Axl Rose aka God

I was listening to The General on the bus ride home from work and I got to thinking... I don't think this is truly the sequel to Estranged like Baz had suggested but I think he was on the money with what he originally said, that The General completes a new trilogy. 

I think Shackler's Revenge, The General, and Monsters is a trilogy of music. 

On 10/31/2023 at 2:59 AM, GNRRHCP98 said:

Really throwing me for a loop… I even “liked” the playlist… can someone more knowledgeable shed light? 
 

Or is this just a case of someone uploading something to Spotify and just being able to label its artist as GNR?

People's playlists that they've made can be viewable to the public if you find them. Case and point, this is my playlist with my local files on Spotify LMAO. I'm going to edit the caption to say hi mygnr so you believe me 

2 minutes ago, GoBucky said:

I stand corrected 

I mean... I think you're right still... 2019 is nearly half a decade ago at this point. 

I feel like he could benefit from having some SFX or something when singing this live. The song is very vocally driven tbh and he seems to struggle with it, sadly. 

Honestly anything else that we haven't heard yet...

but personally Atlas with Slash and Duff is something I want too. 

and Better with Slash's intro and solo

I think what I really wanna know now is what Axl meant when he told us that we may have heard parts of it it before, regarding The General. 

I made some artwork (AI generated and put some type over it on my own) for it if ya'll need something for your iTunes/Spotify whatever the fuck needs. 

It's very late 90s Smashing Pumpkins. You can feel the age in the songs but they're alright.

Anyone have any rad artwork to use for the album cover? 

I think everyone worried that it's State of Grace or something should remember that two of the things that were said to us BY GUNS N' ROSES/AXL in the past are that we've heard it before (at that point in 2008 we had never heard State of Grace before) and that it's "most played before Chinese Democracy"

It's either an instrumental of the intro to the song Chinese Democracy (lol I'm trolling here btw) or it's something using a symphony/orchestral song we've heard

Not really sure if anyone has experienced this or not but...

I ordered my Boston shirt and it was set to be delivered today. I got home from work to...not find the package. USPS insists it was delivered here but will get back to me tomorrow. My neighbors said they didn't take it inside/see it. I e-mailed the GN'R Tour Truck about a replacement but I fear I'm out of luck. Being out $55 or whatever is a lot. Hoping worst case they'll just take care of me and refund me but... anyone have this happen? 

1 minute ago, FabioRoses said:

22.17 pm and they're doing Paradise City. Is there a curfew there?

Boston has an early curfew of 10:30. 

All of our concerts end early. Axl had mentioned it before Paradise that they have to end early. 

Yeah, they had the guys do the classic "Hey iHeart Radio this is Slash. Hey's Duff. Hey it's Axl Rose. And you're listening to Q104.3"

That was fantastic. I really love the new guitar work. Can't wait for it to be on Spotify!

Here's my review! 

This was my second show (first was NITL 2016 at Gillette). I'm a sucker for pyro and was a little bummed they didn't have it but whatever. Opener went on time, and I believe Guns went on SLIGHTLY late but barely. Acoustics in Fenway park are terrible, but to me honest it helped Axl's case a bit. Mickey was barely noticeable in person (at least from where I was in the Grandstand). He is 100% seeing a vocal coach or something. I noticed the songs were MUCH SLOWER. They're all played down a key on the tempo. To compare, watch a video of WTTJ from 2016 vs 2021. It's much slower. Axl is also skipping lyrics when he's winded rather than trying to force them out, and it's much better this way. There were moments he skipped entire lines, but the fans singing along made it fine. I also noticed he was trying to sing in a deeper voice rather than go high, and there were points where he was going between the two voices (I noticed it a lot during Sweet Child O mine). I feel like he is very aware of the "mickey" voice and is trying to do something different. The band are clearly making efforts (especially playing slower).

Slash was of course on point, nothing surprising there. Duff was fantastic. Absurd was an incredible surprise, knowing it's Silkworms doesn't matter to me because it honestly was just fucking rad to hear the "We're gonna try something new..." speech in person. It was one of my "list items" The merch truck was sold out of the exclusive shirt in everything but small by 6 also, so if you want it in person get there sooner! I was bummed to not get Patience, Don't Cry, or Coma but I had those in 2016 so I'm not too bummed. Absurd was such a welcome surprise I am okay with it. It gives me hope we'll hear Hard School! 

Random thought, I just noticed my tickets have the date from last year’s cancelled show on them still. Shouldn’t be an issue right? 

I am setting the bar low for the voice tonight but know Slash will be dope. I hope there's pyro to be honest, I can't imagine Paradise without it! 

I'm trying my best to stay excited for Fenway tomorrow/today. No pyro and shot voice has me concerned. I'm grateful to hear Slash live again though! 

Came here to see what everyone was saying about the NITL tour video being posted

Remembered why I stopped visiting GN'R forums. It ALWAYS devolves into "NO MY FAVORITE ERA OF THE BAND IS THE BEST! (BAND MEMBER) SUCKS HERE! (MY FAVORITE BAND MEMBER) IS THE SUPERIOR ONE!" 

Always. Without fail. 

1. Slash (c'mon)
2. Buckethead (virtuoso) 
3. Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (technical wizard)
4. Robin Finck (genuine energy)
5. Izzy Stradlin (Iconic)
6. Richard Fortus (pretty good)
7. DJ Ashba (eh)

I feel like I understand the point of rejecting some of the music. While I find it all fantastic, there is some Mickey Mouse voice on a lot of it, so I feel like it wouldn't have been well received as the comeback album in 2000. But, saying it's all bad is absolutely bananas. Chinese Democracy, The Blues, Madagascar, Prostitute, Atlas, Hardschool, Catcher, TWAT, I.R.S. were all ready in 2001. 

My assumption is that they (Axl) wanted to put something else over this, piano, strings, horns, whatever....it's a good base song for sure. I dig it. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the ending, I hate that ramping up guitar...it just sounds goofy

1 minute ago, Azifwekare said:

What's the bet that the Jackie Chan title was just Axl trolling us and it was called Hardschool all along?

100% what that was, it was probably a meme among the guys to call it that

2018 is a strange fucking year

The Blues sounds so much better than Street of Dreams jesus