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6 minutes ago, JAxlMorrison said:

Look for it during the next dozen times you watch the clips. 

Fine. Spend it on things that inevitably disappoint you lol. Seems healthy. Logical too. 

I also agreed with how the sound gets better as the show goes on, it's not that I don't enjoy it, because I always will, it just should be better and can be with more preparation.

Again, stop berating me for having a perfectly valid opinion verging on fact, and less of the dick riding

Just now, JAxlMorrison said:

Look for it during the next dozen times you watch the clips. 

Yeah, that won't be happening

3 minutes ago, JAxlMorrison said:

If that’s how your experience goes regularly, why would you continue to pay and attend something that you don’t enjoy or feel like you got your money’s worth?

A masochistic hope for better days as well as a strong appreciation for their work, hence why I'm here... duh? Don't tell me how to spend my money.

3 minutes ago, JAxlMorrison said:

What’s the point of lying when there’s literally video evidence of slash jumping up and down during the song? Is that “static” to you? 

Must've zoned out at that point then

2 minutes ago, jekylhyde said:

It's pretty cool to see Slash (and Duff too obviously) rocking out while playing The General 

What a surreal sentence to write.

They were pretty much static the whole song, what are you on about?😂

Well The General sounded even more like a wet turd live than expected. Give us Monsters, or better still, a song that doesn't follow the same repetitive and lazy formula.

Fuck, get Andrew Watt on board if you can't write music anymore, seemed to work for Ozzy.

6 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

Sadly not going to make Canters this trip but I will one day! I was glad to eat at the Rainbow, at least! Tool rocks! You’ll have a great time.

 

Being in The Rainbow is so surreal, it feels like a privilege to be amongst where near enough ALL of our heroes from far and wide have partied

14 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

Sound at the venue was also quiet as fuck. We could have full conversations with ease. Maybe it’s because we were in the back, but I’m no stranger to nosebleeds. It was QUIET. Sound was bad in the first third and got better as the show went on. 

 

I've noticed this at every GNR show I've attended this year, where even the opening bands have sounded louder and much better than GNR and it's quite frankly inexcusable. If the lazy ginger bastard bothered to turn up to soundcheck, these issues could be avoided, but no.

It's downright disrespectful to the fans that pay the ever-inflating prices to go.

2 minutes ago, uzi your illusion said:

I know it's been discussed but it is still lost on me why it would still be called "The General" if the title originally comes from what Brain was eating at the time.

 

Would love to know why Axl decided to keep that "placeholder" title for a song with seemingly very deep subject matter.

I know it's been discussed but it is still lost on me why it would still be called "The General" if the title originally comes from what Brain was eating at the time.

 

Would love to know why Axl decided to keep that "placeholder" title for a song with seemingly very deep subject matter.

The General could also be interpreted as the abuser in the song, one would be inclined to guess...

4 hours ago, Gunnerfan_rus said:

I've just made calculations using Wiki as source (but some lengths there are a little different compared to numbers on physical releases, so it could be +/- some seconds) and if we take all studio albums (AfD, Lies, Illusions, Spaghetti & CD) + Sympathy for the Devil from GH + 4 latest singles (Shadow, Absurd, Hard Skool & Perhaps) then the average GNR song length is 4:36!

If we don't count Spaghetti then it's 4:48 and if we don't count any covers at all (aka original material only) it's 4:49.

And if we don't count My World it's even 3 seconds more - 4:52

Thank you for further proving me right, as expected

7 hours ago, Flayer said:

if you take them as one song together, the General and Monsters do stand out as the exception. First epic length piece since UYI. Coma’s deranged younger brother.

But is it...that's like playing Mr Brownstone & Bad Obsession demos back to back and claiming it to be 1 song

7 hours ago, Blackstar said:

Why un-GN'R? The majority of GN'R songs are 3-5 minutes long.

I'd say 4-5+ minutes... all the 3 so far fall short and we cannot rely on 2 leaks being spliced together as being 1 song

Just now, D4NNY said:

You missed “owwww” 

Fucking banger Live though I'll give em that. Gets a cheer from me.

3 minutes ago, Flayer said:

I don't think The General, Perhaps, State of Grace, Eye On You, or Absurd stick to that formula, though in most cases it's something being left out rather than something extra being added. Eye On You doesn't have verses at all. The General doesn't either, it has three different choruses or refrains that all get reused, plus a bridge. Perhaps and State of Grace only use their chorus twice and spend most of their time on verses. Absurd had what passed for its chorus chopped out, one of the verses copy pasted to be the new chorus, and the other verse just left in there to fill space.

'Absurd! Absurd!' was literally the chorus.

Perhaps has the exact same verse and chorus over again before the solo... Hard Skool was the most passable 'GNR-esque' release and even that was short.

1 hour ago, ZoSoRose said:

That song structure is true and true, but I agree I wish these two songs had another twist or two each. At least there are a lot of cool things going on in them and they sound great back to back

 I thought Hard Skool, Perhaps, and Absurd could have used another part or two each, too.

It’s all good, though. Still plenty to enjoy. Slash’s first solo album had the verse-chorus-bridge thing on every song, too

Yep and they're all too short... very un-GNR, they all feel rushed and pieced together without any soul to them. hopefully that changes with the official release.

24 minutes ago, GNFNRUK said:

Whilst I enjoy all of these ‘new’ songs to some degree (with the exception of ‘Absurd’), I think they all suffer slightly from having either short or repeated verses. I wish Axl had worked on them lyrically a little more.

They all have such a predictable, boring and lazy structure to them all. They all follow the same formula of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus, guitar outro, done. 

24 minutes ago, GNFNRUK said:

Whilst I enjoy all of these ‘new’ songs to some degree (with the exception of ‘Absurd’), I think they all suffer slightly from having either short or repeated verses. I wish Axl had worked on them lyrically a little more.

They all have such a predictable, boring and lazy structure to them all. They all follow the same formula of verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus, guitar outro, done. 

4 minutes ago, Live Like a Suicide said:

I can't wait for that bald-headed hipster fuck on YouTube to trash this song like all the others, lol.

Who is this referring to?😂

5 minutes ago, ZODIAC said:

Could this 9min version fit on a 7''? 😅

That's probably why the alleged quality issues occurred

No logic as to why the old thread got closed vs this one 🤦🏻‍♂️

5 minutes ago, vloors said:

Monsters sounds like a VR song and my fav of the two.

Not a fan of the General. Sounds like it should have stayed in the CD trash bucket.

Slash's guitar was reminiscent of Loving The Alien in Monsters. Beautiful stuff.

Just now, megaguns1982 said:

Once pitman saw he wasn’t getting a writing credit, he leaked some old demos.

Towel sales just increased by 35%.

1 minute ago, D4NNY said:

The General is growing on me, I love hearing that orchestral backing they we all heard during the CD tours so long ago. Somewhat feels like a blast from the past but the vocal choice/effect during the chorus is a bit jarring for me, maybe that will grow in time too

Reminded me of Matt Bellamy of Muse's vocals

2 minutes ago, AtlasIllusions said:

Monsters to me is what I fully expected the general to be - this is INSANE we are finally hearing these. 

I think the consensus is that it's back to being one song...

This plot twist of 1 song becoming two, then back to 1 again has completely made this better than I expected but unlike anything we have heard from them. Holy fuck.