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8 minutes ago, NeonKinight said:

Robin finck was on the band in 1997/99, wasn't he?
What about the vocals? are they from 97 or 99? 

No idea when the vocals were recorded, I'd say around the time of the earliest CD vocal tracks

6 minutes ago, Wagszilla said:

See, I want it from the ground up, basically.

SCOM 99 goes in some newish directions.

Or Slash and Duff as the voice of reason Axl didn't have.

CD? Perfectly good rocker played straight through no bullshit. No fruity intro.

The Blues? Imagine fucking Adler and Izzy on that track? Fire.

I don't want some bullshit intro slapped onto the front of Better which already has 2 intros. 

I mean CD would've been 100 times better if it was re-recorded in 2006 in a week like Lies.

I also want more Pitman and that's not happening either.

The recent leaked version of The Blues + Frank's drum roll before the outro + Axl harmonizing with the guitar before the bridge + Bucket's solo = ultimate version of the song. I don't know how Adler or Izzy would improve that song at all.

5 minutes ago, Wagszilla said:

I love Live Era.

It's no Rust Never Sleeps but I'll take it.

Now give me Appetite 99. And a re-recorded Chinese Democracy with Slash and Duff.

See, I like creativity, fellas and she-fellas. That's all there is to it.

Tbh what I want most now is Slash's solos and fills pasted over CD but in like...a non distracting way. Or the ability to mix and match various parts from various players and not have it sound like a mess. A few fills on Catcher from Slash, one solo from May, outro with Ron. This I Love with 2010 vocals, Slash solo, etc. New music lol. 

4 hours ago, NeonKinight said:

have y'all noticed that there's a voice very similar to Robin Finck's in Mr. Browstone? specially in that part "I used to do a little.."

Yeah I've always actually assumed it was a mistake and accidentally added from the wrong session and no one cared enough to notice/fix it. It definitely doesn't sound like Duff, unless he was exceptionally smashed even by his standards to completely change his voice and just scream shit. A voice that sure sounds like Robin pops up in another track on Live Era, but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

Some of Axl's new vocals are absolute top tier though, so I'm not concerned with the dubs and whatnot. Rocket Queen and Nightrain in particular are better than any actual live recording there is of either song from him.

Riad is actually the closest thing to an Izzy riff on CD. It would take very little to morph that into a more classic GNR song.

OMG only shows up if you look up the album, it's not listed on artist or song page 

27 minutes ago, Sosso said:

Haven't they played on two different songs, though? 

They both played on the main Power Rangers theme, although Buckethead isn't/wasn't credited for years but was confirmed by multiple people to be the lead guitar player on the track.

The timeline did seem off for that to me since the Power Rangers movie was 1995 and Bucket didn't join until 2000, but it is interesting they played together 

51 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Josh set the band up with Bucket. Josh and Bucket are old friends. 

Interesting. I read somewhere that Matt Sorum was the one to put Bucket on Axl's radar, after they worked together on the Power Rangers movie soundtrack which was recorded at Rumbo.

Buckethead's introduction into the band actually is pretty baffling, in the sense that I wonder how Axl knew about him to begin with. Same with Bumblefoot. I'm inclined to believe that he knew of BH via his work with Viggo Mortensen for some reason

1 hour ago, smeagol2124 said:

Not sure if it was Cleveland or Columbus, but Prostitute was teased on the piano before NR.  Just after the "asshole" bit.

It was teased a number of times in 2006 as well. I want to say House of Blues has something that sounds a LOT more like a working version of TIL than that "Axl plays TIL in the 90s" clip.

Didn't have thyme to breh

On 7/31/2018 at 12:57 AM, mcmurray said:

I actually don't think that's Bucket playing the outro on Street of Dreams. Fantastic piece of guitar work though.

It sounds like the same tone and even some of the same notes from his KOHD's solos

If a bunch of shit starts getting pulled from Youtube that's been up for years, that usually means a release of something is being prepared if this were a normal organization. 

I do like the idea of a "family reunion" type clusterfuck group of shows where you get everyone back to play their parts and then a show or two where you mix the members up and do their versions. As like a big finale to GNR touring.

Definitely add Street of Dreams

I'd also like to hear Scraped but I can't imagine that sounding any good unless Axl goes full AC/DC on it. Speaking of, is there really no other audio/video of the Scraped performance in Russia in 2010 than the shitty one that's on Youtube for 8 years?

I was just thinking about looking for a thread of every pro recorded GNR show from all eras. Slash MKC ones are great though. Has Loaded not done any big festivals that got recorded?

Uh...lol. All but some whispers and "Axl cleaning his throat" are pretty audible upon first listen, especially the acoustic guitar in TWAT , Baz's backing vocals, and Buckethead's SOD solo 

8 hours ago, Jordan Rose said:

Firstly, people complained about the 2001-2002 voice because it was such an unexpected, radical departure from his classic sound and a totally new singing technique, NOT because anyone thought he was shot/weak/unrehearsed/struggling etc. Secondly, nobody is going "nuts" over it, just acknowledging how favorable his "clean" 2002 voice is to his more recent falsetto. Nobody used the term "Mickey" to describe his voice in 2002 because it was strong, powerful and very well controlled. Thirdly, hardcore fans are discussing Axl's voice in a thread about his voice on a GNR board and you're calling them cunts for it. Maybe stay out of the voice thread and you wont be triggered into a little snowflake meltdown.

 

 

Edit: "His vocals may not be what they were back in his career-best shows TWO FUCKING YEARS AGO"

...negating your entire point. 

Lol. Saying the notoriously bitchy, catty, negative online GNR fanbase is full of fickle cunts that will ALWAYS complain about something = triggered snowflake meltdown.  If you say so. If you could fit in "libtard", that'd give you so much more power and rasp to your post.

The way I'm arguing my point is that Axl doesn't sound that bad, especially compared to other guys from that era. You can point out two guys older than him that sound good, you could also point out 50 other guys older than him that sound worse than him, so I'm not sure we're even arguing the same topic.

4 hours ago, RussTCB said:

Lol, what? Steven Tyler absolutely hits his high notes. He has s few people, very much out in the open, who sing some of the high notes, but he sings most of his own high notes. Feel free to check pretty much any point in that video I posted for proof. 

Also, Forgerty isn't Axl's contemporary, he's OLDER and signing just as high. 

The dude who hits the high notes for Tyler is hidden behind the keyboard area. He's not wide out in the open. Fogerty's speaking voice is much higher than Axl's, as is Steven Tyler's. They weren't pushing their voices up 2-3 octaves for decades and screaming all the time. Almost all of the hair metal/hair bands/glam rock/heavy metal singers from the mid to late 80s are shot today. Steven Tyler and John Fogerty are not part of this conversation to begin with, it doesn't matter if they're older or how they sound, because I'm not talking about them or their singing. 

If people think Axl sounds so bad, they should hear his contemporaries was more my point.

49 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

I get what you're going for here, but the opposite argument can be made too. Here are a couple people OLDER than Axl:

 

Different singing styles, different types of music and vocals for that particular kind of music. My point was Axl's contemporaries, who sang similar music in a similar style of very high, piercing, sometimes screaming ways much higher than their normal voice all sound pretty beat up these days. Fogerty and especially Tyler sing/sang around their normal speaking voices as opposed to hair and metal singers of the mid to late 80s. Steven Tyler also has a hidden guy singing his high notes for him at live shows, so he's not immune to this either.

Some of Axl's contemporaries 

2 hours ago, IncitingChaos said:

The board is in agreement that 2006 and 2010 were his best years and by virtue of his recent performances we now feel 2001 and 2011-12 wasn’t that bad...that’s how bad he is currently. But don’t take it as 2001-2002 and 11-14 were some golden years, we agree he wasn’t that good vocally then but once again compared to today they were better years. 

For example: if I’m eating dirt I might say “wow it wasn’t that bad when I had to eat broccoli, but a steak would be amazing!”

2018 = dirt 

2001,2002,2011,2012,2013,2014 = broccoli 

2006,2010 = steak

And yet there were posters saying 2006 didn't sound all that great when listening to it now just recently. This is a fan base that is never pleased about anything for more than a few hours.

I saw them in 2011, at a time when this board was saying he was the worst he ever was, yet it was an awesome time and an awesome show and people now talk about how good he sounded in 2011-2012.. Then again, everyone complained about the 2001-2002 voice and now the board is going nuts over it. Almost like GNR's hardcore fan base are a bunch of fickle cunts or something.