Master Of Reality

Yeah i know, some lame choices in the post 2000 era. But still, nice to see Hard Skool and Perhaps getting some recognition from a popular online rock/metal platform.

https://loudwire.com/best-rock-song-each-year-since-1970/ A few GNR mentions here. Most notably Hard Skool and Perhaps made the runner up lists of 2021 en 2023.

I remember watching the specials on MTV as a young child. That and the Paris 92 show made me fall in love with the band and harder rock music in general. After 1994, it felt like they vanished from the planet. Being a teenager around the millenium, I started listening to Nu Metal and Alternative Rock. I never stopped listening to GNR, but even I didn't consider them being a 'cool' band at that time. I tried to introduce some of my friends to them and they all saw them as some dinosaur band from another time. Some of them never even heard of GNR despite being into the harder stuff from that era. You couldn't even find a shirt from them in the Large(EMP) catalogus. And they basically had shirts from every other big band from the late 60's till then. My obsession in the band came back as soon as i got the internet around the RIR gig and realised Axl had rebuild GNR. I found a shirt somewhere at a festival market and was the guy with the uncool bandshirt for a while 😂. But a year later when Nu Metal became 'uncool'. A lot of GNR shirts started popping up in my highschool. Around 2003-2004 younger people were looking for something else. Velvet Revolver did help to spark the interest in GNR again.

Makes sense

Azoff got fired just because he pushed him into a reunion.

I know. He seems to be very insecure about releasing songs from that era. And the record company not supporting him probably stopped his interest in releasing anything back in 2010-2014. Such a waste of time and talent. Really happy to finally hear these songs with Slash and Duff, but if he just decided to go solo back in the day and let those who created it shine with him. It all became to complicated under the GNR moniker.

I really hope they release it after all those years. If they did it when the reunion was still fresh it would have sparked a lot of interest. Right now, an album would be released purely to please the fans. Not a lot more... . The Perhaps video for example 'only' got 5 million views. Not bad, but nothing compared to bands their size. The interest for new GNR songs/albums from the general rock crowd is just not so big anymore.

There was probably a lot going on with the record company. There were rumours it got rejected. Axl made his intentions very clear over the years to release a follow up to Chinese and tour for a long time. I just think they stopped supporting them financially after the Chinese release debacle and Axl not promoting his own record etc. . It's no secret people were pushing heavily for a reunion behind the scenes. Another record wasn't financially interesting for anyone at that point.

Yeah let's hope the chorus is not so distorted in the final version. Quick Song and Me & My Elvis have nothing to do with this. Completely different tracks.

The description of the video is 'official version'. Just search for it. I didn't say it's the official release. 😉

Just heard another version on YT with a better mix and added orchestration. It's labeled as 'official version'. It's really growing on me. Awesome song(s)!

The reactions on the latest instagram post...

She's a great talented player though. But i doubt she was ever considered. Slash was probably already back in at that moment.

Last week it said 31/12/1970 on that site 😂

The video came out at midnight in the US. I listened to it on spotify at midnight in Belgium, 6 hours earlier. So i guess it was New Zealand first.