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Never seen that assault rifle before, thanks for posting!

Don't forget this one: (Couldn't find a link to it as the album artwork, just the picture itself)

Though my favourite design is this one, (wish it had been the album artwork):

great read, thanks

I shall be at both Reading and Leeds

No, it's a horrible song.

Your taste in music is horrible, and oddly enough irrelevant.

oh dear fucking god...

Paul....listen to Rocket Queen and November Rain from RIR 3 for more info....

No one knows. No official plans for a new album have been announced. We know Dizzy and DJ said recently thwey're writing nw songs, so we could end up with an all-new album rather than whats left from the CD sessions (though i doubt that'd happen). Just enjoy the fact the band are on tour, have finally released CD, and are rockin out.

Sounds like something a 14 year old would release from his bedroom using Audacity.

This sounds cool...but nothing will EVER top the majesty of the original.

(Before the bashers start: thats NOT a criticism of Robin)

That's your opinion and we've heard only 13 seconds of a demo, so ..

PS: Someone should leak the whole thing. It's a demo of a released song, c'mon, it's not The General or Soul Monster.

It probably will leak before long, it's the same as the rockband multitracks, we got a few snippets, then a few wees later they all leaked. Might well be the same case here

And dont get me wrong, i acknowledge full well this is oly a 13 second demo..but i'm saying that the original is something so special, it'll be nigh on impossible to top. And it's more a comeback to those who were sayin it already sounds better than Slash's work and the original track e.t.c. So yeah.

This sounds cool...but nothing will EVER top the majesty of the original.

(Before the bashers start: thats NOT a criticism of Robin)

A lot of the drums on CD are looped

Yeah I know but why would they go through the trouble of programming a drum loop to rehearse an already released song while they already have Josh Freese to jam with ?

I mean, sure, they could do that, but what would be the explanation ?

Who knows. But this is only a small clip of the song, we'll have to listen to the whole thing before we can really get an idea what was going on.

I'd always assumed that the re-recorded overdubbed vocals on Live Era on certain songs including Estranged were just lifted from the 1999 re-recordings of the tracks done at the same time. But that vocal sounds different to the 1999 Live Era one.

Well no-ones really said about the band re-recording Estranged befre...Axl said about re-recording Appetite, plus You Could Be Mine and Patience....nothing about Estranged. So a lot of the Live Era vocals could have been done just for Live Era, and then these ones done seperately, when they decided to re-record the whole song as a band...

That's not a re-record though, it's just a demo/rehearsal tape. I assume that Appetite For Reconstruction is studio quality.

I doubt it. Axl said in his chats that the Appetite stuff was just a DAT demo thing for rehearsals, nothing more

Drums are a loop. They sound weird.

Something smells fishy...

A lot of the drums on CD are looped

I'd always assumed that the re-recorded overdubbed vocals on Live Era on certain songs including Estranged were just lifted from the 1999 re-recordings of the tracks done at the same time. But that vocal sounds different to the 1999 Live Era one.

Well no-ones really said about the band re-recording Estranged befre...Axl said about re-recording Appetite, plus You Could Be Mine and Patience....nothing about Estranged. So a lot of the Live Era vocals could have been done just for Live Era, and then these ones done seperately, when they decided to re-record the whole song as a band...

That is definately Axl,

Guessing it's Robin on guitar, since it's supposedly from 1999, when only Robin and Paul were in the picture guitar-wise. (Plus the descrition states it's Robin...so yeah)

Won't be a touch on the original, but definately would love to hear this in it's entirety

Holy fucking shit!!!!

Did he mention anything about anymore UK dates?

According to the Reading and Leeds websites, those two fesitvals are their only UK dates this year

Be cool if this forum had videochat or webcam chat rooms.

k thanks.

Typical bullshit by Tommy, talking trash behind people's back.

He should have talked about how he demanded Bucket to suck his ass because he was first in the band and how Tommy hates playing the old GnR stuff because those songs are, like he said during a session, quote 'food for the brain dead', end quote.

He yet has to write a song which has even 1% of Bucket's quality, that's why Axl prefered Bucket's songwriting. Bucket was promised by Axl it would be done that way, that he wasn't going to be just a session player like Tommy boy is.

I cannot believe how an intelligent guy like Axl actually fell for the bullshit of this bitch, which made Bucket leave, amongst other reasons. And now all he has in his band are session guitar players, not 1 guy with real quality. And Tommy is perfectly happy with that because his amazing genius as an average bassplayer can shine through.

It is nice that you are completely ignorant about Tommy's relevance and talent, more so that you clearly have no idea how important he is to the band.BH is over rated to the extreme and as for his song writing?, give me a fucking break, any halfwit fucknut can create overly complicated music with no heart or soul.

I like Tommy too, but Buckethead was far more important to the sound of CD. You're an idiot if you think he has no "heart or soul".

Guess im an idiot then

Go listen to some of his solo music, preferrably Population Override, and tell me he has no soul.

Or go listen to 'Electric Tears'. The first 3 songs alone prove he has soul and feel in bucketfulls (pardon the pun)

Bucket was the best thing tro ever happen to New GN'R

Holy fucking shit, that is awesome!!

Paul may not have been much live (and he really wasn't..), but his importance to keeping GN'R going and his contributions to CD should neve be understated

For them to actually even play Prostitute reguarly would be a start..

Is it just me..because I am a vocalist..that I sometimes hear Axl almost mockingly sing some of the lyrics? Ive been listening to many of the bootlegs from this era and I ill hear intonations from Axl that make it sound like he is singing it completely without spirit and belief. I know sometimes in rehersal ill mouth the words to save my voice or not sing the song with the gusto of live performance because were focusing on the bands interplay and my vocals are there to refer to. Wonder if thats what Axls up to?

I havent seen this topic brought up before ..(brought it up in fear that Id be gang fucked as an Axl hater) yes ..having said that...ill be damned if Im going to assume the position for all of you people out there that think that critisism is all negative and live in the either/or mind set.

Axl has been a primary vocal hero of mine since I was in my teens and I have studied his vocals keenely.

What lyrics do you say have that vibe?

Ron's solo > Brians Solo

awesome story!