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1 hour ago, RussTCB said:

Completely different vibe than the original but I'm totally cool with that. This is the first movie that I've been excited for in a long time. 

Yeah, other people have pointed out the over serious tone of these trailers, whereas the original was much more comedy.

That may or may not be the case with the whole film, but I just love how they’re tying this into the original, and respecting the source material.

Now THIS has got me super excited! 
 

1 hour ago, The Black said:

Wooden box set made in the custom shop, hand signed and numbered by Slash. Your's to own for $8.999.

Jokes aside, don’t confuse Slash with ripping off his SMKC fans, the way that GN’R tries to.  

1 minute ago, jimisbatman said:

 

That would be cool if he was. 

 

However, there was never going to be another GnR record, unfortunately. Its been 5 yrs since reunion, why start now. 

I’m not talking about GN’R, I said that maybe Mike Clink produced the next SMKC album. 

6 hours ago, Ralphelmo said:

Elvis was busy with Sevendust and Tremonti records, you may have a point bro.

There may be something to this considering Mike Clink produced the Rocketman cover. Maybe he did the new SMKC album too…?

Didn’t Slash say last year that he expected new music from both SMKC and GN’R to come out in 2021?

Obviously Slash doesn’t have the final say on GN’R, but he didn’t seem to think that releasing one would rule out the other. 

Just now, GNRfanMILO said:

That doesn’t prove anything. That intro could’ve been already in a hypothetical 2006 or 2014 version. Remember we heard a really old demo from more than 20 years ago.

And even if Slash and Duff really worked on it, that doesn’t prove anything either. They “worked” on the Better intro too (even if it’s stolen from the bridge of the song).

Yeah, but the difference is that Better has been released, and Hardschool hasn’t. So the fact that an unreleased song was soundchecked, to me, I see that as a positive.

Only song that is a tier down from the rest is Anything Goes, but even that song isn’t necessarily bad. Same goes for You’re Crazy. If they replaced those two with Move to the City, and Shadow of Your Love, it’d be solid album start to finish.

The one glimmer of hope I have, is the fact that Slash and Duff actually reworked Hardschool, from what we heard from the soundcheck leak. So they have worked on new music, well, officially unreleased music. So maybe they have been working behind the scenes on other stuff too.

The one thing that makes me question it all still, is the fact that quotes from Slash and Duff from 25 years ago sound exactly the same, and nothing came from those sessions either. 

4 hours ago, agustingloger said:

Duff Will play on just one song or the entire álbum?!? If it's the entire album would be pretty weird for obvius reasons... SMKC new album coming, Duff's new album maybe? Mmm who am I missing?! Hahahaha 

I don’t know any more than what I’m speculating. Jerry has been working on a new solo album for a while now, and these photo(s) with Duff in them lead me to believe he’s playing on bass on the tracks?

Whether it’s the full album, or a few tracks, who knows really...

Jerry Cantrell just posted some pics to social media in what looks like a video shoot for a new filmclip, and Duff is there. Any excuse to get out of working on a new GN’R album.... 

That said, I’m very much looking forward to Jerry’s new album. 

12 hours ago, Gordon Comstock said:

I hope Slash stays far away from stuff like The General or Zodiac... leave that shit untouched until Axl decides to release a CD era box set or TB releases it posthumously.

Slash playing on Atlas would be hilarious, though.

Yeah, it’d be hilarious alright, because Slash would play some actual guitar parts that are more than just bar chords and open chords that are currently there on those songs.

So excited about this box set!!!

Metallica are the gold standard when it comes to the content of these box set reissues. 

I hope in a way, he comes out even fatter than Vince Neil, and sounding more Mickey than ever, just so we can speculate another 400 pages in the new album thread

Libertad is full of uninspired, bland sounding songs, that don’t go anywhere, and the guitar tones are rubbish. Which to me, when you have Slash in the band, is completely inexcusable.

Contraband is a pretty great modern hard rock album, with some nods to classic rock. And it showed so much promise too.

But then we got the half-assed Libertad that didn’t really build on the potential that Contraband showed...

And yes, this is where the discussion about a new GN’R album is going... to discussing the wasted potential of VR’s second album

So great to see Slash playing with such intensity. He looks and sounds killer here! 

Wow, the singer absolutely nails Axl’s vocals, and the guitarist nails Slash pretty well too. I say fuck off the current old Axl and get this guy on vocals

9 hours ago, EvanG said:

In a lot of countries Metallica scored top ten hits with Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman and the Black album sold millions of copies. If that's not mainstream, I don't know what is.

And both of those songs are still being played on commercial radio, at least where I live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_discography#Singles

They're a rock-pop band. They use distorted guitars with often catchy melodies.

How is this not a rock song?

 

Ok, I’ll admit, that sounds like a bit of a rock song. But fuck me, what a shit band. I still think they’re horrible, and a terrible example of what mainstream “rock” has turned into

11 hours ago, downzy said:

Other than maybe Enter Sandman, I don’t believe the Black album got much play with top 40 music stations. At least, nothing like what GNR experienced with SCOM and November Rain.  You can look up chart performances and see for yourself. It might have felt like they were mainstream way back when because that’s what we listened to, but I think we should be careful in projecting what we were listening to as something everyone was listening to.

And you’re being very arbitrary as to what constitutes as “rock.”  It seems to me that any band or act with a discography that isn’t anything but uptempo 4/4 blues-based songs shouldn’t be considered rock.   I think most people would consider that limited, but to each their own. 

The Black album is the biggest selling album of the soundscan era, with 5 hit singles. They’re about as mainstream rock as it gets.

And that was exactly my point, how does mainstream rock go from being the likes of Metallica and GN’R considered the heavyweights of rock, to the likes Coldplay...? 

Coldplay fans here, keep in mind, I’m sure that while they’re probably good at what they do, and I’ve been quite harsh in my dislike of them. I just don’t consider them rock. They’re a pop band, making pop music. 

1 minute ago, downzy said:

I don’t think I would consider Metallica “mainstream.”  They’ve had just one single reach the top ten in the US mainstream chart (Until It Sleeps).  They’ve done well in the rock charts, but I don’t consider an act to be considered mainstream unless they can cross over to audiences who listen to nothing but rock.

Most of GNR’s mainstream success came largely from their more lighter or pop-oriented songs. Sweet Child O’ Mine, Patience, November Rain drove a lot of their popularity, especially among the band’s female fanbase. There’s a lot more cross-over appeal to some of GNR’s catalogue that just isn’t present with Metallica’s.

I’ve got no problem with Coldplay, especially their first three or four albums. They’re first two albums are fantastic from a songwriting perspective. But you’re also talking to someone who loves Billy Joel and Neil Diamond.   

Coldplay isn’t a departure from some of the popular rock acts that came before them. Their sound is lighter, sure, but there are a ton of prior rock acts that achieved a lot of success with a softer sound (Supertramp, Air Supply, The Hollies, Elton John, Chicago, Tears For Fears). Many of whom came to be big influences on Axl and helped formed his musical style.  If you disagree then perhaps you can explain why GNR covered Wichita  Lineman for a year or two prior to things getting shut down. 

I’m a big fan of Billy Joel, and Metallica were huge with the Black album, long before Until it Sleeps was a hit. So yeah, I’d definitely call them mainstream rock for that era in the early 90’s. 
Billy Joel has always been considered pop music, even though you could argue that it is rock n roll.

And yes, Coldplay still sound like boring elevator music to my ears. More power to you for liking what they do, but calling them a “rock” band just because they play instruments, is a stretch.

That picture makes me happy for Slash, that he’s in a band that he actively gets to write, record, and RELEASE, new music with. For any creative artist, that has got to be very fulfilling for him, aside from that, um.... other... band he’s involved with...

4 hours ago, THELINESMAN said:

Does anyone know Gibbo? I hope he remakes his page again I loved it. Think it got taken down once before but he rebuilt it. 

Gibbo is one of my best mates here in Oz, and he’s just lost his interest in it after all the take downs and copyright claims.

For all the hard work and time he put in to it, only for it to be taken down, it’s just not worth it.