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  1. I know I mention my brief meeting with Tommy before one of his solo shows often, but he specifically mentioned he considered Richard a great friend and that Richard was one of the few people he still talked to from the GN'R camp with any regularity (the others being Frank, Del James, and Dizzy Reed). He also said that while he doesn't really talk to DJ Ashba outside of the occasional social media interaction, he thought DJ was a really nice guy and that he lightened up the mood a lot during those last few years of "NuGNR". Like others have said, my guess was that Tommy was referring more to Buckethead, Bumblefoot, and (maybe) Paul Tobias. Even then, I took his comments to be more along the lines of "I wasn't super close with them like I was with Robin" as opposed to "I absolutely hated them", although Tommy has spoken pretty disparagingly about Buckethead through the years and all signs seem to point that he really did not like Ron that much. As for Paul, he always seems to be the "wild card". The few times Tommy has mentioned him before, he doesn't seem to state he disliked Paul personally, but just did not take him very seriously at first given that he'd never worked on a professionally made record before. But in those interviews, Tommy has also conceded that Paul brought some really good ideas to the table, which is what he seems to be getting at in this interview; you don't have to be best buddies with a bandmates or think they are the most qualified, as it ultimately comes down to what ideas they bring to the music making process.
  2. ...and yeah, I remember the local rock station in Atlanta at the time played the title track every hour the first day it got released. After that, I only recall hearing it a handful of times, but they kept the intro each time.
  3. I imagine the band does as it earns them some income: probably not enough to live off of, but a band at their level might actually make some notable income from streaming.
  4. Wow...this went off the rails quick even by MyGNR standards. I think it's pretty obvious that the idea seems to be AI graphics were used to enhance a concept that was developed. Like someone else said, I sincerely doubt they typed "create a Guns N' Roses music video for The General" into Bing chat. There seems to be some real misunderstanding of how AI would/could be used, and a lot of people sounding like Grandpa Simpson yelling at the cloud. For what it's worth, I will judge the video when it comes out and will be honest about it. Like @Blackstar said, I am not the biggest fan of the aesthetic, but to call it devoid of creativity seems harsh. It seems more creative than the "Aburd" or "Perhaps" videos. I think it's cool that, for this batch of songs, we'll have two music videos. One will be a more "traditional" performance video (for the more "classic" sounding song) and one will be something a little weird (for the more idiosyncratic song). If that does not match what GN'R did in the 1990s, I do not know what would.
  5. Too funny. I remember in those 2009 shows, Ashba tried to play the solos - particularly "Better" and "This I Love" closer to how Robin played them on the album. By 2010, you can see DJ had made little changes to all of his solos, but those two in particular were heavily reworked. To be fair to Ashba (and it's tough to admit this), I actually think even his reworked versions of the Chinese Democracy guitar solos were lightyears ahead of how Slash has played them in recent years.
  6. This slipped my mind completely! If I remember correctly, the mayor caught flack for this and had to retract the whole thing later.
  7. While I am aware of clipping in a general sense and know it has been on ongoing issue for years, I typically do not immediately hear it unless someone points it out to me. That being said, the second the chorus kicked in during "The General" I immediately heard it; I thought something was wrong with my headphones for a second. I listened to it on Spotify, Tidal, and Amazon Music and heard it in all versions.
  8. It was not a vinyl exclusive. After a brief delay, the band got the vinyl orders shipped. It is Slash playing on the outro. "Monsters" was not a part of the release. The world turns... Now that we live in a post "The General" world, how do we all feel? I, for one, actually like "The General". I was one of the very few who seemed to enjoy it more than "Monsters" (other than fantastic vocal performance at the end, I found "Monsters" to be a "C-tier" song). Having said that, maybe we, as a society, should no longer ask for Sebastian Bach's opinion on Guns N' Roses music...
  9. Fair enough. I am certainly not going to argue with your opinion and I do not even disagree with some of the points you made. To me, those are all complaints about the band as an entity. For me, that does not affect my enjoyment of the songs (which I do really enjoy). But thanks for explaining your thoughts! As for "Skool", yeah, that's a groaner. But then again, it strikes me as something Axl would think is cool. He uses "n" instead of "and" in public correspondence and posts 25 year old memes on Twitter/X; just reminds me he's a bit of a dork in his old age lol (in a lovable way).
  10. I see so many complaints about the bell at the beginning of "Hard Skool". I understand it is kind of a groaner, but does it really ruin the song that much for people? I am not trying to be sarcastic or condescending; it's a serious question. I guess it makes me roll my eyes a bit, but constitutes such a small part of the song it does not bother me too much. There are weird little insertions on the Use Your Illusion albums that bother me more.
  11. I in no way, shape, or form said it was true or that I believed it without reservation. If you can point out where I said that, I will gladly retract it. My point was simply that this is not exactly something that came entirely out of left field. You are right: it is entirely possible this is a frivolous lawsuit, but you cannot overlook prior history when discussing these things. I wholeheartedly agree in not condemning Axl until this gets resolved, but it's naïve to pretend (as some people did to avoid the cognitive dissonance of this happening to one of their heroes) there is no precedent for Axl being accused of this type of behavior: particularly when this Axl was accused of this type of behavior in the past when it was rarer for such matters to be made public. Admittedly, my last post was a little sarcastic, but my point was simply to emphasize that acting like Axl is a saint was being foolish.
  12. Yeah, surely a complete cash grab: against a man who seems to have been suffering from severe mental health issues at the time, was famous for having a hair-trigger temper, and was shortly thereafter accused of similar things by two other women.
  13. I doubt we'll see any changes in the band lineup (they seem to have a good thing going), but it does seem like everything is adding up to a hiatus (which makes complete sense). Not quite the sense of finality at the end of the Vegas 2014 run, but some similarities: the band really going all in on cool set lists, Axl seeming like he's really giving it his all and having a great time (technical issues from this show aside), and thanking the crew (I remember in 2014 he started to thank Caram and the band at various shows and at the Golden Gods Award). The last show in that 2014 run was, if I remember correctly, June 2014 and the band was back in April 2016 for the beginning of Not in this Lifetime: almost two years. I imagine we'll have a similar break here (maybe an occasional festival show since - unlike 2014 - they have a full functioning band).
  14. Too bad all the people that said they were done with the band and cancelled their vinyl orders won't get to enjoy this fun moment...
  15. Very interesting all around. Can't really say how I really feel after a few cursory listens, but interesting to hear how we have the "different" approach Axl was trying to take GN'R in the 1990s/2000s combined with (particularly in "Monsters") Slash guitar tones that sound like they could have come straight off the Velvet Revolver albums. On one hand, it does all sound very much of its time (as someone else pointed out), but it does make more for interesting listening than the past three songs where it sounds like they are trying to retroactively make it sound like "classic" Guns.
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