Silent Jay Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 The song still needs some work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Coma Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I've just received an encrypted legit insider email with a link to the song. It's glorious. It's about how no one is going to take Axl down, and how hard he has tried while everyone else has betrayed him. The guitar solo is about as badass as they come; I'm sure it's Bucket. Axl also does a voice I've never heard him do before. I can't wait to hear it again!lol if it ever gets released or leaked I'm pretty sure your description will be spot on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LandOla Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I don't know if this is part of the General or what but it has to be a proper song, can't be just a jam: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 (edited) I've heard it's complex as fuck.So it's even more overproduced than the rest of CD? According to MSL the vocals are the meanest and most heavy vocals we've heard from axl.Who is MSL?lolmsl Edited August 2, 2015 by username Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RnT Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 what about start leaking some new songs/demo hun? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BangoSkank Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 There was also a composer whose name escapes me that said in an interview that he had done orchestral arrangements on it and named the song specifically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnrjanus Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Wasn't that Marco Beltrami. Did work on "presumed". Seven, thyme, there was a time, this I Love. And perhaps more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Sad that 17 year old songs are still sitting in Axl's music vault. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumblefeet Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Wasn't that Marco Beltrami. Did work on "presumed". Seven, thyme, there was a time, this I Love. And perhaps more.Yes. I really like his additions on CD and him having worked on some of the unreleased songs makes me hopeful they are as ambitious as those that made CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Is this it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Jay Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Is this it? YES 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Estranged Coma Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 Is this it?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ihpCWS0l0 YESSounds like the rasp is back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) To me Riad n the Bedouins is the sequel to Estranged and doesnt sound unlike The General description and was written by Tommy The General Stinson. Mmmm this is one for Hong Kong Phooey. Edited August 3, 2015 by wasted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadSlash Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 what was said? "you may have heard bits of it somewhere"Starting as far back as 1999, Axl Rose told MTV that the new band had enough work to compose a double album and then in 2008, said that Guns N Roses had 32 songs they were working on. The General was one of many working album titles that Rose proposed but it was revealed by Rose's close friend Sebastian Bach that The General was originally intended to be the follow-up to the 1991 ballad "Estranged" and that it "had a heavy sound with screaming vocals." Chinese Democracy was released around this same time as the first in a trilogy of albums with the next slated for this year. http://www.complex.com/music/2012/08/50-unreleased-albums-that-wed-kill-to-hear/guns-n-roses-the-generalI remember hearing that Sorry was "Doom Metal" and the heaviest thing GnR had done. Sorry was a great song, but it was overhyped. I wonder if the overhype is why Axl is holding it back? It can't live up to the hype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulMonster Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 There was also a composer whose name escapes me that said in an interview that he had done orchestral arrangements on it and named the song specifically.[GNR] was sort of just work for hire. [...] I met with Axl and he played me these songs, asked me my ideas about them, and I told him what I thought they needed. They gave me four songs to orchestrate. [...]There was [...] one called 'The General,' (Marco Beltrami, IGN, July 2003). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lies They Tell Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 what was said? "you may have heard bits of it somewhere"Starting as far back as 1999, Axl Rose told MTV that the new band had enough work to compose a double album and then in 2008, said that Guns N Roses had 32 songs they were working on. The General was one of many working album titles that Rose proposed but it was revealed by Rose's close friend Sebastian Bach that The General was originally intended to be the follow-up to the 1991 ballad "Estranged" and that it "had a heavy sound with screaming vocals." Chinese Democracy was released around this same time as the first in a trilogy of albums with the next slated for this year. http://www.complex.com/music/2012/08/50-unreleased-albums-that-wed-kill-to-hear/guns-n-roses-the-generalI remember hearing that Sorry was "Doom Metal" and the heaviest thing GnR had done. Sorry was a great song, but it was overhyped. I wonder if the overhype is why Axl is holding it back? It can't live up to the hype.Sebastian Bach said that Sorry sounded almost like doom metal which is not that much of stretch. People just read too much into it. And Axl said that This I Love was lyrically the heaviest song he had ever done. It doesn't mean that the song is anything like heavy metal. But it's emotionally heavy for Axl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I can tell you two things about the supposed song titled "The General":1- Nobody on this forum has ever heard it.2- It's never gonna be released -at least as long as Axl's alive.That's all you need to know about it, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I can tell you two things about the supposed song titled "The General":1- Nobody on this forum has ever heard it.2- It's never gonna be released -at least as long as Axl's alive.That's all you need to know about it, really.We dont actually know though do we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I can tell you two things about the supposed song titled "The General":1- Nobody on this forum has ever heard it.2- It's never gonna be released -at least as long as Axl's alive.That's all you need to know about it, really.We dont actually know though do we?No we don't. Or do we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 I don't anyway. It's possible and as Axl gets older it becomes more likely that that situation will arise. That fact they just lost two guitarists and Axl has disappeared definitely supports this scenario. Can he actually go all out to support another record on tour? If you answer is no then go to 1. If your answer is yes go to 2. 1. Over my dead body.2. See you in 2020. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amacfantasy Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Going all the way back to the dark ages of NuGNR "The General" is probably the unreleased song I have been most hyped about hearing some of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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