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42 minutes ago, allwaystired said:

For your healths sake I hope you're referring to the alcoholic drink rather than the 'fanclub'. 

 

Bottoms up!! 

Zero. I may have gone to the London date but I'm already tied up seeing Jamie T in Finsbury Park.

And there's no chance I'm paying a boat load of money to see them anywhere outside of London, with hotel & travel costs etc. Money is far too tight at the moment.

I've purchased Nightrain membership twice in the past but I wont be doing it again, the CD is cool but I'm not paying £40 for it. If I can grab it off eBay for around £20 I'd consider it.

I bet that they will include the Ritz 1991 Blu-Ray in a future premium Nightrain bundle.

Just now, D4NNY said:

Yeah I included SOYL, not sure if that’s allowed or not haha

I don't count it. I'm sure Axl does!

The Plague is surely Axl's greatest achievement since the 90s 

1 minute ago, D4NNY said:

Sad but true. If they can make this much money from touring and only releasing 18 tracks in the past 30 years… why try fix something that ain’t broke 😅

What's the 18th track? Chinese (14) + OMG + Hark Skool + Absurd = 17

Shadow Of Your Love?

2 hours ago, avahland said:

They skipped that one in Groningen NL last time....so I guess I might have to go one more time.
But I think this time I will wait for big changes before I decide to buy tickets or not.

They didn't play it at the London gig I attended which was frustrating. Axl sounded pretty solid for the shortened set though!

SURELY we will get something new in 2023.

Slash is looking pretty stupid right now.

They should drop The General when we hit 1000 pages and announce tour dates.

Fingers crossed for big leaks in 2023 if Axl wont give us official recordings.

48 minutes ago, sofine11 said:

Yep. The narrative I saw was “What’s wrong? This is the Hard Skool tour…” 

I didn't even get to hear Hard Skool at my London show!

I'm curious to see who they announce for support, usually for a big Hyde Park gig you'd expect good support.

Decent support would probably ramp up ticket sales.

52 minutes ago, nycmale said:

I have a feeling the vinyl box set is more limited than we thought. Dont think there is  gonna be another locked n loaded fire sale on these down the road. I could be wrong but maybe they learned their lesson from the last one. The cd box set seems to be readily available everywhere though so I would expect to see a big sale on those in the future. 

For anywhere close to £435 RRP the vinyl boxset can remain sold out forever as far as I'm concerned.

If the CD set drops to £100ish I might be tempted to bite. The Blu Ray is probably worth £30 on it's own.

29 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

I think I have addressed all of this, haven't I? I have no problems with fans wanting more from GN'R, I want that too, nor with fans being disappointed, that is only natural up to a point. But here we talked about a specific fan who suggested spending so much time here brought him down. And that's a very much a self-inflicted wound with a very easy solution. Not that I want him to leave, at all, I was just pointing out the absurdity of it.

Now I am going to "defend" the band again:

You claim the band is mismanaged, I would argue that the extremely successful reunion which led to one of the highest selling tours of all time, flies directly in the face of such a claim. I believe you think they are mismanaged because they don't manage the band in the direction that you want, but that is not what management is about, it is about managing the band in the direction the band wants. And from where I am sitting, they seem to do that very well.

You also claim Axl is unmotivated, I would argue that no singer who tours as extensively as he does at the age of 60, playing three hour shows and working his ass off, can be called "unmotivated". I believe you think he is unmotivated because he doesn't seem to be motivated into doing the things that you want, but that is not what that motivation means, it means having the energy and drive to do what oneself wants. And from where I am sitting, he really seems to be motivated in touring.

Did I really defend the band now or did I actually counter some arguments I felt weren't really thought through? I suppose it is about perspective. Personally, I think I am more about hitting down on lazy or erroneous arguments more than defending the band, it just happens that in this forum there is a lot of it and when people don't really get what I write they interpret it as defending the band more than defending rationality.

So you genuinely think that Fernando is a good manager for GNR? Just wow.

3 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:

I don't think they need any help considering they do what they want to do and earn big bucks doing it. 

They need urgent help to function like a credible band that cares about it's legacy, that's for sure. Making money shouldn't be the be all and end all.

Slash promising imminent new material doesn't help either.

So no new music in 2022 then? Unless we get a surprise Christmas Day release or something? 

I thought at the absolute minimum this year we'd have got one new song, or more likely two songs on vinyl / CD, like we got with Absurd / Hard Skool.

And now they have the cheek to announce 2023 tour dates, this band is beyond help!

1 minute ago, allwaystired said:

Do you honestly think they will have new material out by June 2023?! 

Prepare for a good ol' bellyful of laughs next summer! 

After all the Slash talk about "music coming out imminently" I genuinely thought we'd have something by now!

It's crazy that Absurd is nearly 16 months old!

Roll on 'The Next Chapter' 2023 

I'll laugh if June 2023 comes along and we still have no more new material.

At least the setlist will have to be slightly different to Tottenham, as they had to abandon half the setlist because Axl was so late!

Unfortunately I can't go, Jamie T is playing in Finsbury Park on the same day.

26 minutes ago, DoMw94 said:

Hyde Park, June 30 confirmed

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClnpidIuS-E/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

'The Next Chapter' starts now!   

Glad I finally finished watching the full thing a few days ago! Was a great watch.

1 hour ago, El Guapo said:

Once again, it was a very stupid decision to put the superb sounding remastered NR on there when the rest of the songs sound totally different and not as great. Kills it for me. 

Only in the world of GNR would this decision be made. The new November Rain should have been an exclusive 7" / CD included in the respective boxsets.

That would have been a good reason to pick up the boxset, but a demos & Outakes disc should have been essential.

Enjoying the live material, although I'm not sure how often I'll return to it in the future. Both 2CD packages are more than enough for me at the moment. £18 each in HMV seems reasonable for over 2 hours of brand new live material plus the new version of November Rain.

I can't hear much improvement, if any, in the 'remaster ', it's a real shame they didn't release both albums in remixed form as they would have surely become the definitive editions.

I still can't believe they didn't include a disc or two of demos & rarities in the £435 / £265 boxsets. Pretty baffling. Stubbornly only offering live material must surely have impacted on sales in a big way.

38 minutes ago, wreckless said:

I was told (at the time of the leaks) that Cuban Skies =  dummy (number 8 from rough mixes, cd3).

I really hope Cuban Skies doesn't turn out to be Dummy, one of my least favourite songs from the leaks.

11 minutes ago, lilacmess said:

I still think there could be something coming. 

- Slash said they will release some songs, they had worked on. He didn't give an exact number, but I got the impression he was talking about more than one or two songs. I believe they actually worked on those songs and that there were/are plans to release them.

- "The Spotify Thing" could still mean something. Probably not (something doesn't seem quite right), but nobody is sure of anything. 

- There seems to be a new situation with the record company. Some things seem to be worked out by now.

- There is the unknown piece they soundchecked recently.

Plus they're playing the River Plate stadium in Argentina this Friday, which is a massive gig by anyone's standards. So it would be a great gig to throw in a brand new song.

Friday is also the usual day that new music is released on Spotify, so it would make perfect sense!