Did you really feel "welcomed" to the jungle by axl rose, or do you think that was sort of just insincere, halfhearted graciousness?

Maybe I need more friends.

But, on the other hand, did any of you welcome HIM? It's not always black and white, you know?

i did feel welcomed to the jungle, but it was all about a particular place and time that has little meaning anymore

But maybe the jungle IS NOT A PLACE BUT IN FACT A METAPHOR!!

What a gyp.

http://www.secret-passage.com/secret/serpentine.html

BAHAHA

http://www.niggazwithhats.com/xtras/thebuttislikesociety.jpg"You see, the butt is like society! Which we wanna see as openness and expansion, y'unnerstand, but the White Man wants to CLOG it up til it's closed, and we tryin' to get a FOOT all up in that muh'fucka, youknow'uhmean?"

As per the Ax'N'Roses song, I certainly felt entertained by it;
as regards the "jungle", never really cared to think 'bout that.

-- Nate Patrin (natepatrin550...), July 27th, 2003.

Oh Jesus, that just blows my mind. I need to sit down.

yes, he probably would have.

Was it a rhetorical question? How does one feel an adjective?

I didn't think it was very Jon Williamsesque, but hey, never mind - he took the baby and ran with it.

Perhaps restructuring initiatives were already being envisioned by Axl, who also foresaw that workplace familiarisation procedures, not to mention a robust and transparent professional development structure, would be required for motherfuckers newly recruited to the ring. Details of the pros ("fun and games") are qualified by an honest assessment of the cons ("it gets worse here every day").

Presumably by now the induction programme has been expanded to include line management flowcharts (probably quite straightforward ones) and bullet-pointed aims and objectives designed to facilitate appraisal at the six-month and two-year marks, not to mention the criteria according to which one’s ass might become fired.

midichlorian necklace

boom

so to speak

look I was fine with the whole conversation until you brought in Alec Guinness

which says an awful lot about me, none of which I'm proud of

oh my distorted smile

it's a sociopsychotic state of bliss

what are you guys talking about

hahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHQwtiBbc0

guess what i'm doing now

http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/brain-mantia-talks-guns-n-roses-chicken-coops-helicopters-and-chinese-democracy-556166/6

"We set up all the drums and I said, ‘This is the Guns N Roses album, we need a vibe’ and there was a temple upstairs that people used to do their speeches in. We went up there and it was a mini auditorium. As soon as I put drums up there and hit them I said, ‘Oh s***, this is the vibe’. They ran cords up there and eventually (then Guns guitarist) Bucket(head) set his chicken coop up there and that’s where he recorded. Bucket and I would look at each other and he’d been in the chicken coop with the wire and he brought in hay. We were up there for three years recording."

holy shit @ that twirling drums thing

We did the first show at Rock in Rio. We rehearsed for probably two or three months without Axl. Our first show’s Rock in Rio and I thought, ‘Wait, what’s it going to sound like with Axl? Where is Axl? Oh here’s his helicopter coming in.’

Axl's whole 'play this note for note exactly how it sounds on the recording' is v weird - iirc in that ClassicRockMagazine piece there's like 3 or 4 times where he did that?

it's pretty telling that Axl was obsessed with replacing all the parts from past bandmembers except the Buckethead stuff which he couldn't bear to abandon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7Z20fJH6I

that is incredible, thank you for sharing that

beautifully looped.

GIMME SOME REGGAE!

Seen worse versions of "Pressure Drop."

haha you're aware of the "Pressure Drop" cover on Izzy's first solo album right?

Ha, I have that album and totally forgot!

Fascinatingly, this appears to be an adaptation of a real event, when Axl demanded reggae in the midst of "Knocking On Heaven's Door" at the Freddy Mercury Tribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2mzMlHmxYo

I like the looped, loopy version better.

oh yeah Axl said that regularly in "Knockin'" performances on the UYI tour, it's a well known thing. when the track was a radio hit MTV played the Freddie Mercury performance a lot as a standalone video.

So is that looped clip excerpted from a real show? No, right? It's a funny hybrid? Because that doesn't sound like any version of GNR doing the music. Sounds like Axl's demand, then synched to a goofy dance and different music. Though it would be hilarious if that was a straight-up legit clip.

yeah it's a straight loop of the actual audio from about 5 minutes into this performance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj0GGjlyHfg

that's really the brilliance of it, that they chopped up GNR's goofy cod reggae in a way that actually sounds dope. i listened to it several times last night and this morning.

Oh, we had it looping the kitchen. My five year old was walking around screeching "gimme some reggae!"

Except it sounded like "gimme Enrique!"

looooooooool awesome

Did you really feel axl rose wanted to be "given" some reggae, or do you think that was sort of just insincere, halfhearted request?

two minutes feels like a tease

yeah it'd be nice if it was 10 minutes or an hour or something but it's probably for the best that i have to actually think about how long i want to get stuck in a GNR reggae timewarp every couple minutes

My wife heard me playing this last night and called out from the other room, "Is he yelling "Give me some Ray J?""

I have to admit that ruined it a little for me.

otoh GIMME SOME REGGAE!

lol for the love of reggae

"Give Me Some Reggae (Dancehall Remix)" featuring Ray J and Enrique Iglesias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhYmdzGANo

roots n' culture imo ^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRfB6qTsWI8

Wow, this is like a Sid-era Sex Pistols trainwreck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BFEz-7jd1Y

Slash is operating at like 10% capacity less than everyone else.

And everyone else seems down by 30%.

I was at their first show after that riot. </coolstorybro>

"I was the one who started the riot" is like a small subset of this generation's "I was at Woodstock." I know no less than two people who profess to have been directly involved.

the St. Louis riot got us the sick proshot bootlegs of the Chicago and Indiana shows via an overturned TV truck

damn, I didn't even know that DJ Ashba and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal left. what is happening to this band?

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/08/axl-rose-and-slash-are-friends-again/

posting this for people who don't care to read the other article.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/08/axl-rose-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles/

Daren Ashba owns two corporations, Ashba Media, Inc. which handles the art side of things and Ashbaland, Inc. which handles the music side of things.

i'm kind of jealous of DJ Ashba, tbh

gimme some reggae