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Stro

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  1. Aerosmith has been using an off stage singer to hit the high notes for Steven for years now. I don't know why Melissa hasn't been used much more significantly on vocals in a similar manner the past 7 years.
  2. I really doubt State of Grace will be released in any fashion. The structural similarities with The General/Monsters almost seem like SOG was (significantly) reworked.
  3. I don't think those sound like what we hear on these tracks. It definitely doesn't not sound like what Slash has done with literally any of the CD era stuff, live or studio.
  4. I disagree. It doesn't sound like anything Slash has produced since VR. It certainly doesn't sound anything like what Slash has done with any CD-era material live or studio released. The bass also doesn't sound like Duff note selection and fill wise. This leads me to believe these tracks that were leaked are pre-reunion demos as something of a spite or fuck you to the actual release getting delayed. I guess I'll be proven wrong or right when the actual record drops, but the guitar and bass work plus the very amateur mixing makes me think what got leaked are actually pre-Bumble demos that have probably been circulating with the hoarders for years.
  5. Maybe it had vocals or maybe it didn't, but Marco Beltrami worked on a ton of shit in that period and need-to-know basis and avoiding leaks was probably not a priority in that period years before any CD stuff leaked.
  6. I tend to agree. When you look at the big radio hits in the 2001-2004ish, particularly in the rock genre of things, a lot of the tracks on CD proper and the Village discs would have done very well on the radio and sold albums. Prostitute, The Blues, TWAT, Catcher, Perhaps, Atlas, Better, Hard School all could have been pretty big radio hits in that period when radio still mattered.
  7. It's not about the bombing, the only thing Axl has said about it was it was inspired by how silly he felt sitting in court over legal stuff was when something so much bigger was going on.
  8. My first reaction to The General was "uh I can see why it was delayed", and my first reaction to Monsters was "this is rad". The General grew on me after a few spins, but I can see why the label would have been not super keen to put these songs out under the GNR label while trying to recoup the cost of CD. Monsters is like a track from The Fragile with almost Bowie-style chorus.
  9. Delaying it on release day with no warning is honestly pretty hilarious for the troll factor. If there was a pressing issue, they'd certainly have known before release day. If it was some kind of rights issue with Belltrami's work, I'm sure that would have come up long ago. Best case scenario was there was more demand than they expected and had to delay to get more pressings. You'd think they'd communicate that if it were the case, so I can only be left with lmao trolling.
  10. Whether it gets a digital release or not, as soon as people get the vinyl, it will get put online. Anyone that posts here will be hear this song in the next week or so.
  11. I would say that is very unlikely, considering Absurd wasn't rearranged at all from the Bumblefoot version, and none of the CD songs have been changed live other than a different intro for Better and shorter intro for CD. I'd say it is almost a certainty there is a later Hardschool version post-2000 that cut the intro and added bars for solos, and that's the version Slash and Duff worked off of. There definitely will not be structural changes to any of the stuff Slash and Duff re-record. The Bumble version of Silkworms even had the out of time vocals in the first verse. I would almost bet the Hey Heys had been added to Hard School in 2006-2008.
  12. Anything can happen, which also means nothing can happen
  13. There was a specific part that was played in the soundcheck that was dead on for a part that Evader had pieced together for his mix based on the cell phone party clip. Of course, I can't find either the soundcheck or Evader's anymore, but the soundcheck was posted here as people thinking it was some kind of jam. I think it was actually before Perhaps was even soundchecked. it was the lead over the power chords that kick in immediately after the orchestral part in Evader's mix.
  14. Actually there was a soundcheck video that sounded very much like parts of Evader's version of The General earlier in the year, and another that sounded like the outro of Oklahoma.
  15. They would have done fine. Not as big as UYI, but a lot of rock bands put out very successful albums in the mid to late 90s after the grunge bubble popped and "rock was dead". The Stones had 2 platinum albums in 1994 and 1997, Aerosmith had a 7x platinum album in 1993 and 2x platinum album in 1997. Metallica had Load go 5x platinum, Reload went 3x. Fucking Bon Jovi had a mid 90s album sell 1M. TSI itself was a platinum record and out sold CD in most major markets worldwide.
  16. I was at that show and they did Shackler's into Estranged lmao
  17. Bach also called Sorry "doom metal" so I don't think he should be used as an accurate representation of any unreleased track.
  18. The General orchestral part was played before the start of pretty much every show in 2006-2010, then into the Dexter theme. You can hear it on a ton of boots. The San Jaun is probably the highest quality.
  19. A concert video with that kind of footage would be rad as hell
  20. 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.
  21. Personally, I think it's nice that the 3 songs have had a bit from the previous era players on them. Absurd (killswitch stuff, Buckethead) Perhaps (start of solo, Robin) Hard Skool (school bell, Pitman )
  22. Of course there was an updated demo of Shackler's. It's a different key, tempo, and rhythm to the riff in Shankler's. You can't sample and chop up Shankler's to get Shackler's. My conspiracy theory is that the first half of Bucket's TWAT solo was actually pieced together from the period where Robin was out and Axl had Bucket replace all of Robin's leads.
  23. The real way to do the AI Axl is to actually sing yourself, so you can add in Axl's cadences and appropriate registers and quirks. Otherwise you're at the mercy of singer of whatever track, which can be hit and very, very miss. Basically, you need to use it on a song where the singer you are using a model of already sounds similar in register/key to begin with.
  24. Does anyone know when Rock The Rock was recorded? I can't imagine it was before the reunion tour started, but the lead time for an animated show is SO long.
  25. That's weird he feels that way about Better's solo, as it is one of the more melodic and Slash like solos on the album to begin with.
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