Gordon Comstock

8 hours ago, Tom-Ass said:

It doesn't matter anymore anyway... Axl's window is gone.. His voice is gone.. They may have been able to do something decent 8 years ago but that ship has sailed.. Not to mention the drummer situation.. Guns n' Roses will never release a good song again..   

This is part of why I'd love to hear them do another covers record. Yes, it's stupid for a band with such a small discography to do multiple covers albums. But there's no indication they'd use Frank in the studio, and Axl could still sound great on Wichita and The Seeker... not to mention some covers of Thin Lizzy, Alice Cooper, The Angels, etc.

Honestly when I saw them in 2017, I Feel Good and Wichita were some of their best songs. They were clearly having fun and sounding good doing it. Wichita is still one of the best songs they play... take the pressure off Axl and let him have fun with classic rock songs, get Brain (or Josh, or any pro session drummer really) and I think they'd knock it out of the park.

That said, Monsters is great, so much better than the other singles... so they'll release at least one last good song

37 minutes ago, Dummy said:

Meanwhile were still waiting on ides of march

Nobody should still be 'waiting' for GNR songs lol. At least we've got this Slash record to look forward to - so far it sounds like it'll be his best album in decades.

One of my favourite artists dropped a new single today, another announced their album and put physical copies up for sale, and another hinted about a release next week. There's too much good stuff constantly being released to wait for Axl's 20+ year old unfinished ideas... The General really cemented that.

10 minutes ago, 22frets said:

Looks like Slash really reached into his hat and pulled out a completely fresh style of playing with this album. I've listened to almost every song Slash has put out and his playing on Oh Well is unlike anything I've heard him do before.

Both the singles he's released so far have been a refreshing change of pace, from the production to his style of playing to the band he's assembled. The singers have been at least on par with his 2010 album... this might really be his best album in decades.

I still prefer Killing Floor, but Oh Well is awesome. Just listened to it. The sound is great, this album is gonna be so fuckin good...

3 minutes ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

Rumor has it these songs were all written over 40 years ago. Friggin' Axl, man...

That lazy son of a bitch, I bet he gets Caram to brickwall the songs at the last minute too. Thankfully Buckethead is constantly releasing music with good mixes and without clipping.

12 minutes ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

 

Oh god, it's the pixelated covers of Perhaps all over again!

Yes, I'm afraid this mistake has ruined any potential enjoyment I may have gotten from the song. I'll complain about it endlessly now. The important question is: are there any vocals that were recorded within the last two decades?

Stoked for this one.

And it's such a minor thing... but the text being off-center on the artwork is annoying the shit out of me.

The Struts announced a show at a cool theatre in Vancouver, looks like I'll be seeing them for the 2nd time in under a year.

9 minutes ago, Karice said:

The thing with Rocket Queen is that it's actually a roughly three and a half minute song. The last three minutes is a completely different song where Axl sings about wanting to be friends with a Woman(I see you standing, standing on your own song) .  I don't know what they were thinking with tacking a completely different song into Rocket Queen and calling it a day. 🥴

Rocket Queen and Prostitute are great closing songs for similar reasons - they're good songs on their own, and they perfectly encapsulate those albums. The first half of Rocket Queen is sleazy while the second half is more personal, but the whole song has a nice groove. It's the G and R side combined into one song and it actually works.

My point was that it doesn't sound good live anymore, and the extended jams in the middle get tiring. This lineup would sound better on songs like You Ain't The First and Black Leather.

6 minutes ago, smoking guns said:

Can any of our Aussie friends review Oh Well? It is out there. We get it at midnight here in the States. 

Got a youtube link? I looked for it with a vpn but didn't see it

I think they're at a point where they could drop Civil War and Estranged. I know, I know, Estranged is their best song, blah blah blah. It sucks the energy out of a stadium show. If Axl sang it with the lower voice it might be better received, but for whatever reason, he doesn't want to do that. If they're gonna play a longer song that most of the crowd isn't into, I'd take Locomotive or TWAT over Estranged these days.

Rocket Queen and KOHD need to be shortened, I wouldn't mind if they dropped RQ or at least alternated it with YCBM.

Replace Slither with a TSI? song or Marseilles... hell they could replace it with Children Of The Revolution if that's released before they tour again. But the novelty's worn off and Axl sounds dreadful on the chorus.

I know some people here are stoked they're playing Reckless Life, but man Axl struggled on that one in Vancouver last year. It was one of the songs where he was dropping lines/notes, and it's a deeper cut that didn't get a big pop from the crowd, he doesn't need to strain himself by singing it at every show.

I'd like to hear them bring back The Garden and You Ain't The First. Black Leather would be cool, and could be alternated with Down On The Farm. Alternate between Raw Power, So Fine and maybe You Ain't The First as an Axl/Duff duet before Duff's solo spot.

19 minutes ago, Free Bird said:

Sorry, link seemingly doesn’t lead directly to the snippet. But it’s out there, somewhere on Insta and Twitter. And it’s the one I’m the most excited for, based on the material we got to so far. Sounds brilliant, even if it’s just 10 sec. snippet.

Yea it's one of his recent posts and also on the reels page. Sounds really fuckin good

https://www.instagram.com/p/C5YzNIMJLSy/

2 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

Would be funny if this ends up coming out around the same time as the UFO cover that Axl and Slash also apparently recorded.

Are they both rumoured to be on the same Michael Schenker song? He thought was working on 2 or 3 projects, and Axl and Slash were on different ones... been a while since I read anything about it though.

1 minute ago, GNRmello77 said:

From when would that be? Last rock in Rio or 2017?

2017 - there were plenty of rumours about this recording at the time

5 minutes ago, Rindmelon said:

@Gordon Comstock 8 years should be nothing to you man 

They've only been teasing this album and playing songs live for like 3 years, so it's not too bad. I posted their single Daydreaming on page 2 of this thread almost a year ago

They released an occasional single and Anderson .Paak has released tons of good music, I can't really complain if it took them this long to really get back together for an album and hopefully tour. The singles have all been great so far.

After almost 8 fucking years, NxWorries are finally releasing their second album. June 7th, can't wait.

3 hours ago, MaskingApathy said:

Yeah Dorothy is a great singer and puts on a good show. The other guitarist in that video is a good friend of mine.

 

 

I don't really like her albums, but this is great:

On 3/29/2024 at 5:28 AM, DoMw94 said:

Yeah but the GN'R of 2006 was a very different beast. You'd never see the current band opening for anyone, including the Stones

No band is too big to open for the Stones. If they asked GNR to open a show or two, do you really think they'd decline? I'm not so sure...

1 hour ago, JimiRose said:

To you yes, but not to 99% of public. Both came out of sunset strip in the 80s, both play hard rock, both have singers that can't sing anymore, both have members of crossover fame (slash and tommy lee) the bands are basically the same set up 2 guitar bass drum vocal. Obviously to those of us who can pick different subgenres within genres, they have different sounds, but they both fall under 'rock' or 'classic rock' the same way van halen sound nothing like GnR but come from same area and play the same genre, so of course they are lumped in together. Metallica and GnR toured because people think they're basically the same and they are literally different genres whereas GnR and Motley arent. 

Today you'll see a classic rock playlist contain nirvana (grunge) metallica (metal) Acdc, rolling stones, the doors, gnr motley etc. You can argue the two that sound most alike out of those are gnr and motley. Today people only care about names. Names equal $$$$££££ and thats all they care about. 

I really don't know how some people can't grasp this.

Yes, GNR is a better band and was more 'hard rock' whereas Motley was more 'glam'. But they definitely share a large group of casual fans and the general public still lumps them into the same '80s sunset strip rock' category.

10 hours ago, Dummy said:

Buckethead

Bucket, Brain, Brewer, Axl, Melissa. No vocals, Axl plays piano or maybe some rhythm guitar on 1-2 songs. I'd travel anywhere to see that show...