Blackstar

Yes, I have made the connection with that quote, too (with which he implied that he "lost his soul" to her for a long time): The person I wrote that song [This I Love] for said "thank you for the gift of your soul". Well, it took a while but I got that fucker back. [Copenhagen, Denmark, June 27, 2017] Of course it could be a coincidence, but it's less likely than (at least parts of) Monsters being about someone else.

I have thought that Perhaps could be about his mother (the verses at least). Not any parts of Monsters though.

There are tracks on CD though that are, if not (lyrically) repetitive, poorer than this (Riad, Scraped, If The World).

I wonder how much of the copy/paste criticism is due to us knowing how these songs have been made before we hear them. We're kind of prepared and "programmed" to hear them as a product of copy and paste. Aside from the repetition of verses on Perhaps etc., would we be able to tell that the songs have a "copy and paste" sound if we heard them without knowing anything about them?

I looked up "vinyl" in dictionaries out of curiosity (and as English is not my native language). According to some of them, vinyl is an uncountable/mass noun (so no plural form) when referring to the format in general, but can be used as a countable noun (so in plural, too) when referring to copies of vinyl records: https://www.wordreference.com/definition/vinyl https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vinyl Also found these: https://exclaim.ca/music/article/petitioners_want_to_change_the_plural_of_vinyl_to_vinyls () https://www.goldrushvinyl.com/blog/vinyl-or-vinyls So maybe it's just a case of elitism on the part of vinyl collectors?

Yes, it says "Leo"

Not all of them. Hard Skool and Perhaps appear to be mostly Axl songs.

Amazing work Yes, I remember Russ's reaction when Fernando said "vinyls"

New Duff interview (Classic Rock Magazine): https://www.a-4-d.com/t8091-2023-12-dd-classic-rock-to-the-lighthouse-duff Also this one in People Magazine: https://people.com/guns-n-roses-duff-mckagan-reveals-key-to-his-24-year-marriage-no-longer-than-12-days-apart-exclusive-8399025

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Yes, although I don't like the song much either way, I'm in the minority that prefers the the vocals in the album version than in the remix.

There are songs on CD that he sang entirely or mostly clean, like Catcher In The Rye and Prostitute (and some fans dislike these songs just for this reason) and other songs that he sang with rasp. He could have used rasp on CITR if he had wanted to (because, like you said, the studio is a controlled environment), but he didn't. It was a choice. He chose to sing clean on some songs and parts and with rasp on others. Regarding Live Era, maybe he didn't care to sound like he did on the UYI tour. It's even possible that he didn't like his voice on the live recordings from 1991 and 1992 (if I'm not mistaken, he recorded overdubs only on live tracks from those two years - the live vocals from '87 and '88 were left untouched). We should always keep in mind that Axl's perception of what's good or not may be very different from the fans' perception. For example, he thought he sucked on the Lies version of You're Crazy, even though it's among his best studio vocals.

It's still there - both the 10 sec. clip and the "full version".

The user who added the CD on discogs doesn't look like a troll at first glance. He shared a 10 sec clip, which is different from this ~4 min. version that appeared a little later. The "full version" is supposed to be from that CD, too, but it could be just trolling/made up.

That's the original demo that leaked in 2019.

4:00. I believe it's the same as the original leak (or "leak").

I noticed that the Nightrain exclusive 7'' of Hard Skool that has Absurd and SOYL live on the b-side is 33 ⅓ RPM (which, from what I've read, is better for longer tracks without compromising the quality), while the regular 7'' was 45 RPM.

I'm not sure. I haven't heard anything about the quality of the SHM Hard Skool CD being significantly better.

Yes, that's the exclusive to Japan one (which is the only release on CD format, for now).

It would be hilarious if there were people thinking it was Slash on this one while they thought it wasn't Slash on The General and Monsters.

According to the OP of the leak, the shared file has additional padding due to the way it was extracted from the CD, which would explain the extra length. EDIT: Apparently it wasn't extracted from the CD but in another way.

It's supposed to be from the CD in that discogs listing, which seems to be from around the same time as the locker leaks, so if it's real it's definitely not Slash.

No.

Yes, it sounds too poor to be real. But it reminds me a bit of the leaks that had Bumblefoot playing over (I'm not "qualified" to tell if it's Bumblefoot or anyone else, though).

It was in an interview about Ain't Life Grant. He said that there were no GN'R references in the lyrics of the songs on ALG, as opposed to the lyrics on It's Five O' Clock Somewhere: In other words, no use scouring the lyrics for references to the Guns n’ Roses days. The first Snakepit record “was just filled with innuendo,” Slash said, but no one seemed to pick up on it since the band’s singer at the time, Eric Dover, served as a kind of filter. https://www.a-4-d.com/t4629-2000-11-02-reuters-calgary-herald-welcome-to-the-snakepit-slash