zombux

ummm... looks like I need to update this a bit again.

OK, here you go then

added HS single and note about the April 2021 recording sessions

22 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Much like how The Lone Rangers could release a song that's Pip farthing into a snare drum and it would sell a million copies 😂 

I like your thinking, mate. too bad your sense of reality is twisted and wrong, as our fellow co-fans luckily proved earlier in this topic. 

I'm so glad they did, seriously. I have no idea what I would do with my life without that.

thank god to have such friends 

9 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

Plus it has nothing to do with the Wembley show

absolutely correct.

2 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

But that's not what I was saying.

YOU claim his current voice is "unlistenable crap". People at the concerts disagree. That's all.

people at concerts would still enjoy and even praise this shit even if they just played KOHD for 4 hours straight and then poop onstage. it doesn't matter what exactly is going on onstage and how it sounds.

14 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

@zombux

I don't know why you laughed.

because I'm not stupid to fall for the usual "dude Axel sounds better than ever, there is no Mickey, this is Gunses Roses in their prime and recordings sound totally different than live" argument.

see https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/denial for details.

3 minutes ago, janrichmond said:

Agree '92 was the weaker year to me but I really liked '93. I'd pick '92 over what we have now though

for sure any other year over what we get in the last decade. RIR2011 was the breaking point and since then the "quality" is of utter shit. even the generally hated BH "helium" era was vastly superior to the unlistenable crap we get now.

53 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

The bloatedness of the '92 shows killed off my interest. They used to be a sleazy, tight little group, now it was a mess - a show. It wasn't my band any more. 

exactly. 1992 is kinda meh to me for that reason. 1993 was a wasted mess running on fumes, that for some reason worked better than 1992 for me, but still - 1991 was the second peak of GNR, Gilby era was a spectacular overbloated but already dead band.

1 minute ago, Gunner Gilby said:

You don't like the Gilby era shows? I love Izzy and Slash's guitar interplay Appetite - Illusions. But they did a lot of killer shows with Gilby.

I do like Gilby era, I do like Buckethead era and I do love 2006 era. 

but at the same time I maintain that when Izzy left, it was the end of GNR.

the last true GNR show...

14 hours ago, BadApples87 said:

Won't happen.  But Myles is a superior singer to Axl in this era.  Obviously Axl in his prime was the best, but right now Myles is better.  If it did happen, it would help Axl's weak voice.

as much as I borderline hate Myles singing, I cannot disagree on this.

13 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

"Perhaps"
From: Chinese Democracy sessions, leaked in 2019

Rose had no shortage of mid-tempo, piano-driven rockers during the Chinese Democracy sessions, as further evidenced by the bouncy "Perhaps." Similar in tempo and construction to Chinese Democracy's "Catcher in the Rye," "Perhaps" once again features May on guitar, while its lyrics show Rose at his most dejected and bitter, seemingly ruminating on a crumbled relationship. "My sense of rejection is no excuse for my behavior," he sings. "You pulled the gun that shot and crucified my savior."

 

Why do people still think Brian May plays on Perhaps?

it's understandable that people from big media are not 100% up to date with whoever says whatever on the internet. this guy still made a big effort, he maybe just had old info/guesses on this one - no big deal.

1 minute ago, double talkin jive mfkr said:

they are the most pitiful lyrics ever have far have guns fallen 

2 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

There's no Brian on any of the Village versions of Riad. Unless he only recorded some basic rhythm tracks, which I doubt, as it was all reused as far as the 2008 Antiquiet leak with Andy Wallace mix.

My theory is that Brian May tried several 1999 CD songs, recording ideas for most if not all the songs to replace Robin's solos and leads, even if sometimes they were still using Robin's leads (like in Catcher and Atlas outro) along with May's recordings. Maybe Axl felt like his guitar style didn't connect with more weird songs like Riad and just never really used his takes.

yes, that makes a lot of sense. I will include this in the next update of the sheet when something more will be added.

I think we mostly considered Perhaps because it sounds very similar to CITR and Atlas in its sound, and it also had the same date on the RM1 disc, so it was kinda logical that Perhaps was the third May song. 

but yeah, nobody ever confirmed that, only the recent interview (which I completely missed) seems to have added new info to that  

24 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

Good call. IMO it's 100% Robin on Perhaps. I even used an excellent app called Moises - https://moises.ai/ - that uses AI to split some basic channels and isolate tracks. It's not perfect, but it's good enough. If you use it on Perhaps, you can clearly see the solo actually evolves from the lead being played behind Axl's voice during the chorus section. Everything is very Robin's style and tone. 

cool. but are you able to also tell what version of Rhiad is Brian actually likely playing at? we have, like, way too many of them, but if he plays at some, the one from Rough Mixes 1 is likely? can you say if he plays on that and were you comparing that to the other versions from 00-01 or even the newer leaks?

15 hours ago, Blackstar said:

@zombux there is a Tommy Stinson interview from last year where he mentions that Brian May had played on Rhiad. See here (it was posted in an older thread, also):

 

yes, that also got to me. so that means what - we are wrong and Brian May actually hasn't played on Perhaps? 

5 minutes ago, Ralphelmo said:

still miles better than "DIZ NOT GUNSES ROSES! DIZ AXEL SOLO BAND AN IT SUX!"

7 minutes ago, GoodOlJohnnyK said:

What’s ironic is that they could release a song tomorrow that sounded just like Appetite and get blasted for it sounding too much like their classic material, or at best “in the vein of their earlier work, but not as good.” This band could release Rocket Queen tomorrow, for the first time, and people would say “eh” because they don’t realize that part of loving a song or a band is that it’s tied to a time in your life. And so when people say they want an album that sounds like Appetite, they mean they want to return to the time in their lives when they discovered that album.

absolutely.

1 minute ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

I bet you know more than scientists because you read something on the internet. Yup, makes sense.

come on, scientists worked for months on something, but Coma16 found out that they were wrong - it was just about reading a random quote on the internet!

2 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

Drugs in America must be so damn cheap. 

maybe in some areas they even pay people for taking them, based on what they then write on teh interwebz

25 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

Same here. Atlas, State of Grace, Perhaps...whiny shit describes it pretty well. Not excited about any of these. Hardschool could be great though.

Edit: Eye on you could be fun if they keep the MacDaddy line.  I'm serious.

there's quite a lot of interesting and catchy tunes on the Village leaks. 

just please finally get rid of "ooooh a woman left me 30 years ago (because I'm utter piece of shit) and I need to write 60 songs about it"

4 minutes ago, JimiRose said:

I like it. I don't have a problem with releasing songs from 1999-2006 period either. But it just makes me think, why is it almost 2022 that we are hearing this? We've heard that 2 albums were basically done in 2006. Then again in 2010. then again in 2015. Why approaching 2022 are these songs only just being released? Who sits on an album for 22 years. It's mind boggling. We should be bored of hardschool absurd etc by now, not desperate to hear them! Axl, you are one peculiar cat. 

you are asking why, why, why all over - when the answer is very simple - this is GNR. it's astonishing that you still haven't realised that everything is wrong here and nothing goes by logic or anything even remotely related to that.

4 minutes ago, ShadowOfTheWave said:

I would contest Atlas as a strong track as I find it bland and incredibly overrated on these forums, but regardless, none of these songs make a great comeback single like Hardschool. Of course maybe Absurd shows they want to think outside the box and not do things the standard way, I'll suppose we'll have to see.

the only part of Atlas I consider good is the guitar solo. the rest is whiny shit. 

sorry.

8 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I was running errands this morning and played it a few more times in the car. 

I thought to myself "how the fuck am I ENJOYING Silkworms now??" 

yes, exactly. only in a very distant galaxy in a very distant parallel universe and timeline, Silkworms would be released as a first single of GNR "reunion" (well, of course it is still Chinese Democracy timeline, just with different bandmembers, by chance they are also former members but that doesn't change much).

yet - it happened, and it's fucking funny  

1 minute ago, MYWIFEMYLIFE said:

Can someone please send me an artwork for this, Imma make a cd single copy for myself  and an acetate too :DDD

this is 1500x1500 PNG from iTunes https://we.tl/t-thhMHomYlO

1 minute ago, sofine11 said:

It's so crazy, I've just surrendered myself to having a complete blast right now. 

lol. same