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Behind Blue Eyes - The Who

Beautiful Girl - INXS

1 hour ago, TheSeeker said:

I'm going to give another example of a similar situation

There was a WWE wrestling match between Tom Magee and Bret Hart in 1986 that was talked about for years because after Vince McMahon saw it, he yelled "THAT'S MY NEXT WORLD CHAMPION!" at Tom Magee backstage. Unfortunately, the match was only good because of Bret Hart, and Tom Magee turned out to be a horrible wrestler. It never aired on television and the tape was presumed lost.

A few months ago, a woman who had transferred Bret Hart's personal VHS collection to DVD over a decade ago went through some boxes and found a VHS copy of the match.

She posted a short clip online to prove its legitimacy, and within a few weeks there was a live event setup for WrestleMania weekend where Tom Magee and Bret Hart would talk about the match before a ticketed audience, and at the end of the show, they would debut the full match for the live crowd.

WWE found out about this and decided to undercut the organizers of the live show. They contacted the woman, gave her a bunch of money for the tape, and they aired the match as a special on WWE Network a few days before the live event.

 

Bret Hart is doing one of those Q&A tours with Inside the Ropes. I had tagged my brother in law on their advertisement for the Glasgow show. He wasn't entertained, telling me he'd summarise the evening for me without parting with money.

"I made Tom Magee look good and loved cheating on my wife."

Me, with the realisation that we won't hear anything for another 6 years.

(Quietly having faith though)

5 minutes ago, Shackler's said:

Do you know the date it leaked?

27th October 2018

The Sweet Child rehearsal has been out there since October last year. I’d be curious to know if someone has more.

Just now, Draguns said:

What happened? Did the full song for Atlas leaked? Is Pittman back in GNR and Melissa is out?? I read  page 30 and 31 so I'm not very clear as to what is going on. 

Nothing that I know of yet. Melissa is still in GNR and Pitman is doing his own thing. Paul Tobias is still in the vault with his Walkman.

15 minutes ago, AxlRoseCDII said:

you can hear Paul Tobias screaming for help in the background.

Was he using Slash's talkbox from the '96 sessions?

1 hour ago, luciusfunk said:

Wait, Love Kills has the rest of Queen on it? I’m a huge Queen fan and I never knew that. I remember the liner notes of Freddie’s solo collection mentioned the rock version being how the song would sound “if they’d played it at Rock in Rio.” Time for me to do a little research. I’ve got Love Kills on 12” vinyl. Found it at a record shop for $2.00. 

It was a Queen song to begin with. They done a deal with Giorgio Morodor. They wanted Metropolis footage for Radio Ga Ga - which he bought rights to - and in return, they gave him Love Kills for his remake. Brian said that the acoustic version we got on that compilation 'Forever' was the way the song was intended to sound, but I'm not believing that! Great bargain you got there! Couldn't tell you how much I got mine for all those years ago but I always loved the cover of it.

12 minutes ago, luciusfunk said:

I disagree about Thank God It’s Christmas. Christmas songs don’t belong on regular albums. But I don’t guess I’ve ever really thought about it, adding Let Me Live, Let Me In Your Heart Again, and Love Kills would really make The Works better. If they had done that, would you prefer Freddie’s Love Kills, the rock mix from his solo collection, or Queen’s acoustic from Queen Forever? 

Freddie’s solo version would’ve fit the similar style of Radio Ga Ga, plus all of Queen played on it too. The rock mix is class though, probably my favourite out of them all.

Just now, 31illusions said:

Not to me. I never need to hear it. Perfection can't be improved upon.

Biggest thing for me is Axl’s vocals and Finck on lead. The outro to SCOM on Big Daddy is outstanding. 

4 minutes ago, Towelie said:

3 second clips? Is this what we've been reduced to?

Better than the 0.02 milliseconds we got of the supposed Soul Monster leak that was actually a demo of Ain’t Going Down 😂😂😂

I listen to Live Era more than any other Guns record, excluding Chinese. The only issue that I’d deem to fall under poor quality would be Patience. It’s by far the least audible song, the instruments sound so distant and no consistency with the crowd.

Everything else though, overdubs, synth instead of rhythm guitar and re-recorded vocals I am totally fine with. Axl sounds, at least to my ears, at the very very top of his game on those re-recorded takes. I’d love to hear what they done with the re-recorded Appetite.

1 hour ago, Sosso said:

I could totally see this song on his debut solo album Village Gorilla Head. 

Great album!

12 minutes ago, DTJ80 said:

I have never heard the rumour of Axl and the lead vocal before? I wonder how much involvement each member had with that song?

That popped up around the time it leaked. Take it with a pinch of salt though! Another thing I heard that it was a Tommy song that he intended to release solo, but Axl really liked it and wanted it for Guns. None of this is confirmed and just rumour.

1 minute ago, NeonKinight said:

It came out of the blue when it leaked. No one had ever spoke about it.

It popped up on the Rio 2011 setlist, and was mentioned in the video by our wrestling friend with the mental glasses.

Great song. I genuinely hope that the rumours of Axl apparently recording lead vocals for this song are true.

Also, this leaked 6 summers ago. Time flies.

Graham Bonnet who sang with Rainbow for a year (he's vocalist on Since You Been Gone) is 72. I listened to him do Night Games and thought he was incredible. No chance could someone sing like that at his age. Then I listened to his re-recorded album of all his hits. Sounded like the exact same vocal, at least on the chorus. There was a bit of the video that you can see he fluffs his lines.

3:17

19 minutes ago, Nicklord said:

I think that SCOM is the only GnR song that when played live never came close to the studio version. They never matched the energy of the second half live

I’ll second that. It’s not anywhere near my favourite Guns tune, but it is a masterpiece and the band at their best. 

‘86 and ‘87 live shows I thought for the most part Axl sounded great. After that though it failed to match the record. 

28 minutes ago, BlueJean Baby said:

I saw an article yesterday saying it will end in November, so maybe a new tour will come with new music 😊

I hope to god that you are correct!

1 hour ago, Tom-Ass said:

I still can't believe that they don't even have enough creativity in them to at least come up with a different name for this little run of shows than NITL.....

I reckon they'll continue to use the NITL tour name until they surpass U2 for highest grossing tour.