
checkmate
danmen wrote:I sat in that Sea of Drunks four, count 'em, four different times....beatenbynonfiction wrote:Guns & Roses - post Appetite for Destruction (that album will hold strong for eternity). Specifically thinking of Use Your Illusion. Recall it was hailed as a heavy metal masterpiece for the ages. Sounds overproduced, forced, & sad today. Memories of jack ass Axl delaying concerts by 2, 3, 4 hours while trapped in a sea of 10's of thousands of drunks doesn't help
Time 1: Summer 1991 prior to Use Your Illusions 1 and 2 being released.
Outdoors at a horse track, Axl was in rare form, got mad at the band many times, at one time, stormed off telling the band to learn the f*ing songs. Slash played the Godfather theme for a while... Terrible show.
Show 2: Houston, TX - The Summit - Soundgarden opened
No one had even heard of Soundgarden (inc me) -
Floor seats - still ranks as one of the all time great shows I've ever seen.
Band clicked - awesome renditions of Estranged, Paradise City, Patience, Double Talkin Jive, Don't Cry, November Rain, etc.
Show 3 (may be getting these our of order) - Houston, TX - Astrodome - this was the infamous Metallica/GNR tour. Not half bad really, spectacular people watching. Metallica was solid, this was pretty shortly after the show where James Hetfield was torched by his own fireworks, lots of swearing. When they were done, hours of waiting for GNR. Time was passed by the road crew shining spotlights on women in the crowed. Once the spotlight hit, shirts came off. I was young and thought this was kind of neat. GNR came on eventually.
Show 4: Austin, TX - memorable in the fact that one of said drunks got into a scuffle with my cousin. Police swarmed, we missed a few songs getting this sorted out.
I sat in that Sea of Drunks four, count 'em, four different times....beatenbynonfiction wrote:Guns & Roses - post Appetite for Destruction (that album will hold strong for eternity). Specifically thinking of Use Your Illusion. Recall it was hailed as a heavy metal masterpiece for the ages. Sounds overproduced, forced, & sad today. Memories of jack ass Axl delaying concerts by 2, 3, 4 hours while trapped in a sea of 10's of thousands of drunks doesn't help
Chinese Democracybeatenbynonfiction wrote:Guns & Roses - post Appetite for Destruction (that album will hold strong for eternity). Specifically thinking of Use Your Illusion. Recall it was hailed as a heavy metal masterpiece for the ages. Sounds overproduced, forced, & sad today. Memories of jack ass Axl delaying concerts by 2, 3, 4 hours while trapped in a sea of 10's of thousands of drunks doesn't help
My thoughts exactly. It's about respect for the music. You have to take care of records. You have to get up off the couch and turn the record over after 5 or 6 songs. It's work, but well worth the effort.Highwater61 wrote:I listen to it and remember how it was to listen to real records on a turntable, stare at the album cover, look at the rock stars on the back, and get lost in it. Can't get that via iTunes.