Gordon Comstock

A lot of the songs that have been posted just sound weird. By The Sword, Fall To Pieces, etc. don't really sound like Axl. I always wished Axl had covered more Nazareth songs but the AI version of Love Hurts sucks. There's little parts that work but for the most part my ears just hear poorly filtered versions of good songs. I'm sure in a few years this stuff will be way more interesting but it doesn't really work yet.

Replace UTLH with You Ain't The First and I agree. The slow version of You're Crazy is one of this lineup's best songs, hopefully they bring that back eventually. I also agree Brownstone should be a staple and This I Love should be dropped.

I think Down On The Farm would be a perfect opener for Glastonbury...

Haven't heard the one from tonight yet but I've got very low expectations... I'm interested to see how Prostitute sounded though, the short clip on instagram sounded about the same as the 2017 performances.

Prostitute and Sorry are definitely better fits for this lineup than Street Of Dreams, TWAT and This I Love... It's a shame Axl still uses a backing track on Locomotive though, it's so unnecessary and distracting.

Of course not, you're a good poster Ratam Songs like CD, Sorry and Catcher are usually decent but I wish they'd replace the CD 'deep cuts' like TWAT, TIL and SOD with Perhaps and The General... or songs like You're Crazy or You Ain't The First. Most of the CD songs don't sound good live with this lineup.

Axl has rarely sounded good on the verses of TWAT, but the screams and solo are what make the song great. He sounded bad on the verses here but nailed the screams, it's definitely not the worst performance of the song... Slash really fucked up the solos, though.

Promise seems like a song that Axl would've absolutely nailed in 2010 or 2016, but yea I don't think there will ever be a Slash solo song included in a GNR set unless it's something like Safari Inn that could be used as an intro... Axl would probably never sing Nothing To Say but it would've been cool to hear what he'd do over that instrumental, too.

Like @Tom2112 I had friends text me when it was released saying 'wtf is this?' Absurd has its fans, but as far as being a successful single I just don't see how it would happen. Most people who like GNR don't want that kind of music, and most people who like that kind of music aren't interested in GNR's attempt at it. To be fair, it does work better as a live song though.

That might be a fair argument for Hardschool, but there's no universe where Absurd was ever going to do well as a single. They should've just quietly included it as a b-side and released Hardschool at the beginning of that tour. I'd bet that releasing Absurd as the first reunion single killed a lot of peoples interest in new GNR songs.

They have some really good songs - Loving The Alien, Messages, etc. - but a lot of mediocre songs as well. Contraband gets praised by a lot of people on here but that album hasn't aged well at all IMO.

Yes, there's been rare occasions where he's stopped for fans, but it's not common and half the time he just looks uncomfortable. I know you and a few others on here hang out at the hotels and airports but that shit is just weird... Not trying to knock axljungle, congrats on getting an autograph and some quick pics, but it's totally reasonable that he would avoid groups of fans outside hotels and stuff.

Idk, most people who don't like the production on the 2021 singles are still CD fans, so if they actually release The General it will be one of those rare moments where almost everyone is happy (like summer 2016 or when they released the Ritz blu ray).

If there's a group of creepy fans at the entrance, why wouldn't he leave through the garage?

The full show is on youtube. Here's the TWAT scream

The 2017 shows I saw felt really bloated... Axl sounds good on about half the set now, but that still leaves 15~ songs where he sounds bad. Cut the show down to 20-25 songs and it would flow way better IMO. When it's almost 3 hours into the show and you have to listen to Axl struggle through This I Love it makes the show drag... It would be cool if they randomly played Locomotive or TWAT when I see them in October, I'm not gonna complain about them occasionally throwing in a rarity, but songs like This I Love and Yesterdays just don't sound good. Throw in stuff like You Ain't The First and You're Crazy, and of course Perhaps should be played sooner than later, but they could easily do an all killer no filler show with only like 25 songs.

Wow he actually nailed the scream...

Did he say "this is a song about a very hairy time in my life"?

The jokes won't stop until they play Knockin' On Havarti's Door

Obviously they're gonna open all the remaining shows with The General. *Orchestral stem played over the speakers before the band starts It's So Easy

If they're gonna do another surprise drop, it would almost definitely be at 9pm pt / midnight eastern. So about 9 hours from now. I don't think they'll drop anything tonight, but there's a show tomorrow so who knows...

Axl later said the song was called Berlin so the original lyrics were might have changed or been added to. At this point he could call it Kiev and the title wouldn't really matter, if it's got vocals I want to hear it.

I'd like Wichita Lineman, I kinda hope they do another covers album or EP at some point and release a studio version of it.

If Perhaps and The General end up being another EP with some live tracks, hopefully they include Down On The Farm and Bad Obsession at least.

"Evader's version is better"