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DownUnderScott

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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. I have to wholeheartedly agree with you there. If only Axl had of released a CD2 with these songs as an album (8-10 tracks), it would have been so much better rather than dribs and drabs of mis-fired releases over a long period of time.
  6. 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.
  7. You’re wrong, I read somewhere that it’s not
  8. 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.
  9. Pretty sure the person who wrote that knows who he is, hence the post…
  10. 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?
  11. 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
  12. 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.
  13. 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. 500K of that is probably us
  14. Is it wrong that I want this Craig guy to get hit by a bus on his way home from the show?
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. I thought the slow grinding tune Bach was describing turned out to be Sorry in the end?
  18. 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.
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