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5 minutes ago, Dani_1455 said:

Any news on final setlist??

Remembering most of it out of order but

It’s So Easy

Bad Obsession

Chinese Democracy

Slither

Welcome to the Jungle

Pretty Tied Up

Mr Brownstone

Reckless Life

Perhaps

Down on the Farm

Anything Goes

Absurd

Double Talkin’ Jive

Rocket Queen

Estranged

Hard School

Street of Dreams

Civil War

See That Cat (Duff)

Sweet Child O’ Mine

November Rain

Nightrain

Patience

Wichita Lineman

Don’t Cry

Paradise City

I don't have this same problem when I go back and listen to the early AFD demos, where I almost invariably find the final release to be better. With the CD and beyond era, they are genuinely making most of the songs worse (or two steps forward, three steps back) with all the re-recording and over-tinkering in production. 

On 8/16/2023 at 12:00 AM, willl said:

Check out this video if you want to learn how to use AI to replace vocals:

Not my video, just one I watched a little while ago, seems easy enough to do but I've not had chance to play around with it yet.

You'll need to feed the program "clean" Axl vocals (no background noise/music). I'm assuming the Chinese Democracy isolated stems from Rock Band 2 are what folk are using, someone on the forum will still have a copy of those. Not sure how you could get 80/90's sounding Axl though as I don't think isolated tracks from that time are available?

There are isolated multitracks for Welcome to the Jungle that aren’t hard to find. Not sure about others.

The solo isn’t terrible, but it’s bland and forgettable. Rank it against those on CD or on AFD and it would be the weakest (and near the bottom for UYI). Finck’s had more emotion. It would have been middle of the pack on CD. 

The one other change I don’t like is the muddled distortion effect on the ooohs right after the solo. Those vocals were clear and sounded quite good on the demo. Now they’re annoying.

5 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

I have it slightly differently: (58) Perhaps (a-4-d.com)

I think the lyrics actually got reworked a bit between the demo and the final release. There’s a very clear S consonant in the first line on the demo (for “so” or “say”) and that word isn’t there at all in the final version. Second line sounds very different now (like “you’ve forgotten…”), third line is the same (either “want to ignore” or “once ignored,” first makes more sense to me), fourth is the same.

Aien wrote his own lyrics for Quick Song, you could give those a shot.
https://m.soundcloud.com/aienofficial/quick-song

It is becoming all too clear 
You hurt the ones that I hold dear 
A final hour for us to spend 
The sharp edge of justice to bring your end 
(Blank eyes see only in red) 

Oh, it'll happen so fast 
When the blade finds its target 
It won't last 

Through my hands I'll play your fate 
And in your heart there'll be no weight 
A consequence, you know it's time 
An eye for an eye, a justified crime 
(Blank eyes see only in red) 

Oh, it'll happen so fast 
When silver finds its target 
It won't last 

(Blank eyes see only in red) 

Oh, it'll happen so fast 
When the blood starts running 
All my problems will fade away 

Oh, it'll happen so fast 
When your blood starts running 
All my problems will go away

I love Use Your Illusion but those records could definitely benefit from a remastering. You’ve got all of Izzy’s buried guitar parts, so many tracks with barely audible bass, others with all these out of whack vocal layers.

Always wanted to see a performance with Lzzy Hale, although these days he’d definitely be getting upstaged by her vocally.

I listen to the leaked versions more often than the officials

He said three guitars wouldn’t work with the band they have right now, so If you’re reading any sort of a diss into it, which I doubt was actually intended, it’s actually a dig at Slash, not at Bumblefoot. The implication would be that Slash doesn’t have the sense of musicality it would take to share space with a third guitarist.

On 9/26/2021 at 10:25 AM, StrangerInThisTown said:

What, how could anything about that possibly be funny in any way? Seems more like it just makes sense that a song titled Cuban Skies is about cigars.

It would be funny because he trolled you into believing something stupid. Fair chance the song doesn’t even have anything to do with Cuba at all, given the record on Madagascar.

14 minutes ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

If Axl said Cuban Skies is about cigars, it's got to have lyrics written atleast, an instrumental can't "be about cigars". Points to it having vocals if he went through the effort to write to it

That sounds more like he was making a joke than a serious statement

Well, we finally got that sloppy done in a few hours instead of done in a few years mix people were always asking for. Can’t say I’m thrilled with the results, on either of the new tracks. Prefer the demo versions of both despite enjoying many of the Slash and Duff additions.

As with the final production on CD, the bass is too muted and the songs lose some of their punch as a result. Unlike CD, much of which could be described as intricate, these songs sound jumbled, despite having less going on in them than most of those CD tracks.

If Caram is the one responsible for this, I’d be happy to see him replaced. On the other hand, at least stuff is coming out now. And given the choice between getting songs with subpar mixing now or some polished masterpiece in ten years, well, I don’t think there’s a single person here who wouldn’t take the immediate option.

Particularly noticeable in the little closing line bits. Yowza, smoke em if you got em, maybe you’ll do better next time punk, alright that sucked!

Me, I was always torn over whether those were fun or cringe. Just depended what kind of mood I was in when I listened fo those songs.

3 hours ago, Flayer said:

Just got in line, down by the merch truck. Red sunglasses, anime shirt. Holy Christ they want $100 for the basic Walmart rack AFD shirt?

EDIT: theyd make a killing selling beers to the people in line out front. Why does no one except me have good ideas?

EDIT EDIT: Picture if you will an official GNR Night Train van parked out front dispensing the aforementioned, perhaps with a few of Fernando’s toy trains on the side.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Obviously I pregamed this, as I mentioned me smart

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: I solemnly swear to shitpost the entire show until my battery dies. 

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: how come DJ never made Hollaback Gurrrl part of his solo spot?

EDIT x6: no I will not wear my mask over my nose and mouth, can’t you see I’m dual wielding beers

EDIT x7: I got E 17 in 117, center left and about three rows back if anyone wants to come and talk shit. White shirt, anime girl

EDIT x 8: I am also gonna scream over every song, stay the fuck back if you’re recording video

EDIT X 9: HOLT SHIT FERNANDOS TOY TRUCK HAS ITS OWN WEBSITE VISIT GNRTOURTRUCK.COM

EDIT X 10: I hope it also has its own Twitter page

EDIT x 11: hey truck honk once if they’ll play hard school tonight, honk twice for no

EDIT x 12: I hope Slash comes out in a top hat and plague doctor mask combo

EDIT x 13: 49% already? Tim “Rim” (Job?) [not Jobs] Cook is a saboteur and a cancer

CONTINUATION: get in the ring, Tim Cocks!

EDIT: Maybe if Tim Cooks Like A Bitch did better in Hard Skool he would know how to make a battery that works

EDIT 2 (14? 15?): Apple can branch out into sound equipment as the next step in their world domination plan, specializing in amps that die for no reason halfway through the show

EDIT 16: I will slow down on updates till the show starts to conserve Tim Cuck’s battery, however I will make up for this by doubling down on beer

EDIT 17: took like 5 tries to get that last edit to go through. Tim Kook’s perfidy n’ ineptitude knows no limits

EDIT 18: n

EDIT 19: ‘

EDIT 20: I really don’t know how to slow down

EDIT 21: just got an enormous update from a gigantic insider that the estranged to TWAT’s november rain will be known as THOT 

EDIT 22: she wears dolphin printed leggings in the video and sits on a wedding cake

EDIT 23: you can buy her frosting stained leggings on GNRTOURTRUCK.COM

EDIT 24: they still cost less than an AFD shirt

EDIT 25: i’m hungry

EDIT 26: I’ve never written a sound check in my life

EDIT 27: please donate to my patreon and subscribe to my onlyfans and simp to my Venmo and like and ABSURD! this post

EDIT 28: Wolf time

EDIT 29: well this beats the fuck out of that time skrillex opened for them in Houston

EDIT 30: Im really not used to having an opening band that’s good, belaying piss beak until intermissio

EDIT 31: Wolfie’s songs all have a great groove, danceable on first listen. Beast

EDIT 33: girl how the hell your ass crack run halfway up your spine? mutants these days

EDIT 34: Vaccatize me, cap’n!

EDIT 35: place is filling up nicely now, about half full for WVH and looking over 90% now

EDIT 36: homefuck

Just got in line, down by the merch truck. Red sunglasses, anime shirt. Holy Christ they want $100 for the basic Walmart rack AFD shirt?

EDIT: theyd make a killing selling beers to the people in line out front. Why does no one except me have good ideas?

EDIT EDIT: Picture if you will an official GNR Night Train van parked out front dispensing the aforementioned, perhaps with a few of Fernando’s toy trains on the side.

EDIT EDIT EDIT: Obviously I pregamed this, as I mentioned me smart

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: I solemnly swear to shitpost the entire show until my battery dies. 

EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT EDIT: how come DJ never made Hollaback Gurrrl part of his solo spot?

EDIT x6: no I will not wear my mask over my nose and mouth, can’t you see I’m dual wielding beers

EDIT x7: I got E 17 in 117, center left and about three rows back if anyone wants to come and talk shit. White shirt, anime girl

EDIT x 8: I am also gonna scream over every song, stay the fuck back if you’re recording video

EDIT X 9: HOLT SHIT FERNANDOS TOY TRUCK HAS ITS OWN WEBSITE VISIT GNRTOURTRUCK.COM

EDIT X 10: I hope it also has its own Twitter page

EDIT x 11: hey truck honk once if they’ll play hard school tonight, honk twice for no

EDIT x 12: I hope Slash comes out in a top hat and plague doctor mask combo

EDIT x 13: 49% already? Tim “Rim” (Job?) [not Jobs] Cook is a saboteur and a cancer

If you see dark hair and a shirt with an anime girl it’ll probably be me

9 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

If he couldn't do it in his prime, he definitely couldn't do it now. I wouldn’t even want to hear him attempt it.

If they slowed it down like the middle of YCBM he could probably muddle through Dont Damn Me

I’ll be at this one

On 8/24/2021 at 2:53 PM, StrangerInThisTown said:

If you don't know, Slash says GNRs version of the song is "the sound of a band breaking up". Axl made his friend Paul Huge, who Slash despised, play over Slashs solos without telling Slash about it. There's just too much bad history associated with that song for them to ever play it again.

In addition to that, it’s just a very boring cover that doesn’t really have any added value over the original (compare that to how far the Guns versions of KOHD or LALD stand apart from their originals).

I’d be opposed to any new covers taking up a regular slot in all the shows from now on, but I certainly wouldn’t mind hearing them as one offs at a show or two.

Paint It Black would be well suited to the current state of Axl’s voice, relying on his solid low vocals. I’d be interested in hearing Slash’s take on a solo for it too.

Gimme Shelter might be a good choice too to showcase Melissa with the shared vocals.

Wouldn’t throw this onto any of my playlists (I generally just don’t like metal songs with low roaring vocals) but the video was very funny.

On 8/20/2021 at 1:22 PM, Blackstar said:

Oh well, Back Off Bitch is my most disliked song on UYI's - all the classic era, actually

This is the most dislikable opinion I’ve read on this thread - on the entire forum perhaps 

Axl may have been looking to keep the three guitar arrangement he’d gotten used to, and who else was there besides DJ. May be one reason some of the CD songs dropped out of the set list permanently.

What was I saying two days ago?
"Herd immunity is not a possibility" because the Delta variant "still infects vaccinated individuals".  Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, says there is nothing "the UK can do to stop the emergence of new variants".