New Album Rumors Thread

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21 hours ago, stephenchesneymusic said:

Hey, this is not GNR. Just me and some friends! I have a couple of songs I've been working on for fun! i will release it next year or not haha

preview
https://mega.nz/#!KUwxjSKQ!xqRxabTpwEgTJHMez7QxmIQM3Pp-K_uZzbGZsJpuL6Q

Im editing the OP as this is not GN'R, but hey your songs are amazing! You guys got a fan already

NOW, gimme some more rumors.

[xBrownstonex]

 

45 minutes ago, Italian girl said:

i'm tired of this story

Its like a tv show that doesnt wanna end.

[emybdc]

 

1 hour ago, pilferk said:

Having said that, he is definitely the originator of the track (meaning the original online source was his instagram)....but he's not commenting on exactly what it is or who it's from at this point.

So. many. plot twists.

[Słash]

7 minutes ago, emybdc said:

 

So. many. plot twists.

The conclusion is that its not GNR. 

[emybdc]

31 minutes ago, Slash787 said:

The conclusion is that its not GNR. 

I know lol as I've said before, I saw a converstation with someone in GnR's camp saying it's not GnR.

But it's crazy someone would create a fake account to pass off as the guy on Instagram and post here and later we find out that's not the real why.

Edited September 6, 2016 by emybdc

[Słash]

4 minutes ago, emybdc said:

I know lol as I've said before, I saw a converstation with someone in GnR's camp saying it's not GnR.

But it's crazy someone would create a fake account to pass of as the guy on Instagram and post here and later we find out that's not the real why.

Well what should I say, there are some crazy people out there who got too much free time on their hands. 

[pilferk]

1 hour ago, emybdc said:

 

So. many. plot twists.

I just want to clarify a bit:

When I say he's not commenting on exactly what it is or who it's from, I mean it literally. I just want to be sure that's clear.  He didn't say "no comment". He wasn't elusive or dodgy in our conversation...in fact, you see the entirety of his part of our talk in the screen shots.

But on his instagram, there's lot of other folks speculating and asking if the track is GnR...and he's not saying anything.  He's not saying it's him and his friends, he's not saying it's his band.....all he's saying is it's something he's working on and prepping for release. He hashtags #gnr (as you've all seen) and bunches of other influences/artists/"stuff".  He could be mixing/producing something for ANYONE, or working on something for himself...who knows.   I don't know if OTHER folks got DM's with more info or not, and I'll let other people pester him for info at this point, if they see fit. I've heard enough, at this point, to be satisfied.  We KNOW the original source of the "Fan club" video was Stephen's instagram.  For me, that's good enough and I'll watch whatever unfolds, there.  I like the track, so would like a chance to hear the whole thing, regardless. 

I'm of the mind that, no, it's not GnR.  But we'll see for sure, eventually, I guess.

Edited September 6, 2016 by pilferk

[ZODIAC]

Just one more thing. Anyone remembering mercks comment on the checkmate clip? He said it' s definetely NOT GnR. Later we found out, that it was the real deal. Not saying that these clips are from GnR. But anyone saying "it's not axl", even any "reliable source" from the camp, means nothing. If chad himself or even stephen would tell us, we could be sure 100%.

[BreakDown2014]

So... apparently GN'R made an appearence on Peruvian TV recently:

 

 

[xBrownstonex]

1) 2012 is not recently

2) what does it have to do with a new album?

[pilferk]

Talking to Stephen, now. As soon as the mods approve his account here, he plans to come explain the origins of the track.

[Live Like a Suicide]

5 hours ago, pilferk said:

Talking to Stephen, now. As soon as the mods approve his account here, he plans to come explain the origins of the track.

Thank fuck. The tracks are good. I just want to find out more information, and not be led around in circles by speculation and false accounts, lol.

Edited September 7, 2016 by Live Like a Suicide

[Ace Nova]

6 hours ago, pilferk said:

Talking to Stephen, now. As soon as the mods approve his account here, he plans to come explain the origins of the track.

Well, if it was GN'R he sure as hell wouldn't come here and say it was and then get sued/ possible criminal charges brought against him....so thanks for confirming it's not GN'R.

 

[ludurigan]

13 hours ago, emybdc said:

I know lol as I've said before, I saw a converstation with someone in GnR's camp saying it's not GnR.

But it's crazy someone would create a fake account to pass off as the guy on Instagram and post here and later we find out that's not the real why.

funny (funny?) thing is that a moderator from this forum Powerage5 immediately replied to the fake account telling us something like "there you have it"

 

 

 

 

 

[Live Like a Suicide]

4 hours ago, Kasanova King said:

Well, if it was GN'R he sure as hell wouldn't come here and say it was and then get sued/ possible criminal charges brought against him....so thanks for confirming it's not GN'R.

 

Either way, it's confirmed to not be GN'R. From his instagram:

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axllesnar:Is this Axl Rose?

cacaioc: When will release to us?

stephenchesneymusic: As soon as I have time to get stuff mixed it's a fun project that we do - and the answer of course is not its not - but he sure does sound like him doesn't he?

 

[maxpax]

14 hours ago, pilferk said:

Talking to Stephen, now. As soon as the mods approve his account here, he plans to come explain the origins of the track.

Origins? This one song below sounds so NuGnR that I wouldn't be surprised if it's a cover version of a CD song we haven't heard yet.

 

[pilferk]

I really want to let Stephen tell his story, so I'm going to say as little as possible. But 1) Right, it's not GnR.  I don't think saying so is stealing his thunder.  He's' said as much in the comments on insta.  2) It's not GnR in any way (not a cover of anything GnR has done...heard, unheard, etc).

I'm sort of intentionally being cryptic (which I know sucks), because I really want him to be able to tell his own story, and the genesis of the tracks.  He seems like a pretty cool guy, and a huge GnR fan....and he was totally caught off guard by all this.  This is very much (for you old timers) My Favorite Pillow, the sequel.

I also want to add...I'm not any sort of insider or anything. I'm sure a lot of you know me from HTGTH.  I'm just a schlub who reached out to a guy on instagram and got a response. I originally (as you can see in my  post) just commented on the track thanking him for setting the record straight, which confused the fuck out of him since he hadn't actually posted here.  I pointed him here and have sort of been playing middle man since then, and we've talked back and forth about this.

I know the mods are working on approving his account, but I guess the mod who does that is unavailable at this exact moment. As soon as they're available, I think the plan is to approve him and get him on here to give his version of what happened.

[RussTCB]

23 minutes ago, pilferk said:

I know the mods are working on approving his account, but I guess the mod who does that is unavailable at this exact moment. As soon as they're available, I think the plan is to approve him and get him on here to give his version of what happened.

I just approved a bunch of new accounts this morning including his. 

Unless there's something I'm missing, this seems like a pretty straight forward deal; it's a person making music that sounds like GN'R. It's more or less our fault that we thought/hoped it was genuine GN'R music.

[pilferk]

20 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I just approved a bunch of new accounts this morning including his. 

Unless there's something I'm missing, this seems like a pretty straight forward deal; it's a person making music that sounds like GN'R. It's more or less our fault that we thought/hoped it was genuine GN'R music.

More or less, this, I think.

But the details are interesting (at least they were to me), especially to the folks that liked what they heard.  

I think a lot of his desire to tell his story also stems from the "fake stephen" who posted earlier in this thread. I suspect he just wants to make sure everything is clear and tidied up, and that there's no blowback from the guns camp.

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1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

I just approved a bunch of new accounts this morning including his. 

Unless there's something I'm missing, this seems like a pretty straight forward deal; it's a person making music that sounds like GN'R. It's more or less our fault that we thought/hoped it was genuine GN'R music.

We are all so needy of new music that any glimpse of that makes us cream like this. lol

But as I said before, those seems to be great songs guys, dont close your ears for it just because it isnt Guns N' Roses!

[DieselDaisy]

''Fake Stephen'' haha. We have an impersonator of an impersonator of Axl! You couldn't make it up.

[StrangerInThisTown]

13 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

''Fake Stephen'' haha. We have an impersonator of an impersonator of Axl! You couldn't make it up.

Stephen is impersonating Slash not Axl (with his playing style and tone atleast, I could have sworn that was Slash playing that solo on one clip). Whoever is singing is doing a brilliant job impersonating Axl though. If someone posed as the singer of stephens track then wed have an impersonator of an impersonator of Axl.

Edited September 7, 2016 by StrangerInThisTown

[1418Music]

Hi All!

 

This is Stephen from IG - Let me first say thanks to the "other me”. Thanks for posting on this forum before I even knew what talk it had caused and using my name to fake a response, that was a bit odd so I owe a major thanks to Pilferk for the heads up and sending me the forum link(s).

 

As a warning; sorry if my post is a little verbose. I thought I’d give the songs and whatever rumors they caused a backstory so everyone knows that this was never a “hoax” or anything similar in the first place.

 

To clear this up now that i've seen all of the talk the clips caused; OBVIOUSLY this IS NOT Guns N' Roses and NEVER WAS lol (and for the record I never intended to convince people that we were actually GN’R). While i'm on that subject, Pilferk pointed me to another forum where Jarmo said if it was really a GNR producer just leaking tracks that he would be looking for work pretty soon. Well, while I can thankfully say that no thats not the case (lol) what Jarmo said is also one of the reasons that I wasn’t particularly worried about it getting so much attention. In my theory, working with GNR and randomly posting their unfinished music (especially from a personal account!) would get a guy fired very, VERY quickly!

 

So to confirm; the vocals are Chad Atkins, he wrote the lyrics and vocal melodies. All of the instrumentation/mixing/production is myself.

 

Anyone who HAS seen my IG will have seen that playing/writing and producing is what I do as an occupation...... now. That said, a few years ago I had a LOT more time on my hands so I told Chad (who's an old friend) that we should try and write a "Guns" record together, for ourselves. Basically to see how close we could get to “the” sound. We sent a few clips to our friends but that for the most part was about it. It was done as a learning experience/exercise in writing/arranging and recording, especially when you consider that we were never in the room together at any point, and that all songs were written, recorded and produced through email. At one point very early on (years ago) one of the songs was even on iTunes but the mix wasn't something I remained proud of, nor was I particularly happy with it at the time. I had even more to learn about engineering then than I do now and thats a lot lol. So, I took the song down after about a year. End result was that the rest of the songs have been sitting here written, arranged and recorded, but unmixed, ever since. We sent a few clips out to friends to see what they thought and to have some fun with the songs but due to getting busy with other studio work (and touring in Chads case) we never went any further with anything because it was never a main real project for either of us.

 

Fast forward a few years to now and i’m in the midst of writing and mixing a few records, one specifically that is currently paused until November. While i've had some down time before tracking recommences I finally decided to sit and mix one of the tunes, during which time I posted some random clips to Instagram. To anyone that might wonder why I put clips up with various related hashtags on IG; The intention was to direct people who may be interested in hearing what we'd done to the videos and then see if the videos received a response. I didn’t really figure hashtagging #Drake, #HappyPuppies (they do rule though) or #TravisTritt would help get it to the ears of anyone who might be into the tunes. Anyway, the point was to see if people would react positively, negatively, indifferently etc if anyone listened to them, not to apparently start a bunch of rumors, especially when trying to make money off these songs that were done for ourselves from the beginning was never the intention.

 

Oh and just to be clear, both Chad and I actually write and perform other things that sound nothing like GNR..! (lol ) so while we can legitimately say that these songs are "originals" (as in; they're songs we wrote and not cover versions of anyone elses songs) clearly we know its not an "original sound"  because for these songs and what we were trying to do with them: that was the point . We were trying to see if we could get even remotely close (within reason and within our means) to recreating the sound of our favorite band, not to fool people. Again, I thought that posting from my own personal ig would've made that obvious, but apparently not lol.

 

So, thats the backstory! Once I read Pilferks message and he sent me links to forums I saw how people were talking about them (including a second me!....) and wanted to tell you all what the deal was and the story behind them rather than allow someone who isn’t me to post a vague statement and things getting out of hand (at least more than apparently they already have :\).

 

At some point i’ll put a finished tune up. You’re welcome to listen to it, you’re welcome to not listen to it - but there's one thing we can all be sure of - Its still not gonna be Guns N’ Roses 

 

If you made it this far into this longass post - thanks, you're a champ lol

 

-S

Edited September 8, 2016 by 1418Music
Clarifying something :)

[pilferk]

Thanks Stephen! And thanks for the mention/shout out! 

I definitely want to hear a final version of that "they got me tied up, put away" track!!

[Italian girl]

Well, thank you!