jekylhyde

Oh, come on Schenker! Share the wealth, bro!

Ew...

Well, it is brat summer. Some beer belly-ness is almost mandatory

They sound like AI-made... mess Bits and pieces of unintelligible noise. Kind of hard to listen to, because they sound almost like real songs, but really, really warped.

Lame as Fuck™

They should've put Psycho Killer on the album instead of Can't Get It Out of My Head. Messages should've been on it too. It could've, probably would've, been a huge hit. It's like they sabotaged themselves on purpose Oh well...

Because Axl did fuck all to promote it. Good old fashioned self-sabotage (just like Velvet Revolver leaving Messages out of Libertad).

I think the band's core audience, when it comes to new music, isn't a singles only -type of an audience. I guess younger people get hyped about singles and that model works well for new artists that have a fanbase of young people. But Guns is an old band and their main audience are still into albums. Releasing only singles is a wrong MO for Guns, in my opinion. An album would be an event for the fans, the singles are a bit like "yeah, cool, whatever". But we all know who is the hold up It ain't Slash, who just released an album. It ain't Duff, who released one last fall.

This seems like the most plausible scenario. Matt's drumming would've been more exciting, but he could've also derailed the whole thing with his ego. I completely understand why Slash and Duff didn't push him to be involved. It's their and Axl's band and their legacy. They should get to enjoy their victory lap.

Baloney of the highest order! Lighthouse is a great record It's nice and interesting to see him pursuing that singer-songwriter side of him. He has wisdom and has obviously something to say. He seems to be entering a new phase in his art, which is great. A voice and an acoustic guitar. Have those and you can keep going until you're dead.

Gotta have that content! God forbid, if we run out of content! We will all bore to death without content!

I've been on this forum for close to 20 years and once a year I always end up commenting on these Ghosts of Mars -songs, and I always say the same thing: These songs are great and this is the sound I thought Chinese Democracy was going to have. Really cool stuff. And after the locker leaks, it's really cool to hear that a lot of those songs have the same kind of atmosphere. Sigh. All that could have been. (That's some Nine Inch Nails -humor for y'all.)

John 5's solo was cool. Not his best, but cool. Composition wise this sounds a bit like Corabi-era Mötley Crüe, which I like. It's an okay song. Not a hit by any means, but I'll always appreciate the ethos of older bands wanting to make new music.

The Rose Boys.

This. You usually hire people, because you need someone to do things that you can't or don't know about. People that know what they are doing and are able to tell you when something is not feasible/reasonable/cost-effective etc. If you want to succeed, hiring yes-men is the dumbest thing you can do.