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GNR has no touring plans for the next year or more, and this is happening now? First his own website launch, and now a Youtube page? Axl solo album seems ridiculous to even type out, but the chance is not 0% anymore like I always thought before. Maybe not a full album, but just a song or something seems likely, I mean what else would he upload on there that wouldn't fit on the GNR youtube channel?

1 hour ago, Karice said:

Oh my God, Axl would have a coronary if Justin ever mistook him for Jon Bon Jovi! 🤣 What's next, Justin saying,"I love Guns N'Roses. My favorite song from Guns N'Roses is "With the lights out, entertain us!" Axl would have a HUGE fit! 🤣

I will tell you exactly what he would say:

CumShotDaily is the giveaway

1 hour ago, Free Bird said:

I was gonna say, if you’re listening between the lines this blues record is a one off thing but then at the end of this interview with Ola he mentioned that he might do another one with original material. That would be huge. What I dislike is that Teddy’s also singing on this tour. Slash even considered him as the lead singer for the whole blues record until he fortunately came up with the idea of using different singers again. 

He already said that in the magazine article Blackstar posted in the thread earlier

2 hours ago, Blackstar said:

I suppose it will be this sort of stuff?

39 minutes ago, Gunner Gilby said:

Ok apologies if this has been addressed in another thread. So I've finally gotten a reasonably priced UYI super deluxe edition (7 CD and Blu Ray version). Obviously the first disc I play is the Blu Ray. And whilst it's a great performance from Izzy era Illusion tour one thing sucks. Did whoever the camera people were forget about Dizzy? You can see his piano on the left hand side of the stage. If you squint you can see him in the shadows. I think one of the only times you see him when Axl introduces him during Estranged.

I know he's not an original member and most fans probably watch for Axl, Slash n Duff. But Matt wasn't an original member and we see plenty of him. I don't know about everyone else. But if I buy something which contains a Blu Ray concert of a favourite artist/band I expect to see the whole fucking band. 

You understand the entire purpose of filming that concert at the time was to make a music video for YCBM? It was never intended for us to see it all, as a full show, like other bands full filmed shows intended to be released officially, as a full concert... 30 years later we are lucky we even got to see it lifted from the vaults in the first place, and re-used for that purpose, since it's incredible footage. Since there's 0 piano in the song it's pretty understandable to me that the camera guys focused on members you actually hear on the song because they needed as much footage of them as possible to choose from.

8 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

 

Just came here to post this, I don't know if it's because of the interviewer, but Slash is in a really goofy mood in this interview lol, definitely more than usual in interviews

And the two Rod Jackson mentions were cool as well.

2 hours ago, W. Axl Kev said:

Totally agree on the second quote.

I don't follow the first one though. In what world would Axl or his management allow an AI quote on his behalf? I completely agree it looks like the sort of thing a machine would come up with, but the link to the website is now in his Twitter bio. Surely that required some quality control on his behalf?

The only explanations is that either the quote is not AI, or..that he has never actually visited his website to check it out and just added the link to his bio

7 hours ago, Voodoochild said:

Nightrain's outro solo was way shorter, tho. And it's one of my all time favorite Slash's solos, so I think I prefer the AFD even with the fade-out.

A random live performance on a tuesday where Slash was probably drunk, compared to a studio take where he knows this is for eternity, is always going to be different of course, and I think it would have still inspired the same performance if they kept that arrangement. We would have gotten the same song, except longer.

I've said it in the favourite Axl notes thread aswell, but just check out the way Axl ended Nightrain in those 1986 gigs. How badass is that? That last vocal run, when the arrangement they had with the song was ending it with the chorus. Fuck I wish they kept that for AFD..it's so great. The best one is still from the Music Machine 86 gig on Youtube, just perfect. But it's good on this one aswell.

The entire arrangement of that song, from the intro up to the outro was more powerful in my opinion, every other song from AFD was improved, EXCEPT Nightrain. Losing that killer Axl outro alone for a fade-out (which is always annoying) makes the early arrangement better.

They also should have kept the fade-in intro with the train and rain sound effects from the Pasha studios demo (which wasn't on the AFD boxset, for reasons known only to TB).

45 minutes ago, We love Axl Rose said:

I don't think Axl needs any help from AI technology for vocals in the studio. As many have written here, singing in the studio and at shows are completely different things. He can still use a rasp in concerts, from time to time, but in the studio, he has more time to rest, and because of that he can use it constantly. Rock the Rock is the most recent example of Axl being able to use rasp(vocals) in the studio, i hope we will soon hear that song he sang for Michael Schenker and find out if things have changed.

Maybe true, there is no way to know until we hear something, because even Rock The Rock was plenty of years ago now.

Even still, I have to disagree with the other poster, because it would be literally just re-applying the tone of his own voice, to his own voice. He would still have to sing and record it all. That's not a "robot". Using AUTO TUNE is "a robot", where notes are added and adjusted in a robot way, not reminiscent of how the original vocals were recorded and sung into the mic at all, that shit is WAY more "robot" than adding bits rasp back to the vocals that he himself has to record.

And live, that point doesn't make a lot of sense to me, because he ALREADY sings ALL the songs that he recorded back then with his classic tone live with his current voice. So it'll just be the same thing as literally all the other songs.
 

20 minutes ago, Tom2112 said:

Exactly. Anybody that thinks otherwise has their head up their arse. 

He could still hypothetically release plenty of music, but it would take an incredible shift in his thinking, workflow and creative process.

Anyway, you're spot on with all of the above. 

Ok this might derail the thread but I gotta get into this: Yes he is right about the creativity aspect, but he's forgetting one major thing, that just started existing within this last year: which is the advancement in AI technology which also influences the "studio magic" that is possible.

With the advancements of AI technology in just this year alone (it's in it's infancy), Axl can pretty much record and sound like he did on Appetite, aslong as he can still hit the notes (which he can, albeit in his clean tone). He didn't lose his range, he just lost the rasp which is really demanding vocally, and of course you can't keep up that singing style for 30+ years. This is the reason why people like Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler still sound so good, they sang more with their natural tone.

But now in a studio setting, he can record with the clean vocals and apply an AI created Axl voice filter on it, which works kind of like a guitar effect pedal (but just on his recorded voice instead) and have him sound like his 1987 self with the rasp completely added onto the vocals by the AI which works by feeding it with soundclips of his isolated studio vocals from AFD/UYI. People are already doing this with other singers, just applying an AI Axl onto the voice and it sometimes already sounds dead on, so when he does it with his own vocals, it'll sound pretty much perfect.

So GNR can release as much music as they want, aslong as Axl actually starts working on it.

31 minutes ago, JimiRose said:

Absolutely nothing. 

This will not mean Axl is going solo. dream on people. 

Someones gotta be paying for this shit, so it's gotta be used for something. No one pays bills and website designers just to do jack shit with it.

There's gotta be an idea behind it when he just doesn't do what everyone else does these days, which is just to use your Instagram. Solo album seems far fetched I agree, and a book is kind of doubtful aswell. So I'm still interested to see what the reason for it to exist is.

37 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

Because whoever got the job to make this first draft of the text content is not a hardcore fan and just google for content. 

As sad as this sounds that would be on par for the course of half-ass jobs that GNR world continues to take part in. Literally doing 0 research and putting FAKE quotes of the person whose website you were just paid to launch. Incredible

3 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

I think the quotes are AI generated and whoever added text to the webpage found it and thought it was genuine. Again, the text on the webpage doesn't seem to be in it's final version. 

If you think the quotes are AI generated, how does one of them appear on his official website then? Because it does, but yet no one is aware of that one, even the most hardcore fans.

12 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

I didn't say that quote specifically is fake. But the overall feeling I get when reading the quotes is that they are fake. I actually believe that whoever set up the webpage simply searched for Axl Rose quotes and added one from the page. The text on the webpage looks half finished, just look at the bio page where only Appetite is mentioned. I am sure Axl would have said something about Chinese Democracy, too. 

I agree, but then the question remains where that quote comes from. It now appears on his website, but if no one even on here recognizes it, and we are all hardcore enough to post on a GNR fan forum, that is strange? So maybe it is drawn from a pool of information that is not available yet, comes directly from an official source, like Axl himself, or a book?

1 minute ago, SoulMonster said:

The quotes sound very fake to me. 

One of them is on his official website. So how can it be fake?

4 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Yeah, the "explanations" of the quotes also look AI generated.

Unless it's about Children of the Revolution, as both Slash and Elton are on it

 

But even if it is AI, that quote is now on Axls official website. So it has to be connected somehow, I never heard of it somewhere else, neither does anyone so far?

5 minutes ago, Lio said:

Yeah, but it also says that beyond GNR he also has collaborations with Elton John and Slash. It's nonsense. Surely no one can be that unprofessional. 

Well, just coincidentally, this year outside of GNR we have news of the Children of the Revolution cover coming out soon (which has Elton on it) and the Michael Schenker track with Slash

2 minutes ago, Lio said:

Must be AI, no?

Look at this from the introduction:

 

"releasing albums under his own name" would only make sense if it's either AI or a solo album release is imminent.

3 minutes ago, Rindmelon said:

I don't recognize any of these quotes at all, none of them, where are they pulling these from?

That entire page seems written by someone commissioned, or approved by Axl. I don't recognize these "famous" quotes either lol. Does @Blackstar? If not then I believe this is an official thing written to sell a book or something.

1 minute ago, Voodoochild said:

LOL I didn't notice that. Sorry, I'm an amateur. 

You were still right about the missing quotation mark though lol, so you still have a point

This seems really out of time, it's strange to launch your own website in 2024 when you would have the biggest, and fastest reach possible just using Instagram. Will be interesting to see what this is used for

The entire topic of collecting used bandaids shouldn't even be given a chance to continue on in a new thread and should be banished to satans deepest level of hell