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#521 Re: Guns N' Roses » What was better on the official release than the locker leaks? » 287 weeks ago
I wrote a post on this somewhere.
The only one I think is definitively better is Prostitute.
I’d LOVE to hear the RTB version of it.
I actually prefer the demo version in some ways, 'cos you can hear those "wee-oo" synths under the second verse better.
#522 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 288 weeks ago
Having said all that, it still blows me away that we didn't even get one new song out of that initial reunion wave.
Especially when we know they have decent songs like Hardschool, Atlas Shrugged and Perhaps just lying around, only needing minimal input from Duff and Slash.
#523 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 288 weeks ago
Look, Mick Jagger and Dave Grohl bashed this out in an afternoon, surely Axl can do the same?
#524 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl and The Boss.... » 292 weeks ago
The problem is their discography is absurdly small for a "touring the classics" outfit. They kind of need new material.
#525 Re: Guns N' Roses » Matt Sorum's book leaks online. » 296 weeks ago
You guys can try to discredit Matt by saying he’s a cunt, but outside of Adler being there, Sorum is the only other drummer to have the lock in groove with Slash and Duff. Frank has played with those guys for 4 years and just gets worse and worse. Seriously, take a listen to the show from early this year, it sounds like a damn train wreck. Between Axl’s own out of sync singing, and Frank’s off timing, it’s like they’re all playing a different song
I don't have the vitriolic dislike of Frank that some people do, but I do find myself thinking how cool it'd be to have the NITL line-up with Brain behind the kit.
#526 Re: Guns N' Roses » What unanswered questions do you want answered by GnR? » 299 weeks ago
The whole 2006 near-reunion blows my mind with what a missed opportunity it was. Stumbled across this video of GnR at Download with Izzy. Considering just a couple years before, Izzy was helping VR, thinking he was possibly a conduit between the Axl/Slash camp. A 2006 reunion with this Axl, Slash, and Izzy could have retaken the world of rock music. Unfortunately it was 8 years later when Duff hooked up with Axl that proved to be the catalyst.
(PS pay no mind to the fact that Ron’s solos are inaudible lol)
Yeah. I enjoyed the 2016 reunion but it pisses me off that for whatever reason – stubbornness, business, whatever – they couldn't patch up their differences in 2006. We could've had a decade more of this band, with Axl looking lean, mean and singing his heart out. Remember that 2006-era Sailing cover? Imagine that with Slash all over it.
#527 Re: Guns N' Roses » What Gn’R related thing still excites you? » 301 weeks ago
Todd Kerns did an interview with Fortus recently. Not a whole lot going on but cool it was Kerns and Fortus.
Edit: here’s some of it https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/ge … _like.html
Traditional GnR disclaimer - you won’t learn a lot. He does talk a little bit about the dynamics of nu GnR which I would classify as the most interesting thing.
I do love reading between the lines of these things.
"[Rhythm guitar] is sort of a lost art but it is a real art. And that's something that I'm totally OK with diving into and living in that space. Fortunately, it's freer in our situation where Slash is really gracious to let me play."
"They were completely wasting my lead guitar chops."
"Frank and Duff spent a lot of time rehearsing, just the two of them. That's because Duff was a drummer so he knows exactly what he wants."
I refer you to the Matt Sorum book.
That is a fascinating interview, though, 'cos you've got two guys who've worked with Slash in very different settings, chewing the fat.
#528 Re: Guns N' Roses » What Gn’R related thing still excites you? » 301 weeks ago
I'd still love to hear the full 1999 version of AFD, even if it is essentially a band jamming to practice for live performances.
I still hold out hope for an album from the current band, too. Would love to hear a new studio recording with Slash and Axl and Duff on it, just to bring things full circle. And I'm curious to hear what Fortus and Slash would sound like together in a studio setting.
And, yes, I'm looking forward to a new live gig, once I've had the vaccine. I don't care if the setlist's been played to death, it'll be cathartic.
#529 Re: Guns N' Roses » New leak » 305 weeks ago
Yup. Also the ballad intro sounds like a knock-off of Don't Cry. Like the sort of thing that "play guitar like Slash!" instructional DVDs used to do when they couldn't get the rights to license the actual songs.
#530 Re: Guns N' Roses » New leak » 306 weeks ago
I don't think it is Fortus tbh. There's a bit where the guitarist does a fast lick that sounds very much like the way Slash does fast licks, and not the way Fortus does (with a bunch of hybrid picking, usually).
