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Hey man! How do you like the new songs?

No way, Sunny had a pretty independent personality. That’d be a shocker for me. Len was Sugarlyn (spelling?) for a while but it wasn’t a secret it was him

Tonight we have a good shot, I think. We’re in the back half of the tour and it’s now the same amount of time between Absurd and HS. They also have the Power Trip show, Friday, which happens to be one where they’ll get a little more coverage (not that they’ve ever really utilized that as a reason) Guess we will find out when Friday hits New Zealand

Personally, I really think his playing is just fine on the 3 leftovers. Absurd is a poor song, but the guitars are great. I love Hard Skool and think Slash completely elevated the song. I never thought the original intro and bridge really fit. Now it all sounds cohesive and the slide solo is really nice. Perhaps has solid guitar playing throughout the whole song. It’s a lot more understated than Absurd and HS, but there are some really neat parts that help bring out the rest of the song and make the whole thing sound more like classic GNR. Although it fits the song, I do think the solo is a bit underwhelming. I dig the Robin bend and the first half of Slash’s solo, but I think something more intense would have benefited in the second half

This is the silliest of rumors imo. Perhaps and The General will follow the same format as Absurd and Hard Skool, then, maybe they’ll put out another 2 songs in a year or 2.

When was it on Instagram?!

I don’t think it was a train wreck, but it was pretty unmemorable and unnecessary. Even if people hate the movie, Indy got a happy ride into sunset ending thing in 4. I don’t think anyone needed to see a tragic breakdown of the Indiana Jones character dealing with the death of his son and are lol. They are meant to be fun, pulpy adventure films. He’s not exactly a complex character and never needed to be

Is this the week? Let’s hope

What

Volcano resurfaced with the reunion and still didn’t like Slash haven’t seen Sunny post anywhere in years Miser went insane in that thread

I just hit my 50th Led Zeppelin bootleg record

Seeing Peter Gabriel today

Fuck 4 years?!

Go Lions

Hole. E. Fuck.

Idk if The General can come close to this Really an outstanding song

I hope we get a tour

Holy fuck the new song. It’s like Exile for the modern era I didn’t think they had all this in them. This album might actually be incredible after the first two songs

Perhaps songs great to me. I don’t think HS songs bad, but Perhaps is a great mix imo

I’m guessing this thing will be out, next week. Fingers crossed

I am the general The general I am you are not General The General is not you (lyrics about Slash)

I honestly like the entire album. Better, There Was a Time, Madagascar, and Prostitute are probably my top tracks from it. I think the triple punch of ChiDem- Shackler's- Better is a killer album opener. My least favorite song on the album is Scraped, but I did enjoy it live. It isn't a bad song for me, just not as good as the others. Maybe Hard Skool would have been better in that slot. Doesn't matter, though. Riad is the song that has grown on me the most in recent years. There is some cool shit on that track.

Robin did get a lot of flak from 2007-2010. I probably would cringe on some posts I made on him looking back. He was a very sloppy player in the band, but because of that, a lot of really creative and interesting playing came out of his contributions at the shows. Jimmy Page was a sloppy player, too. Some Zeppelin shows were train wrecks and some were the most magic things ever because of that. Keeps things interesting. Robin had his own style and made old songs his own while contributing some excellent parts to the new material. Guys like Robin, Bucket, and Ron are artists with their own stamp of playing and a desire to contribute artistically to a project. Richard is more of a session guy, but he is INCREDIBLE with an amazing way of playing and tone. I am glad he is in the current lineup with Slash, actually. As you said, @Seb91, DJ just didn't bring anything to the table. He is a very average heavy metal/hard rock guitar player that chooses style over substance. It doesn't help that his visual style sucks and his original playing is underwhelming at best. I liked Sixx AM as a teenager, I guess. That same buddy I mention often in this thread, and I still bring up his "Betcha Can't Pay This" Youtube solo because its fucking hilarious. At the time, it was cool hearing him try and do some of the older stuff note- for- note, but looking back, I'd take a guy like Robin in that spot doing his own thing. I like it when live music is different, and since it wasn't Slash up there, it was cool to have all these guitarists playing things differently to reflect their way of playing. DJ was still decent on a lot of the stuff in 2010, though. Sorry, Better, Street of Dreams, Knocking, Brownstone, etc. weren't bad with him. I didn't really dig his Nightrain solo, but that is more of a personal preference. I always preferred the awesome 2002 Bucket versions and the 2006 Rock Am Ring Bumble version for NuGNR Nightrains.

To be completely honest, I still don't mind DJ at those shows I went to. I admit that is probably me forcing myself to accept him because I cared a lot about that lineup. In 2010 he looked more normalish and wore flannel and tried his best to play a lot of the material note- for- note. He wore that stupid hat, but overall, he wasn't unbearable. For the USA tour in 2011 I thought he played fine at my show, and then for the 2012 theater gig a few months later, he was actually really great with the crowd. He let me strum some guitar strings and interacted with the front, a lot. I got to meet him that year and he was alright. I am not defending the dude, he is definitely the worst lead guitar player the band has ever had, but I think a lot of that is due to his social media persona and his deteriorating image. It became ridiculous as that lineup went on. The playing got sloppier too throughout 2012- 2014. I am thankful he contributed to a lineup I followed very closely, but I am of course glad he is long- gone from GNR. I do wish it was Robin throughout 2010- 2014 or even just Richard and Ron. I don't think the three-guitar lineup was ever used to its full potential in GNR.

That is awesome, did you attend one of the 2010 Brazilian shows? That 2010 SA tour was incredible to follow. Even in Michigan, I was excited for all the fans there who hadn't gotten a GNR show in what seemed like an eternity. Seeing the band play these massive, packed stadiums seemed awesome. For my 2010 show, they played a small arena. Pretty sure the upper bowl was open but not full. I distinctly remember the 2011 Michigan arena show being pretty sparse and them not even selling out the 2012 theater show a few months later. I still enjoyed those concerts a lot, of course. Getting songs like Estranged and Civil War in 2011/2012 was pretty surreal for me, too. UYI live material was almost as exciting as the prospect of new songs because they were so far and few between in 2001-2010. I remember there was this Twitter account in around 2009 that posted all sorts of rumors and alleged leaks. It was about a year or two before the MSL email saga, and I don't remember if they were credible, but it was really fun to follow. One of the rumors it posted was that the band was rehearsing more UYI material for 09/10. I was pretty happy about that. It is still kind of crazy when they whip out stuff like Pretty Tied Up, Coma, Bad Obsession, etc. all these years later. It is also crazy how starved we all were for CD 2 even in like 2011 considering that was over a decade ago. Every time the band had a new tour leg there was hope on here that maybe something different would happen. Even though we got Estranged at Rio 2011 (which was awesome for me), I still remember being really disappointed no new songs were played (and that is all without getting into the show itself). The Village leaks did seem like an epilogue to the entire CD saga, it was crazy hearing at least the bones of all of those titles.