JimiRose

I wander if Axl speaks to paul tobias or ashba. They were people he seemed genuinely close to and friends with during their period and vouched for. Yet as soon as each left the band it seemed like the friendhsip did too. Axl is supposedly fiercely loyal but doesn't seem that way in reality

Agreed. I've never heard another bands leaks, even if i hear about a song leaking, i know in 6 months it'll be out properly anyway. With GnR it might be the only chance we ever have to hear these songs. Can't blame a starving man for stealing bread.

An expensive show just to see 12 songs though!

You say that, but realistically how much work do you think was actually done to them? There was probably not much changed except mix, and effects on the guitar or vocals. Even hardskool, all they did was cut the intro. the structure of the song is exactly the same. perhaps is identical. just sounds crisper (it got mastered) and slash played a new solo over it. The demos we heard were fully fledged demos, not just playing in the studio and saying 'hey ax how about this?' these were 'ok these songs are there. lets do a first proper demo' The only ones that clearly weren't were nothing and eye on you, which were just ideas that got looped. Atlas shrugged will barely have changed if ever released.

Have to ask why? Gilby was in the band just over 18 months as a live touring fill in for izzy who they were still trying to get back. Didn't play on any original GnR material and hasn't done anything great as a solo star or celebrity to justify any extra interest. Fortus is an elite level guitar player, been in the band 22 years, played on chinese democracy and some of the newer stuff, and been touring with slash now for 8 years. Ok he's not irreplaceable i grant you, but he's very much the glue of this new band. Plus i really liked his playing in the dead daises, so he's got the ability to be part of good new material if Axl ever let him, gilby was sacked coz he didnt have the ability to write gnr calibre guitar rifs.

If the world is cool as an album track. The lyrics are pretty bad and very simple, but the vocal delivery and music is fantastic. Scraped Is a good rocker. People have to find songs to hate coz so few are released. If GnR had 10 albums peolpe wouldnt mind these songs on the albums, but because GnRs back catalogue is so sparse and released so rarely, every album needs to be a greatest hits.

Tbh i doubt promoters give a shit. tickets will sell regardless. maybe not to the same extent without a new big hit, but GnR aren't going to release and promote a big hit so wouldn't matter. US now will be arenas, i think in major european cities they'll still play stadiums. Arenas everywhere else. Then again maybe half empty stadium is financially better than 2 arenas. Didnt motley and Def leppard play wembley stadium to like 28k in a 90k capacity? Costs of hiring stadium for one night was less than arena for 2? Pics were crazy https://twitter.com/JonathanDean_/status/1676572412148604931?lang=en

He also did the budwieser ad, played on cruise ships for rich arabs and russian oligarchs, and then did actually reunite with slash - but only for the highest ever offer paid out by coachella at the time. so let's not pretend Axl isn't driven by money. He may like to give off that vibe to keep some cred, but he definitely is.

Better was definitely the 'Hit' from the album and a great song. I just loved the epics where Axl really went outside the Box, especially vocally. Better is number 6!

Perhaps is the closest to UYI song. It's catchy, good but not great and classic sounding. The weakest part of the song is the second verse is the same as 1st verse. it sounds like half a song just doubled to full length, which seems lazy

Riad is the weakest song on CD and a 'Rocker' so Harsdschool could have easily been in it's place on the album, and maybe been track number 2 to really give the album the hard rock punch before going into the epic stuff. Monsters would easily be a top 5 track on CD. I'm upset Atlas never made it, that was an obvious radio song from the album.

I like every song on CD except Riad which just sounds like a jumbled mess. Absurd and general are ok and perhaps and hardskool are best, if hardskool is mixed harshly to the ear. 1. There Was A Time 2. This I Love 3. Monsters 4. Madagascar 5. Prostitute The rest all pretty equal but these are the 5 standouts we have heard. They're all so different to everything original GnR was, didn't compete with appetite at all, and thats when NuGnR were at their best. Over the top grandiosity and Axl Vocals out of this world

Very. Unless they only played all the songs written in 1999.

Maybe the old Axl. Today's Axl does whatever is needed for the biggest paycheque.

Decent song. Feel like it doesn't really go anywhere so a solid 6/7 out of 10 song. cool, but i guess being acid rock, no one cares where the song goes

Ah used to lover her, completely forgot about that. Agree a theatre tour would be best. 2k max capacity, intimate rock show.

Taylor swift also does 44 song setlists https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/taylor-swift/2024/melbourne-cricket-ground-melbourne-australia-33ad9425.html I thought that might be the one thing GnR was better at. Turns out she's got us covered there too

I actually think we will get this in the next 5 years or so. Maybe a one off show, or a small tour in theatres or arenas. The only thing is it has to be just these on 5. No dizzy, no piano no 3rd guitarist etc. Give us 85-90 So I've tried to only pick songs from that era that steven would have a part in either demo, live or studio. Setlist Welcome to the Jungle It's So Easy Mr Brownstone Reckless Life Shadow Of Your Love Rocket Queen Out Ta Get Me Civil War Rocket Queen You're Crazy (Lies Version) My Michelle Think About You Nice Boys Anything Goes You Could Be Mine Slash Solo Sweet Child O' Mine KOHD Nightrain Encore 20. Patience 21. Don't Cry 22. Paradise City I left out a Duff or Izzy solo spot. I don't recall there being many in those early days, but if Axl wanted it broken up then I wouldn't mind seeing DTJ, Dust and Bones or 14 years added, or a duff punk cover. I also think there's room for Whole Lotta Rosie which that line up did (as well as others since) or heartbreak hotel, that would match the energy of that era, but whether 67 year old does it justice I dont know.

I like that change, its melancholy as a whole, it means the song starts positive in a sad way, then gets quite down, then picks up again from the solo to the outro which actually seems quite hopeful. Compared to absurd, perhaps, the general, it actually seems like a fully fledged song, the instruments build, the drums are different in each section, not looped, the guitar lowers and reaches crescendos and axl clearly recorded each bit individually, not just do the chorus once and then just say, thatll do 3 times. Effort went into this song to be an actual song

There's been nothing to talk about here since CD2 didnt come out in 2010, never been a sniff of a full album release since

Where are these rumours

Nice work, gnr should release it and just say its them. Wouldn't put it past fernando

Unless GnR have a smash hit single that is literally everywhere and followed that with a big album release with Axl and slash doing interviews and being in the public conscious, then they will never be relevant enough for this. in the current social zietgiest GnR are just some old guys that don't do much accept tour the hits with a singer that can't sing that well anymore. No modern rock bands are relevant. they're all heritage. GnR are as heritage as Kiss. RHCP are more relevant - they release music and get out there individually and they wouldn't get the gig either. I don't think GnR have that single or willing to release and promote the hell out of it. I think Monsters and Atlas Shrugged are great songs and both would get a few weeks rock radio rotation, but they're not going to be smash hits, so forget about it.

Fair enough - the vocals won't change!

History tells us it will sound exactly the same in 2024 as 1999.