I know what you are saying Mr Tanx. Me and my friends got into GNR in primary six at school and similarly followed suit with Nirvana, etc. That's what happened to people our age at that time. I suppose most other people here were a bit older.

Rotten Tanx wrote: It's such a pity that you're....such a bitch!

It is these bits that I now enjoy the most about GNR. I piss myself laughing when I hear some of these lines. Pay attention to the way that Axl says "bitch". It's more like "beeyutch".

Some of my favourites:

"I don't like you, I just hate you, I'm gonna, kick your ass!"

"I've got a thought that would be nice, I'd like to crush your head tight in my vice!.... Pain! Eeuurrrgghhh!"

What's so civil about war anyway?

Rotten Tanx wrote:What's so civil about war anyway?

Hahah. That's one of them!

When I listen with my old school friends, we look at each other and recite these very lines along with the record. I find it very funny.

"With your verbal masturbation, Me? I just like to dance..."

Rotten Tanx wrote:Then, just a few months later, I was watching the music channels again. This song called Smells Like Teen Spirit came on.

Guns and who? Wear a kilt? Fuck off. Guitar solos? Pssh.

Still, 13 years later, put Mr Brownstone on and I'll get the same shivers I got when I was 13. But I guess from the nostalgia rather than the revelation.

Tanx, your comment supports my friend Mick's hypothesis that Kurt Cobain "killed off real rock & roll." Since the advent of Nirvana, so-called "hair metal" (old school rock & roll's standard bearers at the time)ceased to be a viable commercial entity, existing only in the guise of formerly successful acts playing cheesy clubs in which aging rockers can burn up and die.

For the record, I like and listen to Guns 'n' Roses way, way more than Nirvana. What I liked about GnR early on was that, in the face of increasingly heavy metal like Slayer and Metallica, they weren't really a metal band but were much more steeped in the 70's hard rock I grew up on: Skynyrd, Lizzy, Aerosmith, Queen. Unlike most metal, their music still had sex, and it still had soul, as evidenced by my friend Junior's devotion to "Mr. Brownstone"--a strange devotion coming from a man who has never done heroin and who happens to be black. There seemed to be a kind of renaissance of 70's-derived hard rock (as opposed to metal) in the late 80's with GnR, the Black Crowes, Tesla, and lesser-known acts like the London Quireboys, who had a pretty great Faces one-off called "It's 7 o'clock (Time for a Party)." And am I the only one who ever noticed how much, in their finest moments, Poison sounds like a much cleaner, dumber New York Dolls?

While I'm not so sorry to see bands like Poison go by the wayside, I am sorry to have seen the Chuck Berry tradition pretty much disappear in rock music in the wake of all the droning chords and droning vocals that characterize Nirvana and its ilk; Mick calls this "dark tones," which he thinks have sucked the spirit out of rock music. Strangely enough--and my friend Wink pointed this out to me--the Chuck Berry boogie woogie motif seems to exist solely in contemporary country music these days. A case can be made for it having more in common with rock & roll's originiating influences than "grunge" and what came after.

I see what you're saying but do you really think that the classic rock and roll boogie had more than 50 years worth of music in it?

They were playing rock and roll in the warehouse yesterday. I was working in the office attached and was humming along to the songs only to realise, when someone opened the door, that it was a different song entirely. This happened a few times.

For a good example of the limited shelf-life of rock and roll, check out a Status Quo album.

I like the old rock n roll music but I'm glad it's in the past now. Rock music had to get "darker" one way or another. Hip Hop did the same in a much shorter amount of time.

Chinese Democracy

"out next month"


wtf?

kerble wrote:Chinese Democracy

"out next month"


wtf?

slash wrote:I've always been supportive over that thing, even though it's been turned in to a big controversial blah blah blah thing.

When I left I was pretty pissed off for having to leave in the first place. After a while all the boo-haha that was stirred and all the negative press, sort of went in his direction, so I'm just waiting for the record to come out, so I'm glad where it's got to the point that that's happening.

Translation:

I'm really excited by the chance to see Axl completely fall on his face on the basis of his own artistic merits. Finally he's putting his money where his mouth is and i'm looking forward to see what kind of rich, gooey turd he vomits into the marketplace. Yes, i said 'vomits,' because tapeworms only have one orifice.

[quote="Brett Eugene Ralph"
There seemed to be a kind of renaissance of 70's-derived hard rock (as opposed to metal) in the late 80's with GnR, the Black Crowes, Tesla, and lesser-known acts like the London Quireboys, who had a pretty great Faces one-off called "It's 7 o'clock (Time for a Party)." And am I the only one who ever noticed how much, in their finest moments, Poison sounds like a much cleaner, dumber New York Dolls?
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wow.

"it's 7 o'clock! and its time for the partay!"

hahaha.

when i was a young lass, i didnt have cable, but my heavy metal sister had a videotape with some episodes of Headbangers Ball, which i would watch when i was bored as a substitute for mtv (and to get my metal fix)

one of the episodes was hosted by Anthrax and one of the first videos was for that "its 7 oclock..." song. it has never left my head. it comes to mind almost every day. what a horrible song.

andyk

Two leaked tracks to Chinese Democracy...it was probably Axl himself who did the leaking.

mattw wrote:Two leaked tracks to Chinese Democracy...it was probably Axl himself who did the leaking.

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