Nikki_Sixx

3 minutes ago, Gibbo said:

Yeah I hadn't listen to it yet

Seems to be from the same session though, just different take and mix.  Where does yours come from ?  If you have it in lossless form, I can speed-correct it for you, it'll give us an additional/alternate version of this demo.

1 hour ago, Gibbo said:

Thanks troccil 

 

I have them on my channel but not as good quality.

 

This is obviously, aside from being horrendously sped up, not the same version.  There's no backing vocals on yours, it's a different vocal take, there's no acoustic guitar ...

There it is boys and girls, GNR's complete first demo tape, recorded at Mystic Studio in Los Angeles in August 1985.  How's that for holy grails ???

'Don't Cry' was officially released as the b-side to the 'Don't Cry' single in '91.  Everything else is previously unreleased, especially in this quality.

Thank you so much for sharing !!!  Thanks you for making the files lossless !!!

Hurry up, before they get taken down...

... or wait until they get bootlegged in Japan 

So there you have it.

Straight from the horse's mouth.

Axl did not re-record vocals for Live-Era between '98 and '00.

He might have at some other time, but not while Beavan was there.

That's settled then.

7 minutes ago, GNRfanMILO said:

You've been missing A LOT if you think that '99 Axl sounded like the '90s. There are DOZENS of concerts that kick Live Era's ass... For example this: (now you're going to tell me it doesn't count because Slash is not on it)

 

I think you need to read my post again ...

12 minutes ago, Sosso said:

That album is probably the worst live album ever. I would rather listen to any soundboard of the concerts.

That's totally irrelevant.  We're talking about eras, not the actual album.

However, I'd rather listen to the album Live Era (even with the '99 vocals), than anything since '01, at least he could still sing in the '90's...

12 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

If you notice, it's the same usual folks who are that way and it's to the point of humor now. I used to battle with them for years and now I just don't give a shit. They're welcome to say whatever they want about how they can't understand how I would like this or that and it just doesn't register with me anymore. 

Good !  That's settled then.

1 hour ago, F*ck Fear said:

All this time later it still shits me when people can't understand some of us actually enjoy the different eras of Guns N' Roses.

I would rather listen to a show from 2002 to 1992. Reason for this is I dig the "industrial" element the sound had more than the 20 person "Big Band" bullshit.

At the end of the day it's all Guns N' Roses, to me. I just prefer certain era's to others.

Live Era '87-'93.

Nuff said.

How anyone can prefer anything after '93 is beyond me

You might as well include a Gunz 2 Roses show or other tribute acts ...

Aaaaaaah the 'Skin n' Bones' tour ... started out so promising, ended up so dissapointing...

Especially the European run.  If you look at the '92 European leg, compared to the US/Japan shows in late '91/early '92, the shows were shorter, more predictable, more boring.

But if you look at the '93 European run, shows started dropping under 2 hours for the first time since the start of the UYI tour.  Setlists were even more predictable than in '92, less songs, always the same songs, always the same opener (rings a bell ?!), the acoustic set was getting even longer and killed any momentum the shows might have had.  I find the '93 European leg to be the least exciting part of the UYI tour.

The 'Skin n' Bones' tour had started out so promising.  More focus on the UYI material, more deep cuts, more rotating in and out, ... New stage, new line-up, new weight for Duff ... It didn't last very long though.  By the time they got to Europe, they had dropped almost all the good bits of the US leg : 'Garden Of Eden', 'The Garden', 'Nice Boys', 'So Fine', 'Reckless Life', 'Yesterdays', 'Nightrain', 'Don't Cry', ... 

If you went to see GNR in '91 up till April '92, there's was no way of knowing what you were gonna get.  Shows ran up to 3 hours, openers rotated in and out, there were one-off deep cuts, there was a core set and different songs rotating in and out.  If you went to see GNR in Europe in '93, this was basically what you were gonna get :

1 . It's So Easy
2.  Mr. Brownstone
3.  Live And Let Die
4.  Welcome To The Jungle
5.  Attitude
6.  Double Talkin' Jive
7.  You Ain't The First
8.  You're Crazy
9.  Used To Love Her
10. Patience [w/ Imagine]
11. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

12. November Rain
13. Dead Horse
14. Band Introductions
15. Drum Solo
16. You Could Be Mine
17. Guitar Solo
18. Godfather Theme
19. Sweet Child O' Mine
20. Paradise City

If you went to see GNR in the US in late '91/early '92, you had a good chance of getting this :

1. Welcome To The Jungle
2. Mr. Brownstone
3. My Michelle
4. Live And Let Die
5. Attitude
6. Don't Cry [w/ Shannon Hoon]
7. Bad Obsession
8. Double Talkin' Jive
9. Civil War
10. So Fine
11. You Could Be Mine
12. Wild Horses [Intro]
13. Patience
14. Pretty Tied Up
15. Band Introductions
16. Drum Solo
17. Guitar Solo
18. Godfather Theme
19. Sail Away Sweet Sister / Bad Time [Intro]
20. Sweet Child O' Mine
21. Piano Solo
22. November Rain
23. Move To The City
24. Yesterdays
25. Rocket Queen [w/ It Tastes Good, Don't It?]
26. Only Women Bleed [Intro]
27. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
28. Estranged
29. Mother [Intro]
30. Paradise City

You'd also get 2 backing singers, 3 horn players and a second keyboard player thrown in for free

Don't forget Mick Wall's first GNR book 'The Most Dangerous Band In The World'.

Why ?

Because it's full of full-length one-on-one interviews with Axl/Slash/Duff, offers insights into one of the most interesting eras of the band : '89/'90.

Released as a single.

NOT a deep cut.

If you claim otherwise, you have no idea what a deep cut is.

To me this is better news than this ridiculous 'reunion' !  Let's hope he doesn't hold back though...

1 minute ago, Order of Nine said:

Consistent and better then he's done on any past tour.

Ok then !  Happy for you !

22 minutes ago, Order of Nine said:

Axl has been the most consistent in his career since the AC/DC tour. 

Consistently cringeworthy !

On 5-2-2018 at 2:41 AM, Order of Nine said:

Cause no matter what you or anyone thinks about GNR from 2001 to 2015 that time period would have never happened if it was the rest of the old band with some other singer. 

Have fun being stuck in the 80s. 

At least the old band with a different singer would've saved us from Axl's cringeworthy vocals since 2001

Mickey says hi !

I don't hate CD.

Amazing album.

I hate the fact that he just HAD to call it GNR, and ruined the GNR legacy in the process...

I hate the fact that he deliberately chose to sing like Mickey Mouse on his own album

I hate the fact that ONLY Axl manages to delay his own delays, and not communicate about it AT ALL ... while blaming everyone else except himself for it all.

I would have had no problem with Axl and his hired musicians, if they'd just called it what it IS, an Axl Rose solo album.  They're probably all excellent musicians and nice guys.  I hate the fact that each and everyone of them went along with the charade of calling that 'band' GNR...

... and that none of them had the balls to tell Axl to stop singing like a chipmunk and start singing like Axl Rose

On 24-1-2018 at 12:00 PM, Live Like a Suicide said:

2 years of solid touring and AC/DC would like to speak with you...

Axl is a great frontman. His wardrobe is important to certain facets of his showmanship, and it's not like his singing is shit.

He toured for 2 and a half years on the UYI tour, and sang better at the end than at the start...

I have no problem with his wardrobe.  In fact, he can perform naked for all I care.  If only he'd stop singing like shit ...

Unfortunately he puts more effort into his wardrobe than his singing nowadays ...

16 hours ago, WhazUp said:

Facts? Dude come on I mean honestly if you cant see how this makes you seem very petty then all is lost for you

All wast lost for GNR around 1996 ...  If anything is petty, it's what they've been calling 'GNR' since then ...

As for me, all is not lost for me, I still have and always will have the memories and the recordings of the real deal ...

15 hours ago, WhazUp said:

Fortus is not in your preferred lineup of GNR, but its still GNR.  

Fortus has never been in ANY lineup of GNR.

It's not because you're a hired musician and play guitar on stage (or as a session musician in the studio) that you're IN the band.

Bobby Bandiera is NOT in Bon Jovi.

Fortus is NOT in GNR.

Why are we still discussing these facts ?

18 hours ago, WhazUp said:

Posts like these are the reason why we can't.  All in all it comes down to if a person is mature enough to handle respect for members of different lineups at the same time.  Some are - some aren't

I respect GNR.

Izzy was in GNR.

Fortus is not in GNR.

On 16-1-2018 at 11:55 AM, Sosso said:

The term solo band is so lame. You are either a solo artist or a band.

Axl's solo band is so lame.

12 hours ago, estrangedtwat said:

Did Gilby get that memo?  Cause he was in the band for about 2 and a half years and he's still talking about it 25 years later.

At least Gilby was in GNR.  Not in Axl's solo band.