Blackstar

20 minutes ago, Tom-Ass said:

I would like to see an actual list of what artists are playing in what city.  Hayne's site only shows dates til July 14th.. Kingfish only shows two dates etc...

It has it here:

https://www.slashonline.com/news/slash/

or here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/slash-serpent-tour-1234985928/

July 5 – Bonner, MT @ KettleHouse Amphitheater *
July 6 – Airway Heights, WA @ Norther Quest Amphitheater *
July 8 – Redmond, WA @ Marymoor Park *
July 10 – Bend, OR @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater *
July 12 – Lincoln, CA @ Thunder Valley Casino *
July 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre *
July 14 – Tucson, AZ @ Anselmo Valencia Amphitheatre *
July 17 – Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom **
July 19 – La Vista, NE @ The Astro Amphitheatre ***
July 21 – Terre Haute, IN @ The Mill ***
July 22 – Cincinnati, OH @ PNC Pavillion at Riverbend ***
July 24 – Interlochen, MI @ Interlochen Center for the Arts ***
July 25 – Huber Heights, OH @ Rose Music Center ****
July 27 – Windsor, ON @ The Colosseum at Caesars ****
July 28 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage ****
July 30 – Lewiston, NY @ Artpark Outdoor Amphitheater ****
Aug. 1 – Boston, MA @ Leader Bank Pavilion ****
Aug. 4 – New York, NY @ Pier 17 ****
Aug. 5 – Bethlehem, PA @ Musikfest *****
Aug. 7 – Cary, NC @ Koka Booth Amphitheater +
Aug. 8 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre-Chastain Park *****
Aug. 10 – Clearwater, FL @ The Sound-Coachman Park *****
Aug. 11 – Saint Augustine, FL @ Saint Augustine Amphitheatre ******
Aug. 13 – Huntsville, AL @ The Orion Amphitheater ******
Aug. 14 – Franklin, TN @ FirstBank Amphitheatre ******
Aug. 16 – Bentonville, AR @ The Momentary *******
Aug. 17 – Grand Prairie, TX @ Texas Trust CU Theatre *******

* Warren Haynes Band, Samantha Fish, and Eric Gales
** Keb’ ‘Mo, Samantha Fish, and Jackie Venson
*** Keb’ ‘Mo, ZZ Ward, and Jackie Venson
**** Keb’ ‘Mo, ZZ Ward, and Robert Randolph
***** ZZ Ward and Robert Randolph
****** Larkin Poe, ZZ Ward, and Robert Randolph
******* Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, ZZ Ward, and Robert Randolph

16 hours ago, allwaystired said:

Does it? I thought they were all on decent enough terms with each other? Obviously the Scott Weiland thing casts a shadow, but I can honestly see them doing VR again in some form. 

Hell, bring in Fortus, Dizzy and Melissa as well! That might give Axl a kick up the arse.

Matt would probably love to reform VR, because it was the one band that he felt as "his" band.

I don't think Slash and Duff would have any interest in it again, though. Especially Slash. The reason VR didn't continue with another singer was because Slash didn't want to continue that band.

Eric Carmen has passed away

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2024/03/cleveland-native-eric-carmen-who-had-hits-with-raspberries-and-as-solo-artist-dies-at-age-74.html

I wonder if Axl tweets something, since he's been a big fan (and played Everything by Eric Carmen as an intro to November Rain in 1993)

18 minutes ago, Illusion1987 said:

Its over.

 

I think we can confirm Susan was lying.

 

All this band had in thew were 4 mediocre Chinese Leftover tracks. 

Didn't this band REUNITE in 2016....EIGHT years ago!

Susan was talking about the CD leftovers.

15 minutes ago, BluegrassBlues said:

I am too, but I think it's absolutely a dismissal strategy. I'm really not sure what comes next after this if Sheila's lawyers bring that up 

I guess her attorneys want to show the court that they made every effort to serve the lawsuit, so that the court, instead of dismissing it (in case of no service), will grant more time to serve it, and then Axl's lawyers will accept service.

1 hour ago, BangoSkank said:

I'm surprised they keep at it when it's become clear he's dodging it. I'm also surprised his lawyers haven't advised him to just receive them. Unless, as has been mentioned, maybe this is a strategy for dismissal? 

It's definitely a strategy by his attorneys. I suppose it's an option for potential dismissal and they want to have all the available options. It's just a technicality, because it's not that Axl is hiding from the case since he has filed an answer (but it is stated in the answer that the summons has not been served properly).

Just now, volxluvr said:

Don't know why they haven't asked Axll's  attorney's  to be served on his behalf. Steven Tyler authorized his attorney's to be served on his behalf in the Julie Bellino case in NY that was dismissed recently

Yes, and the same happened in other cases I have seen. From what I understand, this is common practice (and so the timing of the service is kind of in the discretion of the defendant). It seems like Kennedy's lawyers have gone about it "aggressively" by trying to serve Axl by affixing the documents at the door, etc. Unless they had no word about the attorneys Axl would be represented by or in general, and then saw in Axl's answer that failure of proper service may be used to get the suit dismissed.

4 minutes ago, BangoSkank said:

Is it possible that there could be a judgement against him if he is purposely dodging receiving the papers?

From what I've read, I don't think so. There was an example of someone doing that posted a few pages back, and eventually the court just considered him served.

The deadline to serve in NY is 120 days from the day the summons is filed, so it's getting close (and if the plaintiff fails to serve during that time, the lawsuit may be dismissed).

1 hour ago, volxluvr said:

Axl been officially served I guess.

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketId=R85Db/YNG1iqWjYMsL/tGw==&display=all&courtType=New York County Supreme Court

They now went to Axl's business address and to the business manager of the GN'R entities. Not sure he's served though, since it says "attempt of service".

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=UPYNdGGKn/7BXqjBEDhBVw==&system=prod

(Another link from the court site, because yours doesn't open for me and possibly for others outside the U.S.)

41 minutes ago, IzzysMissy said:

Someone posted them on Reddit a few hours back! Hubby sent me a link. Crazy when things like this get unearthed! Hope yall have been well!

I see. It looks like the user on Reddit got them from here, though, because they were posted there later.

Edit: The user on Reddit said they found them on twitter, but I guess the twitter account got them from somewhere else.

"Mystery" solved: they were shared by the same person the photos in the OP of this thread were originally shared by (the person who knew the family. They say they shared these new ones in private, though, and they shouldn't have been shared in public.

2 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

What was the title he mentioned? I must have totally missed that......

It was a few pages back. You can read it here:

https://www.a-4-d.com/t8178-2023-12-20-the-moment-with-brian-koppelman-interview-with-duff#34365

2 hours ago, allwaystired said:

I mean, time is going to tell, but it hardly seems to be systems go on a new album does it? 

I don't know- we just hear comments of this type year after year, and this doesn't seem any different to me.

I have explained my reasoning a little above on this page:

In other words, the fact that Duff's recent answers are less vague than before (he has even mentioned a song by name) means that there's something a bit more concrete compared to before. However, that doesn't mean that it will materialize - it's still too far from that.

2 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

Are those track lengths legit, where do they come from? If the lengths of these tracks are real that's fucking awesome, seems to be lots of soloing and other jams going on in the songs. 70 minutes of music, compared to SMKCs 43 minutes on the last album.

They are from the hidden playlist of the youtube pre-generated videos (the videos are apparently pre-uploaded):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nKfDzERB8PpCvq1vHZSk0Lkn58RhDTK1A

1 hour ago, allwaystired said:

I think that's as vague as ever! 

It's funny though as if the answer to the question is "nothing is happening" then how soon do we get that answer?! 

The wait for nothing is always infinite! 

It's not as vague as ever compared to how Duff has answered this kind of questions before, e.g. "But the fun part and the cool part about Guns N' Roses is we don't really talk about it, and what happens next just happens. It's never been that band that there's a direct schedule of how we do things.", "It's the logical thing to do", "(paraphrasing) In typical GN'R fashion I'll keep the mystique, when it happens, it happens", etc.

Obviously the answer is not "nothing is happening", since Duff said "there's things that have happened and more things to happen."

We know that some new stuff has been written. Duff has even mentioned one song he has written by name. There's also what Tom Mayhue said, and, although anything not coming from the band members or people really close to the band should be taken with a big grain of salt, Sp1at's sources in the Slash camp. So there was likely more written before Duff's "Amen" song (which was written during the last leg of the 2023 tour).

Of course coming up with ideas and even making demos is very far away from Axl working on them and new music being recorded and released.

4 minutes ago, Spoon87 said:

Cool, where did you find that?

Just read on the rest of the comments.

21 minutes ago, kingcanyon said:

That reminds me that I forgot to mention what the alleged engineer on the album said. According to what he told me Metal Chesnut has Axl on piano or did apparently there was discussion about Teddy re recording Axl's piano parts on the song so the focus isn't on Axl over Slash. But also apparently if it goes down well with people then Axl doesn't mind writing lyrics and record vocals for it so it would replace witichta lineman during shows.

 

But take that as you would because I think he's just a troll

Although the profile of that twitter account claiming to be an engineer is not that of a typical troll, there's no way that he's not a fake insider case. According to his profile, he's based in St. Louis and doesn't look to be an engineer, not to mention that his first name doesn't match with any of the engineers listed in the credits for Killing Floor (who would also be the engineers in the whole album). He also seems to be making up stuff as it goes (what he told you about Teddy replacing Axl's parts is typical "plans changed" fake insider trolling).

Metal Chesnut is confirmed to be a 3 minute long instrumental. It makes no sense that Axl would be on that.

7 minutes ago, Dexterscollar said:

Rare Axl pics

What's the source of these?

Just now, Gordon Comstock said:

 

I don't follow his solo stuff too closely but I missed wherever he said he's doing a UK tour. But with him touring in October and Slash wanting to do SMKC again at the end of the year, I doubt we'll hear anything from GNR this year.

He has talked about touring in the fall previously, but he mentioned the UK specifically in an interview that was released today (I have posted it in the new album thread, because he was asked the "new GN'R album" question).

Duff will be touring in the fall. He said he will play in the UK in October.