metalavenger99

 WTTJ in the new EA sports CFB game trailer.

I can't find if anyone has posted this yet. Well, It just came out.

You can even hear a section in like a marching band kind of style (a tradition in College American Football).

The website itself is at least better looking than the official GNR one

I'd say it's definitely merch, also from a PR standpoint it was weird for a guy with that following to have absolutely no online presence aside from a stupid Twitter account, two 8-year-old reunion interviews, and a couple of 15-year-old comments on a fan forum, now he has an official communication channel which he can also capitalize from, nothing wrong with that, so I say it's merchandising + somewhere to post relevant stuff aside from Twitter

I don't know about a full rank because I have Scraped, Riad, Schacklers, and most of those fillers at the same level of appreciation in my list but my top 5 atm are:

Better

I.R.S

Street Of Dreams

Prostitute

The General

I don't know what it is about IRS that I like so much, nobody cares about that song, but it would be my absolute holy grail for a live concert, like miles and miles ahead of Locomotive or TWAT like it probably would be for most people... the lyrics are hilarious but that's what makes it special IMO too

If we count the Chinese Demos ... man oh man...

Zodiac 13 (the second version)

Silkworms with the original intro 

Me&MyElvis

Eye on You

Then the "electronica madness": P.R.L, Circus, and similar ones

I just don't understand what are they trying to portray with the kids wearing the pink hoodies

?

Glad it's coming but that's the worst GNR artwork of all time

Interesting melody, interesting keys

7 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

4:00. I believe it's the same as the original leak (or "leak").

Thanks. I got one that is 8:08, that, aside from Youtube its pretty obvious where to find. 

And that poster is not known for bullshitting right? so idk... 

I do believe it is fake but only because it sounds absolutely hideous, theres no way a group of professional musicians are gonna come up with that even if its a rough demo 

If it is just another fake piece of shit, then what's the deal with not saying that is right there on Youtube lol?

How long is the version you guys are listening to? 4:00, or 8:08?

Same here

2 hours ago, Amir said:

Which gig is this from?

42 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:

Not sure. Do you remember, @metalavenger99?

I don't have any idea actually, i just got it a couple of years ago or maybe even during the quarantine year, as "The General (New Version)" and it didn't said anything on the metadata. But no one was faking these back then. Everybody already had the Evader version which was very clear and these clips used to be everywhere. 

49 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

Another possibility is that they originally intended to release them together (probably with Monsters as a hidden track) and that's why they were registered together, but then they found out that the quality on the 7'' was very low, so they sent it again for pressing without Monsters.

This possibility is the one i wouldn't rule out, maybe this explains why they just played The General now and not Monsters even though the registration and the themes on the lyrics seem to confirm that they are at least meant to be heard back to back. Now they could be trying to detach them from each other after the vinyl fiasco, it sounds unlikely but not completely impossible 

What if the registration was a mistake?

Could that mean that Monsters will be the B side to the next single? (If there is one)

That's the fucking General right there.... unbelievable, I agree with that poster a few pages back, this sure helps with very rough times in life. 

This is the most surreal moment in the history of the band.........

1 minute ago, General2112 said:

https://x.com/axlculture/status/1720281745017221448?s=46&t=HBg_YbDDM801oMA9nuWu7w

NO FUCKING WAY HAHAHAHAHA

SHHIIIT

Judging by the lack of streams we are fucked if someone here hasn't recorded it

What the fuck no way what

1 hour ago, Voodoochild said:

No man, please, send those to me. I would like to compare Monsters with it, because I didn't find much of it on YouTube. 

Sure no worries, i actually started deleting those last week because i just recently discovered that  GunsNRosesFan_☆☆ channel on YT (i don’t know how the hell its still up there) with a ton of 2006 bootlegs and figured out that most of them might be there now but as a part of those longer videos, and yeah one seems to be from MSG and another one from Florida, however now that i checked, i couldn’t find on YT a couple ones (including Monsters) that i’m yet to delete, check your pms

Btw it leaked on this date, i didn't had an account but i started lurking here when the reunion was imminent and then i definitely remember this. It was 2018. Not to say that i don't believe that some people heard it before, i do believe that there's maybe people out there with very juicy CD material on their hands. 

On 11/1/2023 at 8:38 AM, Voodoochild said:

I posted this on the main thread, but this is maybe the place where it belongs. It gives additional context to what Beltrami said.

So yeah, me and @Blackstar were talking about The General and Monsters orchestral pieces played before the concerts. I'm not 100% sure, as it may have occurred one time or another, but I tried to find Monsters orchestra piece in several 2006 bootlegs, and could never find it. It was always just The General. Here my early findings:

- The General piece was played before concerts in 2009/10, but it was mostly used in 2006/07. I played guitar along with that in two recordings (not sure from which shows those were), and it seemed that the orchestra is a bit shorter than the leak, and it looped back to the beginning. It has a similar secondary melody (I assume those were horns?) in the ending that resembles the first few notes that Slash plays in the beginning of his outro solo. 

Could not find video for a more complete recording, but here's a reminder of how The General sounded:

- Monters orchestral piece wasn't played together with The General, as far as I could find. I wasn't able to find any instance of it being played before 2010. This is one example:

 

- Our conclusion is: The General orchestra was the whole song, but shorter. It was probably never played together with the Monsters part, but we all (yeah, me included) assumed those pieces were mixed together and was the same thing because of how similar they sound. 

Kudos to you Voodoo and @Blackstar for this 

I have some of the intros that are no longer on YT that i downloaded in 2019, the orchestrations are different (although confusingly similar) and they were never played together as a mashup as far as i could find or remember now

I think that what also happened (at least in most cases) is that we got so used to Evader's version that we never really got back to properly analyze the "intro". I was planning to do it this weekend because as i said, to me, it was the only big mystery remaining but i'm sure we already have the conclusion  , and i can finally get rid of those files lol 

I just listened to the cellphone clip for the first time after the leaks and yeah it feels weird because the song has been shortened. 

Or maybe im wrong?

What i do hear now and i haven't thought about before, is that the solo kind of sounds like DJ lol, at least the simplistic style and that particular lead tone.  was "scooped tone" the right description? I've been out of the guitar game for quite a while rn

I mean We KNOW it's 99.99% percent not him, but it would be very funny if it was him all the time, how would everyone react lol, i personally don't hate the guy at all