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#481 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 248 weeks ago
I've always thought songs like TWAT and Catcher would have been at home on UYI if they'd had slash and slightly more retro production...so like I wouldn't rule out them doing something like a UYI3...
#482 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will GNR release new music in 2021? » 248 weeks ago
To play devil's advocate.
In our single and streaming culture, and in a world where there may be a limit on how many recordings exist, wouldn't it be better to space the recordings out than release an album?
If he has 1 album still in the tank...they drop it now...then what do they do in 2 years?
Alternatively you could release 1-3 new songs, drop them into the hits tour and boom - fresh show. Tour that globally for 2-3 years, take break...then repeat with another 3 songs.
You could make a 12 song album extend out for 4 or so tour cycles this way.
It would work - like Shadow of Your Love revitalised my NITL interest for a time, and now Absurd and the promise of hardschool has def made this tour back on the menu for most. Then in 2 years they can drop us Atlas and State of Grace or something....
who knows....hopefully they're dropping an album but they really could do anything these days.
#483 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 248 weeks ago
I would love that.
But I wonder about it....I'm torn cos like on one hand Axl isn't afraid of revisiting old stuff (don't cry, shadow of your love, you're crazy) on later albums....on the other hand it always seems Axl wants to legitimise the Chinese Era as GNR and would never do stuff to suggest it wasn't.
Aside from the obvious stuff, like touring as GNR for years...
Think of how he bailed from RRHOF when it seemed the hall wouldn't treat the modern line up as on par with the classic guys.
Think of how he was going to let DJ stay in the band even when Slash came back.
Think of how he has Slash and Duff playing CD songs right beside AFD and UYI numbers.
Then again he always was [unhappy with the original release.....maybe this is the chance to fix everything once and for all. IMy personal hope is its some kind of double album that has all the songs we heard in leak form - like State of Grace etc - and also gives us slash/duff version of the chinese hits like Better and TWAT etc.
#484 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 248 weeks ago
In a bizarre way if it comes and goes it takes the pressure off everything having to be such a big deal.
I always got the sense there was this pressure around CD as a follow up to the monster hits of UYI, which became a pressure of can Axl still produce it without the others, then after there's this vibe of given how long CD took will he take that long again, which morphed into - what will the first Slash and Axl work in 30 years sound like.
I contrast that in my head with like the vibe around bands that put out stuff all the time, like metallica, or even like slash's solo career...people get excited and some of the records hit harder than others, but there's not this sense that if something doesn't work we should give up or this pressure that everything has to be so good that it reinvents existence for us all.
Obviously I want a new GNR record to go well...but yeah it's just nice to have the band functional to me....I can deal with not every song being a new YCBM in T2.
That said, I agree with Faldor - the elevation of Silkworms into Absurd makes you wonder what all of CD and the leaks would be like in studio form with Slash...be interesting to see what happens.
#485 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 249 weeks ago
Looks like Beta is up to her old tricks on Instagram - slagging off and berating fans who aren't feeling the song and dare criticise it ..
I'm not saying people have to like the song....but it's interesting to me how much the internet has become about hating stuff in any fandom.
Like I think about a number of bands and movie franchises I follow, and even some other hobbies, and the whole internet experience has become about people critiquing everything they do and hating on everything we get.
In the case of GNR however I'd say it's more justified than in some - given the history of the band is really full of all kinds of disappointments and chaos and wasted opportunities that you'd think even the band must dislike sometimes.
Myself I'm happy with this, I wanted a single for this tour, I've got one. I wanted to hear the old demos with Slash. I'm getting it. There's things I could nitpick but like at the end of the day they're delivering what I'd been wanting fundamentally. I think this track sounds killer and rocking now....it makes me excited for an album.
As for beta, it's weird to me that she wastes her time in a way. Like people are negative on the internet. It is as it ever was in a way. You'd expect the managers to have thicker skin and not engage in a battle thats going to go nowhere.......but who knows I guess...maybe it's all more personal to them.
I hope this single does ok though. I want this band to be successful now so we get more new music. Last thing we need is this single failing and the band going into a 20 year reboot mode.
#486 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 249 weeks ago
I really don't think they would re-record a new song without Duff.
Totally agree with this....they're going to put Duff and Slash in some capacity on any track to give it that "this is GNR" thing for the general public and to keep them happy with the project.
I feel that's less essential in the case of guys like Fortus and Frank and Melissa who despite their various long tenure don't date from the glory years.
In these cases I think they'll just use whatever part artistically meshes the best or in some cases maybe not go to the trouble and potential expense of re-recording perfectly fine existing versions. I'd assume they'll just use what works on a case by case basis but I think we'll always see Slash and Duff on there in some respect.
#487 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR, MetLife Stadium August 5th » 249 weeks ago
Yeah I mean who knows the motivations.....but yeah....you wonder if there's a giant F U in this to the label guys who implied that the 1999 songs would fail, to pitman who said they will never release the song, to the section of the fanbase who hated on the 2001 era performances, to everyone who didn't believe in the project right down to the old guys who could have worked on this material in their prime.....
Here we are 22 years later motherfuckers....and the first single of the next GNR record....it's got Slash and Duff reunited in Axl on new music...and it's silkworms....
It's fucking funny on some level.
But you know what...it might be absurd....but it's also glorious!!
I just like it. I like the song. I like it with Axl and Slash and Duff back. I like the joke too. Can expect social media may not...but who gives a fuck at this point...if they do this to the other leaks we heard then the album is going to kick major fucking ass!
#488 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Release 'Absurd' Single » 249 weeks ago
Man i'm really liking this song.
It's kinda christmas for me as I always liked the sort of attitude of silkworms and the bass riffs but the keyboard parts in 2001 were just a bit too far for my taste, always fantasized about a guitar oriented version.....and here it is!!!!!
I'm a big fan of it, although true to form with Slash it's one of those things where he's playing it cooler live than on the studio - as he does in Conspirators and all this works - also love a couple of the little touches richard has done on the live version too....but yeah....I'm digging it....
This reality has gone a bit nuts, like in 2001 if you told me I would me that 20 years time it would be illegal to leave my home and I would be filling in an afternoon binge listening the new GNR track, and that the track features Slash playing Silkworms....I'm not sure I would believe it lol
#489 Re: Guns N' Roses » Absurd » 249 weeks ago
Haha actually my first thoughts too.
Yeah...like in 2006 when people were singing along to "better" before the song had been offical and Axl called them "Downloading Motherfuckers" in reference to the leaks.
He is aware we boot stufff.
But there's a bit of talk around that this is real, so lets hope so.
#490 Re: Guns N' Roses » Absurd » 249 weeks ago
I now rate this song over OMG
Yes! Accept your mac daddy! 
Seriously though i get why the rio3 version with the synth wasn't for everyone but these guitars rock hard. It's a really cool little rocker IMO. Love the little bend fortus does coming out of the solo around 1.38 and slash's solos are cool too.
