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#461 Re: Guns N' Roses » Why can't the fanbase drop the negativity even when there is good news » 272 weeks ago
elevendayempire wrote:James wrote:Then you've got literal mountains of live footage they never did anything with....
Speaking of which, there was that bizarre thing where they dropped a live video of one track from that UYI-era tape that leaked, a week or so ago. What was that about?
A longtime friend of the band passed away and she's in the video on the bongos. I think that's all it was. Their way of paying tribute to her and remembering her.
Oh, that's sad. Nice tribute.
#462 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 272 weeks ago
Yeah. Plus I can see Axl's point of view; he's trying to strike a balance between respecting the work done by previous band members, with respecting the current band members. Strip out Brain's drums and replace them with Frank hitting the same beats, and it's kind of disrespectful to Brain. Leave Brain's drums on it and it's kind of disrespectful to Frank. You basically can't win.
#463 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 272 weeks ago
Hah! Vindication. I mean, I didn't expect it to be Silkworms, but still.
#464 Re: Guns N' Roses » Why can't the fanbase drop the negativity even when there is good news » 272 weeks ago
Then you've got literal mountains of live footage they never did anything with....
Speaking of which, there was that bizarre thing where they dropped a live video of one track from that UYI-era tape that leaked, a week or so ago. What was that about?
#465 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 272 weeks ago
One thing I am absolutely sure of - Slash and Duff have improved and elevated this song. Arguably Fortus too as I couldn't single out one thing you could tangibly recognise of his on Chinese...
The looseness and groove is back - who would have thought it fits this material like a glove?
For sure. I just wish we could be confident that it is Fortus, since Axl has taken the approach of layering 20 years worth of material together. It's a bit of a kick in the teeth for Frank that the drums are Brain's, for example. Presumably those are Pitman's synths, not Melissa's, too.
I feel like they should have stripped out everything bar Axl's old vocals and reworked it with the current band, in a studio, from the ground up.
That said, it definitely has a looser, more GN'R feel to it.
#466 GN'R Downloads » Tie Your Mother Down (w/Slash) » 272 weeks ago
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Absurd isn't the only song featuring Slash out today – there's a reissue of Brian May's solo album Back to the Light out today, and it's got the 1993 Jay Leno Show performance of TYMD with Slash as a bonus track...
#467 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR, MetLife Stadium August 5th » 272 weeks ago
metallex78 wrote:Axl is trolling GN’R fans everywhere. We’ve been clamouring for new music from Axl and Slash for 30 years, and now we get a reworked semi industrial track from 20 years ago, as the “new” single. Never has there been a more apt title for a GN’R song to go along with the proceedings. Absurd indeed…
The only trolling that happened is we wound up having to wait for the reunion to get the second half of Chinese....and considering who was in the band the final six years of that saga....
I'm glad we got trolled.
Truly grateful.
Axl's definitely trolling Pitman. The guy got booted out of the band for publicly mouthing off about them playing the "oldies" in a "money grab" and the first new material from Axl and Slash in 30 years is… a song he co-wrote.
Whoops.
#468 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 272 weeks ago
James wrote:When we finally get the album, we're going to realize what a waste the whole saga was. It all should've happened back then.....hell....he showed up at HOB in 2000 but got tossed out!
Oh man, when we go over the entire "saga". It's really mind boggling. No author would come up such a weird and strange story. This album should have been released at least several times in the past. And then you have the stuff like the aborted reunion in 2006 and the Slash drunken rant at Axl's house afterward.
Oh well , better later than never.
It's maddening. Axl managed to get everything he wanted – Slash playing on his bonkers industrial rock tracks – 30 years on. If they hadn't been so fucking obstinate we could've had this in 2001, or 2002, or 2006. With Axl on peak vocal form. Instead, they let a decade and a half go under the bridge and we're that much closer to the end of their careers. We could've had 15 more years' worth of music from them. Fucksake.
#469 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 272 weeks ago
That little Duff bass sting at 1:56 is 
#470 Re: GN'R Downloads » Shackler's Revenge With Bucket. » 272 weeks ago
Is this legit or a remix?
