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15 minutes ago, WhazUp said:

Regarding the Nightrain solo, on Live Era the tone is very similar to what was his overall UYI tour tone, so if I had to guess (I could be wrong of course), I would bet on Slash's solo being flown in from another show, be it segments or the whole general solo, for tone continuity (it sounds the same to me as his first solo during the solo trade-off section)

Mmmmm, it's really hard to put a solo from another show in because they didn't play with a tick (metronome if you wish). I don't want to believe Slash re-recorded parts for Live era, but either this solo was rerecorded (or the whole track). Or was just like some mentioned of putting a different performance at the start of his solo. Should I do a track to track comparison ? Is it worth the time ?

I mean, we know AXL rerecorded vocals for sake of consistency. If know we would have had a different voice in every track. Maybe slash did the same, should we bother ?

Now, why did they kill Gilby on some tracks ? Couldn't get him to re record too ?

Anyone kind of disappointed with the quality of the mix ? Slash guitar is way too loud, the drums are way in the back... I don't know if it's just me but they theoretically have this in multitracks

On 11/11/2022 at 12:54 PM, James Bond said:

I thought it might be worthwhile to start a thread for this to not cloud the main UYI box set thread.

Now that we've got the unedited versions of Las Vegas and New York in particular to listen to, it might be worth listing the differences between these recordings and their Live Era counterparts.

A few I've noticed so far:

- Nightrain on Live Era is sourced from the Vegas show. We've long known that Axl re-recorded the vocals, but we can hear Slash's guitar go out of tune at the end of his main solo which lasts through the remainder of the song and his phrasing is different than what is on Live Era. I think we could probably conclude that everything musically up to and including Gilby's solo was left alone on Live Era, but Slash's solo onwards must have been lifted from a different performance.

- The source of Welcome to the Jungle on Live Era has long been debated among the fandom but now we can conclude it's the Vegas performance. Of course, this is another track that features mostly re-recorded vocals on Live Era so it's great to hear it unaltered here.

Any other differences of note? It's cool to be able to compare and contrast. The Vegas recording sounds excellent. Way better than Live Era in my humble opinion.

I got to agree with that, I'm a musician, and yeah, slash nightrain's solo from Live Era is different, is played better. I have been listening to live era since '99, so I got quite a surprise when the solos were different.

12 hours ago, WhazUp said:

They are all from the actual shows

These are unaltered. You can hear AXL voice cracking in nightrain... That's the real deal

8 minutes ago, DTJ80 said:

Did anyone ever compile a ‘real’ version of live era which contained (as much as possible) the un-edited/overdubbed versions of the tracks?

That would be great !!

Well, I still thank Rick, thanks to him I was able to listen some new songs from a lost era of GNR. Too bad he isn't allowed to go to concerts anymore.

Finally we have all the CDs. Thanks to the chairman for sharing !
Like others said, can't believe that almost all songs from C.D. where ready before 2001.

I like Salvation, I prefer it to T3 and T5. The others felt like a joke, this one as a serious movie.

The only problem is that it is a Terminator movie, and that raises the bar. If it was called "John's adventures in 2040" , you would hate it so much.

I hated both John Connors from T3 and T5. And Kyle Reese from T5... I didn't know they took steroids in this apocalyptic future.

Grow up guys ! Bob Ezrin refused to work on the album, but he didn't tell the company "it sucks, don't do it". The company rejected the album because of the new sound. They wanted hits and hard rock.

3 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said:

Oh no! 

I think it’s getting to a point where I can’t group these tracks into separate “albums” anymore. Too many versions of each song are leaking now and it’s hard to pick and choose between them all, so I’m thinking of listing everything now as one big fictional “box set,” so to speak.

Question is, should I also throw the remixes on there? Or keep those listed separately?

Unless you want a version with drums ambience on, and with mono room off

16 minutes ago, Gunnerfan_rus said:

 Actually the files are 320kbps but it's content is not - it's only 128~160 as you can see per frequency spectrum (the peak is around 16kHz). Seems like leaker made this type of rip. Imagine these songs in full quality! =0

Also, these files are sadly in joint stereo (not true stereo). Which reduces the stereo field a bit.

11 minutes ago, Bozo said:

Can we all agree that this record NEVER needed Bucket nor Orchestral Arrangements?

I agree with the Orchesta sections.
I think if they brought Bucket earlier, would have been better. Providing ideas for songs at the same time as Finck

This IS 2000 intentions,  finally

Thanks !

9 minutes ago, jamillos said:

Honestly, considering it's a 10GB file, the quality sucks. 

How's the color on this version ?

4 minutes ago, AxlRoseCDII said:

Scraped is very underrated. Riad is a weak track with a lot of potential shown by the 1999 leak, but got ruined along the way.

I started listening Scraped again after the new leaks. Like Rhiad, I'm sure it got ruined by all the remixes.

24 minutes ago, Scream of the Butterfly said:

If that person on Reddit isn't Fernando, it's a pretty good impersonator. 

But why impersonate Fernando ? I mean, you got to have higher standards.

Ok, for the people who leaked the songs. Please upload the CDs and we will collect money to bail you out if you need to. Also, we'll sell merchandise with the "F@#k you TB" slogan. You are welcome.

Let's face it, it's AXL fault. For giving control to this asshole. Never mix family with business

What now ? Do we need to master the album ourselves ? Who are we going to hire ?

I think the drums is Toontrack EZ Drummer... I don't think this is real.

That was 5 minutes ago. I compared the vocals with the 2001 performance, sounds like Axl.

Haven't heard it yet. Who plays drums in this one ?

12 minutes ago, life_247 said:

You probably need something a bit more powerful than Audacity.

I assume Imsorry has done some form of mastering on the track (I don't think I've heard it but there is a slightly alterted version i've heard) - its probably a combination of EQ, and multi-band compressors etc. to give it a more polished sound and stop the drums cutting through. Its not as simple as just going "less drums please Mr Computer"

Plus, the guitars are on the entire stereo field. So, you can't even isolate the center channel to raise or lower the drums.

6 minutes ago, NeonKinight said:

does someone around here has a RAR password breaker ?

There are software that can do that (I only found a commercial one once). But it takes a looong time, days probably with your computer working full time.

1 minute ago, NeonKinight said:

That got me with my pants down, really. 
I was going to sleep.

I was.

Exactly the same here