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Axl sounds great on The General!

"Axl, play us The General" That guy in the crowd just had his mind blown for sure

Just watched this! This is a complete recording. Thanks for sharing it!

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https://twitter.com/axlculture/status/1720281516113023357?t=aF_bCnyYa0S4YbMYpUc1GA&s=19

Axl sounds great!

Buckethead? I thought it was Brian May.

Thanks for this! Sounds good but I'll wait for a better recording to pass my judgment.

HOLY SHIT!

Hope they actually end up playing it and we get the closure that we desperately need. I'm getting tired debating about this topic. Edit: APPARENTLY THEY JUST PLAYED IT!!!

Who else do you feel it could be? To be honest, the first time I listened to it, that part felt like Slash trying to play like Robin. But then I noticed the tone change and certain nuances which made me fairly certain that it's Richard. The phrasing and tone is quite similar to what I've seen him play live. One of the nuances I noticed is how he does a quick slide in and out certain notes (don't know how to describe it better). You can also hear him do the same thing in the part that he plays in the chorus of Madagascar if you listen closely. I've noticed Robin doing it sometimes too but it sounds slightly different. Truthfully, I haven't listened to Richard and Robin outside of GnR so I could be totally wrong but to me it just makes sense that Richard would be the one playing on a mix that has Slash on it too.

The start of the solo at 3:53 follows a similar formula as the start of the Slither solo. At 3:58, you get the classic repeating wah lick from Sweet Child O' Mine played at 4:32 (but it played at a different part of the neck so the notes are different). Slash uses this lick a lot. At 4:12, you hear him bending down a note in sync with the wah pedal while picking the string multiple times, similar to the lick in By The Sword at 3:19. The blazing fast part that happens a few seconds before the end of the solo is the only thing that doesn't sound like a typical Slash lick. But it it's just hammer-ons/pull-offs and doesn't involve any tapping/sweep picking that might indicate it was played by Bucket.

I thought he'd have wanted to live in Madagascar.

No, it obviously means that the reunion era is over and Robin and Bucket are coming back, because clearly Slash isn't playing on GnR songs anymore.

At first listen, I was like "wtf is this?". But now, it's grown on me a lot after I got past all the vocal effects and I feel it's one of the better songs from their recent releases. I enjoyed Monsters from the start though and it's definitely the better one.

Yes. In the demo, Buckethead does a fast atonal tapping part in the outro. In the final version, it's probably Fortus doing a very similar tapping part and Slash playing a slower, picked version of the melody.

Can't believe people are still claiming that it's not Slash on these tracks. I will livestream myself eating my guitar strings if I'm wrong about Slash playing on both the songs. I've listened to almost every song that Slash has put out and this is Slash playing on both TG and Monsters, period.

What's wrong with the chorus riff? It's just some tasty power chords.

Your post reminded me of the WTTJ performance at the Bridge School in 2012. I always hear Axl say "We got all the cheeeese" instead of "We got your disease".

That Rolling Stone list is a joke!

Man, can't wait to hear your full cover if you plan on doing it! I was thinking of learning some of the solos but I'm in the middle of learning other stuff right now. Tried figuring out some stuff from Monsters and it seemed fairly straightforward. The solo from The General is definitely going to be a challenge lol. I'll probably wait for you to cover it and steal your notes.

I believe people are attributing the outro solo of The General to Buckethead, not the one in Monsters that I assume you're talking about. Monsters outro is definitely Slash first and then Fortus. I understand people attributing Fortus' part to Robin because their styles are somewhat similar but Robin's playing is more usually more expressive than this and he uses a lot of staccato to highlight certain notes. The Monsters solo sounds similar to how Fortus plays live. Coming to The General, one of the repeating licks in the outro solo is literally the fast repeating lick from the SCoM/Slither solos that Slash is well-known for overusing, just in a different order of notes and higher speed.

Well, if Slash has played something that people think is Buckethead, he's definitely outdone himself! Gotta send posts from this thread to Slash haters after the song is officially out.

Can't unhear it now lol. It's one of those weird CD-era sound effects. I always wondered what those chirping sounds at the beginning of TWAT were.

Well, there's definitely a lot of Slash on the leaked track so that's outside the realm of possibility.