Blackstar

The Slash page on the same website:

https://www.bookey.app/quote-author/slash

None of the quotes looks familiar here, either (and they are definitely not from his autobiography).

9 minutes ago, Lio said:

Must be AI, no?

Look at this from the introduction:

 

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

4 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. 

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

3 minutes ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

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.

Yeah, almost none of these "Axl quotes" rings a bell. And this page is about books. Hmm...

Just now, Lio said:

Is it a bit odd that his supposed TikTok has an old pic, while there are only new pics on his website?

Yes, it is odd. It has a blue tick, so I guess it's a verified account. I wonder when it was created, because it already has 48,500 followers.

Also has links to official profiles on IG (we knew he had one, although he doesn't use it) and on TikTok (also no posts)

I don't know why, but this whole conversation reminded me of another occasion a few years ago (also during a GN'R break, I think), when Beta (?) shared a picture of Axl Axl's legs in slippers next to his cats, and the mini meltdown that caused on the forum (Slash and Duff being out there doing things and Axl at home in slippers, not to mention that a rockstar should never wear slippers, etc. )

1 hour ago, colonizedmind said:

Oran mor is a great shout for a beautifully intimate venue in Glasgow! 

As well as the deluxe....ok! I guess all the songs they wrote for GNR are being repurposed now? As that's not coming any century soon.... Who knows! 

He has said that he wrote about 60 songs during the pandemic and then continued writing, so he has to release at least some of those. He also said that he has a "GN'R" folder (as well as for Iggy, Ozzy etc.) on his laptop (and mentioned the "Amen" song along the lines of that) but most of the songs are solo songs.

2 hours ago, Swedish said:

That's a later tour start than I would've anticipated. Why wait until fall?

He said he wanted to take a break from touring after the GN'R tour. He also plans to release another album by the time he hits the road.

5 hours ago, jamillos said:

I see it as a sort of a natural orgasm. I mean, with Axl, he’s forced to do essentially the same tour and play the same songs for years on. So once freed, the dude fricking flies! 

He's been always like that, though. Especially since he quit GN'R. As years went by, he went more and more busy.

6 minutes ago, janrichmond said:

Wasn't it Duff's brother?

No, it was a friend of theirs called David.

12 minutes ago, Rindmelon said:

Yeah I think when it was registered (through ASCAP?) it was as 'The General & Monsters'  I think that's how it was worded, @Blackstar found it I think.

It was registered as "The General and Monsters" on SESAC (which collects publishing royalties for Axl) and other databases that got the data from Universal (which has Axl's publishing).

On GMR, though (which collects royalties for Slash and Duff) it has been registered just as "The General" (It should be on BMI, too, which collects royalties for Brain and his friends, but it hasn't appeared there yet).

So I think your theory that the songs were registered together so that UMG could take down Monsters as The General (without giving away that it's a different song) is very plausible.

Tim Collins, then manager of Aerosmith, appears in the backstage footage at the end of the video (as well as Tom Zutaut and Vicky Hamilton).

I don't think I've heard of their friend who played sax during Anything Goes before. I looked in Marc Canter's book and his name is not mentioned. He's referred to as a "musical associate" who also provided the band with some experimental "recreational" substances after the show.

19 hours ago, jamillos said:

Just SCOM and Ain't Goin Down is available, right? Cause I remember hearing this for the first time, and it's the fucking embodiment of GN'R.

Yes, I think so (I'm not 100% sure).

38 minutes ago, bojan said:

Well, it could have been two years from now, to make it round forty 😉

 

Seriously though, don't you think it's a funny coincidence? The leaker must have aimed that date.

Yes, it's not a coincidence. I guess they just thought it would be cool to release it on the same date the show took place. But other than that, I don't think that's something that makes more special or anything like that.

8 minutes ago, jamillos said:

Wait, didn't Whiskey have the premiere of Sweet Child? I've been yearning for that one for years.

That was at the later Whiskey show, in August 1986 (there is audio of it).

26 minutes ago, themadcaplaughs said:

Gotcha! I feel like, at the time of the rumor, the word was that it would be a GN'R track so I wasn't sure. 

Yeah, it was ("the first GN'R reunion recording", etc.).

As far as I know, the rumour started from Mitch Lafon, then the producer of the T-Rex tribute album responded that there was no truth to it, but that there was another rumour about just Axl (without GN'R) recording a version for a different project.

But then "insiders" kept saying that it was a GN'R song.

22 minutes ago, themadcaplaughs said:

If this ever sees the light of day, do you think it would actually be released as a Guns N' Roses track; it seems more like a side project/one-off type thing. I guess I always took this rumor slightly more seriously than some of the "insiders" who lurk message boards since it came from a well-connected source, but damn, I remember this rumor being fairly early in the "NITL" era of the band. Little does Zak know that this post probably delayed the track by another five years. 

It clearly looks like it's part of a Zak Starkey and Sshh project/album, so I think it's certain that it wouldn't be released as GN'R.

12 minutes ago, Georgina Arriaga said:

From what I understand AND I think the person who he refers as SSHH Is doing the mixing

Sshh is Zak's wife, I think, and they got a band together. He says that he and Sshh have done the production of the whole album, but from what I understand Axl is mixing the track, at least the vocals.

7 minutes ago, JimiRose said:

They cut this cover for sick kids SEVEN YEARS AGO and Axl is still mixing the track? Words fail me. 

I hope that Axl hasn't been mixing his vocals since then

Maybe it was shelved at the time because of that other T-Rex tribute album that was released then and included a cover of the same song by different artists.

But still, it was 2017 and now it's 2024

If I'm not mistaken, Axl (and Caram) mixed his vocals on Rock the Rock, too. It looks like Axl wants to mix his vocals on whatever he sings on himself (or have "his guy" do it). I wouldn't be surprised if the Michael Schenker/UFO (?) song he recorded vocals on is delayed for the same reason.

So it was true then. I guess I owe an apology to the "insiders" and their sources.

I hope it sees the light of the day

It's the first time an induction ceremony takes place, though (I suppose until now the certificates were given during the regular Grammy Awards show), so there will likely be more than giving a certificate. They said there going to be performances, but not who the performers will be.

1 hour ago, janrichmond said:

The 351 shows by Nuguns are over how many years? I know very little about that era but I thought they went years without touring.

2001-2014.

They didn't play a show until 2001, and then the longest period without touring was Dec. 2002 - May 2006. But they played a lot of shows from late 2009 to 2014.