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#161 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 384 weeks ago
GnR web radio is my guess
i wonder what that would look like.
pay a subscription fee every month for access to streams that occasionally play unreleased, rare, and maybe even new stuff? starting with a remastered appetite for destruction and maybe some touched up demos?
or is this just a dumb social media gimmick that plays the same shit that's on spotify?
or maybe it's all just a platform for a remastered afd?
in any case, gnr fans made it very clear over the past 2 years that we are willing to spend money on this band. a record label would naturally want to profit off of that. if we aren't getting a record anytime soon, maybe this is a way to bridge the gap, keep a buzz going and get some additional revenue in for the label?
this would be an AMAZING step forward for the band if this became a way of sharing music with the fans.
if they put atlas shrugged on gnr.fm for a $2 mp3 download, it would bring in a million dollars within a month.
axl and duff had dinner the other night with beta. dinner seems to be axl's favorite way to do business. perhaps they were breaking bread and discussing the future of this new venture together? at some point, the people involved here have to wake up and realize that they have way too much material to keep it all buried, so to speak.
let a man dream!
#162 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 385 weeks ago
if this is in fact an afd re-release, the support of the record label is a very good sign for things to come.
#163 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR.FM | Destruction Is Coming » 385 weeks ago
afd deluxe edition boxset?!
remaster of the original record?!
a show with the original 5?!
flash sale of $35 afd sweaters and socks?!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
#164 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General (Rumors & Discussion) » 385 weeks ago
dalethirsty wrote:we know the general was consider an a-lister. we also know the general is a brain song. where's there's brain, there's bucket. there's a safe bet that it had a hell of a solo from bucket on there, too.
The interesting thing to me is the time it's from. It's likely to be an elusive effort by the 2001-2002 band.
Sorry and Shackler's are strong efforts. Axl and the fans were certainly taken with the latter. They benefit from Bucket's melodic songwriting and are far less patchwork more whole cloth.
I can easily see a record with Shacklers, Sorry, The General, and probably the others. They have that tonal consistency.
i bet axl has a 10 terabyte hardrive in his mansion full of nothing but bucket & brain songs.
those 2 fellas have unparalleled chemistry, inspire the shit out of each other and are naturally prolific.
they probably wrote entire albums just waiting for axl to show up to the studio.
#165 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General (Rumors & Discussion) » 385 weeks ago
really curious to how the concert intro piece we've heard fits into the actual song. some great work from beltrami there. really weird that he did (expensive) orchestration on this, thyme and seven... and we've never heard anything and maybe never will.
we know the general was consider an a-lister. we also know the general is a brain song. where's there's brain, there's bucket. there's a safe bet that it had a hell of a solo from bucket on there, too.
the quotes from baz are very interesting. i wonder if the first melody in the concert intro is actually part of the general's main riff? it fits the description.
"One of my favorite songs is this song called 'The General', which is so... it's by far the heaviest metal tune I think ive ever heard Axl do, this slow, grinding riff with these high, piercing vocals, screaming vocals. [...] [Axl] goes, 'Well, this comes out on the third record. It relates to this song, it's a trilogy, this goes with this lyrically.'" (Baz, Metal Edge, 11/06/07)
"[Bach] says Rose told him that a slow, grinding track called 'The General' is 'the sequel to [Use Your Illusion II's] 'Estranged,' that goes to the parable that Del James wrote of the trilogy' (James penned the short story that inspired the 'November Rain' video)." (Rolling Stone, 06/25/08)
brain was on the appetite for distortion podcast recently, but i don't think they asked him anything about this.
someone should get him to play the drum parts from the general. that'd be dope to hear.
#166 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perfect Crime » 386 weeks ago
i wanna hear "you ain't the first" again more than anything. might actually sound really good if duff and melissa can pull of the harmonies with axl.
it'd be so badass for this version of the band to do a live acoustic set, even if it's just for a few songs.
on the subject of perfect crime -- amazing song with unreal energy. those live versions from '91 were insane, especially the indiana show.
that song would probably kill axl in 2018/19, unless he approached it with his axl/dc vocals & energy.
#167 Re: Guns N' Roses » Fall Out Boy: Guns N' Roses Should Record Their New Album With Skrille » 387 weeks ago
pretty wacky article, but i do agree with pete's quote at the end of the article.
on a side note, i wonder what type of music axl is jamming to these days?
#168 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Robin Finck video interview » 388 weeks ago
i'd love to see robin embark on a weird as fuck john frusciante-like solo career.
#169 Re: Guns N' Roses » I am selling most of my Guns N' Roses stuff » 388 weeks ago
the live era lp is the only thing i don't have in my gn'r vinyl collection. it's just way too much money for a record i'd never listen to. such a strange "live" album. not sure how it's possible to fuck up a live recording of one of the best live bands of all time, but gn'r will always find a way to make chicken shit out of chicken salad.
those chinese democracy '02 tour shirts would be dope to have.
#170 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
by '95, grunge was dead.
if guns brought thyeir kick-ass energy back with a huge rock n' roll album, it may have actually went over really well. after years of listening to kurt, layne and scott whine through the whole woe is me routine, a bunch of songs about drinkin' beer and kickin' ass could have been a refreshing change of pace. like stone cold steve austin coming out at the end of a shitty monday night raw to raise some more goddamn hell!
with the stripped-down skin n' bones tour, it seems the band may have already been heading in a "back to basics" direction anyway. axl got his yayas out on the illusions, with the massive ballads and theatrical stage shows. maybe he wanted to get back to that classic aerosmith vibe that united the band in the first place. years later, he warmly reminisced on the stuff slash was putting together at the time, calling it modern day versions of some of aerosmith's best stuff.
five o' clock somewhere wasn't good enough to be the new guns album... by itself. take the best songs, throw in some izzy tunes and put axl's melodies, lyrics, ideas and own songs on top, and ya got yourself a winner.
but honestly, i think guns n roses could have released anything in the mid to late 90s and it would have been massively successful. they were still massive at the time, and even had some nice mystery going about them. everyone in the world wanted to know what was going on with guns n' roses.
