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  1. It's up to 1.4 million views in 6 days now. He even has Rick Beato as the top comment posted as he called it "killer".

    I am genuinely surprised at how many views it has gotten as it's not like he spent months pounding the pavement about the project or single release date. It all seemed to happen kind of fast frankly, so to see such a big/strong reaction so fast suggests people are spreading the word to check it out.

    It's kind of cool people still care like they do, and that a cover of a 60 year old song by Grandpa aged rock n rollers still gets people excited.

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  2. 1 hour ago, Arnuld said:

    Could not agree more. The guitar playing on Monsters (especially the 2nd half) is very reminiscent of Slash’s best work with VR. I wish Slash had been more open to adding some modernity to GNR back in the 90s. I thought all the loops, drum machines, and synths on CD were really cool and made the sound overall very unique on that album. It’s a shame so much time was wasted but I’m so glad we are getting this now. As always I hope there is more to come. Dying to hear what Slash does with Atlas. 

    Axl was trend chasing at that time, not modernizing the GNR sound. 

    I am happy Slash wouldn't go down that road.

    Sadly Axl never had the maturity to realize that the rest of the world in famous bands who want to do something different just start a solo project and release music that way. Then you reconvene a few years later and release a GNR album that sounds like the GNR people want to hear. 

    The poor guy just seemed to stop being able to see the big picture on seemingly anything at about the same time a parasitic Brazillian  family entered his life.  Funny how things have been half assed ever since.

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  3. 48 minutes ago, Tom2112 said:

     if anything they actively worked against it for years. I don't think they can take credit for the reunion or its success

     

    Yup. It was financially beneficial for them to leverage their relationship with Axl into letting them do jobs they had no business doing. They always knew that with a many hundred million dollar reunion would come professional management and their little fiefdom would go poof.

    For a while they were in a perfect sweet spot with New GNR where they were able to do their grifting and no one said anything about it. 

    Clearly the money dried up and supporting a Brazillion family ain't cheap so Axl did what he had to do.

    The way they isolated him and leveraged his personal feelings for them into lucrative financial gain for themselves will always be one of the more disgusting realities of the GNR ship having sunk.

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  4. If this band was writing and releasing new material Slash's interest level in all things GNR would be orders of magnitude higher.

    The fact that alimony and Brazilian families are expensive to maintain are about the only reason GNR is touring anyway, so I take whatever we can get because as a creative entity this band is dead as a door knob right now and have been going through the motions for years now.

    I vacillate between being happy Slash is content to join Axl in this lifeless endeavor and other days wishing he would just wash his hands of it and realize he is better than re-recording and in any ways contributing to crap like Silkworms.

    Getting worked up about his refusal to properly learn the Chinese stuff is lowest on the totem poll of issues I have with GNR at this stage in the game.

  5. 35 minutes ago, Subtle Signs said:

    Looks like this will be released in June as a Record Store Day exclusive 2xLP

     

    This is wonderful news. Still a shame the mixing was so bad on the official album, but I like seeing a band be responsive to the fan base in giving the live show a proper release in light of the disappointment for how the album mixing turned out.

    The live stream show will have saved this album cycle for the band

  6. 12 hours ago, ShadowOfTheWave said:

     

    I'm not one to criticize Axl for not writing new music because I think he suffers from writers block and is too personal a lyricist to write songs when he doesn't have anything to say. But imagine a world in which stuff like C'est la vie, Spirit World, Whatever Gets You By & Fall Back To Earth are GNR tracks

    Thank God we have Myles so that we can hear those tracks. I love Axl, but he hasn't had an original idea lyrically that didn't involve getting dumped by someone (Slash/Stephanie/basically everyone outside of team Brazil) in almost 30 years now.

    Imagining Slash tracks as GNR tracks posits a world that doesn't exist because Axl is spent as a creative force.

    I didn't want to believe that, but that we are now into year 6 of the reunion and they are fussing with 25 year old songs tells me all I need to know about Axl creatively.

    If ever he would have had a burst creatively to move forward it would have been when the band re-united when the energy was new and fresh again. It was like being able to boink your first love again after decades apart. Sadly though instead of seizing the day Axl friend-zoned the rest of a willing band to instead sit by himself in the corner with his dick in his hand watching a sex tape from 30 years ago instead of making an updated version when given the chance.

    I don't love every song Slash/Myles do, but if I built an album out of all 4 I would be quite pleased with it.

    The upside to releasing more than 1 album of new material every 30 years is that you can afford for stinkers and filler as no band hits on everything, but over time the quantity of continued releases fills int he gaps.

    Axl essentially quit after what was a meteoric 5 year run, so we don't hold him to the standard everyone else is because they kept releasing music regularly during that period.

    I promise if Axl had released 9-10 albums in the past 20 years like Slash or Myles you would find Axl dealing with the same issues of seeming uninspired or spent because with enough material you are bound to start repeating yourself or feeling like it all blends together.

    I will always love peak Axl and GNR of that period, but frankly I am not sure Myles/Slash have done anything approaching being as uninspired as having Slash re-record decades old CD material. Frankly I consider it a black mark on Slash's resume that he is even allowing himself to partake in such a creatively bankrupt process, but I know divorce is expensive and that alimony payment he makes every year doesn't pay for itself.

    That Axl is satisfied with this being the legacy of a once great band tells us all we need to know about where he is creatively and just how far his standards have fallen that it is in any way acceptable to him.

     

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  7. 5 hours ago, Free Bird said:

     

    You haven't understand GNR if you think the most important thing to be as the lead guitarist for GNR is to be technically the most  skilled player.

    If the most important characteristic of being the lead guitarist is "technical skill" Slash should be his own accounts be playing rhythm in his own band. There are probably no more than a handful of guitarists on this planet that wouldn't trade their left nut to trade the techincal ability you can learn for the intangible crap Slash does as a player that you can't teach.

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    The guitar icon explained, "Myles teaches me stuff. Technically he's much more proficient than I am. He knows way more about all that stuff. There's been a few times where he's shown me licks, runs, arpeggios or scales and I'm like, 'What was that?'"

    This was from an interview Slash did with Classic Rock in 2014.

    Anyone frustrated about or wondering why Slash keeps bothering with Myles should entertain that he might generally just like the guy. They both love guitar, seem to in many ways have similar personality traits, share a love of working their asses off and seemingly enjoy making music together because at this point neither guy "needs" this.

    While I may not love everything SMKC do I can respect the hell out of the fact he is letting this band stand on its own material at this point instead of playing a Guns tribute every night with a few Slash songs thrown in. That would be quite easy given his station in life and the career he's had.

    Guns is paying all the bills, but I promise he likely gets tremendous satisfaction personally out of the work he is doing with this band and what it has become considering what it started as.

    Slash sees Myles like basically the rest of the rock n roll community outside of the GNR forums (which have deep seated misdirected anger at him because it is easier than focusing it on where it belongs) as the supremely talented vocalist he is. The fact he also happens to be an ace guitar player (which Slash no doubt respects/loves even though he really only sings in this band), is easy to work with and personable to be around tells you all you need to know about why Slash has basically committed to him for life.

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  8. 11 minutes ago, Free Bird said:

    Tbh the show helped me a lot get into the new songs. First I was very skeptical about them but the show was a lot of fun.

    I think I'd love the record if it was well produced. 

    How great would be the solo of The Path Less Followed if it was mixed properly for example.

     

    The show saved the album as far as I'm concerned. I am baffled quite frankly that any of them involved didn't listen to both and have an alarm bell set off about how much the production held the album back compared to listening to the same record with that live show version.

    It's maddening it happened, but I guess the upside is that these guys natural tendency not to do the bare minimum has rewarded them because if you don't like the album version at least fans have this option now which will keep some fans more interested than they otherwise might be otherwise.

    I actually loved this concept of playing the whole album all the way through and a few of the classics to close out.

    Roughly an hour live show for this format was perfect and easily digested. I hope this becomes something Slash tries to do going forward with his releases as it very much enhanced the final product. That was a slick production and is a total testament to the idea of sometimes less is more.

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  9. 41 minutes ago, RichardNixon said:

    I get fans not liking "Absurd," but "Hardskool" is pretty great, on par with a lot of the UYI rockers, i.e., "Perfect Crime." 

    When you've been away this long, if you're are going to release something it should be the best song you have out of the gate.  If the best this band can attain is "filler rocker" level from the Illusions era I would prefer they just remain a touring outfit that doesn't release music as opposed to sullying the brand.

    When they released the first single off their long awaited follow-up to Appetite YCBM was exactly the type of kick ass sound/vibe people expected, and quickly confirmed that they were going to be different from the one album wonders that often occurred at the time.

    If Axl were interested/motivated there are any number of Slash songs that could have been the basis of a classic sounding GNR. It tells me that the only thing holding the process back as usual would be the red head.

    If he cared, they could easily put out a level of quality beyond the retreads we have gotten so far. He just can't be bothered apparently.

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  10. 11 minutes ago, Zeppelin said:

    Fair enough. But let's say Oh My God was released to showcase a new band. Why can't the same be said here? If anything, Absurd and HS should've both been pushed as hard as possible, touting the semi-reunion lineup as being back and all that fluff. The songs passed like farts in the wind. There's no momentum from them now, when there could've easily been something to follow. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'd honestly love to be wrong and somehow be shocked by the presence of a new album. But I really feel that not capitalizing on releasing the two new songs was a colossal oversight. Which, as a result, makes me think there's just nothing else there.

    As for the people talking about new music, it's the same story we've heard for years. Anyone outside of the actual band members has next to no idea what's being worked on, or what's going on within the band's dynamic. Hell, even some of the band members don't know. Fortus could come out with an interview tomorrow and say, "Well, things are 99% ready." We all know where that would go. We've been down that road before. The fact is, that no one outside of the main group (Axl) has any clue what's going on. We just have to cling onto these scraps because we have nothing else. The songs presented some optimism, for sure. But now they're just scraps as well. So, unless this is the poorest album rollout ever, I don't see any of this as critical evidence of a release at all.

    Like I said, I hope I'm wrong. I don't see how timing is any issue here. I'm not in the business, though, so I have no clue. I just think it's odd to release two new songs, have next to no follow-up, and then see people thinking that they're sitting on a full album of material, leftovers or not. If they do have a full album, I'd love to hear it. But the evidence just isn't there for me at this point.

    HS and Absurd are no where near the level quality wise the public would expect from a comeback single from a re-united GNR. Frankly I am happy they have largely ignored them.

    It's been 30 years since Axl/Slash have released a song of new material together, and if and when they do it better be a hell of a lot higher quality than what we have heard so far.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Voodoochild said:

    I think Slash's best ballad is Back to the Moment. 

    Got me to thinking about my favorite Slash ballad, and I still come back to his guitar playing on Elan's Street Child. Guy lays down his most epic non-GNR solo on a little known independent artist's track. Goes to show I guess he never mails it in. I always thought to myself that Axl would have given his left nut to build a song around this kind of solo during the period Slash was gone.

    To anyone unfamiliar with the song, here is 2:40 of pure Slash awesomeness.

     

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  12. 34 minutes ago, Ralphelmo said:

     

    I can't hear any new pedal in that song. Plus you should give the credit to the guy who's been with Slash in the band for 12 years, not Richard.

    I think I have read both Slash and Tremonti over the years say Myles is a better guitar player than they are, he just doesn't put it out there for all to see. I have no doubt Myles and Slash have talked shop when it comes to guitars, and it is probably part of what led to them getting on as well as they do.

    At heart Myles is a big guitar nerd who just happens to have a killer voice so he sings.

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  13. 37 minutes ago, Free Bird said:

    Because we wanna hear it before somebody leaks it in a few years.

    Here I thought you might take the angle that in GNR all future releases must be a minimum of 15-20 years old while requiring extensive cutting and pasting to cobble together.

    A true GNR fan in 2021 should know that Slash's approach of recording fresh ideas with the members of his current band has no place in today's music industry.

  14. I kind of hate that they are releasing the substandard crap like they have been instead of a true comeback single that sounds like the GNR people expect to hear.

    You never get a second chance to make a first impression, and this approach makes it seem like this is the best stuff they have.

    I can't believe after waiting so long how indifferent I am to this, but the cut and paste stuff just isn't working for me.

    I wish Axl would move on and stop trying to put lipstick on the pig that was the Nu-GNR era by continuing to force this crap instead of just recording some new songs from scratch. It is the only reason we have to put up with Frank and the rest of the holdovers from that era. Axl is still trying to convince himself he didn't waste 20+ of the prime years of his career on that, so he keeps refusing to just move on from it as if one day he will get a gold star and validation that it was all worth it.

    This half ass approach just kind of sucks and takes the fun out of what would otherwise be a wildly exciting time getting new music.

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  15. 4 minutes ago, fantomas said:

    Great. Now we have a studio cut of Silkworms. This song is utter shite. Absolute fucking embarrassment. Slash should be ashamed of himself for even wanting to be close to this. Casual fans are going to crucify them for this and rightly so. 

    I am frankly embarrassed for Slash, and it crushes me to say that as I love the guy.

    I know divorce and alimony are expensive, but he is fucking better than this.

    The first true comeback studio song is fucking Silkworms? That he even entertained playing on that piece of shit makes me sad, but that he willingly recorded it in a studio and released it to the public is a black mark on his legacy.

    God forbid they release a banger of a studio song to announce they are back to the world.

    No, we get fucking Silkworms.

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  16. It just blows my freaking mind that 5 years into the reunion the level of despair among the fan base and band itself has reached a point that a reworked Silkworms was deemed something worthy of wasting any time on.

    Think of what they accomplished in a 5 year period between 86-91 when it comes to quality original material.

    We have fallen so far now that reworking Silkworms is a thing they thought the public needed to hear.

    God help us all.

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  17. 1 hour ago, jacdaniel said:

    If Absurd and Hardschool is the best they got, maybe we don’t need new music… :lol:

    The fact Axl thought it was worth dusting off Silkworms and putting even one second of energy into it tells me how far gone he is at this point as a creative entity.

    He's got nothing, and thinks that Slash reworking songs from 20 years ago will some how validate what a colossal waste of time that 20 year period of his life was.

    He should be freaking embarrassed that song ever existed in the first place. Yet his view of the world is so distorted at this point he not only isn't embarrassed, but commissioned the band to play around with the song and try to do something with it.

    People with a vault of golden material don't allow time to be wasted on excrement like Silkworms.

    He might as well put up a billboard with his face on it letting the world know he doesn't have crap, so we will be forced to listen to his by way of songs like Silkworms.

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