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Thanks for the laugh

Great point! Sorum at least had that Nigel Olsson/human metronome thing going for him as a pretty unique attribute, and he was as powerful as a galloping horse when he was in his prime. Frank is...a serviceable replacement. Nothing wrong with making a living doing that. Thousands do it. I sure wish I could!

Gotta love this joint. Two decades later, and the user base is still conjuring up fanciful, pie in the sky release strategies. "Monster of a tour". You guys crack me up! Does that sound like something Axl Rose has ever done? A social media post announcing a surprise release? If nothing else, I get a chuckle and a smile on my face to start the day. Could certainly be worse!

My biggest issue with Frank is that he's got a leaden kick drum foot. He's a powerful drummer, but, he's lumbering and straight-forward, not swinging nor groovy at ALL. Kinda like the difference between Bill Ward and Vinny Appice, if you're a Sabbath fan.

See, I'm trash at reading frequency graphs and the like. Did you run these in a program like Audacity and check the frequency cut-offs? They sure sounded lossy to me, too, which is why I said the 32-48 container they're in is BS. Edit: There we go. Thanks, Carlson. We put garbage in, we get garbage out.

What kind of eastern European Romani witchcraft is this? Quality-wise, these almost sound as though whoever leaked the songs first leaked them in 128kbps mp3 quality and has now re-ripped the same files in 320kbps. Higher quality leaks, yet, still not fully lossless, if you know what I mean. These files, on the surface, at least, happen to be delivered in the same 32-bit 48kHz container as the prior files, which tells me, gut feeling, that they've just been altered somehow. If these are actually from the officially released vinyl, I'll miraculously rise from my wheelchair and run across hot coals on video.

Already confirmation & pics on Reddit. Single has started to ship. It is what it is.

It's a bit of a joke, tbh. RHCP put two albums in one year out, and the Stones already have 50% of a follow-up finished. I think you have to want to have the passion for creating in the moment, constantly striving, always looking for the next great golden nugget of a song, knowing the best song you've ever written could be just around the corner.. 95% of the audience won't care about new material, but most musicians have to want to do it for themselves, if only out of a need to write & create. "We make records because we're a band and that's what we do" kind of thing, ya know? Guns just lack that fire. They don't need it. They're more like a Motley Crue, ironically, at this point. Put out a song for the purpose of a tour. It happens.

Nope...But they were registered together! LOL Best reunion song so far was never gonna be a "hidden surprise." What would the benefit have been in that, when they can milk out this Frankenstein necromancy for another few years? By the way, this means that they had vinyl quality control issues beyond putting too much music on one side...All of those "arguments" for naught! Extra LOL

Christ...They'll milk two further years of touring out of two more songs now...what a farce.

All the same, if we stuck to strictly facts, what a boring, bored board it would be! We'd have one thread for official news, one thread for a tour, and one thread for photos. To speculate is human nature...and 95% of the fun, imo! Think of all the kooky characters we've had in here over the past two decades. Some moan, whine, and complain about used car salesmen, grifters, BSers, hustlers, rumors & such, but, think of all f the entertainment they've provided.

Just read the topic heading. Too bad. Was hoping it was for a divorce from GN'R & that Brain was coming back LOL

Appreciate the homies

No one showed Daddy any love? Come on, y'all. Someone have a chat, please/

come up and say hi sometime..show daddy some love

This is pretty much where I'm at after SEVEN YEARS (???!!) after the core trio have re-united

These songs have been through the hands of almost two dozen musicians over two decades. They've been re-edited, re-chopped, and re-calibrated five-thousand times over, dubbed over countless times, all processed within an inch of their lives, and, that's just speaking about the handful of classics that made it out of this era, never mind the hundreds of CDs of half-written songs and half-baked ideas that are sitting on DAT tapes, Zip Drives, hard drives, and god knows whatever other medium that has existed since the mid-90s. They're all Frankenstein's creations, even the best ones!

Harmonic variations presented by vinyl playback can be more pleasing to the human ear, but, more pleasing is not the same thing as objectively better. The signal to noise ratio and dynamic range are both severely limited, with less low-end and rolled-off treble frequencies. Can an AAA all-analog pressing mastered directly "from the master" sound better? Of course! That's a difference in mastering, however. These days, most (though admittedly not all) vinyl is cut from the same master as the CD or hi-res download file.

Been saying it since Rio twenty years ago. Popcorn will always be prime, no doubt about it, but, technicality AND groove? Brain was untouchable.

That looks like a massive troll-job to me, as the amount of listed variations borders on parody, but, who knows? Hope we find out soon enough.

Song, singer, or both?

I get the need to put on a show, and, we've been saying it for two decades now, but, Uncle Ax really needs to think about not running around anymore and focus on controlling his breathing...brothaman out here huffing and puffing, half singing words that get cut off because he's inhaling so much. Sounds like a GNR tape played through a Hoover vacuum

Yep, but Elfman is in infinitely better shape lol Watched the Coachella stream when he played. That guy is JACKED...holy cow!

I fully believe CD 2 was ready to go in 2011-2012, but, Irving Azoff took that management role knowing full well his ultimate aim was an Appetite-era reunion.

The limp-dicked way they've been going about these drip-fed releases is the only way it works for all involved parties. Release these decades old, warmed-over leftovers in a collection on one disc and it suddenly and somewhat unfairly becomes "the comeback album", with all the requisite attention and promotional requirements. The way they're going about things is clearly the level at which Axl is comfortable operating.