Sweersa

10 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

Yep...as fans we've only really had 5,6 tracks since '94 to get excited about as an official release that will be completely fresh to us...

That is true, almost all of the songs since that time were leaked prior to official release, if that.

This I Love, Scraped, Oh My God, and Sorry I believe are examples of songs that didn't leak before release. The General too. Perhaps I missed one or two, but not Perhaps.  

Tag for later!

2 hours ago, vloors said:

Who you kidding? CD releases production was garbage and the new production of leftover tracks are garbage.  

Theres a reason people preferred the demos.

They need a proper mixer/engineer/producer for the tracks and to keep caram/axl away

This is true

I agree the mixing on CD largely wasn’t as good as the leaked mixes, but the mastering by Bob Ludwig was incredible. And over all production of that album better than the rehashed songs by NITL.

9 hours ago, Tom2112 said:

He wouldn't be my first choice of bluesy drummer

Maybe he has a few songs that are not bluesy. 

2 minutes ago, MaskingApathy said:

Josh played on the 2010 album.

I know, so hopefully he plays again on some songs. 

I enjoyed a handful of tracks from his 2010 solo album. Anastasia is also great, from one of his subsequent solo records if I'm not wrong. Of course it would be awesome if they had Axl guest sing on a song. Sebastian Bach as well. 

Josh Freese on drums of course would be amazing. And/or Brain. Matt too, and Steven for maybe one or two songs that are fitted to his style.

Maybe he can have Robin and/or Buckethead guest on a song if he wants to have multiple leads. 

1 hour ago, allwaystired said:

Nah, the more leaks the better. 

We could do with some leaks now I think- just get some more stuff out there. They don't want to commercially release this stuff, so it might as well get out there for people to hear if they want to as rot away unheard. 

I'm very much against piracy but the leaks have been nothing but positive for GNR fans in the absence of anything else going on. 

I agree. I'd love a Village locker type leak, but of all the material from 2002-2010. One can dream! 

10 hours ago, Free Bird said:

You can praise them as long as you want but as long as I have my own ears I know it’s garbage what you are listening to. 
No offense, you can listen to what ever you want but now that I know what these demos sound like, I don’t have to rely on other people’s opinion.

Cohesive would be the last adjective that comes to mind when listening to those.

That's all a matter of opinion. CD2 probably would of had similar production to the 2008 album if it was released on or prior to the reunion era. 

Most of these new re-heated CD songs with NITL are mixed like garbage. I assumed that was the consensus to most fans here, at least those with an ear for that type of thing.

I wouldn't complain as much about the slow drip of singles if they were at least mixed and mastered well. It makes all the difference. 

2 hours ago, Draguns said:

No offense, but the songs on the Village leaks were not cohesive. They needed work. Hard Skool is the perfect example of a rough demo that needed work on it. It was a freaking mess.  

It’s less of a mess than the 2021 release.  We can’t even tell if the drums on it are from a drum machine or a person. That’s bad. 

8 hours ago, Free Bird said:

No, it speaks volumes about the fanbase who praise these rough mixes.

They praise them because they are cohesive songs, contributed to by the band that created them. 

20 hours ago, Free Bird said:

Of course they did and it was necessary. It always makes me laugh when I read how much better the village leaks are. Atlas is the same kind of a mess, but I doubt Slash and Duff can polish that turd.

The Village leaks were rough mixes. The fact they are even compared to the officially released versions speaks volumes for the poor butchering of those songs and even worse production of the final stonewalled product.

19 hours ago, WhazUp said:

It isn't wrong cause we all got our preferences, however if I was playing MYGNRFORUM bingo, "Sweersa expressing they like Buckethead era GNR more in a given topic" is like a free space at this point

Hehe well it's working! We did get a few seconds of Robin in the official Perhaps.  I need to try harder though.

Is it wrong that I would prefer the ~'99 rerecorded AFD over an actual AFD lineup tour/show?

The hell kind of a name is Jarmo anyways? Sounds like Elmo's brother or something. 

43 minutes ago, 2020_Intensions said:

Ya'll are seriously still on about Taylor Swift omg 

She looks hella good, especially in stockings. Anyone have her number? Maybe she can hook us up with some CD2 tunes. 

2 minutes ago, Trin9498 said:

He’s said a lot of things over the years….most don’t pan out. 

Right, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist. 

1 hour ago, Trin9498 said:

the is no proof there is a CD2

Axl said it at least two or three times.

57 minutes ago, vloors said:

The word you dont get is "new"

Not some garbage throwaway track not good enough for CD from 20+ years ago. 

Axl cant be bothered creating anything new

Please don't perpetuate CD2 songs as being CD2 songs because they were not good enough for the first album.

16 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

Is that his CD2 cover album? 😆😸

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed! 

43 minutes ago, bmus1 said:

His solo shows are waaaay more diverse vocally than SMKC shows. I feel like he feels forced to do that high pitched 80s/90s rock singer thing almost all the time with Slash, but his solo shows feature a lot more of his range. He did a baritone version of the blues song Going Down when I saw him live and it was strong as hell.

Good to know! Thanks. He did play in Michigan on the other side of the state from me a few years back, but I opted not to go because it was in or near Flint.  

I like a few of the songs from Myles Kennedy's Ides Of March album.

I don't think I could stand his singing for more than an hour though, if that. 

Happy birthday, Axl!

I wonder if Taylor Swift has access to or the connections to obtain unreleased CD2 material. 

If so, we need to recruit the hottest men here to try to date her.  

3 minutes ago, DeNfr said:

it lacks cohesion where a global concept could have made accept the diversity of the songs.
out of 14 tracks almost half are relatively average, pleasant to listen to but without any particular substance in the long term.

I mean, who regularly listens to If the World, Catcher In the Rye, I.R.S. or even Street of Dreams & Madagascar? 

there are very strong things like There Was a Time, Prostitute, This I Love, Better, Shackler's Revenge or even something more controversial like Scraped and you would have something very strong with The General, Perhaps, Hard Skool & Monsters 

I get where you are coming from, but I would argue most albums, even by the big bands, only have a handful at most of good songs. Tons of filler, with a few single worthy songs. Guns is no exception, though I happen to enjoy most of CD and AFD. I feel UYI is half filler, at best between the two CDs.

I like If The World, I feel it's one of the best mixed songs they have done. 

16 hours ago, rumandraisin said:

I dunno why years later there's this "Axl was in the studio every year recording vocals" myth. 

Tommy was in the band for a very long time. His word is credible. Even if he exaggerated a little, if Axl didn’t record for a year or two, that’s still a lot of recording. They can and do record while on the road. It’s not hard for them to book a recording studio anywhere they happen to be on a tour. It’s not like the band is performing 24/7 while on tour. They get breaks. They gotta eat, they gotta sleep. They rest as well and do fun and productive things while on the road.