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8 hours ago, Beto 22 said:

George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, Keith Richards

 

 

George Harrison is just an OK guitar player (not talking about his songwriting so back off alright!!!)

Eric Clapton is a massive dork (Come at me Bro!!!)

Keith Richards is a rhythm guitar player so a completely different topic (Lets compare him to Izzy - that should be fun!)

Robbie Robertson ( You mean THE Robbie Robertson, the man, the legend?? - Never heard of him)

I can't believe they have taken down all the concert footage on YT but released the embarrassing appetite for democracy dvd !!!!

On 04/10/2019 at 9:42 PM, action said:

how the hell does it stay at it's place with all that mayhem on stage? 

but i guess the real question is: does it need to stay? i'm sick and tired of the thing. it needs to go. who's with me? 

I'm with you mate. I'm over it.

Maybe he should try something different like a beanie or a beret. That might look nice.

4 minutes ago, bdinan said:

Benny instead of another cover would be great, but you're already at god knows how many covers. I doubt we ever hear Hard School. 

I honestly didn't think there would be anyone on the planet with the slightest interest in hearing GnR cover Benny and the Jets.

I would rather hear a jazz infused, country style, acapella version of My World.

10 minutes ago, lukepowell1988 said:

Am I the only one wanting to hear Benny?

I believe so.

1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

It's just SO labored now. I cannot imagine anyone involved in playing it really like what they're doing while they're playing it. 

Back in the nineties it had so much energy and really was a bit of a highlight. Was an amazing version of a great song.

It's lost all the spark and now has become the most boring part of the concert every night.

I'd be pretty pissed if i paid a shitload to be front row at a gnr concert and then spent the whole time looking at the back of a sign!

Why would anyone take a sign to a concert!?! 

43 minutes ago, Mendez said:

I dont know anything of substance pertaining to chinese politics and have never seen the movie he was inspired by to write the lyrics, so I have  nothing to add

Thanks for your input....

15 hours ago, Blackstar said:

Marc Canter said Axl told him that at the pool after RIR 2001.

Axl talked a lot about Slash, at least during that period. Gilby referring to what he and Axl talked about when they saw each other again at that club in 2000 (where Axl joined Gilby on stage):

Gilby: [...]  Then we talked until late. [Axl] told me a lot of stuff about the new album, what was going on with that. He talked about Slash a lot and the album we did with Snakepit. He tried to make it sound like Slash and I were against him. And I said, “It wasn't like that, you have the wrong idea about it. I’m just speaking for myself. I didn’t talk to Slash about how I felt, I only told you. We wanted to make a Guns record, not a Snakepit record. But we couldn’t, so we did the Snakepit album.” 

http://www.a-4-d.com/t3659-2005-03-06-gunsnroses-gr-interview-with-gilby-translated-from-greek

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There is also this story of the electronica musician Uwe Schmidt's meeting with Axl, which is kind of funny. Based on  Schmidt's biography, it must have happened when Axl was in Chile in 2001:

- In Santiago, you met with Axl Rose from Guns N’ Roses. How did this come about?

Schmidt: After I arrived Chile, at some point I decided to sell some old machines that I had brought with me and didn’t want anymore. This guy Chris from Los Angeles wrote to me and wanted to buy them. He was a fan of mine and did actually buy them, so I packed them all up and sent them to Los Angeles. We got into an exchange of emails, and he said he worked as a technician in Axl Rose’s studio. He said that sometimes he would play my music in the studio. One time Axl came in and asked what it was. After a while, Axl remembered my music when he heard it in the studio and would say, “Oh yeah, that’s that guy.” I thought it was just a funny anecdote.

A year later my phone rang on a late afternoon and it was Chris, who said that Axl Rose was in Santiago as part of a tour around South America. They were in a restaurant around the corner, and that I should come by. I thought, “Okay, I’ll go.” I got there and they’d cleared out the restaurant; it was just Axl sitting there with this massive bodyguard, a Brazilian manager, this woman from Argentina, and my friend Chris. I sat at the other end of the table from him and didn’t understand what he was saying. He was talking about Slash the whole time and I didn’t know anything about Slash, so I couldn’t add anything. After an hour he said to me, “You’re Chris’ friend, what do you do? You’re a musician, right?”. So, I said “Yeah I’m a musician. I live here. I just wanted to come down and see Chris.” We went to his hotel and had some drinks and so on, and I only exchanged about three sentences with him. It was a really surreal situation. They had cleared out the whole floor of the hotel for him and there were all these fans standing around waiting for autographs.

(I guess "Chris" must have been Pitman. If it was him, it's also funny that Schmidt thought he was a "technician").

https://www.electronicbeats.net/interview-with-uwe-schmidt/

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I'm also gonna leave this here again:

http://www.a-4-d.com/t3843-2019-04-26-music-week-ex-guns-n-roses-manager-merck-mercuriadis-talks-slash-axl-s-reunion

Hipgnosis Songs boss Mercuriadis, who left the GNR fold in 2006, managed the Axl Rose-fronted rock legends for several years during guitarist Slash's exile from the group.

Slash announced his return to the band alongside fellow original member Duff McKagan in January 2016 following a 20-year absence.

“The reunion was always a possibility because Axl [Rose] was open-minded to it," said Mercuriadis. "All he ever wanted was for Slash to apologise for certain things and while Slash was in a position where he maybe didn’t understand that was what was necessary, then the band were never going to come together.

"But at some point it was inevitable that they would have that conversation and Slash would be able to have his say, because there were things that he wasn’t happy about."

Beginning in April 2016 the Not In This Lifetime... tour, which reunited original members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan, became the second highest grossing of all-time, generating $563.3 million (£436.8m) from 159 shows.

"Axl was always protective of Slash and the other guys in Guns N’ Roses," said Mercuriadis, who stars on the cover of the latest issue of Music Week. "There were just certain things that he wanted to be put right. They obviously figured out how to put them right and it’s been incredibly successful.”
 

You always seem to put together really interesting quotes and facts on all these topics!

Thanks for that! I don't  know how you do it!

Maybe you should write a book.

8 minutes ago, fernandoGNR said:

Since 2018 they use a recording of McBob's intro. IMO it's way better when he does a "live" introduction. 

He did introduce the band at the first show of this leg in Hollywood though, but that was because they didn't have video screens so they didn't play the intro video with mcbob's recorded voice

I was in Melbourne when he called us Sydney   That was a bit of an issue. 80000 people booing at the start of a concert isn't ideal!

Sure am!!

Keeps me up at night.

All i think about.

Obsessed.

I think i have a problem...

That seems a tad ominous.....

3 minutes ago, Tyler Drama said:

The part in the first verse is literally wrong. It’s not like he listened to the song and was like “You know what would sound better here? Stumbling these words.” Don’t make it sound like an intentional choice.

The first verse of every version they've ever done?? Wow!!

Stumbling of words is obviously very different to what I'm talking about. That's a mistake.

When the verses are sung correctly they're fine. 

When the chorus is sung correctly it's brilliant.

Unfortunately he's voice hasn't been going so well on a few versions so they've not sounded so great.

But you can't pick those out alone as proof that he can't sing the song properly.

He's stuffed up every GNR song at one point or another. That happens - it doesn't mean he can't sing.

When I'm talking about his own version of the song I'm pretty obviously talking about the chorus (as that is clearly different to the original) so yes I am definitely saying it's an intentional choice.

4 minutes ago, Tom-Ass said:

I don't hate it but Axl could do much better if he actually spent some time listening to the song.  Chorus aside he is off on parts of the verses too as someone mentioned above. 

He's doing his own version though.

It's like when people are complaining that Slash isn't copying the solos on better, this i love and sorry. 

Why have Slash or Axl in a band and expect them to just copy the previous versions of songs?

What a waste of talent.

I always want them to improvise and change the song in a way they are comfortable with.

I love Axls vocals in the chorus of slither especially. He harmonises for Duff who is singing the more "traditional" version of the chorus..

I think it sounds amazing.

50 minutes ago, Axl_morris said:

Unpopular opinion: I like the way axl sings slither

 

 

I feel the same!

I've said so a few times on this forum and got silence in return generally!

A legend in his own lifetime.

Songs will be written in his name.

2 minutes ago, DarkLotus1111 said:

I see we're back to the Frank and Matt debate again. Maybe next time we can discuss who has the biggest dick. Y'all sound like bunch of school girls at times with rumors.

 

Frank is staying in GNR

Matt isn't going to play tonight

Happy Saturday! 

Can't recall hearing schoolgirls talk about who has the biggest dick!?!

Amazing how when Axl's voice is firing he's not seen as fat and lazy anymore!

Am I the only person on this forum who thinks that Axl's harmonies on the slither chorus are absolute genius??

He switches to backing vocals in the chorus (harmonising with duff) and i think it sounds brilliant - so much better than just straight up singing it.

I'm so excited about how good this concert sounded - no other band can make me feel like this!

21 hours ago, TMAC20 said:

So u cats found leaks of Chinese Democracy and no vocals from Ax 

and u think these songs are good 

give me a fucking break 

I’ll give it to u millinery folks - u got it bad man 

if they didn’t make Democracy I can’t even imagine how bad they r 

because Chinese is a dumpster 🔥 

DAMN

"Millinery Folks"???

How dare you call me a hat maker you cobbler swine!!!!

So who is drumming on oklahoma? Sounds amazing! 

I love this cd of leaks. Such an interesting direction to take.

I feel like an album going with this style would have been great but very divisive.

I love this leak.

Such cool interesting songs.

I love the direction this was all heading.

Can't imagine too many people asking for links!

Although i have been looking forward to a 17th version of chinese democracy....

4 minutes ago, itsprettytiedup said:

Richard's new flyin' V for Better 

I was going to ask if he'd played the flying v before. Couldn't remember him using it.