Schwarzgold Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 One thing that always impressed my about GNR are their covers. I point that out because normally I do not care for covers at all, except from the really, really special ones like Johnny Cash with NIN's "Hurt".The reason for that is that most bands don't really transform the songs, the merely put a new layer of paint on it and that's it.GNR always really owned their covers and made them into something REALLY GNRish. So I'm very keen on potential new covers emerging from the old gang and I was thinking which material would be suited well.Mind you - we're not talking here about songs we like and we would simply like to have played by GNR. I'm sure we'd gather 200 songs over night, but there would be no real gain in that.What I'd like to see here are song that you think have the potential to suit this project, that have the potential to become great specifically in GNR's hands.Maybe we can give the band an inspiration or two. My suggestion is based on "Sail away sweet sister": For those who don't know the original, it's here: So they transformed a clean, harmonic, relatively melancholic yet happy chorus in a beast of anger and fury, just using Axl's voice and Duff's base.So I suggest to use exactly this treatment (added by Slash's guitarwork of course) to this wonderful little diamond of a song by John Fruiscante: Listen closely and imagine this song transformed the same way like "Sail away sweet sister". The result could be breathtaking ...Som what are your suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Killed By Death - MotorheadFashion - Bowie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mishan Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Lola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwarzgold Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Using a youtube link for answering would be great service. Also it would be nice to read a few lines about the why and how of your imagined cover.Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live Like a Suicide Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 (edited) I once read that they done a cover of 'Take a Long Line' by The Angels. I would kill to hear the band's take on that song back in their heyday. I'm not sure how reliable the source was, but Axl and Doc were mates, and GNR was influenced by The Angels. So it's not exactly a long shot. We've got footage of 'Marseilles' being covered no less than three times though, so at least that's something.'Take a Long Line', as performed live by The Angels in 1983: Edited January 28, 2016 by Live Like a Suicide 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11dayempire Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I hope they collar a female guest vocalist (Fergie? Lady Gaga?) and belt out Gimme Shelter. It's always baffled me that Slash had Izzy and Fergie right there in the studio when he was doing his solo album, and he didn't think to cover it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefuck Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I hope they collar a female guest vocalist (Fergie? Lady Gaga?) and belt out Gimme Shelter. It's always baffled me that Slash had Izzy and Fergie right there in the studio when he was doing his solo album, and he didn't think to cover it.I don't think Izzy's too keen on collaborating with teen-pop-singers, and I would absolutely hate to see Guns N' Roses working with Gaga/Beyonce/Bruno Mars/Adam Lambert or any of those guys.I don't think I stand alone with this opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 No more covers! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Randy Jesus Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Layla? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11dayempire Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I hope they collar a female guest vocalist (Fergie? Lady Gaga?) and belt out Gimme Shelter. It's always baffled me that Slash had Izzy and Fergie right there in the studio when he was doing his solo album, and he didn't think to cover it.I don't think Izzy's too keen on collaborating with teen-pop-singers, and I would absolutely hate to see Guns N' Roses working with Gaga/Beyonce/Bruno Mars/Adam Lambert or any of those guys.I don't think I stand alone with this opinion.I wouldn't consider myself a pop fan, but Fergie and Lady Gaga have fucking phenomenal voices. A lot of those singers are wasted doing pop, as a cursory glance at Fergie's live performances with Slash shows.There are an awful lot of people who adopt a tribal stance to music – god forbid that a pop act should ever sully a rock act by collaborating with them. The difference between music fans who base their entire identity on hating one music genre or another, and the actual musicians in those bands, is that musicians recognise and appreciate talent regardless of genre. Hence why you'll see Slash collaborating and performing with everyone from Michael Jackson to Bob Dylan to Chic to, yes, Adam Lambert, while his more blinkered fans froth at the mouth. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braxon Raine Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Layla? A GNR cover of Layla by Clapton would be epic. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RussTCB Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 No more covers!100% this.I really love a lot of covers GN'R has done, but I don't need anymore. They have some many original songs that I'd love to hear live, that I wouldn't want another cover in place of any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homefuck Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 I hope they collar a female guest vocalist (Fergie? Lady Gaga?) and belt out Gimme Shelter. It's always baffled me that Slash had Izzy and Fergie right there in the studio when he was doing his solo album, and he didn't think to cover it.I don't think Izzy's too keen on collaborating with teen-pop-singers, and I would absolutely hate to see Guns N' Roses working with Gaga/Beyonce/Bruno Mars/Adam Lambert or any of those guys.I don't think I stand alone with this opinion.I wouldn't consider myself a pop fan, but Fergie and Lady Gaga have fucking phenomenal voices. A lot of those singers are wasted doing pop, as a cursory glance at Fergie's live performances with Slash shows.There are an awful lot of people who adopt a tribal stance to music – god forbid that a pop act should ever sully a rock act by collaborating with them. The difference between music fans who base their entire identity on hating one music genre or another, and the actual musicians in those bands, is that musicians recognise and appreciate talent regardless of genre. Hence why you'll see Slash collaborating and performing with everyone from Michael Jackson to Bob Dylan to Chic to, yes, Adam Lambert, while his more blinkered fans froth at the mouth.I agree that they are in possession of great voices. The big difference, to me, between the likes of those artists (Gaga/Lambert/Levine etc.) and more "credible" artists like The Strokes/Guns/Iggy Pop is that the formers songs sounds like they are created to sell. They have an instrumental value. The latters songs sounds like they are created from the pure pleasure of creation, these songs have an intrinsical value, i.e. a value in itself. I know that this may sound arbitrary (who am I to decide in what purpose these artists create their songs?), and it probably is. Just for the sake of consistency I can tell you an example: I thought Hanson was really good in their "heyday", so it's not about that I like every rock-song and dislike every pop-song, but (to me) it's a pretty distinct difference between songs that are created with the intention to earn money and songs created with the intention of just pure creativity (that the artist wants to sell and be succesful too, ofcourse) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 You get a long awaited reunion and you want MORE covers? Kill me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofnazareth Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 bananarama's greatest hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niceguy Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 No more covers!Fernando: We're having a special three hour meeting this year!Beta: Complaints complaints complaintsAxl (Several years later): And now, here's our amazing new song: THE SEEKER! And I won't even sing on it! I'll just go backstage and eat cheeseburgers while the Duff lookalike I hired sings it! You're welcome, GNR fans!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofnazareth Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 No more covers!Fernando: We're having a special three hour meeting this year!Beta: Complaints complaints complaintsAxl (Several years later): And now, here's our amazing new song: THE SEEKER! And I won't even sing on it! I'll just go backstage and eat cheeseburgers while the Duff lookalike I hired sings it! You're welcome, GNR fans!!!!cheese AND bacon burgers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged1 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 This- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVk8t4NRGQo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNR-girl Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 (edited) Next is a cover of NuGNR and Chinese Democracy Edited January 28, 2016 by GNR-girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Nugnr towards the end were playing four covers and two solo songs. That is six songs (from twenty five) that were not written by Guns N' Roses. One thing we don't need is more covers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DIST Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 A studio version of Sailing.Axl nailed it live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snoman Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 they've been playing covers since 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kickingthehabit Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 We all want to hear Axl sing Fall to Pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caught_in_a_Coma Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 KOHD is such an amazing cover. I love SIDHY, also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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