DownUnderScott

Fucking Tasmanians, your not really part of Australia 😁

I've met Del a few times, most recently last year at a small bar when he came to watch a mate's band play (My mate is a great friend of his). He is the tour manager and handles all the logistical stuff of which there are numerous things that all must go well for a tour to be successful. Del seems to be a genuine and nice guy. Zero ego. There would be other managers too, financial managers, marketing managers perhaps, and each of Axl (Guns N' Roses), Duff and Slash have their own individual management. Fernando was the General Manager of Gn'R, so depending on the Business model/structure of Gn'R, he probably has a lot of power and sits above most. I always thought it was a strange appointment though, to appoint a nobody as the GM of one of the biggest bands of all time. Obviously Beta had a bit to do with that. Axl seemed to be passive about it when he talked briefly about it on that tv interview years ago.

Nailed it. In other words perhaps, better song writing and better songcraft. It all comes across as the usual Frankenstein patch together ideas and hope like fuck that they flow. I must admit, I very much enjoy listening to The General and Monsters as I just have a boner bigger than Donald Trump's ego every time that I hear Axl's voice on new music. But, then my brain takes over the thinking from that boner and I realise in comparison to the original GnR music (AFD/LIES/UYI) that the incredible song writing and contributions from a team of mind-blowing musicians leave this stuff for dead.

Might as well add My World to that 😁

That’s probably my point, effects, samples, it all sounds like computer music, not a band effort. But that’s Axl for the past 25 years. Interesting you mention VR, I totally take your point that it is a bit more similar. And I really liked VR and hearing Slash getting down with some heavier guitars.

I think what this “new” music demonstrates is how much Slash and Duff have bent over and spread their cheeks for the almighty dollar. This really is not their kind of music and after all these years Axl still is the Master of puppets. I like the songs, but they are so far from what Slash and Duff really want to do IMO. I most certainly could be wrong, but I doubt it. In all honesty, I would prefer a studio version cover of the Seeker with Slash and Duff on it. But that’s just me, I’m more into the organic rock songs than the industrial noise songs. Axl pulls it off because he is amazing as a vocalist and someone who can find the melody in anything, which is rare.

It’s on YouTube. Not hard to find.

I have to wholeheartedly agree with you there. If only Axl had of released a CD2 with these songs as an album (8-10 tracks), it would have been so much better rather than dribs and drabs of mis-fired releases over a long period of time.

And if you actually buy this shit you are just feeding the beast. They are just a money making machine these days. Pure and simple. Won’t get a cent out of me for their crap.

Oh okay thanks 🙏

Who’s Nicole?

You’re wrong, I read somewhere that it’s not

Poor Maynard is so pretentious, he just makes himself look like a dick with his own over-inflated ego that he has no insight into. I still love Tool, and hope that he crawls out of his own arse to make a new record again soon as he is very talented. Just a wanker. At least Axl seems reasonably humble in comparison.

Pretty sure the person who wrote that knows who he is, hence the post…

Did anyone see the brief snippet of video that Beta posted yesterday of them walking around inside a gas station? Axl walks up to her asking if they can make a steak sandwich in the tour bus? I wonder if he knows she records that stuff and posts it?