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Next Friday, perhaps.

The White Album - featuring Hungarian quire boys.

11 hours ago, LandOla said:

Only five days left, god damnit

To what?

4 minutes ago, gnrjanus said:

As the vinyl is about to ship. Should there be leaks already?

In one month, yes.

2 hours ago, rumandraisin said:

Brain top, of course. 

I like Sorums style but unfortunately the mix is so ludicrously over the top and the drums sound commically huge on Illusions that it's hard to overlook this. 

UYI = best mix & production ever. Not kidding.

Fred Coury.

10 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

Isn’t the entire village locker leaks a “clue” as to how that woulda sounded?

They are demos and sound like demos.

10 hours ago, rocknroll41 said:

Isn’t the entire village locker leaks a “clue” as to how that woulda sounded?

They are demos and sound like demos.

Leave it as it is. It's the clue to how a 99/00 Beavan-album would've sounded.

Wrap up the touring and release an album or two.

1 hour ago, RONIN said:

Exactly. Or if the execs are angry and threaten to cut funding, kick over a few instrumentals or a half-baked demo to keep the cash flowing.

I was just skimming through chinese whispers on GnR evo recently and it's crazy how many times the record company offered Axl a million dollar bonus if he could deliver the album in a certain timeframe. He must have left so much money on the table through this entire saga by not being able to follow through. It really is such a bizarre journey. There was an A&R guy saying that there was a near finished album ready to go even in '98....just needed vocals apparently.

But the producers said the material wasn’t good enough when Axl was ready for mixing?

11 hours ago, RONIN said:

I think the more revelations that come out about that time, the more I think GnR was just a side hobby for Axl after the '93 tour. Something he'd work on once a week or a few times a month. I don't think the creative muse was ever really there which explains the lack of output post Illusion.

It was enough material for a release in 2000. If they could quickly mix and master OMG for the movie in ‘99 of course they could do that for another 9-11 songs. 

48 minutes ago, Nick85 said:

Yeah The General immediately pulls up GNR and Perhaps in all categories so hopefully that’s a good sign of an imminent digital release.

Or more probably a sign that many are searching for it. 

Nice. Had forgotten FedEx Field was only the second concert on the tour. My first and so far only concert on North American soil.

1 hour ago, quikspade said:

Fun and maybe pointless fact. Perhaps and Absurb were both released in Hi Res to streaming platforms, HS is currently not Hi Res, along with ChiDem and Spaghetti albums. My guess is HS is being put on an album. I wonder if The General will be Hi Res?

Or the opposite. Absurb and Perhaps are put on an album due to the high(er) sound quality.

20 minutes ago, body said:

It's been a week since the release, after the first listen I reacted with "WTF is this" strange mix, weak guitars, boring vocals and a track that goes nowhere. After a few days I started to like it and now I love it. At the moment one of my favorite tracks for gym and driving.

That radio station premiering the song had really bad sound/compression. After listening to the YouTube video a few times and Spotify maybe 40-50 times it has grown to be really good. Make sure to set your equaliser so that you hear the “harbouring this hate for days” line, it’s perhaps slightly too low in the mix. 

I have UYI listening periods, like 1-2 years in between. From start to finish, repeatedly. 
 

AFD not as much, but several those songs are played here and there anyway. 
 

Lies and TSI not so much. CD I can’t hear from start to finish. 

3 hours ago, Slugworth said:

Nothing would justify it.

 

Yes the project lacked big singles but does every album gotta have a Jungle or Vertigo to set the world on fire? What's wrong with a few decent charting hits on an album of virtual deep cuts?

 

It would always lack a monster single.  He isn't prolific. The label didn't realize he would simply keep adding countless layers to songs they already believe aren't good enough instead of working on new material.

 

This isn't U2 where the band deems an album not good enough and a year later they're shitting out Achtungs and Atomic Bombs.

 

With Chinese it's "what you see is what you get" and if you don't like it,  just give him five extra years and he'll let Bumblefoot wank all over it and Frank pound a drum while many of the vocal takes can be dated back to Al Gore and the Spice Girls.

 

 

Exactly. Release it in 00/01, let it flop, and take it from there. 
 

A “classic GNR” album released in 94/95 wouldn’t have lived up to the expectations either. 

3 hours ago, Underhardy said:

It's rumored The General's lyrics center around child abuse. I've never seen anything to hint at this. I know the speculated lyrics say "Who did this, to you?" which would make sense. But where did this rumor actually start? There was one mention of a song about child abuse in a release from Globo the day after Rock in Rio 2001. 

"With 18 songs, the group's next album [...] which will be released in June [...] is a collection of songs, which, in Axl's opinion, are as good as 'November Rain'. Among them 'Madagascar', included in the show on Sunday. The CD will include a tribute to John Lennon [Catcher in the Rye], and another [song] about child abuse." (O Globo, 01/16/01)

Did someone just decide to assume, or guess, it was The General being referenced here and run with it? 

And 18 songs implies a double album. 

1 hour ago, Martin Riggs said:

Whose idea was it to include Oh My God on the End of Days soundtrack? I’m sure  that song probably did little to make the label feel good about investing in Axl’s “vision” of GNR after Slash/Duff left. 

The production was good enough to put out the album with 9-11 songs other than OMG. Nice to end the 90's/start the 00's with. No one knows what would've come after that. I guess the reunion would have come a few years sooner than 2016. No involvement of Dj Ashba and probably no Bumblefoot either.

The real problems seems to have started when Sean Beavan was replaced by Roy Thomas Baker with the unnecessary re-recording of the drums & bass.

2 minutes ago, Jw224 said:

Alice assumes that GNR function like a normal band and that singles must mean an album is coming, that's all.

He should know better. 

12 minutes ago, Stro said:

Bach also called Sorry "doom metal" so I don't think he should be used as an accurate representation of any unreleased track.

He wasn’t totally wrong in that case though. Doom: yes. Metal: no. 

3 hours ago, Alejandro GNR said:

The may start rehearsing it as well any minute now

Just like Axl rehearsing Perhaps?

3 hours ago, Arnuld said:

Why this song was ever worked on again is beyond comprehension. It was mixed, mastered, released, and put on a movie soundtrack. This would be like Metallica continuing to work on I disappear and then internet trolls claiming it was going to open their next album. And that demo of the reworked OMG  is awful. They took a song that was not great to begin with that everyone hated when it was released and made it even worse. 

Axl called it a demo a few years later. 
 

The song is weak, but I like the production. It’s how I imagine a 99-01 CD to sound like.