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  1. There may be some art in photography, but it’s still nowhere near painting in terms of art. It means taking a digital result from a machine and modifying it. Which I’m sure involves creativity and some knowledge etc., but painting is an entirely different story; that stuff must completely flow from within you, and the type of paper or paintbrush are not responsible for the result, it may just alter it a little. That’s a no-brainer. 
    As for AI and art in general, I don’t even think these two things really belong in one sentence, since there’s a crucial difference between a creative process that is completely based on you, your long-term skills etc. (not to mention the human factor, the whatever comes from your soul, subconsciousness...) and between a guy sitting at a computer and saying "right, I’ll give you inputs A, B, C, and D, and you fiddle about and show me some results". No, that’s not art the same way as AC/DC or Peter Gabriel or Enya is real music but rap/hip-hop or techno just isn’t, period. After all, nothing any dick with basic software can create (let alone have created) in 10 minutes can be called art. Again, a no-brainer. 
    And just because certain boundaries have been shifting in this contemporary deluded society, that doesn’t mean AI is art now. 
    As for GN’R, I haven’t seen the video yet, but this is exactly the lazy-ass approach I’d expect from them. As if we’ve already received dozens of new song videos from them in the recent years, so now they should just resort to this...

  2. 57 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

    Oh, I definitely prefer the music video to The General to the music video to November Rain. I get that they served a purpose back in the 90s when you had MTV and the band was on top of the world and I don't deny the commercial success of those videos and what it did to cement the legacy of the band. Still, I personally puke a little whenever I inadvertently catch a bit of them. But that's just my personal feelings on them.  I am very much aligned with Slash when it comes to his opinions on music videos. I wasn't even digging them when they came out in the 90s. It was all just Axl's megalomanic ego trip of confusing visuals. But more power to you if you like them - that's great :) 

    As for whether I have already now concluded that the music video to The General is better than the music video to November Rain? No I haven't. But they will be hard pressed to make a music video that I will find any worse than the video to November Rain. Again, that's my personal opinion. To me, the music video to November Rain makes absolutely no sense story-wise, it cost a tremendous amount of money, it was a pure Axl ego trip with no one else in the band wanting it or even understanding it. It has racked up a huge amount of plays on Youtube because it is a popular song but I doubt many people watch it because of its riveting story. If people watch it without the sound on, which would indicate the video has some inherent value, it must be because they are high on some very psychedelic drugs or in love with Axl. I would suspect any young people watching it would go, "WTF is this weird shit?" To all timers like me it might have some weird sentimental/nostalgic value. But I just see through it without the burden of any of that and it is an incredible expensive collection of cringy scenes making a muddled mess of a story all coming out of the shared minds of Del James and Axl Rose.

    I don't care whether the band "live on years to come".  Why would I? But you are right, they will, and partly because of the cringy music videos they made in the 90s. You are absolutely right. That legacy is already cemented.  So I am happy they don't have to rise to the same levels of cringe now and can instead make simple music videos based on live footage. Again, that's my personal opinion. Now let's see how you deal with it...

    Cringy? You've just jumped the shark, bud. 
    You're seriously ridiculous, however it sounds. 

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  3. 47 minutes ago, JimiRose said:

    The new Beatles song isn't 'AI generated' it's a john lennon recording that was too grainy to use in a released piece. The remaining beatles then recorded all their studio parts (like slash and duff on axl songs) and the AI tech became good enough to isolate johns vocal and not all the background crap. Kind of like what we dream someone will use on the general phone clip. It's incredible extraction technology, not an ai song. So it appears the only person to fall for anything have been those that think that new beatles song is an AI song. It isnt. Whether you like the song or not, that is truly subjective and your own choice. 

    And yes this is clearly a half assed, 7 week later video to the general. No idea why they couldnt release this when the song dropped. 

    ahh appears someone beat me to the explanation!

    Ok, I believe you here. But I meant it more like generally, you know. People seem to embrace this whole thing in music etc. That's where I wouldn't go, that's all. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Rovim said:

    yeah I get that. I would imagine the best chance of it happening is that in the future maybe Axl will be in the mood to talk about it some more, at the very least. his china exchange interview comments about being interested in writing an autobiography but being unable to do it cause he doesn't want to hurt Slash's feelings or whatever makes me think that he's the type to want to share his history and a big part of it is the Chinese era.

    maybe when enough time has passed cause it seems like it wasn't a fun experience for Axl. I'm optimistic that it will eventually happen, but maybe in the distant future, like you said.

    Right, but it would still be great to have at least one other point of view, you know, since there are things e.g. about Axl he himself wouldn’t talk about – like his studio work ethic etc. The weird stuff always fascinates me – like how many times Brain had to redo the drums, or that Axl exclusively works at night, or which songs were made in which studios and why it took so long to release the old demos... Well, one can dream. 

  5. 19 minutes ago, Rovim said:

    yeah but it's like... nobody forced their hand when Axl offered them a job on the condition they'll agree to sign a Gn'R NDA. 

    No of course, it must have been basically some boilerplate, take it or leave it agreement. 
    I just wonder whether one day we’ll get some real first-hand insight into the CD era, at least partially, something like the Chinese Whispers web but from one of the musicians. How cool would that be. But then, we also might be waiting for this for 30 years...

  6. I wouldn't have signed any NDA that would extend more than 5 years beyond whatever activity I'm to be involved in. 
    I know, I know, we don't know shit about the behind-the-scenes reality... but still. This is lame. We need more info, on anything and everything! I think a natural courtesy and gratitude towards Axl actually also plays a huge role here. I mean, BBF, BH or DJ may have quite a number of fans, but their fame had never reached beyond certain limits. And suddenly, the whole world knew who they were. You couldn't get better advertisement or promotion. Plus they're long gone from the band and do their own thing, so why stir any waters and risk someone (Axl) getting pissed off at you for spilling some private beans. They certainly have no reason to risk anything like that for a bunch of internet lunatics. 

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  7. 37 minutes ago, Sweersa said:

    It won't, trust me. It survived with Biden. (Not that I like Trump)

    But, it is pretty damn sad if the best the democrats have is Biden, and I can say the same thing to the republicans about Trump.

    Neither party truly supports what is important to me, so I don't really care either way. 

    None of the above will matter when I'm president!  My first act, of course, will be obtaining all of the Chinese Democracy material with Robin and Bucket's parts present. 

    I hear that material is stored in areas classified so highly that even presidents don't have access. Only in cases like alien invasion and stuff. 

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  8. 3 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

    I think that's an interesting question. I am sure Axl has been better off from it, and I believe we have been, too. I think without the Lebeis' Axl would have gone to ground and we would have received no more shows or music from him. Axl always struggled with serious depression and he really needed love and care, and they gave him that.

    I don't agree that they are like a cult, as you phrased it. They are a family. And they are really approachable if you meet them, as confirmed by many people here. There is nothing really sinister here expect what some fans' conjure in their minds. They insulate Axl, but not for nefarious purposes, as far as I can tell. They don't communicate much in their official capacity from Team Brazil, though, and that is I understand it per Axl wishes. And maybe that's for the better, too? Considering that they don't tend to make a good impression when they do.

    It is problematic to mix family and business, it is challenging. And their love for Axl might not always necessarily be the best for him business-wise, but one cannot blame them for having his personal best interests in mind. That's what family does. And family trumps business. An unrelated manager wouldn't do things the way they do, but all previous unrelated managers since 2000s have failed to both move the band forward at reasonable speeds and failed at taking care of Axl. At least that's what it looks to me. So I guess it is what it is.

    Btw, Beta is not officially part of the managing team anymore, it is Fernando and Vanessa. 

    Well, this could be debated endlessly. Maybe she helped him (I’m fairly prone to believe it) initially, and maybe he would have gotten down, rebounded, and restarted the band with a new vigour, but with a different approach to public relations, promotion, choice of managers, hell, maybe even choice of women – and for all we know, he even could have been married with kids by now. Or maybe not, we’ll never know. God knows Beta and Nando don’t come off as exactly friendly towards the fans, although nothing is black-or-white, of course. 
    But they do have cult vibes to me; they’re everywhere, in the room with the musicians on every photo, even in the videos, plus all these stories where a chick wanted to approach Axl but got shaken off by Beta etc. Not to mention the latest Nando allegations, which I’m sure as hell couldn’t have been completely made up. And the two other guys (Slash and Duff) probably just enjoying the ride, leaving all decisions up to Axl (being under the influence of the Lebeis’ one way or the other)... I wonder what Slash and Duff would really have to say about TB if asked by friends in privacy. Nah, I’m not aware of any other musicians in comparable major rock bands who would walk everywhere with personal mother-like assistants or a family-like circles of background people constantly enclosing them. But then, Axl’s always been like this since I remember, that I can admit. And if they function as a family with him – which I believe they do somehow – then kudos, I wish him the best in any case. I just... hope they haven’t brainwashed him in any regard, on any level. He is a sensitive guy after all. 
    The bottom line is, we don’t know. We can’t assert anything; we can merely present conjectures and impressions. 

  9. 8 hours ago, Karice said:

    Speaking of Beta and Team Brazil, I must confess rhat I'm confused on why Axl has Team Brazil as his "Family," and wonder why the hell aren't his  ACTUAL Family like Amy and Stuart, his Brother and Sister helping Axl out? 🤨🤔🥴 I must also confess I just found out that Team Brazil has been around since around 1993, I thought Team Brazil started in like 2015! 😳

    I guess Amy and Stuart have their own lives and wouldn’t wanna dedicate the better part of it to be just their crazy rock star brother’s assistants. 
    As for TB, you need to discern between TB - the business body and the Lebeis' family. Team Brazil has indeed formed some time in 2010s and consists mainly of Beta and FN'ando as the main figures. The Lebeis family, however, has been in Axl’s life since around 1991, when Axl got involved with Steph, as Beta was her son’s nanny. 

    Btw, I’ve always wondered what would have been if the Lebeis never came into Axl’s life. Who knows, maybe Beta saved Axl’s mental health around the Steph breakup or later the band’s breakup. On the other hand, they come off as a fucking cult, and it’s weird. He’s still single / not married, they’re very close and secretive, and this 60+ year old man is singing a song on the stage, then walks to the right and kisses and hugs Beta mid-song! You wouldn’t do this with your own mum, would you? It’s just weird. But then, if it works... whatever, I guess. I’m just saying, in a parallel universe, things would have looked differently, and who knows whether for better or worse (and the question is whether for us or for Axl; or both or neither). Just riffin' here. 

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  10. This would be a pretty bad record. Double so for a long-awaited "comeback" album. Two good songs - Monsters and HS - and the rest pretty mediocre, at least for GN'R. I hope they have more up their sleeves. 

    Edit: I’m not saying e.g. Atlas Shrugged or State of Grace are bad songs, but the band basically catered to the casuals for 7 years in a row, and if they want to intrigue them with their new music, they cannot release an album sounding like CD2 (with Slash on it). That would be a huge flop. 
    (And please spare me of the "there’s no point in releasing albums any more anyway" nonsense. Other bands normally do it.)

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  11. Not today, but:

    - Doug Goldstein is a devoted believer. Weird for his line of work. 
    https://www.movieguide.org/dr-baehrs-blog/testimony-of-former-guns-n-roses-manager-doug-goldstein-i-know-that-if-it-is-gods-will-he-will-provide-a-way.html

    - Axl got knocked over by a car when he was 12 and ended up in a hospital. 
    - S. Bailey knocked down two cyclists when Axl was 15. 
    - His bio father kidnapped him for a while, later disappeared from Lafayette, and eventually was shot dead around 1987 (by somebody named Faulkner). 
    https://postimg.cc/w12rX3W0

  12. 17 minutes ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

    When their current manager sent monkey porn to their photographer in order to make her have sex with him.

    I consider myself a pacifist and overall a "mellow" fella, but I think of this guy - and I feel anger. Not that it's anything new, but it definitely hasn't gotten better in light of the recent revelations... 

  13. 7 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

    Yea, the proshots I bolded...that's what I was referring to...👍

    In any case, I hope one of the 2024 highlights will be Monsters released, e.g. with Atlas as the B-side, and ideally with a proper video. Imagine that. I wonder whether Axl will ever do some story-driven video again. It doesn't have to be anything big, like the UYI video trilogy, just something smaller, like The Garden, with just a simple topic or something, Idk. 
    Anyway, I'm derailing the thread here. :) 

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  14. While Monsters is great (wasn’t released, though) and the setlist changes as well, plus we got Perhaps finally with a proper video, I think 2023 was on a par with 2019. Because if I’m not mistaken, within that same year we got the House of Blues 2001 pro-shot, the Saskatoon 1993 pro-shot, the whole Village leaks business, and two deep-cuts live (Loco, DH) on top of that. 

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