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I've noticed that about Myles in the last 5 or so years. He's becoming way more subdued on stage, and he never was an Axl to begin with. I also noticed the setlist has been starting to incorporate more breaks for him. The dude is a true professional balancing a ton of projects, and he'll be 55 this year, I think he's been doing the smart thing and listening to his body. That being said, I'd love to see the Conspirators take a few years off and come back strong instead of the obligatory tour every year and a half. With full respect to Frank, my dream Conspirators configuration is Myles more fully involved and playing guitar, and incorporating Todd vocally in the studio. I feel Myles as an instrumental band member was a big reason Apocalyptic Love felt so strong and cohesive.

Didn't Axl do all of the rhythm guitars on Madagascar too?

Whenever I sing this song in my head it transforms into Soul Monster halfway through. "I'm just Ken, anywhere else I'd be a ten, is it my destiny to live... but it's all burnt down."

He played guitar on the soundtrack too.

I imagine it's super similar to The Blues vs Street of Dreams. No orchestra, more drums, less double tracked vocals maybe? I don't know what about the final couple years of Chinese Democracy's production led them to cut out so many drum parts, even though a lot were retained for live shows.

I'm with this too. To me what makes the TIL solo great is more of a vibe thing, than the actual solo. There's live versions Slash has done that serve no justice to the song (London 2017), but there's others where he gets into the right feel (Fenway 2023) and it's as good as the studio version. The Better solo though is as important as Bucket's TWAT solo imo, and it's a shame Slash didn't learn that one closer.

It's probably a blues instrumental. Would be really cool if it was Slash's first lead vocal on a song! I think a blues tune could be the perfect thing to do that on.

The personnel list is cool. It looks like Slash is collaborating a lot with Tash Neal who seems smaller and newer in the scene. The bassist Johnny Griparic and keyboardist Teddy Andreadis both played on Ain't Life Grand.

I was expecting a lot of covers from a blues album, so I'm super glad to see one original. Also hyped to see a studio version of Bad Sign, I loved when that was the solo spot.

A new version of TIL with the complete drum take, 2010 vocals, and Slash and Duff parts that compliment the original would probably be the *best sounding* thing the band could put out today.

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I have a feeling that there’s a Blues-like demo of TIL with the additional drums they play live, but are missing from the album version. I don’t know why they did that to the drums on both of those songs. The Blues also benefits a ton from the drums before verse 1.

This I Love has been going crazy on Spotify lately. It's up to over 70,000,000 streams, and last I checked a year ago it hadn't cracked 60.

I hope a non-Conspirators tour comes from this album. Looking at Slash's recent setlists, it's missing a lot of Slash (2010) and Snakepit songs that would fit well alongside blues-oriented material.

I know Brain is allegedly the drummer on Hard Skool, but nothing about the drums sound similar to any other song he recorded with GNR. Playing style, drum tone, even compression levels. The Perhaps drums got squashed to hell and back and sound nothing like HS. I still like the theory that it was a drum machine with parts written by Frank, programmed by him and Melissa. Frank's live part has a lot of resemblance to the studio version, but still has a few embellishments that give it the human element. Compared to Perhaps where the drums are totally different live than Brain's studio version, and Frank is slamming the hi-hat for the majority of the song. Also, this would support the idea that Slash and Duff actually contributed creatively to Hard Skool and added in the bass intro. Huge doubt that GNR would book a recording session for Frank to do new drums for Hard Skool. But they would record guitars and bass in their home studios, and program a new drum part on the road. This is a lot of conjecture but it all makes more sense than Brain playing drums on the song.

That looks a lot like Brent's drum configuration. Not that it's a particularly distinct setup, but still. If they're dropping it mid-Conspirators tour I feel like there must be some overlap in the band.

I just realized how many parallels GNR fans have with jam band fans like Phish, the Dead, and DMB. Except instead of comparing live versions we compare rough mixes.

Has Slash ever toured with a Strat with The Conspirators anyway? I feel like he keeps his guitar load fairly light.

I care more about when things were recorded rather than written, at least with GNR at this point. An album with 1999 vocals and 2024 vocals back to back is going to sound jarring, but if Axl's contributions to a future album were the less finished CD songs that they redo from the ground up... sure that's something. I think there's going to be traces of the CD era in everything the band does.

Where did that list come from?

I wouldn't be surprised if the album featured a lot of blues session players. It sounds like he wants to intentionally separate it from his other solo work.

Slash and Duff did amazing work with Perhaps. I listened to the original for the first time in awhile today and it stood out how all over the place the guitar layers are, as much as I like a lot of the parts on their own.

Going off of this, in all seriousness it could be nice to see this song end up as a GNR song. It's the other song with Slash from Duff's unreleased album, written around the same time as the CD leftovers were too.

I think that particular spot is the worst blatant editing mistake I can think of in any song I’ve heard.

I just found this on YouTube. Please delete (+ roast me) if this is fan made, but this sounds authentic to me.