Voodoochild

Yeah, saw that post by a guy named Alex Mendoza. It doesn't have source or proof (audio/video), tho. I asked how does he know, waiting for an answer.

I can only speak for myself, but I didn't take any issue on your position about the releasing of new material. It happens, there's a lot of people here who are very vocal about it. But being skeptic isn't the same as being negative. One thing is to be skeptical about a release, the other is to try to put people down when they believe on evidence. Not saying you did that, just that this is how I see it. I did took issue with you about the song The General in particular just because it was a matter of common sense to me that the cell phone recording was real, because of all the reasons I already give. The same person (which is a forum member, BTW) who recorded it that also recorded Silkworms and I believe it was before the Bumblefoot version leaked. And to spam the reactions.

Just speculation, but I don't think Axl considered Richard Fortus as more than a competent hired musician. Yes, he is capable of playing some of the stuff required, but he never had the prestige to be at the spotlight as the main lead in GNR. Maybe because Axl think as him as more generic than the others, from sound down to the looks? I'm not saying Richard is this or what, it is just my impression of what Axl did with him all those years. I like to think that Fortus and Robin would kick ass back in 2006, and Fortus and Bumblefoot would sound a lot better than anything with Ashba.

I meant that we don't know if those songs already had Buckethead's contributions that made into the final album by then.

Guess he was talking in terms of songwriting and song structures.

Cool stuff. Didn't know you're Brazilian as well. It's not the style I used to listen to, but I liked The Sounds of Universe, the guitars and the bass are great.

Not confirmed at all, it's just my opinion based on what I heard in that snippet and comparing the tone and style of that lead guitar. IIRC, that solo appeared first in the NA tour promo. Then Richard played it on all of the NA shows, starting in Tacoma.

It would REALLY piss off people here if it ended up being a Whichita Lineman cover for a Glenn Campbell tribute

Yeah, I mean linked to my reply above it was weird that the initial wasn't more of a showcase for the new members really. I mean, in a sense it obviously was but more new songs in the 2001-02 era would have worked wonders I feel. Axl effectively needed a Blizzard of Ozz to tour behind. I agree that there was a decent number played live in 2010 and that was the highlight of that tour for me - hearing some of the Chinese stuff live now it was finally out. Judging by the Village sessions, the 2001 setlists made sense. They played 5 CD-era songs, plus Oh My God. The 2002 sets were different. Asia and Europe had Riad being played 4 times, but Silkworms wasn't on either regions. OMG was already ditched too, and there was some gigs (Leeds at least) that had only 2 CD-era songs. The 2002 NA tour only got Riad once, in Detroit. All the other gigs were with the same setlist, with Chinese, Madagascar and The Blues/SOD. But they were working in so many new stuff in studio, especially with a lot of cool additions by Bucket. Though he def only laid down his Chinese lead guitar somewhere between the NA Tour (when he added the second solo in the song) and 2003 (when he added his lead in the verses/chorus). The Blues outro solo was first recorded by Richard (I'm guessing with the NA tour promo snippet in mind), but later replaced by Bucket's very similar solo. But just imagine if Better, TWAt and even IRS were already ready to be played back then. I think those songs would be a huge showcase of both Bucket and Robin's talent in songwriting and fresh guitar sounds back then.

Didn't mean scrap it entirely, but trimmed it down to a more economic approach.

Agreed. It would be interesting to know if the orchestra is still intact in a release. I mean, with Slash and Duff, the mix of the CD-era songs were definitively more straight forward, with less layers all around.

Help, I can't stop myself to think about jokes with Nothing and Perhaps

It’s not weird, it’s just too high. The few times he attempted, he struggled badly and it didn’t sound clean at all. Doesnt help that the rest of the song is hard already.

It didn't.

Is it really confirmed? I mean, did someone isolated the vocals and compared?

I love when he talks about those kind of creative process. Wish he did it more often.

So Nothing is the next single?

Why do people need this thread to be closed? Do you need to clean this space to have more room for something? Also, why people keeps stating definitive arguments about something they just don't know, yet they dislike when other people believe in something based on past signs/evidences/comments from the band?

Thanks. Hope your ears get better eventually. Funny thing is that this has nothing to do with that Spotify thing, which by the way people were just trying to find information, but I don’t recall anyone ever saying that a release was def imminent. And yes, you should take the word of the majority on this because it’s not really wishful thinking, it’s just common sense by now.

I'm curious about what Richard did with the song. If he disregarded the 1999/2000 arrangement and only added power chords like Slash did, then it will be also a heavy downgrade from the Village demo to me.

It's the same tempo and groove, or very close to it. Also, just because you can't recognize the vocals in that cell recording, it doesn't mean others with better ears can't. I'm having 2002 flashbacks here, when people didn't want to believe that the NA tour promo had studio snippets of Chinese Democracy, Madagascar and The Blues. There were people swearing it was from the live versions/soundboard. Of course, 20 years later we know it was indeed studio recordings, but it's the same thing: there are people that can identify and get the nuances by ear just fine.

Not sure what type of thing you cover, and I'm sorry to say the word "serious", I wasn't trying to be disrespectful. But I stand on my general opinion that this shouldn't be the case. Being government, artists or big companies, the PR team is always protective, and they know that the media is always short on staff and have to "play the game", so yes, they try. They also try to review the text before it gets published sometimes. I would just refuse and say it's not reasonable. Unless there is some serious gravitas on the table - say, a SEC issue for a CEO speaking on the silence period - I really don't see any issue on just refusing politely to hand over the questions with the risk of being a scripted conversation.

Did Perhaps already got 2 million streams?

It's just an agency profile in Linkedin, there's not a whole lot of people following them. And they do have GNR as their client. It seems more plausible to me now. Yeah, that's what I thought. And for at least the last 4 years, so it's not like they just came in and were responsible for the awesome proshots we've been getting lately.

Well, you're right. Those IG screenshots were indeed used here: https://www.thesyn.com/digitalgunsnroses