Knockin' on heavens door - re-released? *The 02 Era of the band recorded a Reggae Version*

[Estranged Reality]

I don't remember him saying this in the interview either.

Same here. I feel like we would have discussed it at some point.

[Forsaken]

I don't remember this at all.

[Yesterdays-Civil-War]

_{I'll sing one, and you sing one, and we'll do this 45 times...}

[ManetsBR]

This is a thing?

[RNRS]

_{I'll sing one, and you sing one, and we'll do this 45 times...}

This made me laugh a lot harder than it should.

[Jwalker19]

Timestamp please.

[Guest Gunns]

I don't know the time stamp but Axl definitely mentions it. He said how he was going to donate the proceeds from the sales of the song to some charity Bob Dylan was involved in.

Anyone else remember this too? I only remember it because at the time I thought how awesome it would be to have the 02 band do a version of the song

Edited July 28, 2014 by Gunns

[Crash Diet]

If you can't provide some proof for your OP then this thread should be locked

[ChineseIRS]

Yeah dont remember him saying anything about this, ever.

[Spirit]

I believe this stems from an old article (January 2002) on Blabbermouth.

Found the quote from the article, although the article itself isn't available on the site.

The revamped band have also reportedly recorded four new versions of the BOB DYLAN classic and GNR live staple “Knockin' On Heavens Door”, including a reggae version, an "eclectic" rendition, and the version they played in concert at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which is said to be “a much more slowed down version” than the one that appears on Use Your Illusion II.

Since I don't have the rest of the article, I don't know in what context this was stated, and what their source for this was.

[Crash Diet]

I believe this stems from an old article (January 2002) on Blabbermouth.

Found the quote from the article, although the article itself isn't available on the site.

The revamped band have also reportedly recorded four new versions of the BOB DYLAN classic and GNR live staple “Knockin' On Heavens Door”, including a reggae version, an "eclectic" rendition, and the version they played in concert at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which is said to be “a much more slowed down version” than the one that appears on Use Your Illusion II.

Since I don't have the rest of the article, I don't know in what context this was stated, and what their source for this was.

Thanks

A reggae version with the new band?

That would be hilarious

[Apollo]

Please, Axl, if you ever release something again, please, please, please, don't let it be KOHD. Just let it be something new.

Slow your roll, bro.

GnR just put out a DVD and six years between album releases is pretty standard in the industry now days. Plus the band has been touring non-stop and they deserve a LONG vacation.

Well.......at least that's what some people say.

[SeBaZ]

[Coma16]

Please, Axl, if you ever release something again, please, please, please, don't let it be KOHD. Just let it be something new.

Slow your roll, bro.

GnR just put out a DVD and six years between album releases is pretty standard in the industry now days. Plus the band has been touring non-stop and they deserve a LONG vacation.

Well.......at least that's what some people say.

You actually started to make some sense and then I read the last bit. You know sarcasm is indicator of fear right?

[Guest Gunns]

I believe this stems from an old article (January 2002) on Blabbermouth.

Found the quote from the article, although the article itself isn't available on the site.

The revamped band have also reportedly recorded four new versions of the BOB DYLAN classic and GNR live staple “Knockin' On Heavens Door”, including a reggae version, an "eclectic" rendition, and the version they played in concert at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which is said to be “a much more slowed down version” than the one that appears on Use Your Illusion II.

Since I don't have the rest of the article, I don't know in what context this was stated, and what their source for this was.

Thank you, this isn't the source I was referring to in the OP, but its good enough,

I found the whole article (it mentions how the band re-recorded Jungle as well for use in Black Hawk Down but Slash blocked it)

The following item originally appeared in the daily newspaper The Los Angeles Times: “Former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash's plan to check out his estranged bandmate Axl Rose on stage last weekend was scrapped by Rose's representatives, who informed him that he wouldn't be allowed into the Las Vegas concert hall. Slash, who officially left GNR in 1996 and has remained alienated from the temperamental Rose, had arranged through a friend to attend Saturday's show at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, where Rose was playing with his new GUNS N' ROSES lineup for only the second time. That didn't seem like a good idea to Rose's manager, Doug Goldstein. 'We didn't know what his intentions were,' Goldstein told The Times this week. 'If nothing else, it would have been a distraction. Axl was really nervous about these shows. We decided on our own not to take any risk.' Goldstein sent an assistant to discuss the issue with Slash, who agreed to cancel his reservation. Slash told The Times on Thursday that four hotel security guards accompanied the representative to his room and made it clear that he wouldn't be admitted to the show. 'They said no way. I knew things were being blown way out of proportion. It was like being grabbed by my hair and being ripped back into the days of when I was in GUNS N' ROSES.... I was going to see the show just like anybody else, and to be supportive, for what that's worth. I spent the last six years trying to stay out of the nastiness that does go on. If Axl had heard I was there and sent somebody down to go, 'You want to come up and jam on 'Paradise City' or 'Welcome to the Jungle'?' I would have done it.'”

The following quotes from Slash were taken from MTV.com:

"I've never actually seen GUNS N' ROSES from that perspective, and I was curious. And I wanted to go in a supportive capacity as well. ... I was trying to be discreet about it, but apparently GUNS N' ROSES' management found out and it was major pandemonium. It was like they sent out an all-points bulletin."

"Really, I just wanted to go to the show, not cause a scene. If I had wanted to cause a scene," Slash said, "I could have called the head of security on my cell phone and said I was in the middle of the venue and to come and get me, just to f.ck with him. I even thought about doing that, but that's just my mischievous side. It shouldn't have been a big deal. And if, even after all this time, if Axl had wanted to do a song, any number of our old GNR songs, it would have been way cool."

In related news, it appears that the “new” GUNS N' ROSES had re-recorded the GNR classic “Welcome To The Jungle” for inclusion in the upcoming movie Black Hawk Down (in theatres January 18th), but that it was eventually excluded from the movie and the accompanying soundtrack due to legal issues stemming from the fact that old band members (and in particular Slash) would have had to sign off on it, which is something that vocalist Axl Rose has implied the axeman wasn't willing to do. The revamped band have also reportedly recorded four new versions of the BOB DYLAN classic and GNR live staple “Knockin' On Heavens Door”, including a reggae version, an "eclectic" rendition, and the version they played in concert at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which is said to be “a much more slowed down version” than the one that appears on Use Your Illusion II.

Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/the-la-times-slash-persona-non-grata-at-guns-n-roses-concert/#ASqiLRmb8hQPpLGs.99

[magisme]

Four new versions of KOHD, huh? Time well spent obviously.

[Lio]

All this based on an article of January 2002 ? You can't be serious. I swear, if the next GNR release is a re-release of KOHD from around the turn of the century, I'm going to be seriously pissed.

[WFA]

Four new versions of KOHD, huh? Time well spent obviously.

4 covers of a cover. Props to Axl, he really outdid himself with that.

[Guest Gunns]

Would have been a good addition to the A4D DVD

[Spirit]

This is my take:

They re-recorded Appetite, Patience and You Could Be Mine. As Axl said that was part of the process for getting the sound for the live shows. He himself said that he did not know if they would do anything with the recordings. WTTJ was intended for release, but nothing came of it. If they did 4 different versions of KOHD, that's probably just part of their process to figure out how to approach that song for the live show. They landed on the slowed down close-to-the-original one obviously. I don't think they ever intended to release 4 versions of the song.

Seems like some people are over-reacting to this, this was probably done 15 years ago.

[RussTCB]

Four new versions of KOHD, huh? Time well spent obviously.

I'd say it's productive overall. I don't want to speak for you, but this is the thing that locks me in for now believing even more.

[Apollo]

Please, Axl, if you ever release something again, please, please, please, don't let it be KOHD. Just let it be something new.

Slow your roll, bro.

GnR just put out a DVD and six years between album releases is pretty standard in the industry now days. Plus the band has been touring non-stop and they deserve a LONG vacation.

Well.......at least that's what some people say.

You actually started to make some sense and then I read the last bit. You know sarcasm is indicator of fear right?

You got me.

I'm in "fear" of...............well, not really sure what I'm in fear of. Fear my favorite singer will never release any more music again? Ya - there is some truth to that.

The band has barely toured the last two years, hasn't put out new music in six years, and Rockfuel did all the work on the DVD. Somehow you guys spin that to imply that Axl is out there kicking ass and needs a break. And it's interesting how Axl is the only one taking a much needed "break." All the other guys are playing in their side-projects. Hell, DJ is about to release an album.

You guys that put a positive spin on everything Axl does, no matter what it is. Axl Rose will always be my favorite singer, and I still consider him to be the best rock singer of all time. I still think Appetite might be the best rock album of all time, SCOM the best power ballad of all time, and Chinese the best rock album of the last decade. But I'll never be so pathetic as to worship his every move, just because he is my favorite singer. But that's just me - to each their own.

While you sit at home thinking Axl is taking a well deserved break and that six years in between albums is cool - I simply wish that my favorite singer was more active and was willing to share his amazing music with his millions of fans.

[maynard]

Great post, Groghan.

[WFA]

And that is why Groghan is one of the best posters on here.

[Coma16]

And that is why Groghan is one of the best posters on here.

Yes, claiming that we said things that we never said to help his argument/essay.