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8 hours ago, WAR41 said:

I highly doubt that. Look in the thread about people wanting to visit band locations. People are talking about visiting Axl’s house.  How often do you think fans drive up to his gate to see the house and hope to see him?  I am willing to bet Axl LIKES that TB takes a hardline approach with fans.  

That happens with all the famous people, is the price you pay, but hey, he's got a fence and I guess private security, so he has no trouble for his privacy

17 hours ago, Scream of the Butterfly said:

That's what I think. I think it's highly unlikely that TB would report back to Axl or other band members about any fan concerns. They have been known to do the opposite and keep information from him. Not that Axl or other band members would necessarily do anything about the problem even if they were informed.

If Axl knew about the circus TB is related to the fanbase he would probably fire them

On 7/7/2019 at 7:11 AM, SoulMonster said:

Who are we to believe? Matt or Matt? 

I guess Duff composed this one

(Minute 12:16)

And then Matt transformed it into what appears on the album

On 30/6/2019 at 9:31 PM, Nice Boy said:

Sorum's intro is great even though I preferred Adler overall..

According to Matt he added that intro on one of the takes when he was recording the song and the band liked it. Steven does another intro on his shows, I guess that was the original one

On 5/7/2019 at 10:24 AM, Sydney Fan said:

Im surprised gibbo no one has communicated this to axl via twitter just to see what would happen and if he would respond. This is one sure way of tarnishing the gnr brand and i mean brand not band. Because with the endless touring and putting their name to aeroplanes its now becomming a brand first and foremost.

If you communicate it to Axl via twitter, I highly doubt he would answer, same for slash, only duff has a minimun chance for answering. What's the other solution? Waiting for Slash/Duff after his solo shows and telling them? No, in 1 or 2 minutes that you would be able to talk with them they would only become confused. What I propose if you want the band to know about it? Giving a letter to Duff/Slash after a show, with screenshots and proofs, but not too long, just telling them "hey, we're having some trouble in the fanbase with some people acting in the name of the band when they are not related, everything is explained here, read it when you have time", they will most likely not read it, but if they do chances for getting the problem solved would increase

Well, he deleted hob videos and lots of 2002 videos (incluiding boston 2002 sbd multicam), so he is really incoherent

When I was at download madrid there was a posser mother (with her daughter, casual fan I guess) behind me singing all the classic songs with invented lyrics, I swear she tried to sing on better (what I remember is that she totally ruined live and let die, civil war and estranged, on this one I started to sing louder so I could't hear her), maybe she confused it with another song, most people there didn't know Better, on the other hand, everybody seemed to like This I love in Madrid 2017 (Axl nailed it and everybody cheered)

7 hours ago, zigzagbigbag said:

They should simply release the existing version without the movie footage. Idiots 😄

Bootlegs don't exist for this band (or at least that's what they think) go and watch Tokyo 92, the only existing gnr proshot

A version with no movie scenes exists, it begins with slow-mo shots of Matt Sorum playing the intro

16 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

TB was the worst thing to happen to Axl Rose. It seems like a completely unhealthy and symbiotic relationship. Del James also sucks

Didn't Beta tell Axl in 2011 that if he hired another manager she would leave and that was how the Team Brazil management started? There are also roumors from the stolen emails about Beta being fired but getting the work again around that time

3 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

On second thought, I have seen Beta "work" before. At the Ford Field show I saw her screaming at Jarmo at the barrier. That must have been a great effort

I've also seen her work before, she came to the stage before the show started and kept waving to the crowd in Madrid '17. That must have been a great effort. She didn't do that in Madrid '18, I guess she was busy working on social media posting photos of crew members covering their mouths and noses due to the bad smell (a water pipe broke nearby the festival, it smelled bad, but it wasn't THAT bad)

56 minutes ago, cineater said:

This might explain the takedowns and who is behind it.  Says to me youtube and Universal are putting money into to this and want that back, plus more by being the only ones who are playing the videos for these songs.  I would want GNR videos if I were them.  Maybe this is the new MTV and artist will be encouraged to make more music videos.  That could be a plus.  I loved MTV when it was MTV.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8516717/youtube-universal-remaster-iconic-music-videos-lady-gaga-tom-petty

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Decided to watch a remastered lady gaga video from my smartphone, looks like a cheap upscaling, I cleary remember when her 2009 hits were released (look like it was yesterday, time flies) and I swear they had better quality when they were shown on tv

3 hours ago, Ratam said:

Apparently recording artists preparing for a legal battle about the master tapes. But sadly with it they never will recuperate the master lost  

There was something like this with Def Leppard some time ago

3 hours ago, donny said:

and the master copy of the Perfect Crime documentary ? 

Maybe it's dead, but a copy should exist, marc canter saw a bit of it, he said it began with it's so easy

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

You honestly don't think that the master tracks being lost for all of these amazing moments in history is a big deal? Take the fidelity aspect out of it and think about the multi tracks alone. I don't know much about the UYI recordings, but let's say the original master tapes for UYI are gone. That would mean that instead of the original, 32 track recording where everything is separated into individual tracks, all we're left with is a mix down. It's along the lines of what I explained earlier in the thread with regard to "At Last" by Etta James 

In that case yes, it's a big loss, had not read that, but hey, something as important as the uyi multitracks should be digitalized. And yes, it has historical importance, but I doubt any of us have seen or would have ever seen the rock around the clock master tape with his own eyes, they weren't exposed to the public

Let's be realistic, unless you are a big audophile you won't difference too much the quality from the real master from a reel to reel copy. In terms of image it's more noticeable, but there are blu ray releases where the master tape was lost and they used a theather film reel. AC/DC's let there be rock:the movie wasn't realeased on dvd and blu ray until 2009, they said the master reel was very damaged and don't know what they did in the end.

Yes, it's true that if someday we have the technology to improve in a great way audio fidelity of the recording, the master tape should be the source used, but for me it's not a so big lost.

Wasn't this gig roumored to exist in pro-shot and being a potential leak? I think I heard something when Saskatoon leaked

On 25/4/2019 at 12:47 AM, rebeldhipi said:

In Tallinn last year i saw the head of GNR security telling a guy holding a camera to stop filming (camera, not smarphone) His filming annoyed me cause it was disturbing my view. 

 

Probably pretty standard practice, but i remember it being a bit odd in 2018.

I saw another band in a club last november and a guy was recording the full show with a gopro, when it was reaching the last songs, the gorilla from the entrance (club staff, not related to the band) came to him and spoke angry to him for recording the show

23 hours ago, lame ass security said:

Now that is weird, never considered that.  Hearing It's Friday I'm in Love and Don't Cry simultaneously. 

Grandpa Axl vs Grandma Robert Smith, this will be funny 

2 ways for ripping the files:

Easy: Put a dynamic microphone or an electric  guitar aiming at the speaker and plug it into an audio interface/pc line in, use some program like audacity to record it

Hard: Desolder the speaker and solder an audio output, connect it to a pc and record it

On 26/5/2019 at 1:27 PM, Jw224 said:

I would say that if bad Axl vocals would ruin your enjoyment of the show totally then there's a high chance you won't have a good time and as you say you'd feel like your time and money were wasted. If you can look past it however then I'd say go and have a great time. 

If you get to the first 20 rows you don't notice the mickey voice too much because of the distortion of the PA being so near, but being a festival it depends. I was near both at Madrid 2017 and Download Madrid 2018, I didn't really notice Mickey in 2017 but I realized it in 2018 (sound was lower and it was mixed differently)

On 10/5/2019 at 4:11 PM, Edward Nygma said:

Maiden had their own beer on tap for a while not sure if they still do 'The Trooper' I believe it is called. Maybe a route for Guns to take..."Pint of Jungle please'. 

They have that one on a Rock Bar in my city, in 2013 I also saw the AC/DC beer on a big supermarket chain

On 27/4/2019 at 8:20 PM, nikothebellic said:

I’ve recently found an almost full pro shot of Chicago 1992 with as I supposed a longer Paradise City version. Pro Shot ends with “Rags to riches” verse (after “Ya treat it like a capital crime”). Have it existed earlier or is that something new? I mean, I thought it was much shorter. 

There's the fan4fan version, which is a bit longer than JohnM version during Paradise City. If one of those is the version you have, then it's been out for years, if no, then it's new. Right now I can't remember in what line the song ended in both versions.

On 27/4/2019 at 8:26 PM, GnR Chris said:

A store near my home in Chicago used to sell Chicago 1992 on DVD, pro-shot. Or at least, they had it in stock at one time. This was years ago though.

That one is shit, I've seen that one in stores too, it usually cuts after coma (I guess so it didn't show the vcr menu during Don't cry), has an MP logo on the corner and looks and sounds worse than the rest of the versions. Had it downloaded on a hdd long ago, it's the Masterplan version.

I wish one day we get a version with the full Paradise city or at least without the Normal-Hi-Fi thing. 

When you watch that shitty outside Troubadour 2016 periscope at 5 AM trying to hear something when they opened the club's door.

Ironically, it's the only source we have from that show.

7 hours ago, MaskingApathy said:

Slash's tone is terrible in the Roxy show also, but the production doesn't do him any favors. That's whole show was mixed really badly. Hoping this new one will be better.

Is it me or most live cds/dvds from all bands from this decades are mixed live shit? Most of the shows from the 2000s are mixed better

On 15/3/2019 at 12:29 AM, Ralphelmo said:

Wrong, wrong, wrong. R and L channels are swapped, that's why it sounds odd. 

How come you find rhythm guitar to be muted? 

Minute 1:49, I can barely hear Frank's guitar during his part on the solo (the part Izzy/Gilby did with gnr)

Same during Anastasia, It's not muted but it's really low 

In Outa Get Me it gets buried by bass, drums and Slash's guitar, it can be heard at the beggining because only him and the drummer are playing

On 11/3/2019 at 9:18 PM, gunsfannor said:

Sydney is terrific. Such a shame it was never released properly. Anyone in the know who can comment? 

Seems weird to do an elaborate shoot with nothing more than a webcast in mind...

the 1080x1920 on YouTube is very good, but still....

It was done by a concerts audiovisual producer company, looks like they took it serious to make a good job. It looks and sounds good BUT there's one trouble, rythm guitar is muted, I also guess it wasn't recorded in multicam, so the wouldn't be able to do overdubs (Slash made a mistake during Nightrain solo for example)

On 9/3/2019 at 8:13 AM, Ant said:

That Sydney moshcam show is waaaay better than the Sunset Strip or Stoke shows. Tis the gold standard imo.

I liked Made in Stoke, but live from the roxy is awful, I prefer any of the festival pro shots from the World on Fire tour