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#2411 Re: Guns N' Roses » What your friends, family and co-workers have to say about CD.... » 937 weeks ago
I showed the title track to one of my co-workers, who is a GN'R fan, but wasn't around in the hey days, she's only 24. She was interested when the track began but after like one and a half minutes she asked if anything will happen in the song. I asked her to listen the whole, since one of the guitar solos is pretty good. After listening it, she said the song is good, but nothing special
I told my brother who is a big old GN'R fan and heard only a few of the leaks (he hates VR with passion) that the album is out. He's a musician so I was really curious what he thinks.
He got CD and said the title track is great and energic, but he was quite disappointed hearing Shackler. Better was OK for him, but hated The Blues (excpet the solo), cause he found Axl's vocals the worst ever (I second that, it sounds like a bad demo take). If The World reminded him to some porn music and he absolutely hated it, but got excited hearing the final TWAT he knew and liked. He said 'those solos are fabulous'. Dani (that's his name) told me that when he heard CITR, he was about to either skip it or stop listening the album. He was strong, lol, so he made it through to Scraped, which he described as an 'interesting track', but after Riadh he gave up, cause got tired of the album.
He thinks that the songs are unfinished, which some monsters here and there, but at least half of the songs are not good enough. He said that too much and too less happen in the songs at the same time. I asked him to listen the remaining tracks. Still waiting for it.
#2412 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses update official site » 937 weeks ago
Finally, something official.
So the band is...
Axl
Ron
Richard
Tommy
Frank
Dizzy
ChrisSo does anyone think there's actually a true chance Bucket will join without Brain? I think it's very slim.
I've never seen such a thin line-up for a band of GN'R's caliber. 
#2413 Re: Guns N' Roses » And Here ... We ... Go. » 937 weeks ago
I can criticize a bad egg, even if I can't lay a better one.
#2414 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » How many CD songs would these solos » 937 weeks ago
that Snakepit song was god AWFUL and the Street Child solo was as out of tune and pitchy as Robin's on TIL....too funny. WE HEAR SIMPLY WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR.
I agree with the last sentence.
#2415 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » How many CD songs would these solos » 937 weeks ago
We're heading some conspiracy territory 
I don't think Axl chose worse solos to have no rival for the spotlight. Well, maybe he didn't want too much BH, after the guy had quit, and wanted to have Bumble's presence 'flt' on the record, but I can imagine the maestro, tinkering on a song for a decade, has heard the same (great) solo for the zillionth time, is feeling something fresh when he hears a new take. On the other hand some solos are relly that bad, that he should have heard it, since he's a genius in music and I'm not, but even I can tell. And there wasn't anyone around him to sometmies enlighten the obsessed mage.
#2416 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash Confirms RCA Split » 937 weeks ago
It cannot be organic when the parts are recorded across the globe in like 10 years and some of the musicians who play on the same song haven't ever met. You could hire Slash, Duff, John Petrucci, Buckethead, Tony Levin, Andrew Llloyd Webber, Jon Lord and Trent Reznor, with this recording process/system Axl used the result wouldn't be more organic.
#2417 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » How many CD songs would these solos » 937 weeks ago
To tell the truth, as much as I miss Slash, I can imagine an Axl-fronted band without him, like I can imagine a great band with Slash and without Axl. I'm more concerned about why Slash didn't really prove himself on the VR records, Occasionally he does, but while he was doing several great collabos, the VR albums lacked the Street Child caliber solos. They left off even Messages.
On the other hand I agree that CD would have needed Slash or a sane Axl who can tell good solos from failures. I don't blame Finck for being unable to play better than a 6-year old deaf boy on TIL, I don't blame Ron for his sub-BH Rhiad solos, don't blame CITR on the guitarists. I blame Axl, since we know that better guitar solos existed, yet he chose these, and we don't even know how many different takes the guys had on the songs. Based on Ron's comments that he played like 100 solos for Axl to find the right one, I think it's a tragedy that half of the solos suck on CD. (Some are great though.)
#2418 Re: The Sunset Strip » "What Are You Listening To" Thread » 937 weeks ago
PJ Harvey: The Devil
#2419 Re: The Sunset Strip » "What Are You Listening To" Thread » 937 weeks ago
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow
#2420 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Evo members' Chinese Democracy reviews thread » 937 weeks ago
Uh, I'd have a hard time to rate all the songs of my favourite albums this high. You dig it, for sure.
