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14 minutes ago, Uncle Bob said:

Just imagine hearing those outstanding vocals of Axl struggling to sing WTTJ

Unless they pump in a track to enhance his voice there is no hiding his vocal issues in that venue 

3 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

Creative Works posted something a while ago about integrating AI during GNR shows, like having Axl 'interact with things on the screen'. I'll see if I can find the post. It's not surprising they'd do something like this, many people here have seen another Vegas residency as inevitable.

I went to both nuGNR residencies and the first couple reunion shows in 2016, but wouldn't bother with this. I don't get the hype around the venue and GNR have never been a big 'stage show' kind of band...

The hype for the venue is real. It has the most amazing live sound quality you could ever imagine. If it just had that it would be worth it. You throw in that screen and it’s a mind blowing experience. The online pictures and videos do not do it justice to what it’s like in person 

16 hours ago, Voodoochild said:

At this point, I just hope an official recording somehow leaks, like the HOB DVD. 

I guess at that point the band wasn't so mysterious anymore, so the professional bootlegers didn't care much.

That would be amazing if that show leaked. It would be such a trip to see it again after all these years

12 hours ago, Voodoochild said:

Never understood why there were no bootlegs from those two shows. Sure the security was tight, but so it was on the first HOB a year before. 

I remember back then people were raving about how good OMG sounded, but also Silkworms - those were the last live performances of the CD-era lineup. 

It is shocking that between two shows no one recorded it. My guess is someone probably did but just never put it online. These shows are only mythological to a very small subset of the hardcore fan base. 

22 hours ago, smoking guns said:

Yep, I was as well. Amazing show. I do recall Finck taking off his guitar and throwing it down I guess over tech issues. I recall being blown away by Bucket’s acoustic solo and yes, Axl had abs. This is the show Slash tried to get in to. 

I remember being so afraid that Axl was going to leave after OMG had all those sound issues. Do you remember he came back out and said that “of course everything was going wrong at the one show he had ever asked to do” I remember relief washed over me like Patrick Bateman getting a good table at Espace. 

It’s bad. Tried to listen last night and turned it off

Clear Channel has agreed to promote the book tour. Mix master Mike is confirmed as the opening act for the Philadelphia signing. 

Best Buy is in negotiations to be the exclusive retailer of the book. It will all be previously published information except for 3 chapters. 

Outro is 🔥

On 4/7/2024 at 3:43 AM, gavgnr said:

Soul Monster is a better name, let’s be honest 

I still have it in my phone as Soul Monster. We only waited 15 years to hear it from the first time Axl mentioned it. 

2 hours ago, El Guapo said:

After The General I really doubt there's anything worth hearing left to leak. 

 

“We are working on 32 songs. 26 are nearly done.” Including the 5 reworked songs plus Atlas and SOG we are at 21. So minimum there are another 5 that were at or near completion back in 2006. 

23 hours ago, Free Bird said:

I‘m glad it’s not as prominent as most people thought it would be. I wanna rock n roll and not some gangster rap sounds

I really like the big epic sounding songs with a lot of strings. (NV TWAT Prostitute) I thought that was what we were getting with the General 

22 hours ago, Blackstar said:

I hear more than on the General.

Both have much less than I thought. That concert intro made it seem like the general would be all strings 

6 hours ago, rumandraisin said:

What I find interesting is we never realised there were two separate orchestral pieces being used as the intro from 2006 to 2011. Monsters was used in some 2010 shows, we were hearing parts of Soul Monster all that time and never knew. 

Although the strings out of context do sound quite similar from both songs. 

I can barely hear any strings at all on Monsters 

8 hours ago, Sweersa said:

I wish we had the 2008 Soul Monster for comparison, but I too find Monsters better than Hard Skool, Absurd, and Perhaps. I would imagine the CD-era version of Monsters to be even better.

The cell phone clip sounds much more like the other CD songs. Bucket and or Robin guitars. Hip hop industrial influences. The Slash version still has a lot of the CD sound but is much warmer and bluesier. At least that’s from what I can tell from the cell phone clip vs the full leak. Would love to have both for comparison 

7 hours ago, Sweersa said:

I wonder what the 2008 mixes of Perhaps, Hardschool, Silkworms, The General, Soul Monster, Atlas, and Nothing sounded like. 

Perhaps probably just like the 2000 version, Hard School probably just like the 2000 version, Silkworms probably a hybrid of the 2021 version and 2000 version, The General probably close to the same arrangement with totally different guitar sound, Atlas probably like 2008 CITR way too much bumble, Soul Monster from the cell phone recording sounds like a completely different song, nothing who knows. The 2000 version like a sketch 

3 hours ago, Sweersa said:

I was thinking about Monsters again today and about how it used to be called Soul Monster and had great Buckethead guitar work.

That cell phone recording sounds almost like a completely different song. The guitars on the Slash version are so different. Love the version we have though 

Fascinating how all over the map these rankings are. And how low The General is consistently ranked. Would have never believed this wouldn’t be a top level song. 

8 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

I guess it makes sense to only rank the officially released songs, since most of the demos are better and would probably be ranked differently, but he should've at least included OMG. (I know Monsters isn't a demo but it's unreleased so I see why it's excluded).

That said, Monsters, Going Down, OMG, SOG, and the TIL remix would rank higher than several of the officially released songs...

True true. I think Monsters should able to be listed because it’s obviously not a demo. OMG should absolutely be on the available list. 

We’re not counting Soul Monster?! 

Interesting. Song not any better like this lol

I still can’t get over The General being 4 minutes long. And super weird. I dig it but it’s not at all what I had in my head all these years. Beyond Bach’s comments those concert intros with the Beltrami Orchestration made it seem like The General was going to be this long, dark, brooding epic. I’m still shocked how little of that killer orchestration ended up on the track.