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4 hours ago, colonizedmind said:

Tune....Video not available though ?.....

The song is When 2 R in Love....in case that's what you're asking.  I don't think there was ever an official video.

This song SLAAAAAPPPPPS.

I have it on 45...it was used as the b-side to one of the Batman singles, and I collected them all back in '89.  I was in 6th grade.  I had no idea what this song was about.  I was just singing all these filthy fucking lyrics all the time and it wasn't til much later I realized what I was saying.

What a let down.

I thought it was gonna be Tracey of "Tracey and Roberta."

They performed way more Guns shows than this guy.

Several years ago, I bought a used copy of the Japanese CD-single of Sympathy for the Devil.

I thought the packaging was cool cause it included what looks like a CD-sized slipmat.  I assumed it was so that the CD wouldn't get scratched in the plastic jewel case.

There's no mention of it and no pictures of it at all on discogs, though.  So now I'm thinking it might have come with another release and got put in there by mistake.

The backside is paper, but the front is a soft felt-like, almost flocked material.  It's all a solid blue, but it has the GNR logo embossed along the bottom in blue metallic foil letters.  It's actually kind of cool.

Anyone ever see something like this before?

I have:

AFD original cover (genuine)

AFD cross cover (with tattoo sticker!)

Live from the Jungle EP (misprint with obi)

GNR Lies (Canadian pressing, original "wife-beating" text)

UYI II (original pressing...signed by Matt Sorum in 1999)

TSI? (original pressing on orange vinyl)

Live Era (also genuine)

Chinese Democracy (Best Buy...still sealed)

.44 Caliber Horticulture (old bootleg double LP)

Shadow of Your love 7" on red vinyl

Since I Don't Have You 7" on orange vinyl

And a few other old 7 inches and promos.

I still need UYI I.  I always meant to get it and never got around to it, and now it's been decades that I've put off buying it.  Oh well.

Sadly, Bon Jovi is superior to Guns N' Roses.

Bon Jovi gets a realistic action figure with interchangeable face options and a guitar and mic and mic stand.

Guns N' Roses only gets shitty ugly Funko Pops.

Most of this stuff has been circulating on shitty tapes and bootleg vinyl since the 80s.

I can't believe someone actually sat on "New Work Tune" and "The Plague" for all those years without them ever getting out.  Not that they were worth getting excited about anyway...

You guys really need to make setlist.fm accounts.

You won't have a chance until sometime in 2025 at the earliest.  MAYBE.

Go now!  Hurry!  There's still time!  Go see them!!

10 hours ago, JAxlMorrison said:

So, I was there (and what an amazing show and comeback.) We got the 3 ChiDem songs from 2001-2002 shows, and we got 3 debuts (Better, TWAT, IRS.) But I noticed after that show, there’d normally be less of those “new” songs, as they relied more on Appetite like in 2002. 
Anyone have an idea why that was the case, in a year that was initially meant to promote the release of the album? 
I’m asking cause I was happy as hell that night, and hearing almost half the album live, to me it was a sign back then like, ok the band’s evolving, moving on, and we’re gonna move into this new era of songs (which never happened, and I don’t think 6 ChiDem songs were played at a single show the rest of that run, and maybe not again til the end of 2009.)

Don’t get me wrong, I love My Michelle, Out Ta Get Me, Think about You, but when they’d start at a show, I’d kinda roll my eyes inside and think, cmon man. Let’s move on and get some more of that new stuff. 

The exact same thing happened in 2009/2010.

FINALLY, the damn album is actually OUT and they're now free to play as much of CD as they want and not have to rely on AFD standards.

In Japan 2009, they kick it off by playing 13 of the 14 CD songs in one show, which has never been done again.

In 2010 in Canada, most of the CD songs are kept in rotation, including things that would eventually become rare like TWAT and Scraped and ITW.

After a few months.....phased out.  Just back to the AFD greatest hits shows that started in 2002.

I guess it all comes down to Axl's mood and what he feels comfortable with.  I can't imagine why he feels the need to play the "standards" every single fucking show, every time, but he does.

Of all the shows I've attended between 2002 and 2023, the following 12 songs were played at every single show.

It's So Easy

Mr. Brownstone

Chinese Democracy

Welcome to the Jungle

Live and Let Die

You Could Be Mine

Rocket Queen

Sweet Child O' Mine

November Rain

Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Nightrain

Paradise City

EVERY SINGLE TIME.

I get that every GNR show is someone's very first GNR show and they'd be disappointed if they didn't get to do that fucking sing along to KOHD.  And at least Live and Let Die is a fairly short song.

But for fuck's sake....Rocket Queen??  At EVERY show?  Chinese Democracy, a song that landed with one of the biggest "thuds" in music history?  Nobody would give a shit if that was dropped.

You Could Be Mine was a big hit over 30 years ago, but I don't think anyone would miss it these days.

SCOM/Jungle/PC....November Rain......and even arguably KOHD (even though I hate it these days).......those are the essentials.  Those songs are there for casuals and first timers.  They can seriously CUT the rest and I don't think anyone would mind, especially not the fans that have seen them multiple times over the years.  Sheeesh.

30 minutes ago, Skamos66 said:

we got Pretty Tied Up, Bad Obsession, Reckless Life, Anything Goes, Locomotive, Down On The Farm, Street of Dreams, songs that if we were told in 2016 were gonna happen down the line, the entire forum would call bullshit on the majority of those titles lol.
We have to remember that not everyone is a diehard GNR fan, hell there are diehard GNR fans out there that never use a forum or any type of social media even that will go to these shows and be blown away by the setlist like it is the first time. most songs are a surprise for the majority of people each show.
Sure I'd love Breakdown, Perfect Crime, Don't Damn Me, Get In The Ring as much as anybody else here would, but I'd say GNR has knocked it out of the park this year in terms of setlist picks.

Totally agree.  I hadn't been to a show since early 2017 and when I went to San Diego last month, a full THIRD of the setlist was live debuts for me.  As long as you don't go to every show, every tour, there's some great surprises to be had.

They did skip SOYL at my show, but...oh well...still got to hear a shitload of "new" stuff.

Are they different?  Night one had both Nov 1 and 2 on it.

EDIT...never mind, just saw the shirt with a different image.  Both designs list both nights though.  Interesting.

Really hope you guy get some TWAT tonight!

3 hours ago, DSTK said:

Full show on YouTube, should be no complaints about the setlist..couple of tweets for night 2 ( Coma, don't cry, something from Chinese ) 

I can't find it.  Care to point me to it?  I wanna hear Locomotive.

5 hours ago, colonizedmind said:

So if it wasn't for this place....you would of probably been accusing the postie on Friday of thievery 🤨

"would have"

3 hours ago, Skamos66 said:

I wish there was a little bit more lyrics to The General, might of been a good song for Axl to try out guttural growls on as I've always been curious to hear how Axl would have sounded doing a sort of Corey Taylor style scream, i bet he'd have killed it.

"might have"

I'm not forcing anything.

They're two separate songs.  That's all.

If you believe otherwise, you're just plain wrong.

If we get a version on a proper release that has them combined into one song, then that will be one song.

As of right now, it's two songs.

Not opinion.  Fact.

On 10/24/2023 at 9:22 AM, estrangedtwat said:

 

The question is...what are the real titles?  How do we know that song at the party was The General?  Maybe that was Soul Monster, and SOG got changed into The General?  Until something official comes out, how can we know?

 

 

Gotta quote myself from a few days ago to show everyone what a fucking genius I am.

It's hard going through life being so brilliant.

2 minutes ago, betterman said:

I believe the leak might be a gift from the band after the fuck up, but they are not going to admit it

Yeah right.

Not in this lifetime....

WTF are the lyrics to Monsters....the low vocals parts?  "The monsters ??? ???? ????"

Daddy don't
I swear I won't
I'll be good from now on
And I'm awful sorry

Daddy don't

The hell I won't

I won't be good anymore
And you'll all be sorry

Can anybody help me
Why this pain it just won't stop?
Can anybody help me
This pain it just wont stop?

My only regret
Is that I never tried to 
Try to forget
All those unspoken feelings
That were never said
?????
????
Have lost us all the meaning????

Still not convinced this isn't another elaborate fake.  Very Marilyn Manson-esque.

If it's fake, it's pretty convincing....

I hope this is real though.

Fuck this band.  I'm so fucking pissed.