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I think I can agree with this. The effects on the vocals in the songs "Absurd" or "The General" during the chorus can be considered more "robotic" than the use of AI technology in the way you suggested.

I don't think Axl needs any help from AI technology for vocals in the studio. As many have written here, singing in the studio and at shows are completely different things. He can still use a rasp in concerts, from time to time, but in the studio, he has more time to rest, and because of that he can use it constantly. Rock the Rock is the most recent example of Axl being able to use rasp(vocals) in the studio, i hope we will soon hear that song he sang for Michael Schenker and find out if things have changed.

Imagine this, Axl Rose releasing solo album feauturing Buckethead, Robin Finck, Brain Mantia/Josh Freese, Tommy Stinson, Chris Pitman/Melissa Reese, and Dizzy Reed. This would really be an ideal way to release the remaining tracks from the CD era. And release brand new tracks as part of Gn'R (real comeback album with real new songs, not CD era reworked tracks).

We actually got "The General" over a year and a half after this, who would have thought?

On this day in 2016:

You forgot CD: Street Of Dreams, Better

@EvanG most of time you look so confused reading this thread, I'm starting to worry about you.

Toots and the Maytals - Broadway Jungle (the original version, which was called Dog War):

Was there an official band photographer during the 2002 tour? @Blackstar

Yeah, @Rovim posted this 3 days ago.

A brief history of the song and video if anyone is interested. EKV(Ekatarina Velika) was a Serbian/Yugoslavian band, personally one of my 2 favorite domestic bands. And this is probably their most famous song. 35 years have passed since the release of the album "Samo par godina za nas"(Just a few years for us) by the group EKV(Ekatarina Velika/Catherine the Great). The video for the title song "Par godina za nas"(A couple of years for us), which was voted the "Best domestic song of all time" by the listeners of Radio B92 in 2006, is now available on the Ekatarina Velika Official YouTube channel in full glory - with remastered sound and technical with a polished image. In an interview, Milan Mladenović revealed that the lyrics for the song was written in just an hour in the studio, and that it sings "about the current losstness of people living in Yugoslavia, and how many people do not see any future." So, live from today to tomorrow." Vlada Aleksić, director of the music video on the occasion of its new premiere, says: "To me, the entire album Samo par godina was very inspiring for us. He breathed a strange combination of energy and melancholy, bursting with music, but also announcing some ominous tones. It sounded like no and like yes, like prohibition and like permission(This is reference to part of the lyrics of the song Krug(Circle) from this album). The nineties were approaching dangerously"(The 90s were a dark and difficult time in Yugoslavia. Disintegration of Yugoslavia, wars and bombing happened). He also says that the collaboration on the recording of the video came about spontaneously: "Magi invited me to talk, and she, Milan and I talked about the video. I mentioned Wenders' film Sky over Berlin. Milan liked that association, and somehow we came up with the idea of making the video a black-and-white walk in a very narrow part of Belgrade. My first idea was that the footage from the very narrow area of the Belgrade asphalt should only be in slow motion and in black and white. The second part of the concept was the world that took place long before or simultaneously with the creation of the song in reality and fiction. A fusion of different levels of reality. For me, that was music and the existence of EKV, that was the album Samo par godina za nas and that was and still is the song Par godina za nas", Vlada Alaksić vividly remembers. Some shots of the video have been the subject of various theories for years, including those in which Humphrey Bogart appears. "I don't want to talk about why Humphrey Bogart and why the sentence (Remember, mine is bigger than yours). I would like that still, after so many years, that directorial outburst would be open to interpretations", the video's director remains secretive, but he reveals the secret of the only color shot in this black-and-white story. "The only color shot in the video is a close-up of Margita. It is an homage to the story of the aestheticization and essence of Ekatarina Velika (Catherine the Great)."

Happy birthday Axl!

Happy birthday Duff!

If I remember correctly, in 2022 they also forgot to introduce the band at several concerts at the beginning of the tour.