anywhere near a headline spot at a major festival anyway?
fecking idiot. He has always treated his audience with disdain and this proves he hasn't changed. Good luck to those who have shelled out to see them later this year.
...that a band capable of such monstrously good hard rock as "Appetite For Destruction" should a) piss every drop of their talent up a large wall (presumably built out of heroin-flavoured bricks) and b) squander all the goodwill still afforded them by people who remember what they used to be capable of.
I can live with them making exclusively shit records since their debut: nobody stays good for very long. I can't live with how dreadfully that little arsehole treats absolutely everybody else who has a stake in his career: band members, security guards, managers, even record companies - and most of all, fans.
how Guns 'n' Roses seem to have had such a critical rehabilitation, as theirs was the sort of rock that was surely best left in the 80s: huge hair, needless guitar solos and crap posturing.
Their big hair period was over by the time Appetite came out, and I'm with Idiotbear on this - one of the best in it's genre. It all got a bit overblown live, but Appetite on cd is the mutts nuts.
The tribute band that Waxl is toting around now is but a pale shadow and a vanity project.
Guns n' Roses in their artistic pomp were definitely not part of the Poison/Bon Jovi hair-rock scene at all. There were some daft haircuts there, to be sure, but just *listen* to Appetite for Destruction with an open mind. It's lean, perfectly produced, and has a rough edge to it which sets it apart by miles from the groups with whom they get routinely lumped together.
Lyrically, too, they were brutal: that first album is essentially the diary of an urban, disenfranchised, drunk, stoned, forgotten bunch of white-trash kids with absolutely no prospects. In the context of the album, songs like "Sweet Child O' Mine" become rather touching - that whole "roses growing in concrete" school of love song.
The one thing they weren't was lazy, in any sense. Lyrically, musically and in terms of just plain old touring work ethic, they were the real thing.
And Slash was actually a rather concise soloist at this point in their career.
Then they got massive and produced a load of old shit. But in 1987, they were coruscatingly exciting, and a real blast of fresh air.
without
even watching it, I can tell you it will be: heinous, bogus and extremely non-non-non awesome
Dude!
a similar question
referring not to Axl but a former Autralian leader of the Labour Party was asked of the current Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during the recent election campaign.
Her response was "some things are immeasurable"
okay
now I've watched it and read the article, what the fu... was all that about?
This much
back in 1991
which led to this
Full story in the NME:
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/52736
Amusingly, I note that if you look at the setlist 5 tracks consist of instrumental jams and extended solos from each band member including a piano solo from Axl....groooo!
How is this whining, irrelevant and tedious bunch of hasbeens anywhere near a headline spot at a major festival anyway?
It's a well-known fact
That Axl Rose is actually an anagram. Of useless tosser.
He is a pure
fecking idiot. He has always treated his audience with disdain and this proves he hasn't changed. Good luck to those who have shelled out to see them later this year.
How many times can an "artist"
commit career suicide before they actually die?
Oh dear...
Ooh...
That's horrific. He can still do a good screech, mind.
That poor announcer.
It is genuinely such a shame...
...that a band capable of such monstrously good hard rock as "Appetite For Destruction" should a) piss every drop of their talent up a large wall (presumably built out of heroin-flavoured bricks) and b) squander all the goodwill still afforded them by people who remember what they used to be capable of.
I can live with them making exclusively shit records since their debut: nobody stays good for very long. I can't live with how dreadfully that little arsehole treats absolutely everybody else who has a stake in his career: band members, security guards, managers, even record companies - and most of all, fans.
What a prick.
not sure...
how Guns 'n' Roses seem to have had such a critical rehabilitation, as theirs was the sort of rock that was surely best left in the 80s: huge hair, needless guitar solos and crap posturing.
Nah
Their big hair period was over by the time Appetite came out, and I'm with Idiotbear on this - one of the best in it's genre. It all got a bit overblown live, but Appetite on cd is the mutts nuts.
The tribute band that Waxl is toting around now is but a pale shadow and a vanity project.
Misconceptions.
Guns n' Roses in their artistic pomp were definitely not part of the Poison/Bon Jovi hair-rock scene at all. There were some daft haircuts there, to be sure, but just *listen* to Appetite for Destruction with an open mind. It's lean, perfectly produced, and has a rough edge to it which sets it apart by miles from the groups with whom they get routinely lumped together.
Lyrically, too, they were brutal: that first album is essentially the diary of an urban, disenfranchised, drunk, stoned, forgotten bunch of white-trash kids with absolutely no prospects. In the context of the album, songs like "Sweet Child O' Mine" become rather touching - that whole "roses growing in concrete" school of love song.
The one thing they weren't was lazy, in any sense. Lyrically, musically and in terms of just plain old touring work ethic, they were the real thing.
And Slash was actually a rather concise soloist at this point in their career.
Then they got massive and produced a load of old shit. But in 1987, they were coruscatingly exciting, and a real blast of fresh air.
Nah! its just
scruffier huge hair, grungier needless guitar solos and grittier crap posturing!