Voodoochild

In related news, finally there's official information on Slash's new Gibson E-335.

IF (and that's a huge IF) he will release some music, it would still be possible to be just an instrumental piece. What I find weird is how most of this was created some months ago, and nothing really happened. Did you try to find anything that could hint at something on credits and publishing data bases like ASCAP?

Well, I think that makes it less plausible that it's just a book. I just rewatched the Houston/Mexico video and I kinda loved This I Love in that show? I really thought Slash's solo was very good, which I almost never cared much about.

Thanks. I have a tab open to read that article for days, but didn't manage to read it.

Oh, did he confirm it? Nice! I wish that song also had a video.

We don't know for sure. I assume they were still doing a lot of recordings in 2002 and 2003 just based on how the songs were presented live and how they were still evolving from the European tour to the US/Canada tour in 2002 (The Blues got an outro solo by Richard, Chinese got a second solo by Bucket). My main reason to think that Bucket was still recording in late 2002 and 2003 is how some of the final album versions differs to the 2001/02 arrangements. The Blues had not only Bucket replacing Richard's outro solo, but also adding an acoustic guitar for most of the first half of the song. Chinese Democracy not only got that second solo, but also a lot of leads throughout the whole track. Riad's outro is also very different than the 2000 demo and the 2002 performances. Of course, it could be just that those were all recorded in 2002 but still not rehearsed or properly incorporated in the arrangement, but I think it's likely that they still had plenty of studio time booked for 2003. Obviously, there are also some of Bucket's work that were just comped from several different takes, and that includes the possibility that Axl and Caram used even takes from different songs to comp together a solo or a song like Scraped.

I understand. I was talking about personal taste and point of view, nothing about technical level. To be fair, Slash is still my favorite guitar player. He (and Hendrix, to a less extent) was the reason why I wanted to play guitar in first place. To this day, I still try to sound a bit like him.

Maybe in 2002 we still didn't have Bucket's TWAT outro solo. And he would probably improvise it anyways.

Because the label doesn't pay to push the new songs, and without it, regular people only care about the classics. I'm not saying this isn't the band's fault, because it totally is - their relationship with the label and/or how they distribute the songs is part of their burden. If they don't care, why would the label? I know a lot of people here dislikes Rick Beato, but he has a pretty cool video about how the local US radios were bought by big players such as Live Nation (or was it Clear Channel? Can't remember), and that made the artist selection in rotation a lot worse, especially considering that local artists just don't get any air time at all. Indeed. And it's all very tastefully crafted, both in melody and tone. Can't disagree more. It's quite the opposite to me. Robin's solos are most of the time unpredictable (I remember his Better solo with that descending bend caught everyone by surprise back in 2006), while Bucket commonly relies in his own cliches - which are good, but can't say those are not predictable like his SOD outro, If The World main solo, Madagascar etc.

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

Thanks, that first video was really bad to watch it. Funny thing how he recalled the NYT article. That feels a lot like a confirmation that he was the main source (to other stuff as well) back then.

The "DIVE IN AND FIND THE MONKEY" attitude.... killed me back then and now again.

People think that the management's role is to force a release out from the artist. Even though Axl struggled a lot with CD, it wouldn't come out if didn't want to. It's the same thing now: the band is not releasing new music because Axl didn't want to work on it before. We don't even know if he's working on it right now, although it's very likely that home demos or even previous years recordings could be worked on (individually). It seems like everyone in the band but Axl would be more than ok to get together and write and release new things. Still, people think it's TB's job to force him to move on. He's not a baby.

With AI, you should probably be aware that fake stuff like this will pop-up a lot more here. The uploader didn't say where it came from and, judging by the sound of it, sounds totally like Garage Band fake orchestra and synths. Slash's solo is amazing, but the song is way too long (which I don't mind if the music is interesting, but in that case I didn't really think much of it).

Nightrain's outro solo was way shorter, tho. And it's one of my all time favorite Slash's solos, so I think I prefer the AFD even with the fade-out.

He mentioned something about the newer NITL singles, which I assume are Perhaps and Hard Skool. Wasn't there some debate about HS, if it was him or Brain? He's super cool and I was surprised when Rick asked about CD, it was almost the end of the interview. I'd love to hear him talk about the album in a technical level.

More like AI things considered

In case any of you are curious, here's the video played in the background:

There's a new Tommy Stinson interview conducted by a friend of mine for a Brazilian website. There's no real news, he repeated what he said before about his thoughts on CD, the different personas in the band and so and so. He did say that TWAT was his favorite song, and Catcher had "interesting lyrics". If people want, I can translate the exact quote. Or you can just use Google Translator: https://screamyell.com.br/site/2024/04/17/entrevista-tommy-stinson-fala-sobre-novo-disco-solo-os-anos-com-o-guns-n-roses-e-o-legado-do-replacements/

I don't know either. I was hoping for @Blackstar to point exactly from where those came from lol

After a quick search on Google, I found this website citing this quote, but it did not say from where: https://www.bookey.app/quote-author/axl-rose#:~:text=In the famous words of,in order to truly live.

LOL I didn't notice that. Sorry, I'm an amateur.

Of course it's official. It's unmistakable amateurish with lower case "rose" and one-sided quotation mark:

I agree, but to be very cynical, Axl's voice here wasn't in a good shape either. And I like the album arrangements better than this pre-AFD state, most notably Rocket Queen's outro, Anything Goes lyrics and Nightrain extended outro.

He also predicted Instagram.