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“Yeah, there’s no way three guitar players would work in this band right now. Three guitars is actually very difficult to do. Buckethead did it really well, I think. It worked with me, him and Robin Finck. You have to leave space for each other to create that big dynamic. Buckethead really understood that because he’s very musical. And I’m a big fan of Robin’s, he’s incredible, too… both of them knew it had to fit together like a puzzle.”

This is totally a dig at Bumblefoot 😅

The span of time between CD release and today is more or less the same span of time between Slash's Snakepit 1st album and CD release. Let that sink in 🙄

9 hours ago, Sweersa said:

Monstrocity

With vocals from which year? 😁

On 10/30/2021 at 4:47 PM, RussTCB said:

When the isolated Chinese Democracy tracks were circulating, I took Robin's solo from Better and made it my main ring tone.

Same here 

3 hours ago, DTJ80 said:

Maybe they have their own version of Pele over on the ABBA forums….Maradona/Puskas etc 🤣

I almost choked myself on a cookie 🤣

12 hours ago, klakly said:

HS just passed on a local radio station in Italy 🥳

Oh! Which one? ☺️

3 hours ago, Blackstar said:

great story about the CD title track.

When he mentioned the working title I had to pause because I started to laugh and almost choked myself with hot chocolate 😂

1 hour ago, Free Bird said:

The recording of Slash?

Win 😂

On 10/10/2021 at 3:46 PM, Gambit83 said:

Josh Freese is scheduled for Wednesday!

This is great news @Gambit83!

He's a beast of a drummer. Best one I've ever seen live hands down. I've seen him once with NIN and once with Sting. Freese playing Stewart Copeland's parts on Police songs was pure bliss. If you can ask him anything about how he approaches Copeland's material and how challenging is it to fill those shoes, I'll be very happy.

And I'll be even happier you can get from him any unheard news about one of the most fascinating eras in GNR history 😁

24 minutes ago, JimiRose said:

the new ACDC video has 1.53m views in 4 days

That's a really lovely video. It was moving how they paid homage to Bon Scott and Malcolm Young in it.

Yes, I got to hear it in the meantime and it's exactly what you said. Super crappy recording with Axl and Duff on vocals. Such a shame they let it go. Can't see them dusting it off now, unless maybe they mend fences with Izzy and he shows up as a guest here and there.

1 minute ago, History2010 said:

why the fuck is a 7” vinyl selling for $30? It's not shipping out until June but that doesn't shock me since the pandemic messed everything up with the vinyl factories.

I guess it's just because of the demand. They know it will be the most requested format and they will try to milk as much money from it as possible. And they put studio Absurd and the other live tracks on the cd to give people a reason to buy that "not so much liked anymore" format too.

5 minutes ago, Syk said:

Interestingly enough the CD version has Absurd, Hard Skool, Don't Cry (Live), and You're Crazy (Live)

And apparently Absurd is studio on cd (and cassette)

1 minute ago, Syk said:

Wow didn't even realize that. I'll probably hold off until there's a pressing number figured out.

Also, the b-side of the 7" is Absurd, but a live version. That could mean they are working on something bigger. If it was just those two songs and nothing else, they would have used the studio version of Absurd as the b-side.

2 minutes ago, Syk said:

Nope out on the GNR web store.

 

Hasn't been announced anywhere as far as I can see. I went to the shop with the hopes it would be there, and sure enough it was. Also some 30th anniversary UYI stuff.

True, on the US store. I had checked the european one and wasn't there. However, it says estimated shipping date June 24 2022

3 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

This one is getting very positive response from the casuals on social media, as far as I've seen.

Seems a little different here. Had a quick look at some of the italian music websites posting the news/video and the comment sections were full of casuals bashing it. Almost all the sites announced it as "a song originally written in the Chinese Democracy sessions and then scrapped" and the words "Chinese Democracy" carry a huge stigma in the eyes of casual fans around here (well, not only here, but still). Seen some positive comments too, but much more bashing than I thought. 

7 minutes ago, Syk said:

I want to pull the trigger on the 7", but It's a bit of a gamble when there's no pressing info. Hoping there's not TOO many since it isn't an RSD release like Shadow Of Your Love. Especially considering it's $30 for two songs.

What do you mean? Like making your own lathe cut?

Just now, guitarpatch said:

It sounds like a rough mix. Since they are licensing out to UMG, are they paying out of pocket and going cheap? 

Then why Absurd sounds much better? I assume they used these messy sounds on purpose. Maybe they thought they suited the song better, for whatever reason.

5 minutes ago, Axls5thMetatarsel said:

I heard “perhaps” awhile back tho not very clear audio. Was there any other names at which that one was going under?
 

I get lost in all the leak info which tracks have we still not even heard a leak of 

soul monster? Oklahoma?

Inject an album into my veins what a time to be alive gentlemen 

 

No other titles for Perhaps are known as of now.

Oklahoma was heard in the Village leaks as an instrumental (Axl said in the forum chats the title was then changed to Berlin).

Soul Monster is assumed to be Me & My Elvis from the Village leaks (instrumental too)

1 minute ago, MaskingApathy said:

 Like the mix on SOYL, that's what this should sound like.

But wasn't SOYL mixed by Caram too?

YouTube just says Guns N'Roses, so that most likely confirms it's Frank

2 minutes ago, klakly said:

In Italia è arrivato🤘❤

Sì!!

Soul Monster, hands down.

I would really love Dummy, but it doesn't sound like something that could work with this line-up (to be fair, Silkworms didn't either, but that hasn't stopped them).

5 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Duff had mentioned in an interview in July 1996 that they were about to work on a song for the next Jackie Chan movie. 

Just had a look at the Jackie Chan movie chronology and, if anyone is interested, the movie was most likely to be Mr Nice Guy, released in January '97.
Edit: more browsing revealed that, apparently, the one released in January 97 in the USA is First Strike (originally released for the Asian market one year earlier). So it could be either the american version of First Strike or Mr Nice Guy (released in the USA only in 98).