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The drums sound fucking amazing, possibly the best part for me. Much closer to how they sounded on Chinese for me. They did Frank pretty dirty with that boosted kick drum on Hard Skool so I'm glad they got this one right. Don't know if its Brain or Frank, but one of the fills sounds very Frank to me. I guess we'll find out at the next show if they play it. 

Pretty awesome! The Slash solo wasn't as bad as a I was imagining it to be. Love all the ear candy. Pretty surreal hearing a finished mix of it. So happy they kept the "weight around your shoulders" vocal effect on the last chorus 

I like pass you by and the third song 

wish loaded would reunite 

40 minutes ago, invisible_rose said:

Agreed!

I just don’t understand the solo that Slash put on Hardskool at all. Seemed like a great opportunity to announce the return of GNR with an instantly recognisable Slash solo along with Axl’s voice (albeit recorded several years ago) and make it a new, but familiar Guns sound. Felt so half hearted.

Goes to show that it’s near impossible to take a Nu-GNR song and make it truly sound like a Slash gnr song. I do appreciate a lot of things about the new Hardskool but overall it is hard to stump the Nu gnr version for me. Love or hate em, they were seriously talented 

This would be so entertaining and also a great casual media platform for Axl where he probably wouldn’t be asked questions deeper than surface level 

Not really a collector, but I do have a copy of Chinese Democracy. Sounds incredible 

3 hours ago, Gunner Gilby said:

Yes. Release something like Appetite For Democracy only the current line up. 

I’d love if they did this for Houston 2016 

I’m dead 😂 

they’re trolling at this point 

I love prostitute. Like many songs on Chinese, the brilliant lyrics can be applied in many different ways. 

one of those songs where you don’t really know exactly what the fuck he’s talking about but it makes great sense when applied to the listeners own experience/perspective. 

Always get chills on that last verse: 

“So, if my affections are misunderstood, and you decide I'm up to no good, don't ask me to enjoy them just for you. Ask yourself why I would choose to prostitute myself. To live with fortune and shame? When you should have turned to the hearts of the ones that you would not save.”

Acoustic makes for a better song but the original is just classic gnr badassery  

Once. Just need to hear Estranged echo across a stadium one more time and then I think I’ll have closure😂

 

also, I live right behind the stadium they’re playing in. I’d have the worst FOMO seeing fellow gnr fans park on my street 
 

I think the only mistake gnr made with Absurd and Hardskool was that it was produced by Caram/the band. Which blows my mind considering how good the production of CD sounded. 
 

I guess you can look at the lyrics for absurd also being a mistake, but generally speaking, it’s not like it’s the only GNR song with horrid lyrics 
 

I wonder what it would sound like if they got Mike Clink back in the mix for a new album 

Brian Johnson 

7 hours ago, allwaystired said:

The media are responsible for GNR not releasing new music?! 

That's a new one on me. 

They 'refreshen the set'! It's about as stale as a set could ever be! 

Obviously the media isn’t solely responsible, but I’m sure Absurd being received as “wtf” by most people didn’t help. Whats more well received and generates more revenue- New music that is inevitably going to be subject to harsh criticism or to just keep running the “legacy” tour? Most ppl at these shows probably just want to hear Appetite and some of UYI anyway. 
 

They’ve refreshed the set the best they can without adding new music… 

locomotive, coma, soyl, reckless life, dead horse, a CD deep cut here, etc… I call that improvement if you compare it to the sets from 2010 to 2014. 
 

I can’t complain about much other lack of new music, but at the end of the day you can’t force art. I feel like the media spooked them out of releasing more stuff after Hardskool and Absurd. 
 

I will say I respect the band for playing almost the entirety of Chinese Democracy and also adding a bunch of UYI songs to refreshen the set. Never thought I’d hear Axl sing Coma again, and never in a million years expect Slash to play a song like Prostitute. 

Also, say what u will about Axl’s voice, the man is still pouring his heart into every set. 

What’s everyone’s definition of talent? because i initially listened Bucket as the most talented. I believe that more than ever after watching slash absolutely butcher his solos (which is fair on Slash’s part, he has the right to play it however he wants being he is the “real” gnr lead guitarist a responsibly for its success). In the recent years, I’ve come to appreciate Ron Thals ability to be the only guitarist in Guns history to ever do justice to buckets work. On a level of musicality, I think he (bucket) is the best to ever work in the gnr camp. Although, on a level of songwriting ability, Axl, Izzy, Duff and Slash knew how to make a hit song, which is a talent in its own way. 

the level of talent it took to make Appetite is incomparable to the talent that went in to making Chinese Democracy, and arguably UYI (which after reading Duff and Slash’s book, seems like three different solo acts clashing together. I’ve always thought about GNR as three different bands. 87-90 (a true band collaboration ) 91-96 (where UYI was a compilation of Izzy songs, Duff songs, Axl songs, and Slash songs) and 98-2008 It’s kind of hard to really compare these three eras and relate them as being the same band. Just my opinion. 

1. Duff (pretty much tied with Axl) 

2. Buckethead 

3. Izzy 

I always wonder If Going Down and Hard School made CD, would the album have done better? With the exception of Better and CD, the record lacked radio friendly songs. 

Man I’d love to hear him put out Going Down. Sounds like it could’ve been on Village Gorilla Head 

You can find every vocal stem off Chinese Democracy on YouTube 

I think it would probably be better than absurd 

1 hour ago, El Guapo said:

Woke Wankers, that's a cool band name right there!

"Good evening! We're Woke Wankers, this one is called "Suck my vegan sausage", one, two, three, four!" 

It’s like PC Bullshit! 

On 3/20/2023 at 9:00 AM, Alejandro GNR said:

And the unsincronized verses which we believe are an artistic decision 

It’s rather Absurd. Other than the OG chorus, that second verse coming in hot right after the interlude was the coolest part of the song. 

I’m really just waiting to see if he’s gonna do this through out the whole show before buying my ticket. If he does choose to go baritone for even 80% of the show, it will probably be the best gnr tour since 2016