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10 minutes ago, NeonKinight said:

I also think that Buckethead is playing a modified version of The General here... this and "black sabbath" are as similar as petrol and water.

Bucket is such a weird fucking genius 

12 minutes ago, estrangedtwat said:

I can't speak for others, but the reason I'm concerned it's State of Grace is cause GNR haven't released anything that we haven't heard leaked since Sorry, TIL, and Scraped.  In 2008.

Also, Baz's descriptions are notoriously vague and shitty, but the way he described The General could also apply to SOG.

Considering how often the working titles changed, it's not unreasonable to theorize that the song that was originally known as State of Grace in 1999 could eventually evolve into what Baz heard as The General in 2006.

It will be a massive disappointment if it’s just a redone SOG. It’s been so long since we have heard anything fresh

I know to some this can feel like “the end of an era” but the reality is if the General is the last release this year we have only gotten about 1/3 of CD2. 
 

1. ABSURD

2. HARD SKOOL

3. PERHAPS

4. THE GENERAL

5. atlas shrugged 

6. state of grace

7. seven

8. oklahoma

9. cuban skies

10. quick song

11. soul monster

12. zodiac 

That is A LOT of meat still on the CD2 bone. And this is just the other shit we assume has vocals. There may be a few more we don’t know about. 

It’s so crazy that the most mythological, holy grail, obsessed about unheard song is being relegated to a vinyl only release that may or may not be delayed. This band  lol……..😂 

10 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

At least they HAVE an album to argue over.....oh I'd sell my kidney to just be in that position.....

I love when there is so little GNR news to argue about that mid thread arguments about other bands break out that go for 3-4 pages. I can guarantee no one is arguing about GNR on the Stones forum lol

I love how this thread is 99 pages and we haven’t heard one second of this song yet lol

2 hours ago, GnR Chris said:

You guys, I'm back to being bored again. I loved everything about the "Perhaps" release and I'm happy "The General" is coming. The set lists on the current leg of the never-ending tour have been fun. But are we ever gonna hear news of an actual record? They're about to end the tour and go on hiatus again while Slash and I assume Duff tour their other projects.

"The General" will bring back some excitement for sure. That can get me through the end of the year. lol

To answer your question the answer is no we will never get any news on an actual record. Axl has an entire second record called CD2, Stay of Execution, Red Panda or whatever. But for some reason even though it’s been 7 years including all of 2020 and most of 2021 when nothing was happening, they only re-worked 4-6 songs.

Im just so glad we are getting the general. Otherwise this year would be another massive disappointment.

On 10/16/2023 at 1:25 PM, Uncle Bob said:

Hey guys, just made up this thing about a new album. As far as I can make up, It's getting released next year, this is the setlist:

Guns N' Roses: We're F'N' Back (Geffen) (Fall 2024 Release)

01 - All Things Considered
02 - We All Want To Do It
03 - It Happens When It Happens
04 - Priming The Pumps
05 - We've Got This
06 - Six Months
07 - Respecting (What Is Going On With The World)
08 - This Day And Age
09 - Figuring Out
10 - Next Year
11 - Wichita Lineman
12 - Tons Of Material
13 - Stay Tuned
14 - Earnest Of Sitting Down
15 - Clearing Things Out
16 - Any Day Now

Rumoured tracks from Bonus Disc (Collector's Edition) ($350.00 USD)

01 - Soon (Is The Word)
02 - Slither
03 - 3 Hour Meeting
04 - Chinese Democracy (2024 Version)
05 - Better (2024 Version)
06 - This I love (2024 Version)
07 - Coming To Brazil
08 - The Seeker (Live)
09 - Don't Let It Bring You Down (Live)

10 - Plans Changed (Feat Beta Lebeis on bass)

This is perfect. My favorite part is that you put Wichita Lineman on disc one. 

2 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

Duff with AIC

 

Perhaps

 

Hard Skool 

 

Bad Obsession 

 

Pretty Tied Up 

 

Wichita Lineman 

 

Cool videos looks like you had great seats 

14 minutes ago, Sweersa said:

What if Guns only re-works songs that have leaked in full?

So far, this has been the case with Absurd, Hard Skool, and Perhaps. They have Slash re-record superior leads as punishment to the fans, so we never get to hear the best versions of these songs.

The General, Cuban Skies, Soul Monster, Seven, Oklahoma, etc. have not leaked. So maybe they will keep the CD-era mixes of them.

Bet your ass, Atlas has been re-recorded since it has leaked in full. Damn it, the Bumblefoot OMG too leaked years ago, looks like we're getting Slash on that as well.  

It will be a miracle if we ever get Cuban Skies, Soul Monster, Seven, Oklahoma, ect…

I still can’t believe we are actually getting the General 

2 hours ago, Solidius said:

After a bunch of us waited a while for the lithos to come out, it turned out they had 30 in the box for the outside merch tent. First guy in line bought 10, next guy bought 5, a couple bought two a piece. After I bought my solo litho, they limited it to one a piece.

They should limit it to one a person 

1 hour ago, General2112 said:

Are we still banking on The General coming out on the 27th

Unless a copy falls off the turnip truck and it leaks beforehand 

I would pay this if it guaranteed he answered any questions about the Chinese Era with 💯% honesty 

24 minutes ago, Sweersa said:

I agree, we have had CD since 2008, and have yet to have any earlier versions of Shackler's Revenge, Scraped, This I Love, and Sorry leak (not counting Village instrumentals).

My hope is any active folks with uncirculated CD era mixes of unreleased songs are waiting to share/sell/trade/leak until official versions our out, to minimize legal attention/harming the band if they leak.

But I do know with 100% certainly there's material out there that has not leaked, that is outside of the band and their associates. So we are likely to hear more, eventually. I've never heard of anyone having The General though. Only Leave Me Alone/Soul Monster, Seven, alts of OMG and Silkworms, and maybe a few others I can't recall.

It’s crazy that the rest of these tracks have never leaked. They have to have been in private circulation for years now. I have no idea how other hard core fan bases operate (because I’m only a hardcore GNR fan) but I cannot imagine people not wanting to share music with other fans. I know in the past these unreleased songs brought a lot of unwanted attention and legal issues for some people but at this point I doubt any leak would get any media attention and really only about a thousand people would even care. 

1 hour ago, Sweersa said:

Of course this happens right after I leave Vegas 😂 

It is still odd they are holding off on additional physical releases for the Perhaps and The General outside of vinyl… something is a brewing. 

The only thing that makes me think more could potentially be coming is Axl and Slash visiting that studio in June to listen to “mixes”. Now that could have been just Perhaps and the General. But it seemed like the studio technicians implied it was more. 

31 minutes ago, Coma16 said:

Most attendees are die hards, which is opposite for GNR. PJ has maybe 3-4 recognizable songs to the average person who wasn't around in the 90s.

All I could think is that I wish I could go to a GNR show that was like this. I think if they gathered all the die hards from around the world and put all of us in an arena and let us pick the set list we could pull it off

Is the song this week? Are people calling the Juke Box companies, Radio stations, train stations, bus stations, the airlines, studios, speaker manufacturers, record stores, (there have to be at least 5 left), Geffen Records, interscope records, and the personal line of Jimmy Iovine?! Cmon we must know when the General is going to drop! 
 

The problem is the band has released so little in the past 30 years it has whittled the psycho fan base down to almost nothing. I went to a Pearl Jam concert last week. Now that band has a psycho fan base. They had an entire arena singing along to deep cuts. 

7 hours ago, Sweersa said:

Are the rumors true that the studio release of The General is going to have crowd noises inserted from the 2010 Vienna party?

That’s fucking funny dude

37 minutes ago, Sweersa said:

Imagine we figure out the song length is about 4 minutes. I'm hoping it's closer to 6, or even as long or longer than TWAT.

It better be at t least 5:30. I’m ready for an epic. Enough with these 3 min songs. Axl does epics better than anyone ever

Well some lyrics just leaked-

“my general, my general lead us to war”

“my general, my general our victory is near”

“My general, my general who would do this to you”

“My general, my general get your gun”

“My general my general we are on the run”

Then it rips into a minute long slash solo

16 minutes ago, Gordon Comstock said:

 

I bought that VIP package for the first show in Vegas, because it was the only option for pit by the time I was able to buy tickets. The mini litho is kind of cool, and they also sent a duffle bag, a hat, a pack of cards and maybe 1-2 other trinkets that I've never used. Totally not worth the extra $300~ I paid for the tickets, but I wasn't about to pass up an opportunity to be in the pit at that show lol.

I bought it because I wanted floor seats. The only halfway decent thing was the litho. The dob kit, hat, duffel, ect…. was some of the cheapest chinese made shit ever!

This band really has some of the worst merchandising of all time. Everything is so incredibly overpriced and low quality. I bought a vip ticket for the second Vegas show in 2016. It came with a limited edition litho which was decent but not great and a bunch of the cheapest made merch you could ever imagine. 
 

Hard Skool should not be on that album. It already got its own EP and is an extremely average GNR song. It’s going to be so jarring listening to those other iconic tracks and suddenly hard Skool starts with its incredibly cheesy school bell. 

20 hours ago, matheus.binotti said:

4:04 min of The General, from Budapest (2006/06/31)

https://on.soundcloud.com/dicxi

That’s definitely the most complete version. I do believe this song is an epic. At worst I would imagine it’s as good as Madagascar and Madagascar is really good. It seems like a lot of thought and work went into that orchestration. Can this just leak already?!

I think that cell phone clip has to be the general. I think everyone is over thinking this. I just wish they would drop the damn thing already. The anticipation is killing me

1 hour ago, colonizedmind said:

Yea...but to be fair, Vinyl the big comeback is not just a fad anymore...it's been consistently rising....the only physical media that is on the up....last year was the first year since 1987 that Vinyl outsold CD! I love my Vinyl but it's probably holding back super deluxe sets these days, as it's expensive and the companies insist on matching content! 

Dude it’s still super niche. The VAST majority of people have absolutely no interest in physical media