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#111 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 382 weeks ago
apex-twin wrote:gives them some leeway should they desire to release something new. Next year.
I believe this sentence, in different forms, has been repeated at least since 2009.
Sorry but I just don't believe anymore that anytime soon (as in at least next year) something new FOR REAL (unheard, current recording with current lineup) will happen.
Oh, I'm hardly holding my breath.
However, there's one thing: Slash. Post-CD, Guns have struggled to make it through the fallout. The financial crisis hit soon after the BestBuy deal was done. Axl responded by publicly slamming his record label. The Vegas band resorted to playing in weddings at the French Riviera and for Russian oligarchs.
Strangely, injecting Slash made Guns the band they were already supposed to be at that point in time. Touring stadiums to play their classics. Only they omitted some 20 years' worth of back catalog. Axl may have won out on the band name, but he lost the output wars to what must've been a huge emotional toll. Putting his art up for scrutinizing is something he's always been wary of doing, and the baggage of CD likely made everything more difficult there.
The AFD box is logical, as it's the best thing Axl's offering right now. It does promote the NITL lineup aptly and brings the brand home to its strongest point. Call it a cashgrab, and you're right. In a few years, UYI may get the same treatment. "They just keep going..."
Fernando was just at MyGNR bragging about having a NEW single on the charts. That would be Shadow Of Your Love, first heard in 1988 on the Japanese EP with AFD. That's not the kinda of new I want.
Would a song written 20 years ago be the your kind of new?
#112 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 382 weeks ago
The AFD box is their best bet at the moment. The last release was AFDem, with the Vegas band. This is a step up.
The NITL band now has a product to their name, with minimum effort and an assured reception. That's another thing.
It quarantees nothing, but also, gives them some leeway should they desire to release something new. Next year.
#113 Re: Guns N' Roses » American Dad! » 383 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=CKtAS5GfhYc
Axl's always been a tad feminine. Just look at those glam rock photos from the 80's.
Then again, in 2006, no-one dared to call him out as a hideous woman.
#114 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 384 weeks ago
So...... we're all pretending One In A Million never happened, eh?
Yes, but this goes back more than the recent social media moral outraging. To late '99, in fact.
Rather than simply create a work that's negative and vengeful, though, Rose seems anxious to make something ''positive.'' Along these lines, he recently decided to remove the two most controversial GnR tracks, ''One In A Million,'' from 1989's GNR Lies - with it's lyrics disparaging ''faggots,'' ''immigrants'' and ''niggers'' - and the cover of Charles Manson's ''Look at Your Game Girl,'' which ends 1993's The Spaghetti Incident?. While he's always been reluctant to explain or justify his art, Rose has come to believe that ''they're too easily misinterpreted.'' Starting in February, the tracks will be deleted from future pressings.
One in a Million is one of Axl’s greatest Vocal and one of the best over all Guns songs ever.
To see it buried is a shame.
#115 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 384 weeks ago
I doubt they did much with YCBM. Remember, Don't Cry was also around in the Appetite era.
No Cornchucker, even for those with the box to match.
#116 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 384 weeks ago
The gem I really want is the 24-minute November Rain that James alluded to. Back in the day, Axl said he was going to quit the business if November Rain wasn't recorded correctly.
That's a doozy. Didn't find the actual quote, but Mick Wall asked about it in 1990.
Kerrang: This song, ‘November Rain’, I read somewhere that you said if it wasn’t recorded to your complete satisfaction you would quit the music business....
Axl : That was then. At that time it was the most important song to me.
Kerrang : Were you serious, though, when you said you’d quit the music business if it wasn’t done right?
Axl : Yeah! That’s the fuckin’ truth, allright. But the worst part of it is, like, if you wanna look at it in a negative way, I’ve got four of these motherfuckers now, man ! I don’t know how I wrote these, but I like ‘em better than ‘November rain’! And I’m gonna crush that motherfuckin’ song, man ! But now I’ve got four of ‘em I gotta do, and they’re all big songs. We play them and we get chills. It started when I came in one day with this heavy piano part, it’s like real big, and it fits this bluesy gospel thing that was supposed to be a blues-rocker like ‘Buy me a Chevrolet’ by Foghat or something. Now it’s turned into this thing, like, ‘Take another piece of my heart’ by Janis Joplin or something....
#117 Re: Guns N' Roses » Eagles may predict the future? » 384 weeks ago
GNR since Axl got control is the story of half baked ideas that never quite happen as they should.
This.
When you lack internal plans and schedules, you're just reactionary towards anything that gets thrown your way. Take RIR3 in 2001. There was no album ready - Bucket and Brain were in the mix writing new songs. An offer was sent, big money coming in. Axl took it up and paraded his colorful posse in an admittedly energetic show.
There are always offers for a band like Guns. But their own situation has been so tangled-up that it has been impossible to consolidate any of the success that has come from these off-shoots.
#118 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 384 weeks ago
CA: A lot of fans were hoping for a 25th anniversary re-issue of Appetite - was that ever on the cards?
Axl: I wouldn't mind re-mastering it sometime.
CA: Is there anything left in the vaults from the Appetite sessions that could see the light of day?
Axl: Not that I'm aware of but it's worth a look. There aren't any new or different songs but maybe a couple versions of things that we felt didn't quite make the grade, although most of that made it out as bootlegs back in the day.
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Here's the whole of the track listing, taken from the big box.
CD 1 – APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION: REMASTERED
Welcome To The Jungle
It's So Easy
Nightrain
Out Ta Get Me
Mr. Brownstone
Paradise City
My Michelle
Think About You
Sweet Child O' Mine
You're Crazy
Anything Goes
Rocket Queen
Produced by Mike Clink
Mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero
CD 2 – B-SIDES N’ EPS: REMASTERED
Reckless Life
Nice Boys
Move To The City (Live)
Mama Kin
Shadow Of Your Love (Live)
You’re Crazy (Acoustic Version)
Patience
Used To Love Her
You’re Crazy
It’s So Easy (Live)
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Live)
Whole Lotta Rosie (Live)
CD 3 – 1986 SOUND CITY SESSION
All Previously Unreleased
Welcome To The Jungle (1986 Sound City Session)
Nightrain (1986 Sound City Session)
Out Ta Get Me (1986 Sound City Session)
Paradise City (1986 Sound City Session)
My Michelle (1986 Sound City Session)
Think About You (1986 Sound City Session)
You’re Crazy (1986 Sound City Session)
Anything Goes (1986 Sound City Session)
Rocket Queen (1986 Sound City Session)
Shadow Of Your Love (1986 Sound City Session)
Heartbreak Hotel (1986 Sound City Session)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (1986 Sound City Session)
CD 4 – 1986 SOUND CITY SESSION N’ MORE
All Previously Unreleased
Shadow Of Your Love
Move To The City (1986 Sound City Session)
Ain’t Goin’ Down No More (Instrumental Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
The Plague (1986 Sound City Session)
Nice Boys (1986 Sound City Session)
Back Off Bitch (1986 Sound City Session)
Reckless Life (1986 Sound City Session)
Mama Kin (1986 Sound City Session)
New Work Tune (1986 Sound City Session)
November Rain (Piano Version – 1986 Sound City Session))
Move To The City (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
You’re Crazy (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
November Rain (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Acoustic Version – 1986 Sound City Session)
Move To The City (1988 Acoustic Version)
DISC 5 – BLU-RAY AUDIO
96kHz 24-bit 5.1 Surround Sound & Remastered Stereo
5.1 Surround Sound mixed by *Elliot Scheiner and **Frank Filipetti
All Previously Unreleased
APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION*
Welcome To The Jungle
It's So Easy
Nightrain
Out Ta Get Me
Mr. Brownstone
Paradise City
My Michelle
Think About You
Sweet Child O' Mine
You're Crazy
Anything Goes
Rocket Queen
Produced by Mike Clink
Stereo mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero
BONUS TRACKS
Shadow Of Your Love**
Patience*
Used To Love Her**
You’re Crazy**
Move To The City (1988 Acoustic Version)**
MUSIC VIDEOS*
Welcome To The Jungle
Sweet Child O’Mine
Paradise City
Patience
It’s So Easy – BRAND NEW VIDEO FROM 1989
#119 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perfect Crime » 385 weeks ago
Male 3: 54 years old. Extreme alcoholic, almost died of pancreatic poisoning due to alcohol abuse. Suffers from anxiety disorder. Admits to having relapse episodes abusing prescription medication at times within the past 10-12 years.
To be fair, Male 3 stopped drinking at around 30 due to the said pancreas and has since led a healthy lifestyle. He's a fit fella, certainly the most insurable.
#120 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 385 weeks ago
Destruction has been coming (and going) since RIR3.
Appetite for pin money.
