Live Like a Suicide

14 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

Guys, I just looked it up, Perhaps is not on Amazon Music today, I repeat, it is NOT out on Amazon music today!!

 

Just sayin.

Nor is it loaded on their Linkfire accounts.

2 minutes ago, Tom2112 said:

"It's not as good as the phone recording" 

To be fair, the guitar solo/overlay on the phone recording does sound pretty cool, though it would be awesome to hear what Slash has done with it.

Someone ask Fortus if The General has a sitar in it, lol.

The vocals are too drowned out in the phone clip to make most of the last part legible, in my opinion (but I do recognise Evader's techno magic so maybe he's right).

That aside, fuck knows how Axl is going to pull the vocals off if they do wheel it out live.

Axl has always had vocal troubles, including blow outs in the 80s... That his vocals can be inconsistent and prone to highs and lows is nothing new. Having seen the NITL incarnation of GNR in 2017 and 2022, I think Axl sounded better in the former but still very powerful in the latter (despite the rigours of touring and aging). He may not reach all the rasp and high notes anymore, but his clean vocals still cut through in a live setting. In fact, i daresay his clean vocals are more powerful now than they have been over the last decade, so it seems he is still working on his performance.

8 minutes ago, gavgnr said:

But the original had those (see below).

Im saying legit maddafakkas 🤘🤘😆😆

Everything else seems to line up too (in terms of font size/space ratio...

It could be a fake someone made to look like that document on the soundboard, but man i really want it to be true. 

4 minutes ago, jacdaniel said:

It looks fake to me 

The font feels off to me somehow, and it is convenient that a setlist with that info came out a few days after the concert and info was known... Do we know if previous setlists had the dates + city in the footer?

The thing that does it for me is that I really don't know why they would keep The General as the song's official name... It was clearly a working title, named after fast food if i recall correctly. 

14 minutes ago, Dani_1455 said:

I've seen a photo of a setlist from Gnrevolution where you can see perhaps and the General in the setlist, how can I upload a photo?

Don't you fucking do this to me. 

8 minutes ago, El Guapo said:

Agreed. No "big guns" in sight. Pele was right.

If the Village Sessions hadn't leaked, Pele would have said we would only get Hardskool, Silkworms and Atlas (since these were publicly known previously). The point being that no one knew of Perhaps, State of Grace, Nothing, Eye on You, etc, until the Village Sessions were leaked. It is also possible, then, that Axl would have songs recorded later that could potentially be released.

My only concern is that the Village session songs with vocals might be the only CD-era songs we get. Slash said there were about four more singles left to release. These could easily be Perhaps, SOG, Atlas and some reworked version of Eye on You or Nothing. Of course, I hope I am wrong and that we get The General, Soul Monster, Seven, etc, but this band does the bare minimum.

7 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Are those official? They look like bootlegs! 

The official shirts in Aus were utter shit, so I expect that to be the same globally. The shirt I got back in November ended up being printed crooked on a Gildan t-shirt, lol.

34 minutes ago, smokingarthur said:

TB does what Axl says. It was most likely Axl who stymied any attempts by the band to show any level of enthusiasm for the “new” music outside of the parameters Axl instituted. 

I just don't think they care all too much about wide commercial success for these Chinese leftovers. I mean, Absurd being their first comeback single says as much... Their money comes from touring, and these releases only serve to give these legs a shot in the arm.

I actually preferred Tommy Demo #1 from the Village Sessions. Going Down is good, but it is pretty boring in my opinion.

21 minutes ago, rocknroll41 said:

Is Perhaps on linkfire yet? Anyone know how to check that?

GNR have two Linkfire accounts. Perhaps is not on either right now:

https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/perhaps

https://gnr.lnk.to/perhaps

28 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

Was Perhaps actually on that set list? It looked too blurred to tell

It was blurred, but still clear enough to make out a 'P' at the start and a 'PS' at the end. Filling in the rest of the word for Perhaps fits with what was on the list.

Fuck me, I just want The General. 

Frank and Richard aren't going anywhere and can do more for the GNR catalogue than either Steven or Izzy can. In that respect, it comes down to what either can offer in a guest spot, and for me, Izzy takes the cake. We could get 14 Years, Dust N' Bones, etc.

On 6/3/2023 at 10:00 AM, 2020_Intensions said:

What does Slash & Duff consider to be "epic" these days? What did they ever consider to be epic? They apparently weren't into Estranged & November Rain ... I could totally see them dubbing Hard Skool and Absurd as "epic" unfortunately 

Good point. I do recall Slash saying that the next songs would be more epic or intricate than HS and Absurd, but that could easily fall into line for Perhaps or Atlas... Anything is more intricate than Absurd, and well, HS is just a simple rocker.

1 hour ago, 2020_Intensions said:

To me, never releasing The General, Seven, Thyme, Oklahoma, Soul Monster would be the strangest decision Axl has ever made ... Literally cannot give a good reason why these supposedly epic songs would not be released outside of "he doesn't want to" which is total bullshit. 

I would hope that a few of those would be released, given Slash said the upcoming songs would be more 'epic'. I don't necessarily think Perhaps in its Village Sessions version is epic, but who knows how it evolved over the years.

1 hour ago, AxlSlashthebest said:

I had a version without solo. so strange

There are quite a few altered copies of Perhaps out there, including the one on YouTube right now (which has a removed lyric for 'now' in one of the choruses).

4 minutes ago, ChristmasFnatic said:

Lol I remember people saying he sounded great live and somehow Youtube videos make Axl’s voice sounds bad. There was a huge argument years ago about this.

I think it comes down to the fact that Axl's vocals can be inconsistent but still powerful when experienced live. For example, 2022 Axl wasn't as good as 2017 Axl, and this is blatantly obvious on recording. However, the concert I attended last year was great because he was still so powerful that even his clean vocals cut above everything and sounded strong.

Music Machine 1986

6 hours ago, kingcanyon said:

What's the reason behind this or are they talking about new music for the fan base to be patient or what? 

Looking at their previous YouTube posting schedules, they usually upload an individual video before a significant release. For example:

Used to Love Her (live in Belgium) - July 2021

Absurd - August 2021

Paradise City with Dave Grohl - September 2021

Hardskool - September 2021

SCOM Dublin - July 2022

UYI Anniversary announced with YCBM - October 2022

If we're talking about a record, then the acoustic version is superior. But the merged slow/fast version they sometimes played live in the 80's was cool.