AxlRoseCDII

Everything with this band ends up being a missed opportunity. What’s sad is in 8 years from now, when Axl sounds even worse, we’re going to be wishing he did a studio album in 2024 and seeing that as missed opportunity. It’s an endless cycle of “what if?”

It’s gonna be real funny when we’re revisiting this thread in 2027 after the “We’re F”N Back Again Again For Real” tour and Duff and Slash give the same exact interview answers regarding a new GNR album

I wouldn’t even really be that disappointed if it was just Mickey. I’ve been to 2023 concerts, I’ve watched lots of videos, I know how bad his voice is. There are ways to work with it. The Mickey voice can even be done okay at times. But the horrendous over-processing is what kills it for me specifically. It sounds amateurish and embarassing, and completely takes me out of the enjoyment of the song.

If this is the best Axl has left in the tank, I don’t see how the band would ever be able to make a new album and I can see why they’ve been cherry picking songs recorded 20 years ago. It sounds way too over processed to the point where it’s distracting.

At this point, I don’t know why anyone would go to a GNR show to expect a good performance from Axl. Full stop at this point, you’re going to the concerts just to have a nice night and listen music you enjoy, see Slash, or do it for the novelty. I think people should start accepting Axl is never going to sound like he did in his prime or even 8 years ago ever again unless he were to seriously undergo surgery and practice, which won’t happen. Dont get me wrong, it’s absolutely lame that Axl doesn’t do anything to better his voice, and I’d much prefer he takes the Bon Jovi or Steven Tyler approach of “don’t tour if it sounds bad or you can’t do it”, but in 2024, we are where we are. It’s not even worth debating if his voice will come back. It’s not.

Can someone catch me up with this thread? Did something leak?

What is this site? Is this any sort of credible?

The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds dismiss any arguments for why this band can’t release a new album. I just saw them while they were in LA and despite being in their 80’s, they released a brand new album (a damn good one) and toured it. I can’t understand why this band can’t do the same, it’s actually mind blowing.

We’ve had two Dizzy Reed albums since NITL reunited, but no GNR albums. How fucked is that?

The setlist was amazing last year. This band has a lot of problems but the set is not one of them. People complain endlessly it’s “stale” when I think they’ve actually done a really good job at introducing deepcuts and shaking things up. I would be more than happy to see them again without any setlist switch. But yeah, it doesn’t matter how good the setlist is, Axl sounds bad on almost everything lol

I’m of the opinion we will just get more AFD and UYI nostalgia content every 5 or 10 year anniversary for the rest of the time. TSI is too niche, and could just be on another UYI sort of re-release, and Axl likely won’t have any interest in ever re-releasing CD content with people not in the band anymore and were never accepted as GNR by the majority of fans.

There’s two ways to see it. You can either argue the leaks are what caused the singles to be released, or you can argue that there isn’t really as large of a vault as there was talked up to be and that the releases overlap because those are just the songs that are done. We don’t have enough information to prove either, in my opinion. And no, the latter is not a Pele argument. I’m sure there are songs that have some work done that we don’t know about. Whether those are fully finished or realized though is a much different story, and again, there’s just not enough info to know.

Axl is one of the laziest musicians who’s ever lived. He’s basically retired. He gets to just show up for his concerts where he openly admits he doesn’t rehearse the new material, make money and leave. He has not (seriously) written music in over 20 years. I don’t even think it’s a debate.

It’s a good point that he would be wise not to release an autobiography until the lawsuit is resolved. However, with his money, he’s very much able to just settle this lawsuit for practically whatever and whenever he wants to.

10 bucks says this will literally never be updated again or lead to anything. Axl starts projects, probably does put serious work on them, and then does nothing with them or it fails to materialize. This is a pattern of over 20 years and until proven otherwise I will assume nothing will change.