Jakey Styley

Wow. Feels like Axl knew he wasn't going to let this song sound like shit live, it's too important. What's with the alligator

Axl truly sounds absurd performing the song Absurd

It’s the spelling of Skool, the song is automatically bad for that and the accompanying school bell

Bach also described Sorry as doom metal, the guy is fucked

Same, can’t get this shit out of my head. I’m still gonna try to not listen again until the real release. So tough though.

Gotta say I’m surprised to see people ragging on the General “daddy don’t” lyrics - we’ve known this song was about abuse for a while, and the lyrics SHOULD make you uncomfortable. Most musicians would never even write on such a dark and vulnerable subject. I do think the chorus lyrics are weak in that it’s not clear what he’s trying to say, the whole “and the, and the, and” thing sucks

What makes you say that? It's def not "epic" in the way everyone thought it'd be.

One thing I'll say - assuming these were ripped from a vinyl - they sound fairly far from being complete, like so far that it's surprising they were ever placed on a vinyl?

Chills The General is basically every bit as good as I hoped. I did expect a killer solo though. I never doubt Axl's songwriting. Even the dumb shit he writes like Eye on You is good to me. I think I might try to put these away until December. The mix/quality on Monsters is pretty rough to me,

Do we know anything about the history of Monsters?

Starting to get really excited

2009 Tokyo Nightrain where Axl sung the beginning an octave up. He really had something to prove on that tour.

Not the first time Tommy has spoken of Axl's difficulties releasing the album, I'd love to hear his specific explanation of that

Or get a longer one - it's even too short with his arms down

Really happy to see him out there and that he’s healthy enough to still do the nunchuck routine. Also not a short show. He seemed like he just kept wanting to play based on all the little cover bits he was doing.

Big props to Axl, hopefully that’s how he’ll sing the song more often than not going forward.

Love the Buckethead vs Slash Argument, feels like 2010 or something

In the studio for example, he still wears the bucket/mask (always does when making music) but is less in character (for example, he talks to people, does not require a puppet lol). He's really shy regardless but there is a normal guy in there.

Holy shit Axl would sound bad on these today

He had health issues that prevented him from touring for a while + had his house broken into and some of his valuable guitars stolen.

Kindof curious about how a casual fan feels about Axl singing these songs lower. It might only be a GNR nerd thing to think it sounds great. They might be wondering where his signature high voice is. To me though, he sounds much more like himself singing like that than he does when Mickey is at its worst (which it usually is)

Strong Madagascar - are both Fortus and Slash soloing? How do they handle that part?

At least we won't know how bad Slash fucks this one up since we will not have heard the original.

Haven't done this but I can imagine how that would happen.

This is super informative, one of the most valuable interviews from that time I've ever read. Slash seems like he's being relatively fair and honest here. He doesn't totally dislike Axl yet at this point, GNR is still a possibility to him, so he's not just shitting on him.