Twinaleblood

4 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

We can only speculate on that. A strong case has been made that it's from '96.

Hopefully they'll tell us in the near future.

Hopefully it will be added to Ascap soon like it was with Absurd, even if that won't 100% clear any doubts. I mean, Slash & Duff are credited on Absurd so they can get royalties, it could be the case here too. But it will be interesting to see if someone else is credited for this song other than the big 3 and who.

52 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said:

Just to add to the CSI:GNR lunacy…

Multiple people on discord are saying that if you Shazam Axl’s vocals from the village demo, it gives a “no results found” message right away, rather than taking 15 seconds to search like usual. This implies that the song is already in Shazam, but hidden.

Mind you, this doesn’t work if you try it with the intro or the guitar solo and bridge, since we know from the soundchecks that those parts have been changed, but it works with pretty much all of Axl’s vocals, implying that they’ve remained untouched since 2000.

Just had a try myself and that's not true. Before getting "no results found" I get the same waiting time either I'm checking the instrumental parts or vocals from verse or chorus. 

Well, most artists nowadays are dropping new albums digitally first and the physical version months later, as soon as they can get it pressed. Maybe Marillion want to go the old school way and release physical and digital at the same time, but pressing plants clogged aren't really a reason to postpone a release. Garbage, of course, it's different because it wouldn't make sense to release a reissue only digitally.

24 minutes ago, Twinaleblood said:

Cool

Story

Cool

4 hours ago, Tourettes2400 said:

Also the shirts are up here

https://gnrtourtruck.com/collections/featured/products/2021-city-event-tee-milwaukee

My second favourite after the Robocop one. I think I'm going to buy this one too.

Awesome. Going to watch it later today. I'm already a subscriber (actually, I'm the one who messaged you on reddit yesterday and said I'm on mygnr too). Among other things, I really enjoyed your video about Diamonds & Pearls, a really overlooked album. Keep up the good work!

Yep, the guy is very good! I remember he used to post on an old GNR forum I was on before I joined mygnr (gnrsource, not existing anymore. Anyone else here was on there too? That was even before CD was released)

2 hours ago, jamillos said:

 Why didn’t he put it on Twitter, like he’d normally do?

1 hour ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:

It was originally posted on the band's Twitter account, but also shared on Instagram

Well, they have 6+ millions followers on twitter and 5+ on Instagram. That's a lot and probably many of them have instagram and not twitter and vice versa, so it was just a matter of reaching out to as many fans as possible. I, for one, very rarely use twitter and I saw it on IG. Had they put it only on twitter, I would have read it on this forum before seeing it directly from them.

35 minutes ago, FabioRoses said:

According to gnrontour there's incomplete audio source for this one. I tried to find it but no lucky.

Good to know, thank you. Took a quick look around but couldn't find anything for now. Hopefully someone else on here has heard it and can solve the "mystery".

1 hour ago, Original said:

Was a great time to be 18 years old.  I remember being glued to MTV NEWS for reports on the albums and tour -Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion tour Backstage Videos-

Oh wow this is awesome. At some point there's a video I had never seen before of Duff rehearsing his song Fuck You (from Believe In Me) with Rob Affuso from Skid Row (who also played drums for that song on the album). Super cool.

EDIT: I had never seen the video with Duff & Izzy playing New Rose either. Goodness, this stuff is so awesome.

According to the setlists floating online, Dust N'Bones was played live only once after Izzy's departure, in Tennessee on Jan 7 1992.

Not sure if any recordings have ever surfaced, but any ideas who was on vocals for it? Axl? Duff? Axl & Duff? Dustin Bones?

5 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I've got a video about UYI coming to my vinyl YouTube channel tomorrow but I thought I'd share some memories that are not in that video. I'll make a thread for the video tomorrow when it's live

My two favorite memories involve just before and the day the albums were released. One memory is the first time I heard You Could Be Mine. 

My dad was a truck driver, so he had a car phone. And by "car phone", I mean the big black box thing that barely fit between the two front seats of our family van. My dad took the phone with him when he drove truck, but it would be in the family van when he wasn't on the road. We were reminded constantly to never touch it because calls were outrageous in price. So my mom was shopping in a store once and I was just sitting in the car listening to the local pop station. The car phone rang and I when answered my brother was yelling "TURN ON WRIF! TURN ON WRIF! THEY'RE PLAYING THE NEW GUNS N ROSES!". So I flipped over to WRIF and caught YCBM around the first chorus. My brother and I sat on the line together being like "THIS IS AMAZING! WHAT A JAM! OH MY GOD!". It was only after the song that we both realized we were going to be executed by our parents because of a $50 phone call lol. 

My second memory sucked when it happened but it's funny to look back on now, especially since my mom has passed away. The day UYI came out, I got my mom to take me to Sound Warehouse. There was a big floor standee with both CDs on it. I grabbed both and went to the record store. When we got to the register, my mom noticed the Parental Advisory stickers. My mom HATED the F word and immediately asked me if they said it on the album. I was like "well they didn't say it on their first album" lol. 

She asked the guy at the register if they said the F word on the album and he looked at me while I was standing behind my mom. I gave him this look of desperation like "please say no, please say no, please say no". He said "they're really not my thing so I haven't heard these albums but I know Axl swears a lot in concert, so maybe that's what they mean". My mom confirmed that she could return them if they said the F word and the guy said no problem. 

BOOM. I finally owned UYI. 

Here comes the problem. When we got in the car, I was dying to hear new GN'R music. I'd already heard Civil War at some point. So I put UYI I in...... what a stupid decision LOL. 

So you know what happened about half way through the song. As it was happening I was like "noooooooo" and my mom said "this is FILTH" then she did a U turn right there in the middle of a very busy road. Like......action movie car driver style U turn LOL. The tires on the car were squealing lol. 

Back to Sound Warehouse we went. My mom went in, slammed the CDs down on the counter, confirmed for the sales person that they were, in fact, filth, then got her money back. 

So I owned UYI for approximately 2 minutes on the day of release. This was devastating on that day but again, I can totally look back and laugh at it now. I had a friend from school tape his CDs for me a couple days later, which I promptly labeled "Paula Abdul" and "Pebbles" (two current pop artists at the time) and only played with my headphones on.

Long winded post, but hopefully someone finds it entertaining. I'll post the video about the albums in general tomorrow

Man, this is devastating and it still feels painful 30 years later. I'm so happy I live in a country where English is not the first language and I could get away with all of that stuff when I was just 8 years old or so, lol.

Like many of you I got into GNR through Terminator 2. I was a huge action movies/Schwarzenegger fan back then and when I saw the YCBM video with Arnold in it I was totally hooked. I soon managed to record YCBM from the radio, then I taped both UYI I and II from an older cousin a few months later. Eventually, I got both of them on cd in the summer of 93 and they still resist to this day.

Back in the days I liked UYI II more than I, I guess because it had YCBM. Nowadays, I equally love both of them. There are a few songs I don't mind much, but I wouldn't "merge" them as a shorter single record. They're good as is and some of the deep cuts are really amazing.

1 hour ago, klakly said:

 

Gunners...so tonight is the night?!? Will I wake up tomorrow here in Italy with the good surprise of HS?

Fingers crossed!!

22 hours ago, klakly said:

The concert in Chicago is Thursday night. For us it would be early Friday morning.

Ok, I realized this only now. I really thought it was the night between Fri and Sat.
I'm sure that tomorrow morning I'll wake up to MyGnr experiencing downtime. Either for too many people rejoicing for Hard School (or even a surprise new album!) being dropped, or for too many people ranting because nothing happened. 

8 minutes ago, Sweersa said:

It's possible. I just wonder if they can press CDs weeks prior without anyone leaking info or the album itself. The did keep Absurd a secret, which has a fairly wide digital release, so it's certainly possible. 

If that's the case, maybe they haven't started to press anything yet. It's happening more and more often lately that artists release new albums just in digital format at first, with physical editions coming out months later. Sometimes it's because the pressing plants, especially for vinyl, are clogged.

2 minutes ago, Rovim said:

whatever Axl, Slash, and Duff think should be released and has a place in the catalog, is fine by me, I want to hear it. The covers you mentioned could be great as digital releases or as a part of a cover ep after a release of a new album, not before imo.

Honestly I wouldn't mind get them even on an album, possibly not at the expense of original music (ie: if the album is like 80 mins long then I will be happy with one or two covers, especially because I like the seeker)

13 minutes ago, Rovim said:

those people were born like that. Some people just want their UYI 3, two days from now.

I want UYI III and IV. One cover each (The Seeker and Wichita) plus Absurd (original) and Absurd (alt. lyrics). 

Edit: even better idea. Skip UYI III (like the making fucking videos Part III) and just skip to UYI IV (Dolph Lundgren as Ivan Drago on the cover) and V.

Ouch. I was getting used to their east coast concerts with a better time zone lol

2 minutes ago, klakly said:

I can't wait 🤞 Then, for us in Italy it will be a bit longer to wait.

I'm not working saturday morning, so I might try to follow the live streams as long as I can keep my eyes open. Worst case, if nothing happens, at least I enjoyed some live GNR, which is always a good thing.

2 minutes ago, klakly said:

I also searched for Silkworm and it associates it with GnR.

I tried too and, oddly enough, I get GNR if I search for "Silkworm" and not if I search for "Silkworms". Oh well, it's going to be two looooong days before friday night comes 

5 minutes ago, klakly said:

The same here. I'm italian too

Ciao! Wonder if the outcome is related to the location of the users or to whether they are using desktop or mobile app

FWIW, I'm in Italy and I don't have the Spotify app on my phone, I only use it from my desktop computer and I have a subscription. If I search for the song, whichever spelling I try for the title, GNR do not show up here.