Classics Reborn

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It was one of those stories that couldn't ever be proven. The government were pretty strict with local businesses and entities dealing outside their borders and Kruiz did attract themselves some attention in the music world, but I don't know that anyone would ever admit to do forcing a band to change by order of a government body. Looking down the lead singers career his genre changes all coincide with member changes so it could just as easily be read that his bands fell apart around him. All I know for sure is that one album is killer 80's speed metal.

I don't know off the top of my head because I haven't updated the list for insurance in a while but there is something like 700 CD's 200 LP's and maybe 100 or so tapes (but they aren't insured and are stacked in boxes so I've never counted them). There is about 50 DVD's as well. I stopped buying DVD's because I don't get the time to listen to them where as CD's I can rip and put in the car, or on my phone.

 

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I'm gonna have to check it out

Damn! That's a nice collection!

 

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Yeah it's not bad but I do look at it quite often and wonder what I could have done with all the money if it hadn't gone on CD's Then I go and buy another one to stop myself thinking about it.

 

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That's exactly how you fix that!
I think Neptune has a good collection too.

 

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Unfortunately there is always those albums you look at and ask yourself why. There is only so many times you can blame peer pressure

 

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33 years since Ride the Lightning, seems like only yesterday

They were really only a rock band that got louder and more deafening but there is very few lead singers in the world like Bon Scott
38 years since Highway To Hell


There was no Randy on it but I remember buying Quiet Riot's Critical Condition not long after it came 33 years ago out purely because it had Were All Crazee Now on it.

Aussie Christian Death Metal, 18 years since Mortification released Hammer Of God. From memory this was also about the time Steve found out he had cancer.

 

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Unfortunately there is always those albums you look at and ask yourself why. There is only so many times you can blame peer pressure

I have four of those albums lo i was fortunate enough to find someone that wanted number 5

 

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Bon is my favorite. The only Johnston album i really like is the first one he did with them.

 

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I have four of those albums lo i was fortunate enough to find someone that wanted number 5

One day I'll find someone that wants a $2 Disturbed album and I'll get rid of one of mine too

Bon is my favorite. The only Johnston album i really like is the first one he did with them.

I like Brian and they've had some great songs and done some really good tours with him but for me I had to almost treat them as a new band. Bon couldn't be replaced (even with Axl Bloody Rose!!) so rather than consider Brian a replacement I considered them a new band.

 

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Yeah I can understand that. I did the same with Van Halen. By the way I thought Axl did a pretty good job

 

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I thought Axl's first few shows sucked badly, but he did get better. Same goes for his GNR performances, they are about 200% better now than when they reformation started. But I still don't think he's suited to that kind of band, he's more Brian than he is Bon. I don't think I'd pay to see Axl front AC/DC but I would probably watch it on video.

 

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Really? That's funny! I thought the first shows were the best. well not the first GnR show, but after that. he looked like he was really giving it his all and I hadn't heard some of those songs in a long ass time. Now he's kinda back and fourth with that ...Mickey Mouse? voice.

 

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When GNR got here they were about 2 months into the tour and Axl had changed a lot in that time but he was still missing the high notes. The band was also a bit lacklustre, they put on a reasonably good show given that it was about 24 years since they were last here and people had missed them but they still weren't working as a band. The footage I saw of them a week or two back had much more of a band feel to it.

In relation to him in AC/DC it was the same. His first few gigs were done in a chair because of his foot and that automatically made it feel like he wasn't ready (more of a subconscious thought) but AC/DC don't play as tight with him on stage. The one thing AC/DC have always been is tight and even through line up changes they all looked like they were playing together, with Axl there still seemed to be a bit of me and them with Angus in the middle trying to pull them together. If things continue that should change but I don't know what the latest with Axl and AC/DC is.

 

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I don't mind so much when he doesn't get as high. What I don't like is when he hits the high but does it without the rasp in his voice. It sounds bad to me lol

Oh I forgot about the wheel chair. Maybe I meant the first shows he wasn't in it. I just remember one song he was doing one of the rare tracks and looked possessed. In a good way. I'm no AC/DC expert at all. I would imagine they would gel better after time and they haven't had another singer in a very longtime so I think it's understandable. Funny it sounded like even Phil Rudd changed his tune on it. Not that he's in the band anymore..?

 

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His performances now have definitely improved, but if you look at what he was 6 months before the Coachella gig was announced to what he was when they started touring it's not surprising that he has improved.

Axl's been doing Whole Lottta Rosie for years with both GNR and his solo band that he thought was GNR and he does nail that song pretty well.

I don't think Phil Rudd knows what day it is let alone what it is his mind is telling him. He's gotten off most of his charges but the fact that it was so public and he does have a problem with drugs and alcohol I think will ensure he wont ever get back in the band.

 

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Yeah he was really dialing it in before the reunion.

Hahaha is Rudd really that bad? lol

 

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Oh yeah, he's out there somewhere. He lives in New Zealand now and has a massive collection of sports cars and gang members. He acts like an amnesia drunk, (although it might not be an act). The charges that were against him were quite serious and they weren't disproved, they were mostly dropped. He was stung with 6 or 7 minor crimes from memory. There was little doubt even from those on his side that he threatened to have the person killed there was just no proof. His solo album (Head Job) was hyped but apparently crap but he's on tour in Europe supporting it I believe.

Angus has said that even with the charges dropped and him not being charged with anything major, he wouldn't be back in the band because he wasn't in the band for the current tour (there is some conjecture as to when he was kicked out, he is credited on the last album but Angus has suggested he wasn't the only drummer that recorded but Phil's name was there for contractual reasons), they also have some contractual terms like most bands that suggest such behaviour in worthy of termination. At the end of the day Phil's name was just too poisonous for the band to be associated with even while they were going through the problems of trying to replace Brian.

 

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Hahaha he has gang members?! That's very funny!
I read some of what he was charged with. No good lol
Probably their tour insurance can't handle him as well hahaha

 

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From memory they aren't his gang. I can't remember if they were a motorcycle gang or a bunch of Maori's but he hired them, well that was until he got to court and he did all he could to prove he knew none of them.

New Zealand has some harsher rules that most places, I think they reckoned even the threat to kill was worth 7 years in NZ so his charges were a big deal there but maybe not so much in other countries.

The funniest thing was on the day he was arrested it looked they had just got him out of bed hung over and without his teeth in. He looked like someone they'd dragged out of an old people's home without any warning.

 

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I thinks it's harder to look tough when you've got bed head and no teeth lol

Hahaha, oh that picture with me and all those bikers?Yeah.....that's not me.

I know little about New Zealand's Government. I just know it's gorgeous and Some cool actors have come from there.