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My friend in the industry told me to just give up and become a Pearl Jam fan

Maybe the real The General is the general friendships we made along the way

Sounds like a 100 dollar guitar through a 60 dollar amp, so no definitely not real

Maybe the vinyl got delayed because Axl decided at the last moment to have Paul Tobias add little guitar licks in between Slash's lead parts

The superhero Hyperbole Man called, he said you are stealing his job

I heard a rumor from a guy down the street who told me a D-list wrestler told a guy who got kicked out of a GNR show who told Chris Pitman's towel-fluffer that The General will be released digitally only once the 8-track edition is released in 2027 to the first 100 people who purchase the Perhaps 8-ball

That is enough time to watch exactly one Scorsese film

Yeah, like I hate to say it for those who's repeated mantras are "I hope Robin and Bucket are still on the CD2 stuff" but aside from like 12 people on this forum and like 5 more at most on the Nightrain forums, everyone else wants to hear Slash on Guns N' Roses tracks and have already forgotten that anybody not called Slash was ever the lead guitarist for GNR lol I say that as a fan of Bucket and Fink's work on Chinese - but I am also saying that as one who has enjoyed Slash's solos and riffs on the reworked stuff thus far

After the bowl shows, so does that pretty much rule out the possibility that the song will be debuted live this leg of the tour?

I have said it before and I will say it again, I get if people prefer the CD era guitarists more on CD era stuff, but some of the negative assessments Slash as a guitar player since 2016 gets both on the released studio stuff and CD era stuff I find to be very overdramatic - and overall have found his takes enjoyable. Things like his Perhaps solo or the live Better solo I find fine and don't think the hate matches what he is actually doing but that's just me

Well idk what else to say than I personally wouldn't rate that rating as a Ferrari, all respect ofc

Robin's Perhaps solo is a Ferrari?

Maybe he likes the word more than you personally do? Lol I have liked his work thus far personally that said - Hard Skool in particular but also Perhaps and what we have heard of Absurd via the BBF guitar lead leaked demo I think Slash has done just fine on these three released songs

The problem is, this is all subjective - is there a right or wrong this case beyond personal preference? For example I personally like Slash's Perhaps solo way more than Robin's and think he has been totally fine so far on the Chinese material live, contrary to those who call his playing just mindless noodling

Who is Marc Haggard and Steve Freeman and how come they are on the credits? Are they artists/people that the songs use samples from or something?

I love GNR, but I think no matter how good and amazing The General is, we are already seeing the Stones' album having big waves - there is SO much talk about it in music circles (music forums, sites, magazines, etc.) and The General is really only big amongst GNR fans who know about it already I am really stoked for The General, and I LOVED the GNR show I just saw a couple of weeks ago, but I can't deny that The Stones and their new album are more relevant and are going to make bigger waves than any GNR single released nowadays ever could But no matter all that, my comment is more or less just general puzzlement at many things that poster said lol (the "Stones haven't had a hit in 40 years", Slash screwing up the Perhaps solo, and the "greatest song ever recorded" bit")

This is the weirdest post I have seen here and I was here when Volcano62 was around lol

Though to be fair, for the San Diego show I caught I didn't pay any more for a ticket than I did for any other big name artist, I like no pyro because the big bangs are always off time and distracting from the music to me, and when it comes to the merch truck and whatnot I didn't see anything that was not in line with the prices from people like Sting and Peter Gabriel who I have seen live this month too Honestly, it just is how most big name acts operate nowadays, its just the nature of the beast - I am all for critiquing GNR's business antics when they are off base, but I can't blame them for doing what every other band as big as they, are doing

It's a shame this quote doesn't apply to GNR itself - creativity begets 10 years of copy/pasting and re-recording parts upon parts on ProTools until early versions of the songs leak and you are forced to release something lol

I think it would be weirder if they released it digitally before the vinyl they put The General on specifically to help push sales of physical product comes out - my guess is either on the day of the vinyl release or even a couple of days after

An older James with that mustache looks like he is taking a night off of his truck driving route to see that set

I think people are still putting a bit too much stock in the B-side thing - I personally don't think it is a B-side due to quality or them disregarding the track as lesser, as much as it is just a B-side to just help promote the Perhaps physical single, and I firmly believe it will later get the single treatment digitally and equal promotion just like all the other reworked CD tracks

Thanks for the heads up, great quality video too! I just downloaded it in case it gets taken down lol it will be fun to relive that night with this

Realistically speaking they probably aren't going to release The General digitally until the physical release is out or a short time thereafter and I am assuming it won't be played live until it is out - I see currently no reason to hit the panic button until that timeframe actually comes

This was the first Madagascar I caught live since the UCAP tour in 2012 and the LA Forum show in 2011 and honestly it kicked ass, especially during the MLK speech bit - the guitar work was heavy and the buildup felt massive. I always felt like the song gets a major glow-up from being live, every version I have heard live I get immersed in way more than the studio version Street of Dreams too, it was great hearing that and I thought Slash's lead was fairly well done