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hey, how many of you have called the 800 number shown on the locker for the hardschool music video on YouTube?  

I can't make out the last 2 numbers.  

I did this with a phone number I saw on the side of a van on one of Schwarzeneggers movies and surprisingly it was a working number where arnold answered the phone (recording obviously) for a cleaning service. lol

On 9/18/2021 at 9:55 AM, Oldest Goat said:

If I were to ruthlessly whittle down the tracklist into one merged album(14 tracks since that's the most we've seen for a single album on CD) it'd be:

1. Estranged

2. You Could Be Mine

3. Bad Obsession

4. Pretty Tied Up

5. November Rain

6. Don't Damn Me

7. Locomotive

8. Don't Cry Alt

9. Yesterdays

10. Breakdown

11. Civil War

12. The Garden

13. Coma

14. Perfect Crime

But ultimately I agree it had to be a double album and wouldn't want to lose songs considering the limited discography.

 

this would be my track list too.  problem is that these songs would all fit on to one cassette back in the day.  atleast I don't think they would.  

2 hours ago, Spirit said:

Universal Music Group is hitting the stock market for the first time tomorrow. Would a GN'R album announcement be considered "big enough" to have any effect on that? I have no idea.

But, if so, could Axl have been instructed to wait with any announcement until their shares are "live"?

that could be.   but I believe a public company would want to (or have to) disclose to its share holders all major releases coming up (ie profitable ventures to get more investors)... so I guess I'll buy a share of universal and then sit in on an investors call....... that's the most rock n roll way EVER to find out if a new album is coming.  lol

1 hour ago, janrichmond said:

https://streamable.com/xczb3l

@themadcaplaughs watch this 

 

that is HYSTERICAL.  Slash is probably the only guy in that whole stadium that can get away with making fun of Axl and not get fired.  lol

Michael Jordan must have delivered a pizza to Axl

4 hours ago, 19AT5 said:

Excellent shout. A quick recap for everybody, the expectation on lineup for the new improved version of Hard School:

 

Axl Rose - vocals (all recorded in 1999, period)

Slash - lead guitar

Buckethead - lead guitar

Robin Finck - lead guitar

Paul Huge - rhythm guitar

Richard Fortus - rhythm guitar

Tommy Stinson - bass and backing vocals

Duff McKagan - bass and backing vocals

Dizzy Reed - piano, keyboards, tambourine, bongos and backing vocals

Melissa Reese - synthesizers, flute trills, backing vocals, shakers and backing vocals

Christopher Roy Pitman - subbass, synthesizers, tambourine and backing vocals

Josh Freese - drum arrangements

Brain Mantia - drums 

Frank Ferrer - drums 

Steven Adler - cymbals 

Izzy Stradlin - backing vocals 

 

wait.  Pittman isn't on it doing towel sound effects????   in that case I refuse to listen.  

worked for me on Spotify in the US.  I also typed in Perhaps, Eye on You, Atlas shrugged and GNR didn't show up at all in the results. 

I don't have the balls to type "Just a friend" bc I'm so scared that Axl covered that and will release it as the next song..........lol

58 minutes ago, Scream of the Butterfly said:

I couldn't make out everything he was saying, but he was laughing and smiling when he said the thing about Bin Laden. I didn't get the impression he was being critical of it at all.

totally agree.  he wasn't being critical.  

On 9/1/2021 at 3:50 PM, BangoSkank said:

15 year old me is still crushed by it not happening. I was supposed to go to both too.

Now 34 year old me kind of thinks it's sweet I was in the riot.

same here.  ahhhhhh, memories.  

No pants under the Chaps (not a word but a picture you can't ever forget)

Eddie Trunk got promised the first band interview in 2016

Fuckhead

He's in my Ass

where's Izzy

the mother Fuckers are done!

I want to bury appetite 

Blame Canada!

is Matt's book from last year circulating online?  I wish I could find it

yeah idk.  might be cool to see it once.  I'd be in favor of doing a dual vocals thing on Anastasia more than a GNR song.  

But if you were Axl would you honestly do this?  best way for me to think of it is like having Magic Johnson play Kevin Durant today.  an all time great past his prime against a guy on top of his game today. 

Axl would get blown off that stage (depending on the song....see Sweet Child, YCBM,etc).....  

3 minutes ago, GoBucky said:

He did soundcheck when they added Locomotive and Dead Horse to the set in 2019. 

yup.  he participated at sound check at the Boston show a few weeks ago

On 8/24/2021 at 1:03 PM, Sweersa said:

Maybe his GF let him in the back door.

or he let HER in the back door.

CD 2, and then the next "album" will be a few new tracks on the 50th anniversary of AFD

33 minutes ago, darkside259 said:

i really want to say that if somone want to send mi a dm with something, i would be happy bc i seems im the only one who doesn t heard some songs 

 

please...

me too

you can't always get what you want, dedicated to GNR fans across the universe.  

3 hours ago, Rovim said:

an Argentian woman who builds basses built a bass guitar especially for Duff and it took her a year to do it. She attended this show and Duff played her bass tonight as well.

the whole story is unbelievably cool all around. Duff got that bass the morning of the show (as per is IG) .  so cool his techs had it ready to go so he could play it on the night she was there.  hope she met him

29 minutes ago, thunderram said:

I very much doubt Slash ripped off anyone. I very much doubt he ever heard of the band they had to settle with, or the song. 

There’s only 12 notes in an octave and a limited amount of chords. It’s quite easy to create something similar or even identical without knowing it.

I remember the band Tesla once claiming the song “Patience” was something they created.

Prince once contacted the band Journey because he thought “Purple Rain” sounded too much like “Faithfully” even though he had never heard it before creating Purple Rain.

This kind of thing happens all the time. And not intentionally.

I think Slash said the Buckcherry came in with the riff and then they continued to work on it after he was replaced.  the band who originally wrote it was down the hall in the studio and Buvkcherrys guy must have heard it and that was that.  I don't think Slash would need to rip anyone off (or want to), but it technically happened, hence losing 20 percent of contraband royalties to that band

12 minutes ago, AxlRoseCDII said:

I can’t see the post, what is it?

this lady took over a year to build Duff his own custom bass.  it's on his instagram stories today.  she flew up from Argentina to give it to him and go to the show

https://instagram.com/making_a_bass_for_duffmckagan?utm_medium=copy_link

not sure if this is on the forum yet, but this has got to be the coolest thing a fan has ever done.   so if this lady wants hardschool, they will be total dicks not to play it for her.  she's at the show tonight. 

remember that lawsuit VR lost and were found to have ripped off Dirty Little Thing?  does that artist now get song writing credit for that?  or just get royalties (as per the settlement)?   just curious if anyone knew.  I just listened to the song VR ripped off, and wow it was stolen almost note for note lol. 

On 8/17/2021 at 4:12 AM, LlamaRenegade said:

There's a leaked demo from the pre-Contraband sessions that instrumentally is a blend of Crazy Bitch and Ghost. A guy named Brad Cox sings lead vocals on it. To me the demo is instrumentally better than both songs, it's a shame the vocalist is so mediocre.

I'd be interested in hearing that for the instrumentals