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  1. He was being a bit harsh there but at the same time he was an A&R guy for the record label that was desperate to recoup the cost they put into the album. He was most likely looking for a SCOM or November Rain type hit with Slash's trademark style and couldn't find it. With the state of rock music circa 2000-01 I feel like Chinese Democracy still could have fared well enough but Interscope/Geffen needed a big hit to make it worthwhile.
  2. Bob Ezrin basically said this when he worked with the band to get Chinese Democracy released over 20 years ago. He said that the songs had been painted over too many times. Its interesting to think that he most likely heard Perhaps in 2000.
  3. Never forget that on Jay-Z's 2002 song Guns & Roses, Lenny Kravitz rhymes Guns and Roses to Friends and foes is.
  4. Probably been pointed out, but the backwards nature of the band means that we got a proper video for a Chinese Democracy outtake but not any of the actual Chinese Democracy songs. Chinese Democracy is a good album imo and has been treated better critically with time than it did when it released. One of the big things that hinders its legacy is the lack of a visual document. Outside Appetite for Democracy there's nothing to go back to outside the record itself for nostalgia purposes unlike Appetite and UYI which have loads of videos for them. Perhaps is a cool video that after 7 years captures this version of the band that never happened for the 2009-14 band.
  5. I have to say after watching a few videos from this current run that Axl really cares. He looks great, is putting in as much as he can vocally, seems into it onstage, and is singing stuff we thought was either stuck in the past or would never be performed live. Perhaps sounds better than I thought it would live and has an interesting vibe to it. We're living in what feels like an alternate timeline where these Chinese Democracy session songs are actually being played live which felt like a pipedream circa 2009-14.
  6. From Sebastian Bach's description it seems to be a slow, sludge metal sounding song with high, piercing Axl vocals. Also from the interviews posted on A-4-D, the track existed in 2002 if not earlier. Marco Beltrami worked on it and put orchestration to it but noted that the song didn't have vocals.
  7. I actually like Atlas Shrugged even though the leak of it clearly sounds like a work in progress. It is interesting that they're just dumping it as a B-side though as if to keep expectations in check.
  8. Out of all the unreleased songs we had information of, Atlas Shrugged and the General were the two I was most interested in and it will soon be reality to have at least one of them released officially.
  9. Reminder that this song was recorded around 1999-2000 and the band is making its release in 2023 way more convoluted than it should be.
  10. Josh Freese has posted pictures previously of that period which makes me wonder if he ever took any of Axl? From what's been said of this period, the band members were left on their own a lot of time with Axl only showing up a few times a week a lot of times in the early morning hours.
  11. Basically a rehearsal with a small audience like it says and probably shouldn't be listed there though its an interesting footnote. 2008-09 is such an interesting and unexplored period with the release of ChiDem, new band members, and Axl disappearing publicly from late summer 2007-December 2009. It ultimately doesn't matter because they're currently hugely successful but it was a massive missed opportunity that they didn't have full promotion for Chinese Democracy or a tour in late 2008-early 2009.
  12. There's a short pro-shot clip of Metallica from this concert where you can see James's arm bandaged up; it was an odd period where he couldn't play guitar and didn't know quite what to do onstage without one in his hands. This was also the beginning of the decline in James's barking voice from the classic era. He was singing more lyrics in a cleaner style and continued with it for years after. People get on Axl for losing his voice but the decline in good Metallica live vocals started way earlier.
  13. Axl used to be more active on Twitter including being political during the Trump administration. Since 2020 he's scaled back his use so you'll occasionally get birthday messages, condolences, or funny posts like this.
  14. Since they started playing Anything Goes, I checked to see how often they've played Out Ta Get Me. Its an interesting song in that its never fully been a mainstay but it managed to be played at least a few times on almost every tour from 2001-2017. I watched the official live video they have from 2016 in Houston and I was surprised just how full of rasp Axl is on that song. It was the perfect amount of it that he lost in years after and makes it a genuinely good modern performance of that song.
  15. They have plenty of good songs to make these tours fresh without new music and this current tour is proving that. There's a bunch of old songs that hadn't been done justice in a long time that are cool to hear. The current setlist is a perfect mix of appealing to hardcore fans and the general audience.
  16. I think Guns N Roses are unusual for how long they've been around combined with how small their catalog is. KISS is the ultimate businesslike band but they managed to consistently record and release music throughout their career.
  17. That was basically an impromptu thing though. Axl went out then so he wasn't a complete shut-in but they had OMG, new music thought to be coming, and Live Era out in November 1999. It would have definitely helped to show up in person when even Michael Jackson was doing sit down interviews with MTV at the time. A week or 2 after he had the Rolling Stone interview where they described what he looked like but there were zero pictures taken. You get the sense that he didn't want to be seen on camera which is the opposite now where they're posting social media pics and the band is touring every year.
  18. I've heard audio of it but on the A-4-D site I watched video of Axl's 1999 interview with Kurt Loder and its so odd. Its Kurt Loder in the studio by himself while they put a 1992 picture of Axl on a screen because he didn't bother to show up in person. Its a prime example that he didn't want to be seen publicly those years because how hard would it have been to fly to New York real quick at a time when no touring or other promotion was being done?
  19. Metallica had a cool thing where they let the fans choose songs to play live which led them to play Frayed Ends of Sanity for the first time in its entirety in 2014. Guns could do something similar for certain shows since there's still rarities or never performed stuff that could sound good. Really like that they reached into the catalog a bit especially for Bad Obsession and PTU as those are relative deep cuts compared to November Rain, Live and Let Die, and KOHD. Over the course of 7 years they've played Coma which previously was a rarity, Dead Horse, Locomotive, Pretty Tied Up, and Bad Obsession. All songs that hadn't been played in decades. The UYI albums in general are underrepresented past the hits so its nice to see these songs aren't forgotten.
  20. Between the songs played and Bad Apples and Locomotive being sound checked its like Axl listened to the UYI box set, heard certain songs for the first time in years, and said this is some good shit.
  21. Axl genuinely sounds pretty close to the album version of Bad Obsession from the video I watched. Songs like that show he can sing in in that vocal range but his standard raspy style awesome as it was just isn't sustainable over decades of touring.
  22. That setlist is like they skimmed this forum and were like alright already. Bringing back songs from 30 plus years is pretty cool, especially Anything Goes. They've now performed almost all of Appetite for Destruction with the exception of Think About You which hasn't been played since 2006.
  23. Don't they have almost all the UYI tour in this quality? People have wanted shows like this for years and they kind of obliged with the Ritz but there's tons of shows that were pro-shot and vaulted.
  24. Went from listening to Scott Joplin ragtime to wondering how Axl took up piano and found this radio interview I never heard. The story is interesting but his voice is also the deepest I've heard it.
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