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8 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

Even still, I have to disagree with the other poster, because it would be literally just re-applying the tone of his own voice, to his own voice. He would still have to sing and record it all. That's not a "robot". Using AUTO TUNE is "a robot", where notes are added and adjusted in a robot way, not reminiscent of how the original vocals were recorded and sung into the mic at all, that shit is WAY more "robot" than adding bits rasp back to the vocals that he himself has to record.
 

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.

17 hours ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

Ok this might derail the thread but I gotta get into this: Yes he is right about the creativity aspect, but he's forgetting one major thing, that just started existing within this last year: which is the advancement in AI technology which also influences the "studio magic" that is possible.

With the advancements of AI technology in just this year alone (it's in it's infancy), Axl can pretty much record and sound like he did on Appetite, aslong as he can still hit the notes (which he can, albeit in his clean tone). He didn't lose his range, he just lost the rasp which is really demanding vocally, and of course you can't keep up that singing style for 30+ years. This is the reason why people like Mick Jagger and Steven Tyler still sound so good, they sang more with their natural tone.

But now in a studio setting, he can record with the clean vocals and apply an AI created Axl voice filter on it, which works kind of like a guitar effect pedal (but just on his recorded voice instead) and have him sound like his 1987 self with the rasp completely added onto the vocals by the AI which works by feeding it with soundclips of his isolated studio vocals from AFD/UYI. People are already doing this with other singers, just applying an AI Axl onto the voice and it sometimes already sounds dead on, so when he does it with his own vocals, it'll sound pretty much perfect.

So GNR can release as much music as they want, aslong as Axl actually starts working on it.

16 hours ago, Tom2112 said:

This is a fair and reasonable point, they could use the tech available today.

My argument against is that 1. I'm a purist and don't want to hear robot music. I'm ok with some autotune here and there but the idea of AI enhanced Axl makes me nauseous. I'll take current day Axls attempt for better or for worse. 2. If Axl uses that tech to sound like a younger voiced version of himself, he paints himself into a corner of not being able to perform it live. 3. I'd have to imagine Slash would be seriously against this, he is a pure traditional rock guy and barely likes using pro tools. 

This idea is fine for deceased musicians to finish off demos like the Beatles etc. but Axl is still alive and fit to work. I think the point of the post is the reality of Axls vocal ability and the reality of performing live and that it's not going to get any easier so now is the time to release music and tour while he still can pull it off. I don't think he's going to be able to do jungle etc. in another few years. 

On topic. I would love to read an Axl book. 

I would not like to be the editor though🤣

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.

33 minutes ago, Rindmelon said:

seem legit then. If this leads to him putting out the CD leftovers as solo tracks @Sweersa head will explode. I don't expect this site to be updated often but wouldn't be surprised if we get an interview with him from Del James at some point like on the old site.

interesting that it's launched now as the band are all doing there own things.

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). 

On 4/16/2022 at 2:11 AM, ZoSoRose said:

The General confirmed

 Chinese Democracy 2 starts now

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

On this day in 2016: 

5 hours ago, Free Bird said:

Two of each record:

Nightrain, Rocket Queen,

Patience, You're Crazy,

November Rain, The Garden,

Civil War, Estranged,

Ain‘t It Fun, Raw Power

 

 

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 

On 3/12/2024 at 2:04 PM, Rovim said:

Dave Abbruzzese interview where he talks about his time in Gn'R and Axl. not sure if this is new and the audio quality is not very good, but found it interesting (Gn'R part starts at the 51:13 mark)

 

5 hours ago, jamillos said:

Dave Abbruzzese. It says he talks about GN'R, haven't seen it yet, could be interesting.

https://youtu.be/hJH63OLD0Z0?si=N4vK1rMniWHQa8lU 

 

1 hour ago, El Guapo said:

There seems to be an interview on yt with Dave Abbruzze talking about GnR, might wanna check out! 

Yeah, @Rovim posted this 3 days ago. 

On 3/3/2024 at 7:30 PM, Rindmelon said:

I cant find it now but there was a picture of him with a guitar shop owner on tour last year without his hat, and it's thin as fuck up there. Yet when he has his hat on stage sometime's you can almost see difference between his hair and to the other strands of hair I suspect are stapled to the inside of his hat. If he is loosing it he should just shave it off and embrace it, nothing wrong with it at all, for other people I mean not me, if it happens to me i will book a one way flight to dignitas 

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!