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This is a really great track. So gritty and dark with industrial tones and I love Slash's guitar work on it. Some of Axl's most sincere and dark lyrics ever. Is it hit single type material? No at all. And it's too short to be a classic GNR epic, but it doesn't have to be any of these things. It's a great track with some new musical direction and both Axl and Slash look really into it when they played it. Very glad to have it and I look forward to more stuff like this!

7 minutes ago, DSTK said:

A week ahead of It's actual release? 

Some people manage to get copies early. 

So has anyone heard the official 7 inch vinyl version yet?

3 minutes ago, Route66 said:

Lets see shall we 

I'm betting it won't even be released tonight

59 minutes ago, Route66 said:

It's called You Tube bro

I meant a professionally recorded and mixed, official release, which would be really nice.

Any chance we get an official live album from this tour now that its over?

Who are Steve Freeman and Marc Haggard?

Loving the dirty, dark guitars in The General! 

1 minute ago, General2112 said:

Sadly not 

Maybe next week?

This would be even more insane if they play Monsters later in the set tonight too

Wow, really proud of Axl and the band tonight!

Any differences from the leak? WE NEED DETAILS! LOL

I am confident that The General and Monsters are two parts of the same song, and that they are not the whole song. I bet there's a bridge connecting the two and possibly another section in there as well, and an outro. In terms of song structure, it's highly unlikely that they are two separate songs. They are both incomplete sections.

2 minutes ago, default_ said:

been listening to these songs the whole morning and cant really understand why havent they hired a professional engineer to handle the mix and mastering. The songs are amazing but they end up being really painful to listen to, theres no clarity in anything at all… Its like someone is trying and failing hard to be Phil Spector.

Well, these are not the final mixes though. 

People forget that demos of a lot of the Appetite and Illusions songs existed long before those albums came out too, with various people playing on them or sometimes just Axl. The old piano demos of november rain and some tracks that never made the albums too.  It's not unusual for GNR to resurrect demos from years ago over a long period of time with different personnel to make an album, it's been their MO from the beginning 

The more I listen to it, this is the best GNR song they have released in ages! I love it! I would love to see more stuff like this coming soon.

Great song. The question is can Axl sing it well enough nowadays live?

I have no idea what kind of commercial reception this type of stuff gets in today's music scene, but this song is legit old school GNR. Love it!!

11 minutes ago, Zeppelin said:

Honestly, that makes the song even worse. That really doesn’t prove anything. If it is all a big joke, then we can have a shitty song and another decade of silence?

I guess I don’t understand the whole joke angle. Even for people who enjoy the song and think it’s a big joke. Doesn’t it seem like there should be more to follow? If we only get one turd of a song as a joke and nothing else from all this, then I hope the people that enjoy this song really, REALLY enjoy it.

I think some people misunderstood what his joke was. It was that he said its absurd that they are playing this while the crowd didn't know yet that the song was actually named Absurd. It was a simple play on words, a cheesy joke, nothing more and nothing implying that the song itself is a joke. 

3 hours ago, dragan1978 said:

I just watched again Fenway gig and Absurd and I was literally laughing my ass off when Axl sang ,,screaming fucking banshees" and pointing finger directly to the crowd :)))

my guess is... they never cared, from their begining, what others think, they just do it their way.  And that is what draw me to them from the first time in 1991. 
 

so I will just enjoy the ride and enjoy the life in its fullness

 

Exactly, it's pure  GNR in that sense. You can also clearly tell that the band are loving this song, Slash especially. If they are making music that they love, more power to them.  

Reunion easily. These guys are old, they couldn't afford to wait any longer and still have a great tour and bring GnR to a new generation.. I'm so glad they did it! 

The Chinese Democracy Era songs are all still there in the vault, they are not going away , they can release them whenever they like or even rework some of them with the Reunion lineup. 

Fucking incredible show!! These guys played from about 7:30 PM up until 11 PM, literally 3 and a half hours! And it was all non-stop energy, I don't know how they do it!!