Wall of Mouths

guns’n’roses, attitude??? :D :D :D
good one

Its a fantastic album.

Talking of G ‘n R, did anyone from the UK see Slash on CD:UK (Saturday morning kids’ music show), a coupla years back? :)

They had him on live (God knows why, heh heh) and he started talking about a woman giving him a blowjob in a nightclub, then saying how he collected reptiles, one of which had “bitten the fuck” out of him recently :p

Needless to say, the producers took the cameras off him pretty quickly! :p

dano wrote:

That was Slash? I thought it was Tommy “wife beater ( alledgedly)” Lee?

Guns N’ Roses..thought they were shit when they started, still haven’t changed my mind.

You’re wrong on both counts, mate.

One of the best albums ever.
Mr. Brownstone best song on the album.

Alex wrote:

They played it to make us get out.

It never worked.

Heh heh, our club tried that too. We had some novelty Euro-disco-Country and Western song (the name of which escapes me).

We all started doing cowboy jigs (the looped arm dance).

Alex wrote:

and everyone is (well, was…) so _GOD_DAMN_ friendly and easy about things. There’s kinda that vibe now, but… whether it’s cos I’m older or whether the clientele has changed, I don’t know… but whilst it’s a “safe” place — it’s just not really the same…

I’m guessing you’ve only ever been to rock clubs then? That’s the atmosphere in pretty much any good underground dance club these days (some young metallers are finding this out and going as well, which is cool.)

Alex wrote:

Are there any other Rock City people on this board…?

Well, I’ve never been to the Rock City proper, and I don’t come from Nottingham, but I’ve been for a couple of nights out there, and ended up in The Rig (have you ever been there?)one night, which was a bit glam for my tastes. It’s a shame, because as I was growing up, the Rock City was one of those “legendary” UK rock clubs, along with the Mayfair in Newcastle (where I ended up spending many a drunken Saturday night during my student days!), King Tut’s in Glasgow, Jilly’s in Manchester etc etc…

I was pretty dismayed to find that the rumours about the Mayfair’s demolition turned out to be true, but I believe they’ve carried on the rock night tradition at the Telewest Arena, whether it’s in a bar there or whatever, I don’t know, because I suppose the auditorium there’s a little large for that kind of thing. (Does anyone know???)

Here in Germany I haven’t really found much of a rock club tradition, although on one weekend visit to a friend in Gießen we landed in some very cool rock club, which was, however, admittedly, as rough as a badger’s arse (as most things in Gießen are), and I can remember a couple of rockin’ nights out in Dortmund at the Soundgarden and Six PM. Anyone from the board go to any of the places I’ve mentioned, in the UK or Germany???

Anyway, the only Therapy? I ever heard at any of the above was Screamager once or twice at the Mayfair, so, that being the case, maybe the good old rock clubs weren’t so great after all… :D

There’s something about rock clubs that doesn’t feel right unless your feet stick to the floor!

I dunno what it was like around your area Alex, but I knew what you were getting at about feeling safe in rock clubs, I think this was particularily true during the early 90’s, when music fans were pretty segregated. I’d end up talking for hours on end with complete strangers who ended up becoming your best mates the next week! The rock crowds were always really friendly whereas you’d always get frowned upon by “the townies”.

I guess the first real signs of it changing were when Nirvana came along ( from my experience at least ) and grunge kicked in-suddenly it was ok for people who weren’t into rock to suddenly start liking it. As industrial metal started booming a lot of the hardcore rockers started getting into dance as well, it had a bit of a detrimental effect as clubs would start playing rock music and people started drifting away from the scene, which meant the only club which played rock music exclusively in my town shut down.

I think in the 4 years I went before moving on, I only ever saw one fight, whereas across the road was a load of dance clubs, and there was always brawls going on..maybe we got our aggression out through the music!

great great album!