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#1761 Re: Guns N' Roses » from mister saint laurent » 836 weeks ago
monkeychow wrote:^
In my opinion Robin was never able to play many of slash's solo's correctly.For a while I thought he was choosing to alter them, which may have been the case some of the time, but there's places where it really seemed he just didn't have the chops. Or maybe it's because his natural style is too different. In any event, he's a great player who plays some cool stuff on CD and in NIN - but he could not do the AFD songs justice to my ears.
Also, for reasons i'm not sure of Axl sang without the rasp for the bulk of that period....and the rasp is also rather critical to the traditional AFD sound.
Struggling may be a harsh word for it, but there's no question to me that the 87 band and the 2010 band are both superior to 1999.
I agree; Robin is not particularity suitable to the more Blues type stuff
Yes he is.
#1762 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » New VR singer..... why not? » 836 weeks ago
That Maria girl has a good voice... when she uses it. I just don't like the gutteral screaming.
I like the idea of VR having a female singer. The name Velvet Revolver would take on a totally new meaning
She is clearly the best thing about that band. Poach her, Slash! 
#1763 Re: Guns N' Roses » from mister saint laurent » 836 weeks ago
I've always wanted to hear this - it's a glimpse into the direction Axl was going in 1999, it's a chance to hear a studio version of the band with Robin front-and-centre... and it's not "spoiling" unreleased songs from the Chinese Democracy sessions. What's not to like?
#1764 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash eyed Rose for solo album » 837 weeks ago
But now with myles slash is out there doing Civil War, Jungle and a full on best of style show that makes me think he's no longer waiting around for Axl to forgive him or whatever. Although, maybe it's just scott couldnt hit those notes and myles can?
I think it has everything to do with the fact that Myles has the vocal range to sing those songs. You can bet that Paradise City and Nightrain would've been in the Velvet Revolver set if Scott could've sung them.
More interesting is the fact that Slash is gradually serving up the songs that he's traditionally left to Axl. Stuff like Sweet Child O'Mine and Jungle, which he's never played in Camp Freddy sets, even when there were vocalists there who were capable of singing them.
I think that's more to do with the fact that he's there to perform a Greatest Hits set, though; it's the Slash Nostalgia Tour, whereas with VR they were keen to promote the band as a new entity, pushing their own material over the old GN'R/STP stuff.
#1765 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Renaissance » 839 weeks ago
It's odd that Axl hasn't done an AFD remaster, actually; one of those "remasters with a couple of extra b-sides/demos" would be an easy cash-grab. Might be that he just doesn't want Slash and co to benefit.
The 25th anniversary is coming up in 2012, so that would be an obvious time to release a remastered version of the album. Stick, oh I dunno, Shadow of Your Love and a few of the (remastered) demos on there, pop the original artwork on the cover and get Del to whip up some liner notes... it'd be a money-spinner for minimal effort.
#1766 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff Leaves Jane's Addicition » 839 weeks ago
elevendayempire wrote:Neemo wrote:chester has LP and a solo project to boot...and LP would be most likely a larger paycheck....i jsut cat see it....unless he is fed up with LP
Yeah, he is over-subscribed - but, y'know, he could jack in his solo project and just do LP and VR. Someone like him fronting the band would be big news and would generate fucktons of press interest, in a way that Myles fronting VR wouldn't.
dont underestimate myles AB III is about to go through the roof
Good for him. I still don't rate his work with Slash.
#1767 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Renaissance » 839 weeks ago
I don't deny that Axl pointing out that the AFD drums sound a bit dated drew my attention to it. But he does have a point.
Mind you, I suspect that if the album was properly remastered it would gain a hell of a lot of punch. I doubt it'll ever happen, simply because of the tortuous internal politics of GN'R. In a right and just world, we'd have the Ritz show on DVD, a properly remastered AFD and Axl touring the follow-up to Chinese Democracy while Velvet Revolver hit the road with Chester Bennington.
#1768 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff Leaves Jane's Addicition » 839 weeks ago
chester has LP and a solo project to boot...and LP would be most likely a larger paycheck....i jsut cat see it....unless he is fed up with LP
Yeah, he is over-subscribed - but, y'know, he could jack in his solo project and just do LP and VR. Someone like him fronting the band would be big news and would generate fucktons of press interest, in a way that Myles fronting VR wouldn't.
#1769 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Duff Leaves Jane's Addicition » 840 weeks ago
I know everyone jumps on me when I suggest him, but I'm convinced that Chester Bennington would be the best choice for the new VR singer. He occupies a space halfway between Axl and Scott; he's got a similar stage presence to Scott, the same "skinny-cool vibe", as Classic Rock magazine put it, but he's also able to sing those higher-register GN'R songs. And there's no doubt that he's a "name" like Scott.
The only real difficulty would be working out a schedule that allowed him to work with both VR and Linkin Park. That, and his friendship with Scott, which might preclude him taking over Scott's position in VR.
I'm really not sold on Myles. His voice is very reedy in that high register - it reminds me of 2002 Axl more than anything. And he consistently fluffs the lyrics to the old GN'R/VR tracks. His stage presence isn't up there with Scott or Axl, and his lyrics on the Slash solo album were... well, a bit banal.
#1770 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Renaissance » 840 weeks ago
I find the production on AFD's a bit dated; the drums in particular. I can't explain exactly what it is about those drums, but there's something, some reverb or the way they've been mic'ed up that makes them sound very, very 80s. It doesn't help that the album's never been properly remastered to give it a bit more punch. I'd be fascinated to hear the 1999 AFD redux - it's the thing I'm most curious about from the Chinese Democracy sessions. I'd even, I think, take a leak of that over a leak of Checkmate.
Of all the albums, the one that sounds least dated is the acoustic portion of Lies - probably because it's difficult for a stripped-down acoustic track to date.
UYI hasn't dated nearly as badly as AFD, IMO. It feels a bit redolent of the early 90s in places, but that's probably just my mind free-associating when I hear it, and conjuring up memories of Nintendo and Terminator 2 and Slash in plaid shirts.
The Spaghetti Incident... well, let's just say that Izzy's absence really makes that album suffer. I'd love to hear the original mixes, with Izzy in place of Gilby.
The jury's still out on Chinese Democracy, really. I think it sounds very of the moment, though - which is interesting, given that it was recorded over the course of a decade.
