StrangerInThisTown

There won't be any lead guitar by anyone other than Slash or Fortus on new GNR songs. It is literally asinine to me to think you're gonna hear Buckethead soloing on new GNR releases while Slash is in the band. None of the Slash replacement dudes solos will stay on whatever they plan to release...that is an OLYMPIC LEVEL stretch. Don't set your own self up for disappointment like many like to do with this band.

Mine is probably by far the most obscure, I'd be shocked if anyone is familiar with it. Look up "Guns Live 86 Nightrain" on Youtube, instead of a solo, the song ends with the chorus, and the very last line of the song the "TONIGHT", Axl sings it different than usual. He goes into his lower register and a blues vocal run. Don't recall him singing it that way any other time. Always wished it was on the album version.

Either it was mistakenly uploaded early, or it could be that Slash just fucking loves Australia

It's still only out in Australia

That solo is complete mayhem in the best way possible

Axl in the assless pants is priceless lol

Should've called the album Orgasmic Blues, that's a way better album title lol

Man I forgot Anything Goes used to be an 11+ minutes song, so cool to see again.

He "hopes" Axl is mixing the track right now? great lol

Raise Hell is one of the best rock songs I've heard in the last decade, and I thought the last album was a big step up from the first two, Dorothy is one of those newer rock bands that is worth checking out. I find it no surprise Slash wanted to work with her.

That must hurt like fuck if it's anywhere close to the tattoo removal laser.

Soon is the best word ever to not get criticized for when something doesn't happen

Thank you. Enough said, honestly.

That's..because those are huge hits that everyone knows. Not because the music genre is any different.

I think what happened was GNR didn't fit in by the point of 1987 as you said, and then, the entire scene changed into THEM, making them (involuntarily) part of it (or the publics perception of it). GNR stopped being glam sometime after the WTTJ video. If you don't look glam, you aren't glam anymore, no matter what your music sounds like. And in reverse when you're glam with your look but you put out the same music as GNR, people still call you glam metal.

Well pardon me if I don't understand, if all I have to work with here are one sentence replies or detailed assessments such as "literally no difference if you've got shit in your ears"

If you have such a detailed sense of separation of music that is all blues based hard rock, you are far out from what the public perceives, which makes it then understandable that you found it hard to believe they lump them in together.

Literally couldn't disagree more because: the only difference might be the topic of the lyrics and/or the look of the members, which is what sways peoples perception big time. Not the music in itself, it's ALL blues based hard rock, all the visual bullshit aside that people want to take into account. I'd even go so far to say that Dr. Feelgood is a straight up attempt to copy the success of AFD in that sense.

Isn't that what "the public" refers to - people who are vaguely familiar with the big hits, maybe watched the WTTJ video or Kickstart My Heart. There is literally no difference to anyone except for people who know Motleys first couple albums instead of Dr. Feelgood (which was their biggest album). Because by that point they were truly putting out the exact same genre of music. Wasn't there even a rumour that Slash wrote the Dr. Feelgood riff and gave it to Nikki?

You need someone to "say" something for you that is like..so extremely obvious to anyone? That the publics perception of GNR and Motley are largely the same lol? They are lumped in together by the public all day and night what are you on about.

That was only the years before AFD came out though. AFD ushered in an entire new era of "hair metal" it goes on for about 5 more years after that point, and when the album exploded, and all hair-metal bands adapted that bluesier GNR sound you described. They were all putting out hard rock like GNR, all the way until about 1992, trying to cash in on their popularity. Those million copycat bands, aswell as bands like Poison and Motley who shifted their style more to GNR with their albums. I think that whole term refers more to how the people putting the music out LOOKED - which is obviously retarded when you try to describe music with it, like we are trying, which makes the entire conversation flawed, since the term stems from people who didn't think it through and just wanted a dumb name to put on the scene.

On the early albums I would definitely agree, but by the time Dr. Feelgood was released they were pretty much putting out the exact same music. I don't think there's much of a difference between "Anything Goes" and "She Goes Down", it's the same songs you would nowadays categorize as "hair metal", however vague that term is. GNR had a hair metal phase even though I would say it's pretty short. Most of their music has darker lyrics than most of those bands put out, even if musically there's not much of a difference. But their look and their subject matter made them different to bands like Motley, which would be enough to understandably want to put them in a different category than hair metal. (still they toured together in 1987)

80s hard rock and hair metal are often used as synonyms anyway, the entire term hair metal was not even a genre back then, none of those bands or their songs were refered to as hair metal, it was always hard rock. It's a loose made up bullshit term by journalists to give a disparaging name for the entire scene of rock from the 80s played by pretty boys after grunge exploded, and not really a genre in itself. These bands all played hard rock, or a slight variation of it.

GNR definitely started out as that and had the hair metal style in the first 3 years (85-87) especially Axl with his teased hair, which even made it as late as the WTTJ video shoot. Songs such as Anything Goes and Back Off Bitch are pure hair metal, not really different to songs other bands wrote at the time.

If you mean when it's close to 3:00 AM and I come home still drunk and trip and fall all over my keyboard and the impact of my head types the right sequence of letters into the searchbar with the mouse also falling on the ground clicking play when it lands on the resulting video while I unconciously lay on the ground the rest of the night: yeah all the time Otherwise I don't believe I've ever done that no