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#11 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 70 weeks ago
Guys Axl said it years ago, The blues or Street of dreams is about Dylan and it was the message he wanted him to read when he grew up, he lived with him and treated him like his son, those are memories of Axl who doesn't know if only They are that, memories of a past that only lives in him, there is the interest that Dylan as an adult would listen to it, as a reminder that he once played his father!, his father.
He hasn't said that or anything about a particular song being about Dylan. He only said that he hoped Dylan would listen to the album one day to hear the truth.
I interpret Prostitute as a "letter" to Dylan through which Axl talks about various things.
#12 Re: Guns N' Roses » AXL SUED FOR RAPE » 70 weeks ago
Was there ever an update about this case or the Fernando case since?
No sleuths checking/tracking documents/filings?
There has been no development in Axl's case, except that the lawsuit seems to have been served and it's likely that there will be some kind of response from Axl's side later this month.
There have been some developments in the Fernando case. Updates and court documents can be found here:
#13 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 79 weeks ago
Oh shit. So why did they wait so long to release it if they didn’t edit the mix?
The delay was because of the quality of the vinyl pressing, not the mix.
#14 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 79 weeks ago
Blackstar wrote:It's already out in New Zealand and Australia. Credits from youtube about who is playing on it and production/mixing (the "The General and Monsters" credits from SESAC were about who wrote it).
https://i.servimg.com/u/f97/20/05/33/00/the_ge12.jpg
Some surprises here. Brain's friend Marc "Mirv" Haggard (one of his two friends he co-wrote The General and Seven with) is on the track and they also kept Pitman on it.
But the biggest surprise is that Caram is that they kept Caram's mix, even though Perhaps was mixed by someone else (Joe Barresi). I suppose this is an old mix from 2-3 years ago, but I would expect that there would be at least some consistency for the two sides of the vinyl.
Very interesting. We hope that the mixes of the two tracks are good.
The mix of The General is exactly the same as the leak (so not good).
#15 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 79 weeks ago
It's already out in New Zealand and Australia. Credits from youtube about who is playing on it and production/mixing (the "The General and Monsters" credits from SESAC were about who wrote it).
Some surprises here. Brain's friend Marc "Mirv" Haggard (one of his two friends he co-wrote The General and Seven with) is on the track and they also kept Pitman on it.
But the biggest surprise is that Caram is that they kept Caram's mix, even though Perhaps was mixed by someone else (Joe Barresi). I suppose this is an old mix from 2-3 years ago, but I would expect that there would be at least some consistency for the two sides of the vinyl.
#16 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 79 weeks ago
Blackstar wrote:sp1at wrote:I'm just throwing that in there for discussion. Twas on the net.
Prior to all the lawsuit stuff, the latest from GN'R was all positive. There is new, the beginnings of new GN'R material that is not related to CD, there. There was also wording that some historic older material was possible. Slash is expecting this later next year. I asked though about his previous assertions that there was an album for all the post CD material that had been release, and there was no response. So, I don't know.
Interesting. What exactly is Slash expecting later next year? Them to start working on new material or a release of older material?
Or the "historic older material" is in relation to the new material they're supposed to start working on, e.g. it has to do with completing pre-NuGnR material from the mid-90s?
Slash said, they have new songs, and he's hoping for a GN'R album late next year, and they have also worked on older songs, no details on that. Separately, on another day maybe a month later, he was asked about his comments album releasing an album with the current songs, and that received no comment.
Thanks. Interesting. I guess the key word is "hoping".
#17 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 79 weeks ago
I'm just throwing that in there for discussion. Twas on the net.
Prior to all the lawsuit stuff, the latest from GN'R was all positive. There is new, the beginnings of new GN'R material that is not related to CD, there. There was also wording that some historic older material was possible. Slash is expecting this later next year. I asked though about his previous assertions that there was an album for all the post CD material that had been release, and there was no response. So, I don't know.
Interesting. What exactly is Slash expecting later next year? Them to start working on new material or a release of older material?
Or the "historic older material" is in relation to the new material they're supposed to start working on, e.g. it has to do with completing pre-NuGnR material from the mid-90s?
#18 Re: Guns N' Roses » AXL SUED FOR RAPE » 81 weeks ago
Statement from Axl's lawyer:
The rocker's attorney, Alan Gutman of Gutman Law, tells TMZ ... "Simply put, this incident never happened. Notably, these fictional claims were filed the day before the New York State filing deadline expires."
Gutman continues ... "Though he doesn’t deny the possibility of a fan photo taken in passing, Mr. Rose has no recollection of ever meeting or speaking to the Plaintiff, and has never heard about these again fictional allegations prior to today."
Finally, he finishes with this ... "Mr. Rose is confident this case will be resolved in his favor."
#19 Re: Guns N' Roses » AXL SUED FOR RAPE » 81 weeks ago
As far as i'm aware it's a civil case not a legal one. However Blackstar understands this legal stuff better than me. I think one thing that this could lead to is some expose style netflix thing or some sort of documentary though, you got a situation where a bands manager & now the lead singer are being accused of stuff, that probably leads to media looking back at other things people have largely forgotten. Adler spending time inside for battery, Slash's 1999 arrest that sort of thing.
Yes, it's a civil case (which means that she asks for financial compensation either from the court of through an out of court settlement).
She normally wouldn't have been able to sue because the statute of limitations (the time limit within which the law allows to file a civil suit - it's usually 5-10 years after the alleged incident took place). But the state of New York passed laws with which the statute of limitation has been temporarily abolished for a year so that victims of sexual assault that happened way back in the past could have the opportunity to file civil suits. The laws were supposedly passed with the victims of Prince Andrew and the Catholic Church in mind, however many celebrities have been also sued (including Bob Dylan for something that supposedly happened in 1965 - that case was eventually withdrawn and dismissed).
This same story didn't do much when it first made the rounds in the media in 2016 after Sheila Kennedy gave an interview to the Daily Mail promoting her book:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … sorry.html
It didn't do much when it was featured in the "Look Away" documentary a couple of years ago either (the Steven Tyler case that was also featured in it got way more public attention). Maybe it's because stories like that about Axl wouldn't catch anyone by surprise.
Now it's a lawsuit and it naturally will get more publicity than an article in the press. But I think what keeps it from being disastrous and leading to exposes etc. is that it's about something that happened almost 35 years ago and not something more recent (like in the case of Marilyn Manson) - and the public perception of Axl for that period has been negative anyway.
#20 Re: Guns N' Roses » KATARINA BENZOVA vs. GUNS N ROSES; GUNDAM TOURING SERVICES U.S. LLC,;G » 82 weeks ago
Blackstar wrote:I believe that the rumour about Fernando being the source of some of the leaks started from that interview he did with a Brazilian fan site in 2001, where he said that he was letting his friends listen to the songs:
Fernando: I've listened to the new record, and I can say that all the songs are beautiful, not even one track is filler. The record may have 16 or 17 songs and they're all very strong. I don't say this because I work for him, or because I'm his friend. My friends, for example, whenever they listen to any of the songs, they always say it’s very good. "Catcher in the Rye," "That's Called the Blues," "Chinese Democracy," they are all very beautiful.
https://www.a-4-d.com/t4766-2001-07-dd- … ndo-lebeisI haven't come across any further hints that support this rumour either in the 105-page pdf or elsewhere though.
I've also seen speculation that the leaks of later demos with Bumblefoot (Silkworms, OMG, Going Down) were sourced from Fernando's friends who he shared the files with, but I don't know about any evidence for that either.
This went went wayyyyy back to the first leaks in that hoarders had them for a while. Some of the big hoarders were from Brazil and when negotiations were being made it was said Fernando was the source. The *rumor* was that he was selling them, which I don’t believe
Were the hoarders Brazilian or Portuguese? Or maybe there was confusion about their nationality because of the common language?
