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Honestly I was surprised Fat Mike was associating with Dizzy, Mike has said not so great things about GNR in the past. There’s a NOFX song talking about merging record collections with his wife when they met and the opening stanza is 

“I thought you were the one when I heard "Holidays In The Sun"
come from your bedroom 
but my mind started to stray when I saw Youth of Today
mixed with your singles 
What's with this Underdog and this GNR EP? 
I don't think Hanoi rocks
and I don't want your Paul Stanley 
next to my Subhumans gatefold
I'm not trying to be a jerk 
but I don't think this record mergers gonna work”

9 hours ago, EvanG said:

He's kinda invisible, isn't he? Even though he is the longest-serving member after Axl, he hasn't contributed a lot to the music, and I don't know much else about him, therefore it's ignorant of me to be surprised that he would hang out with crazy guys like Fat Mike.

This album will do wonders for 6 degrees games, considering Danny from NIN produced and performs on it and Travis barker drums on it (granted only 5 tracks have full kit drumming).

Dizzy plays piano on this track. It is beautiful even if the subject matter is as pitch black dark as it gets. The whole album is great, Josh Homme said it was one of the best albums he had ever heard. 

Okay but "Chinese democracy is the Avatar of albums" was a good burn.

Honestly, I hope they get Dave Grohl to session drum.

A new single for them to tour/support for an eventual 2020 album wouldn't be insane.

The reunion was 10 years past any commercial viability or shot at relevancy as far as a record goes. An ‘06, ‘07’, ‘08 return while VR winding down and public interest swirling, they could have launched themselves into the Zeppelin stratosphere. But they’re firmly entrenched as a high 3rd tier low 2nd tier all time great band.

What's so weird is that Johnny Rotten doesn't get the respect he derserves for spearheading not one but two music movements, Punk AND post-punk. Public Image Ltd. is unreal. Between the Pistols and PiL, nearly half of music as we know it owes itself to some degree to John Lydon.

Johnny Rotten really is a perfect model of what happens when you behave the same at 60 as you did at 20. It’s not so endearing.

...except it was. What else would you expect? It was nice how much he seemed like Duff. 

Did we reach a conclusion as far was what the beef was beyond GNR and Axl were easy targets at the time?

My favorite pikes are project little man, northern lights, shaded ray, and solar sailcraft. I can't even pretend to have listened to even a quarter of them but those are the ones I have come back to. I tend to be mostly into his take on power/pop/metal/rock stuff, although the super heavy spell he had in the early '00s was incredible.

55 minutes ago, lame ass security said:

What's the biggest difference between death metal and black metal?

Death metal is your blood and gore and death. Cookie Monster vocals. Can be a bit more technical musically than black metal. Despite its content there can be a sense of levity, or dare I say it, fun. Often record in lower tunings, which funny enough if you play their songs transposed up to standard tuning it sounds like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and sabbath. 

Black metal is satan satan depression suicide satan. Extremely fast, blast beats, generally low-fi, though modern black metal acts have softened on that to some degree. Musically, all emphasis is on dissonance and feelings of dreads. Easiest way to reproduced the black metal sound on guitar is to play minor bar chords. Not sometimes. All the time. Every chord, minor. It feels off and wrong, which is the idea. And of course tremolo picking. Musically there is little comparison in modernity, but striking resemblances to darker medieval music. This is best illustrated by Burzum’s album composed and recorded on a keyboard while Varg Vikernes was imprisoned for the murder of Mayhem’s guitarist Euronymous. This, too, is by design, as Black metal is deeply rooted in a form of Nordic paganism, intentionally appropriating the images of old. Unfortunately, this makes black metal ripe for the more nationalistic/nazi types. Varg himself, no longer imprisoned, spends significant time YouTubing nazi propaganda. There even is an entire subgenere called NSBM, national socialist black metal, which frankly can be indistinguishable from other forms of BM if you can’t see the liner notes or album art.

Despite that, black metal is incredible and fascinating music, the most extreme of an extreme genre. Getting into it actually made me enjoy other bands I thought were too heavy for my taste from other genres of metal. Highly recommend it.

5 hours ago, registra said:

1) Would've could've should've, but Neither Can I with Axl's prime vocals would've been GNR's best song

2) Any cuts away from Axl on live recordings takes away from the video quality. Especially on vocals, but also during solos. Doesn't count so much now, but when he was more energetic in his prime I feel like I'm missing out on something every time he gets cut. Its So Easy in Philadelphia 1988 shows this perfectly.

3) Melissa Reese is an amazing musician and I hope she has more than just a background role in the new album. She's an amazing vocalist, and her vocals in Bloodborne(video game) are stunning. She features in the first few songs on the soundtrack if any one would be curious to listen, I couldn't recommend it more. Her work with Brain and the Infamous games is also great. Not so much a fan of her solo pop work though.

I could not agree with #1 more. The first Slash's snakepit album is unreal, and it is absolutely insane Axl (and Duff, for the record) turned it down.

There has not been a single live performance of Sweet Child that comes close to capturing the recorded version. Not in 86. 87. 88. and every year after that.

15 minutes ago, DieselDaisy said:

I think Guns are probably about the uncoolest band in the world - probably just behind Kiss and Crue. 

Idk, a think they were afforded a respect a lot of those 80's bands weren't because musically, it was night and day. Also, today there seems to be some resurgence of respect since Slash and Duff came back, like their new friendly relationship with the Foo Fighters.

It's well done but not really my taste. This new material is by a good margin the best he has ever sounded, vocally.

M Shadows, if he would be up for it. Nothing to Say really illustrated the heavy GNR influence in A7X.

If they never did the seeker or whole lot of rosie again it would be too soon. Black Hole Sun was fun when I saw them, and does Slither count as a cover? I would just like them to switch up the covers more if they are going to do ones outside of ones they have put on albums.

21 minutes ago, ludurigan said:

by all accounts Slash likely didn't have much input in the writing -- or isn't the "main writer -- of most of the GNR songs you mentioned. The exceptions are Locomotive and Civil War which, by all accounts, are songs that he came up with and/or is the main writer

That seems to be the dirty secret, right? That his specialty is adding pieces to a song, not necessarily songwriting itself. That's why outside of a band setting (he calls SMKC a band but the power dynamics are such that it can never truly be a band) his music is generally dad rocky. It's why the first demos they sent Scott Weiland he said it sounded like Bad Company outtakes.

I will say this is more committal of an answer than he has given. At least he is saying there is material and he wants. Doesn't seem like much, but somehow more than we have gotten in the past.

29 minutes ago, Gnrcane said:

According to the video, it was the "imbecile" manager that got Axl to perform the show and get Slash to "apologize" on stage for being a junkie so that Axl would perform and stay in the band with him.  If not for Goldstein, they might have broken up before UYI was released.

Because if we know anything about effective management and leadership, it is all about forcing others to capitulate to the tantrums of a single person.

18 hours ago, F*ck Fear said:

I still wish we could have heard a proper recording of this song with Buckethead.

The HOB version of this song is my favorite.

A proper 2002ish version of CD in general with bucket on all the leads bumble was pasted over would be the holy grail, for me.