1 hour ago, Uncle Bob said:

How Guns N' Roses Used AI to Create Wild New Music Video 'The General'

Design studio Creative Works London turned to Stable Diffusion to create the Guns N' Roses video’s unsettling, dreamlike visuals.

https://decrypt.co/215062/how-guns-n-roses-used-ai-create-wild-new-music-video-genera

So this article confirms Fernando pushed for this crap. 
These guys are still acting and talking about the whole thing like it's something outstanding and out of this world. 

I have nothing against them, only about the their unprofessional way of responding to negative reactions.

This website where this was posted is some cryptobro website by the way. Not surprising.
"Demystifying Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the decentralized web. Follow us for clear crypto news and explainers."

"About six weeks into production the band manager sent him a link to generative AI competition"

Fernando: Yo, here's the Peter Gabriel AI thing. Make it like that

CWL: Yes sure

Fernando: So... now that we do AI, please revise the quotation from USD 50,000 to USD 2,000.

11 minutes ago, Uncle Bob said:

 

I'm not any of that and even if I wear anti blue light glasses, my eyes hurt after seeing this video.

Choosing between bad and worse.

On a separate note, many of us knew for a long time, the helm has been handed over to a spoiled unqualified 40+ year old Brazilian kid who shouldn't be where he is. But we didn't have a tangible proof. Now we have.

5 hours ago, alfa75 said:

Anyone else here get the feeling that even IF they write and record a brand new album, with the NITL lineup, that perhaps a majority here will complain anyway about how:

-It's nowhere near as good as AFD or UYI

-It sounds old school compared to CD

-It would have sounded SOOOO much better with BH and/or Finck.

I am not sure there really is any pleasing the majority of the fanbase here, short of AFD II, which would also probably be criticised for it's lack of innovation.

An a NewGnr nostalgia fan, I say no. I for one, don't think that way. You cannot just conclude the majority's opinion using this thread as your fact.

This Music Video was garbage. The vibe you see is not limited to MyGnr forum. It's everywhere, from youtube comments to instagram to twitter to the word on the streets and in Hard Rock Cafe!

Needless to say Perhaps didn't get the same negative reaction, same with Ritz 91, Axl+Carrie Underwood, Axl/DC and so on. I would go as far as saying that Rock The Rock didn't get as much backlash as this stinky piece of AI.

This thing, sir, was wrong on many aspects. 

Axl Rose performed Estranged with Mickey vocals a meter or less away from James Hetfield at the Powertrip festival in 2023.

10 hours ago, Uncle Bob said:

The fact that they provide explanation after explanation over their shit work is amazing.

2 hours ago, adamsapple said:

Nothing is happening.

Management contracted some cheap ass generation fuck all startup, then somebody typed in "the music group guns n' roses" + "skeletons" + "children" + "boys" + "dystopian urban landscape" + "night" + "neon colors" + "inspired by the movie Blade Runner" and then clicked on "morph with live footage" and "auto edit".

The result is the "music video" of The General.

There is nothing to "get" or understand. There is no direction, no cinematography, no acting, no storyboard, let alone a story or message to begin with. It's just what happens when people on very bad drugs living in their own bubbles are doing their thing totally disconnected from the outside world and their audience, hence their (in case of GNR non existent) reaction to the majority of initial reactions. They might have gotten the "artificial" part, but as far as "intelligence" goes they got a hell of a lot of living to do.

I said it before, just think of what Michael Jackson would have done with AI technology. You don't have to be a fan of his to understand how far off the rails this band and their entourage of coked out yes men have already gone.

I'm actually a little offended by contractors telling me I don't "get" a band I have already followed, recommended and supported 30+ years ago while the majority of those Starbucks hipsters were still shitting their diapers. I'm even more offended by the band not telling them to shut the fuck up. If anyone is in the position to tell people they don't get it, it's GNR not their coked out payroll people obviously not getting it themselves in the first place.

Couldn't agree more. This text is gold my friend. ♥️

Just now, DingBat said:

Who's that your mum? No thanks mate, she looks rank. 

nah, that's Karen. Resonates?

4 hours ago, DingBat said:

Perhaps read the thread of comments before you jump in next time mate.

1 hour ago, DingBat said:

How about you read the full thread before YOU cherry-pick one post and run with it? Straw man.

22 minutes ago, DoMw94 said:

Personal insults. Cool.

I don't get all the anger in his debate. For what all the tantrum? 

@DingBat

2 hours ago, DingBat said:

Look at the time, money, and effort, that went into Rammstein’s Deutschland, it’s more epic and expensive than any video Guns N Roses ever did at the height of the MTV era and it came out 4 years ago (It currently has 351M views). Do you think they made it just for shits and giggles?

So you just said what DoMw94 was trying to explain lol  👇

12 hours ago, DoMw94 said:

People who want a video generally want more than this. It ain't happening these days.

4 hours ago, Blackstar said:

My gender is the same as my sex (which you can see under my avatar on the left).

(I thought my gender was known to everyone after all this time )

Terribly sorry, hard to believe but after decades of being here, I never paid attention to the sex field under avatars. 

the lineup was Iggy Pop, Ziggy Marley, The Replacements, us and INXS.

Interesting to know Tommy Stinson might have had some interaction with GNR backstage in 88!

Furthermore, if I see Fernando one more time in any official music video, I'll be done with the band all together.

9 hours ago, allwaystired said:

A music video for a song that's been out over a month? 

Only in GNR world could that count as "something special". 

Well I don't have an issue with a music video being released a long time after the song. Estranged music video was released more than two years after UYI's. But that video was a multi million dollar cinematic production, not a lazy effort. It had elevated the song for fans much higher than perceived initially in 91 and added to its greatness. 

Even I kind of like the General as a song. It has grown well on me personally. And I really don't want a lame music video to ruin my imagination about it.

10 hours ago, KeyserSoze said:

yeahhhhhh right. It sounds like he stopped getting called and had to call Goldstein to figure out what was up and has somehow spun it to he said the music would be better as a solo album lol 

And why would you assume that's what everyone does in your hypothetical scenario?

Very dark world view.

I'm curious to know about those frustrating and befuddling NDA's 

A thread that makes it into 4th page is a good thread!

3 hours ago, Karice said:

I thought Guns N'Roses is Axl's favorite Band? 🤔💡

Believe me it's not. If it was, we would have at least 6 new albums since 93.

3 hours ago, Dean said:

When all is said and done, 

We're not the only ones

Mama Kin

1992 Paris 

Whole Lotta Rosie

2012 London O2

Nice Boys

-1993 Saskatoon

My Michelle

- 2006 Download Festival

Nightrain

-2002 Pukkelpop

-2006 Download Festival

The Garden

-1993 Saskatoon

14 Years

-2012 London O2 Arena

Bad Obsession

-1992 Tokyo

Out Ta Get Me

-2002 Leeds

-2002 Pittsburgh

Down On The Farm

-2006 Hammerstein Ballroom

IRS

-2006 Rock Am Ring 

Madagascar

-2002 MTV VMA

11 hours ago, DoMw94 said:

And? He's basically playing a character. 

This.

I was just going to say that.