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.“Paradise City” is probably the musical high point; it has GNR’s signature soft-heavy-soft vocal sequence and the best chorus in metal history.“Paradise City” still seems like a disco classic waiting to happen.The flip side is a little dirtier, starting with the unsettling “My Michele” and the semisweet “Think About You.” The material is dark and purposefully hidden (kind of like Slash’s eyes, I suppose), and the drums are ferocious; it sounds like Steven Adler is setting off cherry bombs in his drum kit.And through it all, the guitar playing is stellar.On Appetite for Destruction, Slash invented a new style of playing that’s best described as “blues punk.” He simultaneously sounds raw and polished—the master craftsman who came to work loaded.It was a style that sold 15 million records, but almost nobody managed to copy it (including Slash, who never really got it right again—even when he consciously tried on 1993’s The Spaghetti Incident?).There are those who will argue that the best thing that could have happened to Guns N’ Roses would have been death, probably in about 1991.They were certainly on the right path (in fact, the rumor persists that David Geffen wanted Use Your Illusion to be a double album because he suspected someone in the band would be dead before they could cut anything else).From a romantic (read: selfish) perspective, there’s some truth to this argument; it would be nice if Appetite for Destruction was all we really knew about this band of gypsies; Axl would have never lost his hair and the Gunners would have never become such bloated disasters.Since Rose legally obtained the rights to the name Guns N’ Roses in 1991, GNR is Axl Rose for all practical (and impractical) purposes.Put Axl onstage with the starting five of the Quad City Thunder, and that qualifies as “the new Guns N’ Roses.” The group still exists, but it’s almost like comparing Jefferson Airplane to Starship: As I write this, the ever-evolving lineup consists of Axl, Dizzy Reed, former Replacements’ bassist Tommy Stinson, Buckethead (a robot-obsessed guitar freak who wears a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his dome), Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails, Brian “Brain” Mantia (the drummer from Primus who replaced Josh Freese, the guy from the Vandals who played on the new Guns record but has also quit the band since the album’s completion), and what amounts to Axl’s buddies from high school.The next album’s working title is Chinese Democracy and it’s rumored to be aggressive industrial metal in the spirit of Led Zeppelin, filtered through the sensibilities of Stevie Wonder; I can only imagine what this will be like, although it’s safe to assume it will be twice as good as Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds, three times as good Slash’s Snakepit, and five hundred times better than anything Duff McKagan ever released.But it will never be as good as this, and I suspect Axl* knows it.(Jack Factor: $5,001)*Driving around aimlessly and going nowhere is an aspect of small-town culture few people from urban communities truly understand, but it’s pretty much the backbone of teen life in places like Wyndmere.We drove our parents’ cars around the same path endlessly for several hours every weekend evening: The route ran from the Cenex station, north to Main Street (where you made a U-turn in front of the bankrupt lumberyard), down the residential stretch of Highway 18 for about a mile, east past the Tastee Freez (and through the town’s only stop light), and then back to Cenex.The total distance of one rotation is 2.8 miles.Whenever you wanted to talk to someone in another car, you hit your brake lights twice when they passed you, which indicated that they were supposed to meet you in the parking lot of the high school bus barn.The fundamental goal was to make the local police officer follow your particular vehicle, which is why I’ll always begrudgingly adore that Gin Blossoms song where the dude sings, “We can drive around this town / And let the cops chase us around.”*This analysis was somewhat complicated by the May 11, 2000, issue of Rolling Stone magazine, which essentially described Rose as a nocturnal New Age freak who spends much of his time in Sedona, a pseudo-spiritual Narnia in the Arizona desert.The article implied Chinese Democracy will probably never be released, but Tm confident it will eventually come out—however, I have no clue when that will be.When I started writing this manuscript in 1998, I jokingly said I wanted to have it published before the next GNR record, and (at this point) I think I still have a legitimate shot.Meanwhile, my aforementioned buddy Mr.Pancake now lives near Sedona and told me he’d keep an eye out for Axl’s aura.Appetite for ReplicationShe is not a beautiful woman.She is not necessarily repulsive, I suppose, but no one is going to suspect this woman is an upstart actress or an aspiring model [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.“Paradise City” is probably the musical high point; it has GNR’s signature soft-heavy-soft vocal sequence and the best chorus in metal history.“Paradise City” still seems like a disco classic waiting to happen.The flip side is a little dirtier, starting with the unsettling “My Michele” and the semisweet “Think About You.” The material is dark and purposefully hidden (kind of like Slash’s eyes, I suppose), and the drums are ferocious; it sounds like Steven Adler is setting off cherry bombs in his drum kit.And through it all, the guitar playing is stellar.On Appetite for Destruction, Slash invented a new style of playing that’s best described as “blues punk.” He simultaneously sounds raw and polished—the master craftsman who came to work loaded.It was a style that sold 15 million records, but almost nobody managed to copy it (including Slash, who never really got it right again—even when he consciously tried on 1993’s The Spaghetti Incident?).There are those who will argue that the best thing that could have happened to Guns N’ Roses would have been death, probably in about 1991.They were certainly on the right path (in fact, the rumor persists that David Geffen wanted Use Your Illusion to be a double album because he suspected someone in the band would be dead before they could cut anything else).From a romantic (read: selfish) perspective, there’s some truth to this argument; it would be nice if Appetite for Destruction was all we really knew about this band of gypsies; Axl would have never lost his hair and the Gunners would have never become such bloated disasters.Since Rose legally obtained the rights to the name Guns N’ Roses in 1991, GNR is Axl Rose for all practical (and impractical) purposes.Put Axl onstage with the starting five of the Quad City Thunder, and that qualifies as “the new Guns N’ Roses.” The group still exists, but it’s almost like comparing Jefferson Airplane to Starship: As I write this, the ever-evolving lineup consists of Axl, Dizzy Reed, former Replacements’ bassist Tommy Stinson, Buckethead (a robot-obsessed guitar freak who wears a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his dome), Robin Finck of Nine Inch Nails, Brian “Brain” Mantia (the drummer from Primus who replaced Josh Freese, the guy from the Vandals who played on the new Guns record but has also quit the band since the album’s completion), and what amounts to Axl’s buddies from high school.The next album’s working title is Chinese Democracy and it’s rumored to be aggressive industrial metal in the spirit of Led Zeppelin, filtered through the sensibilities of Stevie Wonder; I can only imagine what this will be like, although it’s safe to assume it will be twice as good as Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds, three times as good Slash’s Snakepit, and five hundred times better than anything Duff McKagan ever released.But it will never be as good as this, and I suspect Axl* knows it.(Jack Factor: $5,001)*Driving around aimlessly and going nowhere is an aspect of small-town culture few people from urban communities truly understand, but it’s pretty much the backbone of teen life in places like Wyndmere.We drove our parents’ cars around the same path endlessly for several hours every weekend evening: The route ran from the Cenex station, north to Main Street (where you made a U-turn in front of the bankrupt lumberyard), down the residential stretch of Highway 18 for about a mile, east past the Tastee Freez (and through the town’s only stop light), and then back to Cenex.The total distance of one rotation is 2.8 miles.Whenever you wanted to talk to someone in another car, you hit your brake lights twice when they passed you, which indicated that they were supposed to meet you in the parking lot of the high school bus barn.The fundamental goal was to make the local police officer follow your particular vehicle, which is why I’ll always begrudgingly adore that Gin Blossoms song where the dude sings, “We can drive around this town / And let the cops chase us around.”*This analysis was somewhat complicated by the May 11, 2000, issue of Rolling Stone magazine, which essentially described Rose as a nocturnal New Age freak who spends much of his time in Sedona, a pseudo-spiritual Narnia in the Arizona desert.The article implied Chinese Democracy will probably never be released, but Tm confident it will eventually come out—however, I have no clue when that will be.When I started writing this manuscript in 1998, I jokingly said I wanted to have it published before the next GNR record, and (at this point) I think I still have a legitimate shot.Meanwhile, my aforementioned buddy Mr.Pancake now lives near Sedona and told me he’d keep an eye out for Axl’s aura.Appetite for ReplicationShe is not a beautiful woman.She is not necessarily repulsive, I suppose, but no one is going to suspect this woman is an upstart actress or an aspiring model [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]