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  1. My favourite of the demos is, by far, Going Down. Especially the version without Axl's over-the-top backing vocals. I wish Tommy had played that during the tours instead of Sonic Reducer or whatever he played during Axl's break. Atlas and Perhaps could also be good songs if properly worked on. Perhaps really needs a better chorus dynamic. Too much going on vocal-wise. Gotta trade those fast vocal lines Axl shouts for a Slash guitar lick a la Estranged and keep only the "you're all alone now" line, between the guitar licks. State of Grace has a good instrumental but that verse vocal line sucks ass. Since it's highly unlikely Axl will ever record new vocals for these tracks, I'd give the verses to Duff and leave Axl for the choruses, which are fine. Quick Song needs a decent vocal line instead of the "ooh oohs". The instrumental is ok. Oklahoma is a good instrumental that would become a good track if given a good vocal line and solo. Devious Bastard has some potential, if worked on. Soul Monster kinda sounds too "2000s" for it's own good. Those garageband-esque strings on the pre-chorus are really cheesy. Zodiac sounds like it would have been a really awesome song played by the Axl/Bucket/Robin line-up. Man, it has Buckethead written all over it. Anyways, I am grateful the Chairman shared this with us. Thanks, man. Whoever and wherever you are.
  2. OMG kinda sounds like a project bounce to me, not a song that properly went through a mixing and mastering process.
  3. Just remembered this one: Back in 2004 I was only slightly aware of GnR. I basically only knew WTTJ, SCOM and PC, and knew who Slash and Axl were. Then one day I'm skipping channels on TV and I see Velvet Revolver's Dirty Little Thing on MTV. So I think "what?! No way, man... this is beyond ridiculous, this guy's dressed just like Slash from GnR! WTF is this?" and I tell my friends from school the next day like "Man, I saw this band on MTV and the guitar player was dressed up as Slash lol" and they were like "what band was it?" and I said I didn't know the name. Some months passed and my friend introduced me to Fall To Pieces. I googled Velvet Revolver and saw that was really Slash. I never told him which band I was talking about that day
  4. It's not really about the number of tracks, it's about the album length. An album is, technically, anything above the 25min mark. Since GnR songs are usually around 4 minutes long, 7 songs would be enough. Considering Hardskool is 3:42 in length, Absurd is 3:23, the Perhaps leak is 4:02, Atlas is 4:12, State of Grace is 4:10 and Oh My God is 3:45, we'd only need 2 more songs with that average song length. The Soul Monster instrumental leak is 5:49 and Zodiac is 4:39. More than enough. It would be an album around 30min.
  5. I always thought "man, the legal problems with GnR must be because of the original lineup" and maybe they'd have to credit or pay Slash something in regard to releasing stuff with GnR. Or maybe the label was pressuring them to reunite and making it even more difficult to release new stuff, so Axl would give up and reunite but now they're playing together again, I think the game has changed and maybe they're trying to avoid paying too many royalties to the original songwriters of some songs like Robin, Brain, Bucket and Tommy, I don't know. Maybe I'm just wrong but man... how fucking hard can it be to release something that has been nearly ready since the early 2000s? Like fuck... some people that were born at the time these songs were recorded have graduated school, gone to college, graduated college, maybe even had kids already WTF, man just release this shit, it's not supposed to be that hard. Don't think too much, just release shit. People do it all the damn time, fuck! King Gizzard was formed in 2010, released their first album in 2012 and are now in their 24th album!!!!!! I'm not asking GnR to be like King Gizzard, that would be impossible but you see that albums aren't supposed to be that hard to release, it's not like they're trying to write, produce and release the goddamn Avatar trilogy, it's just an album. Record 10-12 songs and put them out. Geez
  6. - I still don't really know why people like Mr.Brownstone that much. Kinda meh song for me. - I really dislike My Michelle and Anything Goes, and think AFD isn't that great of a from-start-to-finish-listening record. - I think the crazy fast songs like Right Next Door To Hell, Garden of Eden, Perfect Crime and You're Crazy (AFD version) are among my least favourite GnR songs of all time, behind songs like Scraped and Riad. - I thought for ages Axl sang on Double Talkin Jive. - It's been years since I stopped to properly listen to GnR. I occasionally listen to Going Down and TWAT but that's basically it. - I haven't seen GnR live since they reunited, mainly due to lack of interest, but I wish I had the chance to see Axl/DC. - While writing this post I still wasn't 100% sure if Nice Boys and Reckless Life were covers.
  7. I travelled to Greece in May. It was already really hot, especially in Milos and Santorinni. It wasn't too different from how hot Paris currently is. The main problem is that it seems to be an open air venue.
  8. Not even Bumblefoot played note for note. Thing is - it feels like he just doesn't give a shit about these songs. It's like he doesn't even try, every time he plays the TWAT solo, it feels like he's improvising, but in a bad way like he didn't take the time to learn it and is just going with the flow. Don't get me wrong, I love improv solos - I'm a huge fan of heavy psych and 11-min stoner rock songs but you gotta do it well - learn the key parts and improvise their bridges
  9. Slash sells. Richard doesn't. They'll use Slash in every possible opportunity and barely even use Richard, if they can.
  10. I knew it. They played Prostitute and TWAT. All I had to do is not go. If I went to the goddamn concert, they would've played Sorry and TIL
  11. And tomorrow is a holiday in France so the night is young
  12. I know that public is mostly not the same demographis but since I started living here in Paris, all of the concerts I've been to had a really wild crowd, except maybe for Ghost's crowd.
  13. I think the fretless on CD elevated the song to a whole other level.
  14. I decided not to go so, according to my luck, they're gonna play TWAT, Prositute and The General
  15. As much as I'd love to hear Axl singing it, Andrew Stockdale did such a fantastic job, I wouldn't change a second of it. The man should've been VR's second singer or have taken Myles' place in the Conspirators. I'd be a happy guy.
  16. I completely lost it with poopy butt round the house
  17. With Priest on the line-up, it would've made a lot more sense for Friday to be Priest/Maiden and Saturday to be GnR/ACDC.
  18. Agree with pretty much everything here.
  19. The only acts that would compensate the lack of Ozzy Osbourne in the fest, IMO, are Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson + a guest drummer or a Led Zeppelin Reunion like celebration day.
  20. Fuck, man. A final Ozzy farewell concert was the #1 reason I was hyped for this. There is literally no other attraction that could top that for me, other than a Geddy Lee + Alex Lifeson farewell on stage. EDIT: Oh, and another Led Zeppelin reunion. Only these two options and that's it.
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