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#451 Re: The Sunset Strip » Metallica - Black album box set » 273 weeks ago
There's no reason for a bunch of blu-ray 4k and whatever else could come along...at least as far as old concerts go. You're not going to get grainy shows recorded in the 80s and 90s to look like Mission Impossible in IMAX.
No offense but I wish hardcore fans in general would stop complaining about video quality or how remasters come out... especially on vinyl.
Earth to all hardcore fans:
We're damn lucky to be getting ANY of this stuff from various artists/bands. One reason why certain things may not come out of the vaults is due to such complaints.
These types of releases are usually limited. If artists see more complaints than praise, it'll keep collecting dust.
I want The Perfect Crime before I'm dead and I don't need it on Orange Ray and 30k or brain implant when it finally comes out.
Had this stuff come out back then, no one would be complaining about the quality.
In the 90s, this box set would have been my holy grail.
In 1990-91 RIP Magazine had a monthly feature where they followed Metallica in the studio during the making of this album. We coul hear nothing obviously but it was exciting getting those updates.
I have always wanted to hear how this album sounded when they started demoing and the rough mixes.
The one I always wanted to hear the most...and it may not even be in this set..is the instrumental demo of My Friend of Misery that Jason created before James and Lars changed it completely but kept the bass intro.
Yeah that version of Sad But True kicks ass.
It's mostly just so that these videos look good on modern displays. It will always look grainy but a DVD upscaled on a modern 4K TV is going to look blurred and pixelated. They have the original raw video footage and can professionally upscale it and master it for HD or 4K. It's just frustrating is all - still better than not getting it at all.
I'd love to get anything from GNR ever again. UYI documentary, new album, alt mixes of UYI or really just anything at all...
#452 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 273 weeks ago
Nothing bad yet.
Last night I had this weird sensation in my neck going down into my shoulders. It went away in a few minutes.
Also a minor headache but that may have had nothing to do with the vaccine.
My arm doesn't even hurt.
It's weird how everyone reacts different to it.
Totally. I got Pfizer and had the sore arm but it progressed from sore to feeling literally heavy, like it was weighed down. That and feeling tired was all I felt - although due to my arm being heavy and sore to move I ended up using it differently and injuring my hand and wrist for a week.
My friend had half his face go numb, was scary. Was listed as one of the rare 1 in 1000 side effects though, so not like it's a total surprise. He's fine though afterwards, but he was worried at the time. Everyone's body is different.
#453 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Better » 273 weeks ago
I'd like to hear a 2001-02 version of the song and see how it developed.
By all accounts those 05/06 leaks of IRS, TWAT and Better were the Summer 2003 versions of the songs from when he played the album at that strip club. So at some point between 01-03 he's back in the studio. Whatever version of the album was ready when that 02 tour goes off is probably the best cross point between the earlier raw sound and Bucket's contributions being on certain tracks (i.e. that TWAT solo). At some point in 03 they start rerecording the whole record and the project truly goes off the trails.
Up until 98 you can give Axl (and all involved tbh) a bye because the band is disintegrating and he's having to put together a new lineup. They work for a couple of years and then emerge at the end of 00 and the ball starts rolling. It's slow going, but everything with this band is like pulling teeth and the trajectory is still upwards towards an album release. At least by 02 it's progressed to doing a promo appearance on MTV and a North American tour. It all grinds to a halt after that tour implodes. They shouldn't have done the VMAs and the tour without at least a single and music video ready to go.
#454 Re: The Sunset Strip » Metallica - Black album box set » 274 weeks ago
Only complaint I can level at that boxset is DVDs... in 2021. Not even HD, let alone 4K. At the lease HD BluRays upscaled to 1080p. Otherwise it all looks really good.
They released this take of Sad But True and it's really cool that they're doing this. I really like how this version sounds too, the riff once the singing kicks in sounds like it has way more bite than it sounds on the final album version. Probably just the mixing and lack of production at this point.
We can only hope we get something like this from GNR for both UYI and CD.
#455 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Shackler’s Revenge » 274 weeks ago
Thunder Kiss stomps the guts out of this song and then dumps it on the side of the road.
I liked Shackler's when it first leaked...and yeah there's a Zombie influence...but the novelty wore off fairly quickly.
It doesn't really belong on the album. It doesn't fit with the theme of the record and its placement in the track sequencing makes it stand out even more.
Should've been a B side to a single but of course...they don't do B sides.
Ironically, it was also the B side to the CD single.
#456 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 274 weeks ago
Mitch...
#457 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Chinese Democracy (song) » 274 weeks ago
The album intro is such a pain if you use streaming services like Spotify.
I enjoy a fun atmosphere intro for when I'm doing an album front to back, but for playlists/mixtapes/random style listening then extended intros to songs are a mood killer. So I'd prefer if it was on the album but as a skippable track and you could play the song proper without it.
I agree with you that I liked Ron's parts and the new drums....but I'm not the biggest fan of the mix/master on the album we got. I noticed one of the demos that leaked last year gave the song more vibrancy and I don't think it was so much the changes in the parts but just that the whole album as it was released has a sort of muddyness to the mix.
Having the intros on a lot of CD songs split would be great. Like you say for making playlists they are dreadful.
#458 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rearranged US dates announced » 275 weeks ago
Are we back to griping about the size of venues they play? Who cares at this point? They did their mega cash cow tour. I like the mix of venue sizes. Fine with me.
Getting the chance to see them in a small venue is part of why I am excited to see them on this tour.
Still very cautiously holding out hope for something new or exciting on the tour.
#459 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 275 weeks ago
Already announced that at the Springsteen concert, Astrazeneca people aren't allowed.
So stupid.
A year ago we were hoping for vaccines with efficacy in the 50% range, and would have taken that as something great to have. AZ is still much more highly effective than that.
Also, so much is ignored about the actual purpose of widespread vaccination programs - achieving a level of herd immunity in a population. Isn't about protecting individuals, it's about having a large population vaccinated where transmission chains are just cut off so spread and big outbreaks don't occur.
#460 Re: The Garden » Covid 19 » 275 weeks ago
If one of these variants blows up here, TPTB are just gonna have to pull an Obama and swine flu it away because the American people are not going back to lockdown mode.
Think the next step will be booster shots for people with updated vaccines against newer variants. Until those roll out I just see governments trying to ride this out with whatever protection they have.
I could see reintroduction of local mask mandates to reduce spread in areas that spike.
Closures and stuff though? I think people are tired and part of that is how governments handled this throughout - letting prevention measures become a black/white political issue and also the trend of unlocking too early, thus leading to longer relockdowns has eaten away at people. They've in effect used up all the lockdowns they could ever realistically enforce, so just need to press on with vaccinations in a race against new variants and hope for the best.
