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#1651 Re: Guns N' Roses » gunsnroses.com (Merch store now open, SALE!) » 766 weeks ago
If they chucked in some unreleased Chinese Democracy tracks I'd sign up in a heartbeat. Otherwise... nah.
#1652 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH: New Album Release Date Announced » 766 weeks ago
I really like quite a few songs from his solo album. It gets more airtime from me than any other new releases.
That said I wanna see more of this from Slash:
Easily his most emotive piece of playing since Guns IMHO. There is lots of good stuff littered throughout his solo album, but at times whilst we see glimpses of greatness he falls short with much of it for some reason.
I think the guy still has shit like Street Child and old guns stuff in him it just requires the right setting, song, vocalist to draw it out. I think he also needs to be pushed too, it seems like at times he gets lazy and is happy with something ok rather than keep working at it until it's awesome.
Sometimes I think his desire to just get it done so he can go out and tour/play overides his desire to keep working at it until its great. He can then tour, play a few new songs but also rest on the laurels of his back catalogue and fame to help carry the tour.
The great tragedy is that Slash's playing on songs like Street Child and Messages would perfectly suit Axl's emotive lyrics. Instead of the banal "Starlight is bright tonight" cack that Myles comes up with.
I mean, even that Messages from Madagascar bodge job gives you a hint of what Slash and Axl would be capable of together.
#1653 Re: The Sunset Strip » QUEEN Discussion » 766 weeks ago
Idle thought: Lambert should totally sing The Great Pretender if/when he performs a full set with Queen.
#1654 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH: New Album Release Date Announced » 766 weeks ago
Of the GN'R and Slash art, the GN'R stuff is fractionally better. But it's cheesy as hell. Though let's be honest, GN'R's album artwork has always been pretty atrocious. The alternate Chinese Democracy covers (How Are You Grenade etc) are as close as they've come to anything decent.
#1655 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
See, I go back and listen.. and I find it to be extremely overrated by GNR fans.
Its the Cheerleader or group effect:
Take a girl that is a 7, put her around a bunch of 1's.. she is gonna look like a 10.
Same here.. TWAT is good but is surrounded by so much mediocrity on CD.. it makes it seem legendary when if u listen to it mixed with other great stuff.. its still good but it misses that big moment... has that one nice run and some tapping stuff.. but for me.. just kinda leaves me wanting more.
NR, Slash has not 1, not 2 but 3 solos that take u over the top.
It's not just the solo on its own though. Every minute of TWAT is sublime. Robin's solos, the piano break, "Yeah there was a time/Didn't want to know it all/Didn't want to know it all and I don't want to know it now," Robin's lead-in to Bucket's solo, "I would do anything for yooooooooooou," and then...
I love that song. And pretty much the one problem I'd have with a reunion is that we'd never, ever hear it again. MAYBE we'd get a reunited band playing This I Love, because it's a pure Axl piano piece and Slash could just do his own solo. But TWAT? Nah.
#1656 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
Jungle, Sweet Child, Paradise City.
Brian May and Roger Taylor will induct them.
That'll be the setlist if they do play. Which on some level is a shame, I've heard Slash and Duff belt out Paradise City on so many occasions now. It'd be nice if they surprised us with Rocket Queen or something. Or Civil War. Jesus, if they played that I would actually explode.
It'll be Jungle/SCOM/Paradise City though, you know it will.
#1657 Re: Guns N' Roses » All Original GUNS Members Will Be At ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME » 766 weeks ago
If true: FUCK YES.
#1658 Re: Guns N' Roses » Favorite GN'R Song Of All-Time » 767 weeks ago
There Was A Time, I think. I still vividly remember listening to the leak for the first time and giggling like a loon as the song progressed and Axl dropped more and more overblown stuff in there. "Vocal! Chunky guitars in the chorus! Piano! Robin solo! Tommy backing vocals! Orchestra! MORE FUCKING ORCHESTRA! BUCKETHEAD!!!"
That was when I became convinced that the 2001-2002-era band had what it took to blow the original band away. Shame it didn't pan out like that...
#1659 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » SLASH: New Album Release Date Announced » 767 weeks ago
I just can't get into Ghost. I know everyone loves it, but the lyrics are just fucking daft. "Kill the ghost that hides in your soul/Rock n' roll." Fucksake.
By the Sword is awesome, but like all of the good tracks on that album, I find myself listening to the guitar work and thinking, "Yup, that'd be a better song with Axl or VR + Chester Bennington/Scott Weiland/Corey Taylor/whoever on there."
#1660 Re: Guns N' Roses » Which do you feel is most likley » 767 weeks ago
Having worked in journalism, I'd just point out that it is entirely possible the second newspaper article was just picking up on the comments made in the first one. Chinese whispers…
