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The whole transcript from pictures posted on "gnrtruth":
After I agreed to play the shows, I quickly realized that I hadn’t played many of these songs in a long, long time. Axl and I started to communicate, and our initial discourse – via text, naturally – reminded me of the levity that made up about 75 percent of our old relation: knock-knock jokes. They’re my specialty, really. But I was impressed to discover that Axl had amassed quite a catalogue of his own during our time apart. I had to reach deep into my knock-knock chest to keep up. But then our conversation turned to the songs, the real shit that mattered. It was a bit strange at first, the two of us texting about which GN’R songs we were gonna do. He and I hadn’t had a conversation about a set list in like twenty years. Twenty years ago, there wasn’t even texting!
"Estranged"? Oh, yeah... I love that song. "My Michelle"? Right. In F#, I think. Killer! Just killer. "Think About You"? Shit! Old school! Yes! "November Rain"? Epic. The song list went on, through "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Sweet Child" and, yeah, just about everything. These were the songs that we sweated and bled for back in that magical time, when everything happened so quickly.
I realized there in my basement room, going through these songs again, just how fucking good we were. I’m not trying to blow smoke or be cute here, I just simply forgot how heavy that music is. It was a bit emotional. With those songs cranking through my ghetto blaster and my bass in my lap, I was transported back to a time when the fellowship and songwriting of that band was in its prime.
My bass-playing chops are, in most ways, much better and more refined than they were in 1987. I've played a lot over the past two decades, so how could it not be a little better, right? but I had to regress a bit and get back into the animalistic musical headspace that GN'R requires. I'm not saying a bass player doesn't need good chops to play these songs, but it's more of a full frontal attack, not necessarily a musical style that can be learned. I've seen bands cover our songs from time to time, but they always seem to be missing that guttural attack that the five of us original guys had in spades. I dropped my guitar strap a notch and started to let it fly.
"Rocket Queen"? Okay, I'm in!
This wasn't the absolute first time that Axl and I had communicated in all of that time. I had seen and even played with his band back in 2010, and I really listened to the live versions of their new songs from Chinese Democracy when I saw them play those shows with Loaded. It was totally weird to see "your" singer do his thing with a whole new set of musicians, but my gut reaction then was to pull for him. I realized then that all of my work on past resentments had actually paid off when it came to Axl. It was a great personal moment.
The word "resentment" itself is just a general term. If something happens in your life that you weren't onboard with or had no control over, have you ever asked yourself what part in it might have been? Especially once that past event builds up in your head and becomes black and shitty?
I found some things in my past that I was blaming others for that I could have handled better. I think we have all looked at the bad things that have happened and, through the rear-view mirror of life, decided that it was all someone else's fault. Of course, when you look back with a bit more thoroughness, you realize that you, too, are in that rear-view mirror and maybe, just maybe, you had something to do with the things you were pissed off or uneasy about. Resentments start to dwindle and fade, and oftentimes you can see the humor in your folly that is life.
I learned to deal with the me in my life through my Sensei Benny Urquidez and the brutal self-honesty that is Ukidokan martial arts. Without all of that, I'm not sure just where the hell I'd be now. But that is another story.
Over the last bunch of years, I've become pretty friendly with the guys in Axl's band. Guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and I jammed together a few times, and he and drummer Frank Ferrer had come to my house in LA for dinner party a few years earlier. Ron's wife, Jen, hit it off with Suasan pretty well. It would be great to see Dizzy Reed again, and I had just spent the previous summer touring along with Richard Fortus and Dizzy's other band, the Dead Daisies. Richard Fortus is the father of two girls, like me, and we've spent hours discussing the ups and downs of raising young daugthers. Guitarist DJ Ashba and I had hung out a couple times, and he plays in a band with one of my best buddies, Nikki Sixx. In short: if you're played music for long as I have, the world gets pretty small and you get to know your contemporaries.
Even saying all of that, I still felt a bit weird about playing these old songs with a whole new set of people. The intentions were all good, and bassist Tommy Stinson (who I'd be, uh, replacing) was super thankful that I was able to do it. But still, there is so much history there. How was this going to go down?
Simply put: it went just fine. All the guys in the band, Axl, and the crew bent over backward to make this thing go as smoothly as possible for me. We had band-only rehearsals eight hours a day for five days and got things cruising without any hiccups.
But I hadn't yet played a whole real show with Axl, and now in South America, where we had set attendance records (cut off here).. -
Arnhem, Netherlands
01 - Rock or Bust
02 - Shoot to Thrill
03 - Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
04 - Back in Black
05 - Play Ball
06 - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
07 - Thunderstruck
08 - High Voltage
09 - Rock 'n' Roll Train
10 - Hells Bells
11 - Baptism by Fire
12 - You Shook Me All Night Long
13 - Sin City
14 - Shot Down in Flames
15 - Have a Drink on Me
16 - T.N.T.
17 - Whole Lotta Rosie
18 - Let There Be Rock
Encore:
19 - Highway to Hell
20 - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) -
AC/DC's Phil Rudd Breaks Silence on Criminal Charges: 'We All Make Mistakes'
Drummer says he tried to make contact with Angus Young, but band hasn't been in touch
As Phil Rudd awaits sentencing for pleading guilty drugs and threatening to kill charges, the former AC/DC drummer is breaking his public silence. "I've seen the error of my ways," he recently told Australia's A Current Affair. "Onward and upward from here."
Regarding the charges to which he pleaded guilty, he said, "You make your own mistakes and it was a mistake of the charges. We all make mistakes." Currently, he's hoping for a "discharge without conviction."
The 12-minute segment finds the drummer hanging out around his oil-stained "luxury cruiser," in one of his eight cars, outside his "palatial" New Zealand home, at his airport hangar where he keeps a helicopter adjacent to his own restaurant, Phil's Place. But throughout the clip, Rudd says he'd rather be on the band's current world tour, in support of their recent Rock or Bust LP. Currently, drummer Chris Slade – who played on AC/DC's The Razors Edge, single "Big Gun" and early Nineties live albums – is on tour with the group.
"I'm fit and ready to go," he said of touring at one point. And when the reporter asked whether he wishes he was on tour, he said, "Oh, yeah. I'm not the only one either," referring to other, unnamed members of the group. But repeatedly he said it was up to guitarist Angus Young whether or not he would return to the group. "We all know [the other members who want me back] don't make a difference," he said. "That's how it is."
Rudd said he'd tried to get in contact with his bandmates, to no avail. "They haven't called me," he said. "I wrote 'em a letter and I tried to get in touch with Angus and no contact." When the reporter brought up the long history he had with the group, the drummer said, "I'm very disappointed, yeah. But that's life." And at another point, he said, "You know who your friends are, really."
But even if he's not getting in touch with Rudd directly, Young sent A Current Affair the same statement he sent USA Today last November. "Phil created his own situation," the guitarist wrote. "It's a hard thing to say about the guy. He's a great drummer, and he's done a lot of stuff for us. But he seems to have let himself go. He's not the Phil we've known in the past."
Rudd is due back in court on June 26th for sentencing.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ac-dcs-phil-rudd-breaks-silence-on-criminal-charges-we-all-make-mistakes-20150505 -
Top Gear: Jodie Kidd, Philip Glenister and Guy Martin 'in advanced talks' to join show
BBC bosses are reportedly in advanced talks to sign Jodie Kidd, Philip Glenister and Guy Martin as the new Top Gear presenters.
The three names have been among the frontrunners tipped to present the show for some time.
Kidd currently presents Channel 5's The Classic Car Show, while motorcycle racer Guy Martin has previously presented documentaries and Life on Mars actor Philip Glenister is thought to add an off-beat element to the line-up.
The show’s co-creator Andy Wilman, who has quit the series, was allegedly overheard describing the new-line up while having lunch with Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay, the Sunday Express reported.
The BBC has declined to comment on the speculation.
The alleged “dream team” line-up follows the departure of Jeremy Clarkson from the flagship BBC2 show after he was suspended by the BBC for punching a producer on set.
His co-stars Richard Hammond and James May also confirmed they would not be returning to the show without Clarkson.
Last week, Clarkson, Hammond and May were seen filming at Goodwood Motor Circuit, prompting rumours of a possible Top Gear comeback.
It later emerged the trio were filming for their forthcoming UK tour, formerly known as Top Gear Live, which has now been renamed Clarkson, Hammond and May Live following Clarkson’s dismissal from the BBC.
Top Gear will return in a new form next year, with BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw refusing to rule out the possibility of a female presenter.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/top-gear-jodie-kidd-philip-glenister-and-guy-martin-in-advanced-talks-to-join-show-10223806.html -
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After 4 weeks... finally episode 5 promo video is out.
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Seeing them this Tuesday!
Seeing them next Thursday!
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Hugh Laurie - You Don't Know My Mind
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Great show!
James Spader is really outstanding. One of my favorite actors.
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Les Paul & Friends - Vocalise (2008)
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How is it? I'm at work
Hopefully better than Jimmy Page's "alternate" selections on some of the LZ reissues
It's very raw. A lot of improvisation - at least from Jagger. It's more just a demo than an alternate take.
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Top Gear Three reunited: Clarkson, May and Hammond hold talks with producer Andy Wilman as HE quits BBC too - and James rules out return saying working with 'surrogate Jeremy would be stupid'
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond today held talks with Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman - just hours before it was sensationally announced he had quit the BBC.
The resignation marks another blow for the hugely-popular show, which has been marred by uncertainty since Clarkson was axed last month following a 'fracas' with a producer.
It means Mr Wilman, a childhood friend of Clarkson who helped revamp Top Gear into the Corporation's most successful programme, is now free to reunite with the team on a rival channel.
There is widespread speculation that the men are working on a new motoring series to be aired by Netflix, Amazon or another British broadcaster - in what would be a nightmare scenario for the BBC.
The 52-year-old said the BBC would be ‘stupid’ to try a version of the programme with 'a surrogate Jeremy', Hammond and himself - adding that the idea was a ‘non-starter’.
His comments mean that if the show does return next year, it will likely be with an entirely new presenting team. Both May and Hammond saw their contracts finish last month.
May told The Guardian: ‘Me and Hammond with a surrogate Jeremy is a non-starter, it just wouldn’t work. That would be lame, or “awks” as young people say.
‘It has to be the three of us. You can’t just put a surrogate Jeremy in and expect it to carry on. It would be forced. I don’t believe they would be stupid enough to try that.
‘It doesn’t mean I won’t go back - we may all go back in the future. It might just be we have a break from it. I don’t know. It would be a bloody tough call to do Top Gear without Jeremy.’
Former X Factor host Dermot O'Leary, model Jodie Kidd and Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins have all been named as possible replacements for Clarkson.
Speaking after the meeting today, May said he had just been 'having a pint' with his co-stars and Mr Wilman, adding that he still didn't know what he would do in the future.
This evening, a BBC spokeswoman confirmed that Mr Wilman, Top Gear's longstanding executive producer and Clarkson's right-hand man, had handed bosses his resignation.
She would not say whether or not the decision was related to the outspoken presenter.
It comes just weeks after an email from Mr Wilman to colleagues titled 'au revoir' was leaked.
In the email, the 52-year-old, who has made millions from the show, congratulated staff on making 'one of the most iconic programmes in TV history'.
'At least we left 'em wanting more. And that alone, when you think about it, is quite an achievement for a show that started 13 years ago,' he wrote.
After the email was leaked, Mr Wilman announced publicly that it had not been a resignation.
The revelations today come after BBC2 boss Kim Shillinglaw, who has been tasked with finding a replacement for Clarkson on Top Gear, said the presenter ‘will be back on the BBC’ at some point.
Miss Shillinglaw also confirmed Clarkson's final Top Gear scenes will be screened later this year and she was not thinking of his replacement ‘in terms of gender’.
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BBC to air unseen Top Gear material featuring Jeremy Clarkson
Footage from Top Gear episodes shot before Clarkson was axed as presenter will be broadcast, as BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw says he will return to the BBC
The controller of BBC2 has said Jeremy Clarkson will return to the BBC in unseen material including footage of three Top Gear episodes shot before he was axed from the show.
Kim Shillinglaw confirmed that material from the final three episodes of the last series of the motoring show, shelved after he was suspended following a “fracas” with a producer, would be broadcast, including appearances by Clarkson.
She confirmed the show would return in a new form next year and said she would look at women presenters to front the new-look show.
But she declined to speculate on whether Clarkson’s former co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, or the show’s long-running executive producer Andy Wilman, would return.
Clarkson’s contract was not renewed after it emerged in March that he had launched an unprovoked physical and verbal attack on Oisin Tymon, which left the producer in need of hospital treatment.
Tony Hall, the BBC director general, said that a line had been crossed and that Clarkson had failed to maintain standards of decency and respect at work.
Clarkson has since said in his column in the Sunday Times that he had suffered a cancer scare two days before the incident. He has confirmed that he has since been given the all-clear.
Tymon decided not to press charges, saying in a statement in March that he hoped “all parties should now be allowed to move on, so far as possible”. North Yorkshire police announced in early April that it would be taking no further action in relation to the incident.
“Jeremy will be back on the BBC,” said Shillinglaw at a BBC2 programme launch on Tuesday.
“It is serious and unfortunate what happened but there is no ban on Jeremy being on the BBC. It’s a big deal what happened and Jeremy, as any human being would, needs some time out.”
Shillinglaw, the BBC’s former science and natural history chief, said the re-edited editions of Top Gear could be on BBC2 as early as the summer and definitely before the end of the year.
Of the unseen Top Gear footage, Shillinglaw said it would definitely make it on to BBC2 – although not enough had been shot for three full one-hour episodes.
“There is no way I would not want the available material not to be seen by viewers,” she said.
“Top Gear is a show that I love, I genuinely watch it and I always have done.”
Shillinglaw said the task of reinventing the show, which is watched by 6 million viewers on BBC2 and is a global hit generating £50m a year for the BBC, was “a challenge but it’s genuinely creatively exciting”.
“We have got a great in house team that has always made it and will continue to make it,” she said.
On the possibility of a female presenter – Sue Perkins quit Twitter after receiving death threats when she was installed as favourite to host the show – Shillinglaw said: “I am not really thinking about it in terms of gender.
“I have done a lot with female presenters when I used to work in science. That was something that across the piece that I really wanted to tackle. It’s a really open book on that. We will definitely look at women but it is not the driving priority. I have never approached an individual show thinking that is the way you cast it.
“It’s not been an easy year but it’s kind of creatively exciting what we are going to do, what we have to do. We have got to move the show on. That’s what we are going to do.” -
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Just read that Phil Rudd has plead guilty to the charges of death threats and possession of drugs, risking a jail sentence of up to 7 years.
A subsequent search of Rudd’s apartment on Nov. 6 then reportedly turned up 0.478 grams of methamphetamine and 91 grams of cannabis, according to multiple published reports. “This matter is essentially revolved around an angry phone call,” Tuck told reporters today. “You know, that was it. … The apparatus of the police then turned up with a search warrant based on a cannabis for own use situation and a cellphone.”"
/.../ the troubled AC/DC drummer doesn’t intend to spend a day in jail. Instead, Rudd’s lawyer Craig Tuck told a judge at New Zealand’s Tauranga District Court that he will apply for a discharge without conviction.
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/acdc-phil-rudd-guilty-plea-plan/
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Oh, yea'!
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So that begs the question - what does the guy do all day???
The Rolling Stones best song debate.
in MY WORLD
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I was making my personal 'best of the best' Rolling Stones collection the other day... ended up with 192 songs in the final cut.