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That artwork is painful... dodged a bullet.

1 hour ago, Tom-Ass said:

Izzy also plays the harmonica.. Wouldn't mind hearing him sing Bad Obsession as well, like he did on the demos..

Would be amazing.

But yeah Duff can do Dust N’ Bones... And Bad Obsession... get Slash to use his Get In The Ring voice... let’s use these resources! If Mel can’t play a harmonica then wtf are we doin’ here. 

24 minutes ago, Gibson_Guy87 said:

"Guns N' Roses Drummer Hospitalized After Brutal Assault" 

Ah jeez... guys Frank isn't that bad.

1 hour ago, rocknroll41 said:

How are they supposed to do Dust N’ Bones without Izzy? And Bad Obsession without a harmonica?

They get Izzy.... and they get a f’in harmonica.

Aight guys no more alternate book titles. I'm putting my foot down. 

TIL comes off as some overwrought Broadway incel shit to me... with Slash playing every note of every scale as as solo. Definitely a merch break.

I just want them to fucking play Dust N' Bones, already! And Bad Obsession... why the fuck aren't they playing these! Ahhh!

6 hours ago, gnfnrs1972 said:

I think I'm starting to like Myles Kennedy more than Duff now.

Myles for rhythm guitarist!

And then they could add Sugar Cane  to the set... this feels like something huge...

https://player.fm/series/rolling-stone-music-now-170040/duff-mckagan-the-rolling-stone-interview

Reads books... travels... the civil war... Anne Frank's house....

Stones as setting the benchmark for older touring rock bands. 

Axl apparently busts his ass with the vocal warm-ups and cool-downs.

Lots of anecdotes about Tenderness recording, inspirations... #MeToo, Parkland.

He doubles down on the It's So Easy  as tounge-in-cheek... different cultural context than today (Sunset in the 80's as an empowered free love kind of thing?). A piss take on everything going the band's way when they were nobodies. 

One in a Million as a character story; leaving it off the box set. 

#WokeAxl

GNR as not right wing / left wing, political. Captain America's been torn apart...

Farts. 

Steve Jones as major inspiration.

Scott Weiland / Prince / Cornell as inspiration for Feel.

Depression struggles. 

Positive perspective gained from addiction experiences and close calls. "We're in extra innings."

Izzy! "I don't have a take.... it wasn't from not trying." "Touring is not for everybody." Host: "He said it came down to money." "Duff: Yeah. I don't even know. I love the guy." "Maybe some other time."

His reuniting with Axl anecdote in 2010. 

"Are you guys sort of hired guns of Axl's or in a band?" "We're in the band."

"New music would be wonderful."  "Doesn't feel like a finite thing."

"Nobody needs to know our business, we got into trouble in the past with that."

DUFF MCKAGAN On IZZY STRADLIN's Non-Involvement In GUNS N' ROSES Reunion: 'Maybe Some Other Time'

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/duff-mckagan-on-izzy-stradlins-non-involvement-in-guns-n-roses-reunion-maybe-some-other-time/?fbclid=IwAR3arDJ_0-b4ubARng8XhHPwudKLWlMkoW3XdF0GcZ09lQrhGZ9a-KmVgtw

I liked it better than the WTF interview; it felt a little more substantial as the host knows more about the band and it's history (is a fan too, I believe). Guarded as ever about the internal machinations but so it goes!

10 minutes ago, double talkin jive mfkr said:

cause axl doesn't know how to not have the biggest ego he called his band axl then took the name he always comes first he should have better manners

Can you imagine if he didn't take the name?

Billlll!

Bill! Bill! Bill Bill!

Fuckin' Bill, dude!

Did he have some sort of physical issues? Like shoulder problems or something? I thought I remember something about that impacting his tenure with Korn. 

Your sister sounds pretty great — hug her when you get the chance!

5 hours ago, Sydney Fan said:

Yep. I had a cassingle of patience. Loove the ending of YCBM when they are in the parking lot 

Is there a better word than cassingle?

No. 

I think they should!

The Appetite songs were worked over so many times before being put to tape... they should just say “here’s something we’re working on.” Throw it out there and gauge the response... don’t overthink it.

1 hour ago, DieselDaisy said:

Izzy brought a little Ramones/Johnny Thunders feel to proceedings.  Remove Izzy and Guns look a bit gormless to be honest, like another acne band. 

That’s what I’m sayin. Izzy’s rhythm and musical foundation makes the whole enterprise more distinguished.

Whatever value the “gormless” UYI metally Axl/Slash direction has requires youth to pull off... it just does. 

People are right that’s CD’s biggest issue was the cut and paste protracted development, more so than the actual songwriting (even though saying “CD2” kills my boner pretty quick).

If the album is going to be good, they’ve gotta set a date for the studio. Just get in the studio. 

If they’re all in separate locations piecing shit together and talking over the phone... bad omen. Or if they’re waiting for something to happen material wise prior... you need that pressure and to be in there together. 

I’d argue dates and deadlines have value for creativity.

Bums me out that Axl is such an AC/DC fan but he doesn’t want to lean into that best part of GNR and AC/DC.... just hip thrusting rhythm and dirty guitars.

It might have seemed old hat in 1996, but nobody can seem to do it anymore.

33 minutes ago, Free Bird said:

I wouldn't say vocals are horrible on most songs but they're not on Guns level. And then you've got Songs like Be The Ball and Doin' Fine which are musically awesome but with the dumbest kind of lyrics.

I can't listen to Be the Ball.

Doin' Fine is so musically badass you've gotta just let it in.... The cat is in the dryer, baby. Listen motherfuckers to this song that should be heard! Oh my distorted smile... guess what I'm doing now... somebody raped my tapeworm abortion, comon mothafuckas and deliver the cow!

More evolved than Chinese Democracy.

Harpsichords.

I get it, though. I really get it.

I don't think it's romantic to think that, for Izzy, it's not really the money. It's the equality money represents. It's the brotherhood.

When it becomes spreadsheets and percentages... when you're subordinate in an organization that wouldn't exist without your contribution... what the f is that. What are we doin? None of them are going hungry. In twenty years they'll all be wrinkled fucks thinking about the old times... why not lay down a few more cool chapters together.

I feel like if Axl read this post his eyes would roll into the back of his skull, but... 

CD probably had it's own warehouse. Hopefully it was torched.

jk.

Hope it doesn't impede the eventual UYI reissue extravaganza. 

Chris Cornell and Slash would never have achieved creative lift-off. Slash at his best is sleazy; Cornell is fundamentally not. Maybe in 1990 they could have done something interesting, when Cornell still took off his shirt. 

M. Shadows is pretty one-note and Slash doing quasi-metal is his worst incarnation. 

I think Ghost is a great song, but it doesn't sound like a pairing that could sustain an album. 

Fergie's rock posing is pretty uncompelling. Of all the badass rock musician women out there... He shoulda done something with Brody Dalle, or Courtney Love, Joan Jett, Patti Smith, L7 or Chrissie Hynde. Push the fucking envelope.

Anyway, we got what we got because there wasn't really another convenient workable option that ticked all the boxes. Hope we get one more stellar version of Slash/killer singer and band before the end. 

28 minutes ago, Oldest Goat said:

Americans are weird about the word 'cunt'. It's a fine word and there's nothing sexist about it and it's not like you think 'dick' is sexist. 

I hate political correctness so very much.

There's something about it--- when us North Americans say it, it sounds like a gun shot haha. It just really cuts through the air. The way people in the UK pronounce it is softer sounding, somehow. It's always "ya cunt" or "bein' a right cunt...," it just wears differently. It's almost like when a black person says the N word vs a white person... just in terms of the literal sound of it.