Gordon Comstock

I'm hoping for Marc LaBelle on a song... 🤞

I've been saying for years that the most interesting thing Slash could release would be a blues album or another album with guest singers, so this is great news.

This is honestly the best GNR-related news we've had in a long time. I don't care about more SMKC albums but I'm fucking stoked for another Slash & Friends album: Slash and Lovato first worked together on his upcoming second solo album, which he describes as having “a bunch of different singers” and being “sort of similar to my first solo record” (which featured Fergie, Adam Levine, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Cornell, Nicole Scherzinger, and other A-listers) but “more blues-oriented.” After Slash invited Lovato to sing on that record and their duet was a success, “I told her, ‘Hey, if you ever need me to put some guitar on something, just let me know and I'll do it!’ And so she hit me back about two weeks, three weeks later, and said she's got this song that she's doing a remake of and asked if I'd put some guitar on that. [Guns N’ Roses] did a show in Norway and I had a day off, so I found a cool engineer and studio in Norway and just put the guitars on there. It's amazing how fast it came out.” Slash is keeping mum about the details of his forthcoming star-studded solo LP. “You're the first person. I'm not telling any more. You're the first person I've even said it to!” he chuckles. “It's been totally under wraps, but it's definitely coming out next year. … There's not really much more to tell you at this point, but [Lovato and I] definitely recorded something. Her [album Revamped] is way different than mine. It’s a completely different type of a song, so it's interesting how diverse her voice can be.”

Some people think it's 'Box' from Izzy's acoustic album, but Axl mentioned Down By The Ocean after that song was released, so who knows. I think the most likely answer is they had a song called Down By The Ocean, and Izzy re-used the lyric on a different song years later when he released Fire.

Pitman seemed like a douche but I like his contributions to CD. DJ seemed like a douche but at least he wrote original solo spots with the band, he fit that era well (for good and bad reasons) and was cool with fans. So my vote goes to Gilby. He was a fine replacement and I don't have anything against him, but he didn't write or play on any original songs with GNR and his solo stuff is pretty boring.

I like OMG, but otherwise I agree. Axl mentioned "10 bonus tracks" in '02 and the remix album in '09(?) so I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume the re-worked version was never meant to be an album track. But the '99 version wasn't a demo, and the only time the song should ever be re-released is in a CD box set. Axl tried to downplay it as a demo after people criticized it. Of course it wasn't really a demo, but the mix does suck though. The only official release with Josh Fucking Freese and he's buried in the mix.

Explosions In The Sky are finally releasing another album, in September

Couldn't disagree more. It's not about playing note for note, just playing a good solo that fits the song, and Slash rarely does that on CD songs. Fortus sounds great on the few solos he plays though.

Idk if it had anything added, but the initial leaks of ITW and Shackler's remixes were like a minute shorter than the real tracks.

Ah, so Fortus only played it for the 2nd half the tour. Columbus (the show after Cleveland) is the 2002 show I've watched and listened to the most, and I know Fortus played it at that show. Just looked up the video for Chicago 2002 and yea it's Robin playing the first solo. Thanks for clarifying.

In a 3 hour show, why not? His solos on KOHD are nice, he was as good or better than Slash on Wish You Were Here, and his solos on CD and SOD are much better than Slash's. Sorry I don't just want to stand there going "OMG it's Slash, what an icon!!! Everything he touches is gold, I love Sweet Child O Mine and Guitar Hero!!!!!!" it's pretty obvious that Slash's playing is hit or miss these days. If Fortus sounds better on the CD solos then he should play the CD solos, Slash still gets plenty of spotlights throughout the show

Locomotive sounds great when Axl sings the verses with his natural voice. Get Melissa to double the vocals and it would sound even better! The difference when he switches back to the weak mid-voice is ridiculous, they may as well have turned his mic off for the "taking time for quiet consolations" verse, and then he comes right back in at proper volume for the last line and the chorus

Doesn't seem like there's any new songs.

Slash will very rarely play a decent solo on TWAT or TIL, but the vast majority of his CD solos have been shit. At the very least they should let Richard do the solos on TWAT and the full solo on Street Of Dreams.

They will be simultaneous. Obviously aliens and CD2 both exist, and when we say Axl has been waiting for the muse to strike or the stars to align, we weren't that far off... he's actually been waiting for permission from his alien overlords to finally release more music.

I think Tacoma 2002 was the first? Pretty sure Robin played it during all the European and Asian shows but Richard definitely played it on the NA shows.

This is the first tour since 2017 where Axl has consistently sounded decent for around half the show. I'd like to see them add You Ain't The First and Black Leather eventually, and bring back the slow You're Crazy, so we get even more of Axl's natural range. The Garden or Marseilles would probably be good too. I saw him in 2010 and it was like a different person, it was the last year of 'classic Axl' IMO. I've enjoyed all the shows I've seen since then, but 2010 was a different level. The reunion was definitely late but the same could be said for most of this bands career...

They're not samples, they're full songs and the argument of 'one song vs. a collection of songs' doesn't really work for GNR - they aren't writing concept albums where it's one big piece of art like Pink Floyd. We have some idea of 'what it is' and regardless of whether Absurd is ever included on an album, it will always be one of their worst songs IMO. We want albums but that's not how the majority of people consume music, and I think they missed their moment years ago to really capitalize on a new album. A few singles to test the waters is a good idea as long as they follow up with an album... but Hardschool and Absurd aren't even new songs anymore, and there's no reason to think they'll release an album soon after Perhaps and/or The General drops. So we can only judge these songs as standalone releases.

UYI had more than 4 AFD era leftovers - Don't Cry, The Garden, Yesterdays, Bad Obsession, You Could Be Mine, November Rain, Back Off Bitch, Perfect Crime... so it's more like: AFD - 12 Lies - 8 (if we count SOYL, or 7 if we're not counting You're Crazy twice) UYI - 8

It's not that weird, a song can go through plenty of working titles and be referred to as any of them. Absurd was still called Silkworms in 2008 even though it had been restructured by that point, Scraped was Lies They Tell, Street Of Dreams was The Blues and Stardust... I've been in bands where songs had real titles but we referred to them with inside-joke titles, I assume JChan was a similar kind of thing.

The beginning of Down On The Farm

And it was played by Neurotic Outsiders a few times, at least once with Slash (at a soundcheck).

I think it was @Stay.Of.Execution that said he heard it?

The 2006 darknemus leak of IRS is probably my favourite version of the song. Even with the bloat on some of the album versions, these were always good songs at their core. I usually listen to the early demos but some of the later additions definitely elevated the songs in a live setting.