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23 minutes ago, Dean said:

This is really cool. It sounds like Slash has stayed pretty faithful to the original solo

 

That's pretty cool news, unfortunately I'm afraid uncle Axl can't pull that one off properly anymore.

It's one of my favorite GN'R tunes but he'd struggle with SOD even when he had an ABSURD vocal range (pun intended).

Here's hoping for a decent cut, but expecting loots of vocal cracks and skipped lines.

I always felt a bit indifferent about SMKC. But this '4' album really made me change my mind. Very solid and inspired IMO. The last one was total autopilot.

On 1/6/2022 at 6:37 AM, jamillos said:

"Mental trajectory."
"The vantage point to be able to have that perspective."
"Sort of objectively look at it..."

For the love of god, man. 

"That’s a whole other interview!"

Well, make it, then! 

The guy is fully "TeamBraziled", this is the kind of time I'd love to say I'm done with this band but...

Did someone caught what Axl said after coma?

5 hours ago, hudsonsaul said:

Wow had no idea Ron Anderson toured with them. That's huge news to me. I remember talk of him having had a vocal coach leading up to the tour though, again didn't know it was Anderson. 

Myles Kennedy used him for a dozen or so lessons too and can't say anything but great things. 

  The guy is a legend indeed. I’m a singer too and dream of taking one of his courses. I’m not too sure he was 100% on tour with Guns N Roses but  I remember seeing photos of him watching the concerts and with Axl in 2016 and the captions would refer Axl as his “lifetime student”.

edit: found the pictures

Lack of vocal coach, in 2016 he was on both tours teamed up with Ron Anderson. 

4 hours ago, Martin Riggs said:

Regarding Hard Skool, I would generally think it’s wise to release songs as singles that you can pull off live. If you can’t or need qualifiers..find something else.  

Perfect post!
Just my two cents:

IMO this is the main ‘lesson’ here for Axl, not that he’d care lol, but This is the price one artist should pay once he stops caring about making actual music/art and just pulls some 20 year demo out of the vault just because it leaked and had some positive feedback.
This whole situation makes me kind of sad. I mean, of course I enjoyed the whole hype train around here and been listening to the song on my way to work and whatnot, as I would enjoy anything new from my favorite band at this point. But what  I do feel sorry for is the whole freaking wasted potential that this band has become.  I actually think he did ok on the performance here, as far as his current capacities go, but I wont ever judge those making fun of Axl for don’t being able to perform his “brand new single“ because it’s just plain product of his lack of interest in his own craft.

5 hours ago, North Korean Democracy said:

I'd say the Hardskool chorus is harder to sing than the ending of Coma since it goes faster and leaves less time to breathe.

The problem with HardSchool is really the middle range that Axl had in the early 2000's, in that period he would went really smooth from chest voice to head voice. Nowadays there's such a big gap between the two voices and his 'chest voice' has diminished considerably, you can check the Mexico 2020 soundcheck when Axl tried to go for it and his voice broke big time.

For him it will be definitely one of the toughest themes on the catalogue. The screaming chorus might be the easiest part, I mean, he goes fine with Shadow of Love and that's basically the same range, the problem is the verse melody.

3 minutes ago, Spiritual_Chaos said:

Does Slash still record on tape?

Doubt for this.

But thinking of the "new" songs that might be done for a GnR release...

My bet is that everything is 100% digital, even the drums sounds emulated to me, much like SOYL.

And overall, the vocals are just cust and paste, reharmonized in pro tools to generate different pitches. The impression I get is that they gave all the locker content to the producer and Axl never steped in the studio, not even to record some whispers like he did on SOYL. Which in some way is good news, seems like he's delegated the decisions regarding new music to Slash, Duff and Caram.

Great song indeed, a bit overproduced but it has the appeal of a single from nowadays rock standards, now let's see if uncle Axl can deliver on par with his vocals from 25 years ago. 

Are u guys still able to listen?  I downloaded a vpn browser and was able to listen for a few times, now it displays that the video is unavailable

17 minutes ago, FabioRoses said:

Brazil, negative.

Yep, nothing happens

2 hours ago, jamillos said:

Holy shit.

Finaly seen some videos, and Axl is miles away from a few gigs back! And I'm not one to shy away from calling it like it is if needed. But he's clearly improved a lot. New hope in my veins. Way to go, you red-headed bastard! 

100%.

Other thing I noticed, he has slimmed down considerably! Seems like he's really putting into work this run.

I just hope all this fuzz don't end up being just a Hard School single on vinyl and then that's it.

I want a full album or an EP at least!

Man, that's a damn good soundboard mix!!! Lacking some guitar tho, but I almost bought the idea of a Madagascar 2.0 (which would be the saddest news regarding new music) 

40 minutes ago, Chester 524 said:

https://instagram.com/making_a_bass_for_duffmckagan?utm_medium=copy_link

 

not sure if this is on the forum yet, but this has got to be the coolest thing a fan has ever done.   so if this lady wants hardschool, they will be total dicks not to play it for her.  she's at the show tonight. 

How cool is that?  I do hope Duff plays it at some point, i don’t know if it has the best gear, but at least the pickups are good and the woodwork seems pretty neat too. 

A GNR litho based on my favorite movie/book,  I just NEED to have it on my home studio 

Just now, Gibson_Guy87 said:

Axl: We got a new song out. If you don't like it... We're gonna play it anyways. 

Did he really said that? 😂

2 hours ago, Mendez said:

You know, idk if its just me, but I can still hear them in the official release, however it only occurs twice, and at a low volume in the background.

 

 

I never really understood why Axl or Caram decided to purposely shift "screaming fucking banshee..." off rhythm. Live he sings it on rhythm like the leak

Sure they do, but my point was - the 2000 version of Silkworms was a synth-based song, and now it has this huge guitar wall over everything else, even the drums are kind of buried in the mix. I personally like both, but I understand people reacting to this version as a strange thing - it kind of lost its identity. 

1 minute ago, Lies They Tell said:

What a nice little blast from the past. Had to see if I had commented anything there and I actually agree with everything that I said back then: "I never liked the live version of Silkworms and I'm not a fan of this one either. But the 2018 leak is a whole different story. That version rocks!"

I still love the 2018 leak and this new version also. I just prefer Absurd over Silkworms.

Absurdly Unpopular Opinion: As much as I love the release and the whole idea of this band functioning again, I was listening the old leak the other day and... I miss Chris Pittman's synths on the song.

7 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

It's not like Bad Apples, where he overlaps the singing, though. That wasn't a mistake either, but it was also weird. 

Way off topic, but I can't stand the EQ on Axl's voice in a lot of UYI songs, especially this one, it's very hard to grasp what he's saying, also the tone is very annoying. 

4 hours ago, Stress Fracture said:

WTTJ: This is old man Axl from start to finish but a lot better than when it’s all over the place. There’s no cringe here. He kills a moth during the song. That moth did not know where the fuck it was and paid the price. That’s the jungle for you, man. Not safe for moths.

That moth episode was priceless!

There's some really top notch videos from yesterday on YT, especially front row.

I think the absence of SOD on this reincarnation of GNR has more to do with it being one of the toughest songs to sing in their entire catalogue. No way in hell Axl could perform this song live again, not in his current vocal shape.