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8 hours ago, Joraz said:

Completely unrelated, but just saw your location. Rare to find another Aussie on this forum, even rarer to find another Tassie on the forum! Sending my Greetings from Devonport 

Fucking Tasmanians, your not really part of Australia 😁

9 hours ago, W. Axl Kev said:

When you're a band who solely tours, what is the difference?

I've met Del a few times, most recently last year at a small bar when he came to watch a mate's band play (My mate is a great friend of his). He is the tour manager and handles all the logistical stuff of which there are numerous things that all must go well for a tour to be successful. Del seems to be a genuine and nice guy. Zero ego. 

There would be other managers too, financial managers, marketing managers perhaps, and each of Axl (Guns N' Roses), Duff and Slash have their own individual management. Fernando was the General Manager of Gn'R, so depending on the Business model/structure of Gn'R, he probably has a lot of power and sits above most.  I always thought it was a strange appointment though, to appoint a nobody as the GM of one of the biggest bands of all time. Obviously Beta had a bit to do with that. Axl seemed to be passive about it when he talked briefly about it on that tv interview years ago. 

1 hour ago, Arnuld said:

1. Longer 6-8 mins

2. more string emphasis because of all the talk about beltrami over the years. And the show intros in the mid to late 2000s

3. Uh not weird. The Daddy Don’t parts are just hard to listen to. 
 

4. At least one super epic Guitar solo

5. More lyrical complexity

Nailed it. In other words perhaps, better song writing and better songcraft. It all comes across as the usual Frankenstein patch together ideas and hope like fuck that they flow. 

I must admit, I very much enjoy listening to The General and Monsters as I just have a boner bigger than Donald Trump's ego every time that I hear Axl's voice on new music.

But, then my brain takes over the thinking from that boner and I realise in comparison to the original GnR music (AFD/LIES/UYI) that the incredible song writing and contributions from a team of mind-blowing musicians leave this stuff for dead.

On 10/29/2023 at 11:16 AM, AxlRoseCDII said:

I disagree. Slash loves creepy, unbridled horror shit. He may like Monsters, The General and even Absurd more than you think.

Might as well add My World to that 😁

On 10/29/2023 at 2:25 PM, WhazUp said:

I dunno, replace the electronic drums on Monsters with Matt Sorum and that could easily be a VR track with Scott singing the lower parts.  I don't think it is hard to imagine the concept that Slash has matured since he left GNR in '96 and is open to stuff.  Its still heavy drop D rock music - it isn't like this is genre hopping that much, you know?

Even The General, it has more electronic drums than something Slash would do solo but the song itself is still basically just a rock song with lots of distorted vocal effects and sitar samples

That’s probably my point, effects, samples, it all sounds like computer music,  not a band effort. But that’s Axl for the past 25 years. 
 

Interesting you mention VR, I totally take your point that it is a bit more similar. And I really liked VR and hearing Slash getting down with some heavier guitars. 

I think what this “new” music demonstrates is how much Slash and Duff have bent over and spread their cheeks for the almighty dollar. This really is not their kind of music and after all these years Axl still is the Master of puppets. 
I like the songs, but they are so far from what Slash and Duff really want to do IMO. I most certainly could be wrong, but I doubt it. 
In all honesty, I would prefer a studio version cover of the Seeker with Slash and Duff on it. But that’s just me, I’m more into the organic rock songs than the industrial noise songs. Axl pulls it off because he is amazing as a vocalist and someone who can find the melody in anything, which is rare. 

1 hour ago, GNROSAS said:

I would love to hear the General & Monsters🙏

It’s on YouTube. Not hard to find.

14 minutes ago, Slugworth said:

^ That Axl would cringe at what the GNR camp has turned into.

 

Nannies and pool boys selling sweat shop toys and candles while being unable to release a single song properly.

 

 

And if you actually buy this shit you are just feeding the beast. They are just a money making machine these days. Pure and simple. Won’t get a cent out of me for their crap.

6 minutes ago, cineater said:

The streamer we are watching now.

Oh okay thanks 🙏 

30 minutes ago, cineater said:

Hey, Nicole got her tickets from Slash and has a picture with him before the show.

Who’s Nicole?

On 10/7/2023 at 2:46 AM, 6lake sa66ath said:

I thought I read somewhere Aftershock is in fact one of the highest grossing festivals in the world, correct me if I’m wrong.

You’re wrong, I read somewhere that it’s not 

1 hour ago, Gordon Comstock said:

I wonder if Maynard also heard/watched the GNR set?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CyJhSalpeGB/

Poor Maynard is so pretentious, he just makes himself look like a dick with his own over-inflated ego that he has no insight into. 
 

I still love Tool, and hope that he crawls out of his own arse to make a new record again soon as he is very talented. Just a wanker. At least Axl seems reasonably humble in comparison.

5 hours ago, Voodoochild said:

That’s the funniest shit I’ve seen today 

 

Pretty sure the person who wrote that knows who he is, hence the post…

Did anyone see the brief snippet of video that Beta posted yesterday of them walking around inside a gas station? Axl walks up to her asking if they can make a steak sandwich in the tour bus? I wonder if he knows she records that stuff and posts it? 

On 9/8/2023 at 3:43 AM, colonizedmind said:

This is my previous favourite reunion take....great camera work too!

 

Wow! That was amazing, pretty much perfect. I can’t imagine he would have sung it any better than that in his whole career. 7 years ago though, so I guess that’s a very long time in a vocalists life. Thanks for posting - I really enjoyed listening to it 

I heard Perhaps on Triple M radio here in Australia the other day whilst driving. They played it with no introduction, and no mention of it as a new song when it was over. No mention it was a GnR song, nothing. Maybe they had already done that since it was released, so now it was just rolling through like all other songs.
It still is a great time when you unexpectedly hear a new GnR song played on the radio - such a cool surprise. It sounded great turned up loud on the car stereo.

Alot of people would say that you shouldn't reheat Chinese leftovers, as the quality may be questionable 

But I think the song is a nice little catchy tune. Paired with the cool and colourful video it comes across well, obviously nothing like the AFD era GnR and that is something that the general public always will struggle with. Such was the impact on the music scene of the AFD / UYI era, that testament to that is the fact people are so attached to it. 

99% of people who go to GnR shows, or who may listen to Hardskool, Absurd and Perhaps haven't folllowed Axl and the band the way we have  for the past three decades, and therefore don't get the evolution over time. 

Hopefully the General is a more awe-inspiring traditional GnR song than these other three CD left over releases, and gets some serious exposure, radio play and success.

4 minutes ago, DingBat said:

It's at 600k and climbing and in only 19 hours, it's doing really well for them. Might hit a million by the end of the day.

500K of that is probably us 

4 minutes ago, cineater said:

https://www.facebook.com/craig.petralia/videos/1239379157461548/?mibextid=vZyUwM

Is it wrong that I want this Craig guy to get hit by a bus on his way home from the show?

Love Catcher! It’s a great song

44 minutes ago, Stro said:

Hard to argue that TB are bad managers when they've been the management team for a 7 year world tour, being in the top couple of most successful tours of each year (and therefore of all time). There have been no problems, everyone gets to do their side gigs, they're making much more than they did on the UYI tour. There have been a ton of pro shot audio or video, the AFD box set and UYI remasters, vault releases, couple of singles. 

All much more than the prior 8 years since the release of CD. Of course it would be preferable to have a whole album and more vault stuff, and TB's relationship with the fanbase is questionable, but their job isn't to manage the fans. 

It’s a good argument you raise. I have a friend who is close mates with Del James. Del doesn’t get the recognition he deserves, and is very much intimately linked with the success of the touring, as well as being a great middle man common to all three of the big guns and their separate respective management teams. But Dels’ a quiet achiever and just goes about his business. 
 

The lack of new music over the past few decades really all sits on Axl.

2 hours ago, megaguns1982 said:

Why do some people think that “the general” is going to be released? It want even ever confirmed what song was on that shitty fashion show clip, it was definitely Axl. But cmon man, people just make so many assumptions based on nothing around here

Mate, you get some wankers on here that just make shit up. Several of them in fact, and it snowballs so much that they start to believe their own bullshit. Then others jump on the band wagon (pun intended), and then the groundswell of followers try to twist the crap into some form of semi-truths in their minds. Before you know it, The General is going to be released and be featured on the soundtrack for Terminator 12.

8 hours ago, jimisbatman said:

I've dismissed Perhaps coming out, and thought I was right.... But, just maybe any chance it gets played tonight, then released on Spotify after the show? 

No chance 

4 hours ago, Blackstar said:

Yes, he did. He also described the vocals:

Bach: [...] One of my favorite songs — I asked Axl if I could mention the song titles and he said "Fine" — and one of my favorite songs is this song called "The General", which is so… it's by far the heaviest metal tune I think Ι've ever heard Axl do, this slow, grinding riff with these high, piercing vocals, screaming vocals. I was like, "When is this coming out?" And he said, "2012." I was like, "Dude, you're killin' me!" He goes, "Well, this comes out on the third record. It relates to this song, it's a trilogy, this goes with this lyrically." He's got it all figured out, he's just different than other people. He does things on his own time, in his own way, but you know... the world's not prepared for what I've heard from this guy. [Metal Edge, Nov. 2007]

I thought the slow grinding tune Bach was describing turned out to be Sorry in the end? 

On 8/5/2023 at 10:17 PM, Rovim said:

so Tommy is not allowed to have an opinion about his favorite Gn'R album cause why exactly? especially when music is such a subjective topic.

He doesn’t say it is his favourite album, which is what you have just said. He said it will historically be seen as their best album. C’mon man, that’s just dumb.