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Izzy pictured at The Rolling Stones gig in Glendale, AZ https://www.instagram.com/p/C6tveHxML1i/?igsh=MWFnc3dhYXQxOWJ4dg==

He's 62 years old ffs. Looking totally fine.

No, this ain’t no weird „fan letter“ or me being drunk or stoned or anything. I’ve just come to the realization, that GNR has been, for the majority of my life, is in the here and now and probably will be a somewhat crucial part of my life. Strange enough, don’t feel any actual „connection“ to the musicians, not at all. I can't picture myself having a beer with Axl or Slash or anyone. But boy do I love their music. For some reason, and no particular reason at all, I just feel a very powerful urge right now to scream out THANK YOU. Thank you for the music. Thank you for the magic. The communication (though the music), the connection, the spirit, the vibe, the soul. And thank you for reaching my soul. Thank you for resonating with my soul. Regardless of how much I want to beat some new music out of you guys - thank you for everything. It's good knowing you are out there while I am out here, all of you, past and present. And I wish you nothing but the best. Same goes for fans sharing my sentiment. That’s all. Just had to get this off my chest. Probably not worth its own thread, so mods feel free to move it as you please or others feel free to chime in if you want. One band to sum it up for me, at the end of the day? One band to speak in my name, the things I can’t express but feel? Guns N’ Fuckin’ Roses.

My oldest son has autism. It's not something people suffer. A lot of people who are autistic are actually very intelligent. As are most people with disabilities when supported. What the fuck is it with people who imply someone's autistic or have some other form of disability like it's an insult?

I think Izzy looks fine. About the same as the pic we saw years ago. Happy he's doing well 😊

As far as Robin goes I have to say I completely disagree. His solo on This I Love is a masterpiece. But the rest of his work unmemerable? Street of Dreams, ChiDem, There Was a Time, Better ... Man those solos are so amazing and melodic. His impression is all over that album, just as much as Bucket's.

https://www.youtube.com/@AxlRoseYouTube Axl has his own YT channel, If you click on media the selects they go to this YT if you click the YT on the selects. https://axlrose.com/ If you click on the yt channel it doesn't have anything listed. Confused

Izzy attending a Stones gig, Guns used to play the Stones songs and are friends with them, this gig was in America, Guns live in America, Axl's new website = it’s pretty clear: AfD line-up in the works, 4tus fired, new album in 6 months! Take care by us, better than the old ones!

Another new interview - there's also an interview with Mike Clink. Enjoy!

I don't get how anybody thinks he looks dreadful. If anything, he looks youthful for his age.

You all may be tired of SMKC, But Slash isn't. SMKC is a fun band and no drama, thats wat Slash wants, go out and play no drama or ego's. I like 4, it's a great album, that sounds how Slash must sound. I don't know what you all, expect from the guy, but it's great for me. can't wait for the new SMKC album, it wil be there, allot sooner than a GN'R album thats for sure !!

Maybe you are, but some of us aren't.

if you check who that twitter cat account is following,.. https://twitter.com/Dexter90265/following it follows CumShotDaily

New interview a bit focused on the guitar gear, but not so much. He restated that GNR would be working on a new record.

Wtf is this comment about???? You are implying that having autism is such a bad thing. Autism and other types of disabilities are not a bad thing. I have a physical disability. I am more successful and productive than most people. You come on here every single day and whine about something. Rather than whine and be miserable, how about enjoying life? Maybe then you won't come on here every day moaning about something.

I hear you.. He looks just as good if not better than any of the other OG members. Slash is a bit weight and is always hiding behind shades and a hat.. Duff is in Shape but his face it pretty tethered these days.. Steven actually looks pretty good.. Then there is Axl.. Izzy looks like a healthy normal dude and better than most 62 year old I know..

Generally very positive review: the album goes beyond being an "easy" album of cover versions of blues classics - Slash fires on all cylinders, great solos and not "self-sufficient" like he sometimes does with GN'R live (I suppose it means that he isn't noodling or playing too many notes) - production is clear and robust - backing band is great - all the singers are great - Beth Hart sings as if she sold her soul to the devil.

Confirmed its Axl

I'm 47 and Guns N Roses has been the soundtrack to much of my life. So I share the sentiment. Of course new albums would be great and I think we all wish for that. But I'm so happy that Axl n Slash not just mended their relationship but reunited in GN'R. Seeing Axl, Dizzy, Slash n Duff together live looking so happy and having so much fun in 17 and 22 was something I never thought I'd see again. So as well as all the great music that was awesome.

While I agree with you that there's a lot of horrible things going on all around the world that should be protested and talked about a lot more, I still agree with the college students that are right to call the universities to divest from Israel and protest a blatant genocide that the Israeli government and IDF are carrying out in front of all the world to see. Of course Hamas is a terrorist group and the October 7th attack was abominable. Still if the response from Israel is to destroy the whole of North Gaza, carpet bomb every hospital, university or residential building or even the UN buildings in Gaza killing approximately 40 000 people, most of which are civilians, they are clearly the bigger terrorists here. And lastly, picking from a long list of unjust things to prostest, an ongoing genocide is kind of top of the list I think.

Another interview (in French, Rock Hard magazine,): https://www.a-4-d.com/t8416-2024-05-01-rock-hard-france-damned-blues-slash I'll translate in full at a later time (help welcomed!), but here is the part about Metal Chesnut: The record ends with an instrumental called "Metal Chestnut", a sort of “odd one out" that's closer to the Guns N' Roses repertoire than to a song written for a blues record. What's the story behind this song? It was Mike Clink's idea to end the record with an original composition. Having spent a lot of time putting together the covers and their arrangements, I hadn't thought about it. I liked his idea. So I stayed home for a couple of days to work on some ideas. "Metal Chestnut" was written on the last day of rehearsals for the album, just before recording. It's an instrumental that I think is rather inspired and came about spontaneously. If people think it sounds like Guns N' Roses, maybe it's because I'm in that band! (laughs) The rest is mostly the same stories about the recording of the covers and a bit about the performance at the Oscars. He says again that he'll start working on a new SMKC album (has already written a couple of songs) after the blues tour ends, and that GN'R has no tour planned. Doesn't know when a new GN'R album will come out, but it will be after the next SMKC cycle and all new material.

Thought his mom had come back from the dead (her name is Ola too).

jokes aside, and I can only speak for myself, it’s not about bad guitarists rather than the prefered styles and the overall sound of CD. And still I enjoy half of that record. But when I compare the NITL singles to the leaked ones then to me the official released versions are nearer to the GNR sound and no wonder because Slash’s sound was added. It’s not necessarily a quality thing.

I was at the Stones concert in Glendale - would've been really cool for Izzy to join and do Salt of the Earth (or anything!) Keith and Mick are both 80 - incredible show and almost unbelievable if you think about it.

Fuck sake. I check mygnr and see a leaks thread. I expect a new leak like Seven or Zodiac 13, instead I see a bump about a Ashba solo demo from 10 years ago.

Don't forget starving them to death UN accuses Israel of denying Gaza aid access as famine takes hold. Israel are not the ones being oppressed and simply fighting for their existence. "Why aren't they protesting other injustices around the world?" is the most tiresome and tedious argument made every time a mass protest happens. As if protesting something your own government is doing is invalid because you aren't protesting something another government on the other side of the planet is doing. Speaking of, the suppression we are seeing towards these protests is appalling. Not to mention banning platforms and passing speech laws. I haven't quite seen this country so bipartisanly deranged (except maybe after 9/11) and it only looks like it's going to get worse.

I would say he's more likely Borderline Personality Disorder. "Borderline personality disorder is a mental health condition in which a person has long-term patterns of unstable or explosive emotions. These inner experiences often result in impulsive actions, self-image issues, and chaotic relationships with other people. Risk factors for BPD include: Abandonment in childhood or adolescence Disrupted family life Poor communication in the family Sexual, physical, or emotional abuse" The problem is that having a mental illness makes you a poor judge of whether you are mentally well or not. A fish doesn't know it's in water.

Ya....I had to check the year on my calender for a second, like the dude had checked out on Slash in 2009 ISH and was just catching up on the last 15 years....I was expecting him to go "Ohhh you and Axl are speaking these days?"

But the level of knowledge is the same for any speculation or educated guesses of the kind of "Axl behaves this way or doesn't release music because X or Y". The only thing we have full knowledge of is the result: Axl is not prolific and rarely releases music. The only reason that attributing everything to mere laziness is seen as "telling it like it is" while other or additional explanations are perceived as "defending Axl" is because people generally sympathize less with a lazy person than with, say, an insecure person, so the laziness explanation provides more convenient and less challenging grounds for venting, whereas more complex explanations are usually less emotionally charged (and are not worded in the form of a rant), so they're taken as trying to "invalidate" the fans' frustrations. But, in fact, insecurity or a potential mental condition as parts of the reason for Axl's behaviour doesn't mean that Axl bears no responsibility for it. For example, the people around Axl have changed over the years, but some patterns have been the same e.g. from Doug Goldstein to TB, which suggests that he tends to trust the wrong people to take care of business for him, and that he's prone to being surrounded by sycophants, and that's on him.

Ryan Gosling Says Slash Barely Made It to Their ‘I’m Just Ken’ Oscars Performance: ‘It Was Very Tense’ https://www.billboard.com/culture/tv-film/ryan-gosling-slash-almost-missed-im-just-ken-oscars-performance-1235671649/

I'm with you...in previous centuries, the autistic members of a community were incredibly valuable. Being less social, they were more acute to weather or hunting patterns that greatly helped their community/tribe. Yet do we have a stigma term for in incredibly social person who makes impulsive snap directions that hurt themselves and others...no!

GNR has no touring plans for the next year or more, and this is happening now? First his own website launch, and now a Youtube page? Axl solo album seems ridiculous to even type out, but the chance is not 0% anymore like I always thought before. Maybe not a full album, but just a song or something seems likely, I mean what else would he upload on there that wouldn't fit on the GNR youtube channel?

Great interview with Slash !!!

I came in here to see what was happening with Axls website and it seems a whole bunch of nothing but Justin Bieber talk Please do something one day Axl

Izzy still looks pretty young when he's up on stage

I love your posts, your ability to laugh at yourself means more than any grammar mistakes. You are awesome

Israel was founded in 1948. Hamas was not right to attack Israel at all, but to blame the entire population which obviously includes children and babies for allowing them to run there country is a bit far fetched. I agree that every country has at some point done horrific things, but how is that relevant? Do you think they should carry on because other countries could be accused of hypocrisy? We can all point to examples of horrific things countries have done, that doesn't excuse what is happening now does it? How do you know they are not? People are capable of supporting multiple causes at the same time People are. There are charities dedicated to combating and supporting those who have suffered with FGM. Even if there were not why would that mean people can't protest a genocide? You are right that higher education is very cost prohibitive in your country They may be but that doesn't mean people aren't going to use there freedom of speech to speak up and protest at perceived injustice Many of us do 'give a shit about' those counties, some of us are from them and have family and friends there stuck in difficult situations through no fault of there own.

Well he said that he wants to get a gnr record done, which was separate from him mentioning 'Axls songs' that they redid. So I guess the album is still at least a somewhat focus for Slash. No timeline, no other info and nothing really solid but it's nice to hear he wants to do it... But it did kinda reconfirm that Slash's idea of a new record isn't just going to be Axl holdovers. So in saying very little he said something. Finish? I think it's go in and 'start' a record 😄

I mostly agree with you here. The original NuGuns versions absolutely sound more cohesive. Personally, I just don’t like Robin’s rather weak and uninspired solos. Just my opinion of course. Outside of This I Love, nothing else is very memorable. Bucket is amazing on almost everything he touches of course. As for the NITL singles, Perhaps and Hard Skool absolutely sound closer to UYI than CD. Even the riff and overall music up until the stupid breakdown of Absurd are more like what I would expect of a punkish Guns song. Hell, even The General could have been an epic song if it actually went anywhere. If only someone could convince Axl to let a major producer take charge for an NITL album

We don't do that around here.

@Blackstar 'on the books' is scheduled at some point, that's how I read it.

Do you not know what an excuse is? It is to take away some of the personal liability one has for some event by pointing to (usually) exterior mitigating factors. You point to something that reduces your own responsibility for something happening. You have excuses for why something happens that reduce your own fault. Like, "Little Timmy isn't prepared for class because the dog ate his homework," or, "I am late for the meeting because of terrible traffic," or, "The label was working against me all the time." These are excuses. They shift some of the blame away from the individual over to some exterior phenomena. But you don't point to your own personality as an excuse for your own actions (which is an outcome of your personality). Like, "I didn't do my homework because I am lazy," or, "I didn't get to the meeting in time because I couldn't be bothered," or "I can't read and understand anything more complex than children books because I am extremely stupid." These are explanations but they are not excuses, they don't serve to reduce your own responsibility for what happened. They explain why it happened; they are purely descriptive (although they can be very damning since they reveal character "flaws"). I would argue -- since I am in a bit of a philosophical mindset today -- that any attempt to excuse one's own actions by pointing to intrinsic aspects of one's own personality, is a circular argument. You do what you do because of who you are. (This doesn't mean you can just this as a carte blanche to act out any instincts you might have, many character traits can and should be oversteered and failure to do so makes one culpable for the actions.) As for whether I have excused Axl for any of his behavior by pointing to him having mental disorders or mental quirks of any kind: emphatically no. I have explained why he acts the way he does by pointing as best I can to his personality, but I have never at any point tried to make excuses for him (both because I see no reason to spend time to make any excuses for a celebrity I don't know and because, aligned with the above, that I find it meaningless to excuse anyone for being who they are). What I have provided in this thread and elsewhere is as accurately as possible to explain why he behaves the way he does based on what we actually know of the guy. It is purely descriptive without any judgment. I don't know if you simply don't recognize a descriptive characterization when it comes across your screen or if you just make yourself appear dumber to get at me, but there is not much I can do about that. As for your argument that we have "no knowledge about whether Axl is bipolar. Well, that's an exaggeration. There is lots of evidence suggesting he is, and then there is evidence suggesting he isn't. To me it doesn't matter so much what sort of name we put on it, but there is no reason to disagree on the fact that he has been characterized as being very moody and going through seemingly cyclical phases of being inactivity and being active.

I have never heard anyone excuse Axl for anything by pointing to him being bipolar. That would be like, "Oh, don't criticize Axl for it, he can't help himself, he's bipolar." Never seen anyone do anything of the sort. But when discussing why Axl behaves the way he does one has to point to the various mental idiosyncrasies of the man.

That wasn't weird at all, it was very nice.

There is evidence that work on unreleased CD era songs had started way before the leaks happened (at least a year before). Most notably: - In September 2018, when Slash was touring with SMKC, he told Alan Niven that Axl had been "in isolation" picking CD leftovers for them to work on. Niven mentioned it in an interview in March 2019. - In April 2019, Slash went to Axl's home studio with his gear being set up by Caram. So I think either those were the songs that were done or getting worked on before the leaks occurred, or other songs were originally prioritized to be released as first singles, but the fact that Hard School leaked and got a positive response changed the plans slightly as far as the order of releases was concerned.

There’s two ways to see it. You can either argue the leaks are what caused the singles to be released, or you can argue that there isn’t really as large of a vault as there was talked up to be and that the releases overlap because those are just the songs that are done. We don’t have enough information to prove either, in my opinion. And no, the latter is not a Pele argument. I’m sure there are songs that have some work done that we don’t know about. Whether those are fully finished or realized though is a much different story, and again, there’s just not enough info to know.

Although I have made my jokes, I don't dislike the song. It's just a sonic mess, which I attribute to its releasing during the NITL era. I'm fully convinced that had this released when it should have, back in the ChiDem era, it would sound a whole lot better. But unfortunately, The General is going to be a GnR song I will never listen to more than a few times. I also don't and won't listen to the other NITL singles. I prefer the leaked versions of those songs.

Was trying to be nice

You mean this?

I'm pretty sure everything they recorded was immediately owned by GNR or the label. There's stories from 20 years ago about Bucket being frustrated he couldn't use certain riffs because they belonged to GNR. Tommy just got the rights to Going Down and Ten Percenter a couple years ago. They'd have to credit everyone fairly, but I don't think they'd run into many problems.