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#741 Re: Guns N' Roses » AXL ROSE Falls On Stage At France's HELLFEST » 724 weeks ago

Every ounce of life just goes out of him when something like this happens. Like NR in Rio this past year. It's painful to watch, I feel for him here.

#742 Re: The Sunset Strip » "Hatfields & McCoys" sets new record for viewers » 724 weeks ago

Is it something football (soccer) related that would only be relevant to the entire world except us?

#743 Re: The Garden » The 10 Worst Marketing Campaigns in History! » 725 weeks ago

That song was destined to be a.commercial.for.something. It just has that feel.

#744 Re: Guns N' Roses » When's Album? » 725 weeks ago

I'm so used to people going for Nazi comparison on the net, that I don't even know how to react to the Stalin thing. big_smile

#746 Re: The Garden » The 10 Worst Marketing Campaigns in History! » 725 weeks ago

I remember whatever year Crystal Pepsi was released, a bunch of us were in downtown Boston on New Years Eve, and the Pepsi people were just handing out hundreds of free bottles everywhere. And everywhere you went, the ground was covered with mostly full bottles of it.

#747 Re: Guns N' Roses » Cataloging the CD leaks » 725 weeks ago

I still can't hear "Prostitute" big_smile. I trained myself to hear "to proudly damn myself to live with fortune and shame."

And yeah, Chicken Dinner was Shackler's. I would have said that, but I thought it was common knowledge since it came so late, and I'm usually behind you guys on these things.

It would fun to put together a chronological playlist of the leaks. I used to listen to different versions of The Blues back to back for hours. Also, I've said it a million times before, but pulling "like if your ass was your head you could tell" from CD was a huge mistake. smile

#748 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » If you merged Myles and Axl you get this voice » 725 weeks ago

Wow- I totally hear the Keifer/Slaughter ref in there, especially in the upper register. Also some shades of Jeff Keith and Shannon Hoon.

I like his voice on this way better than Myles'. Though this is one of the few songs I Myles on.

#749 Guns N' Roses » Cataloging the CD leaks » 726 weeks ago

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I asked this question a while back, and was directed to Chinese Whispers. But I've read that twice, and while it's totally amazing (and I'm sure I'll read it again), I'm still confused over what leaked when, what "nicknames" each might have had (ex. Chicken Dinner), etc.

I first got into the CD era in late 2005, when I found a three song leak. It was tagged as:
1. The Blues (REMIX)
2. I.R.S. (demo)
3. There Was A Time

The Blues had the heavy and dirty guitar intro, and the vocals sounded like they were double tracked from a live performance possibly.  TWAT was much funkier with the opening loop pretty much standing alone.

Sometime soonish after that, I got a version of Better and Catcher. Catcher is recorded really, really low. Is that the one with Brian May? I merged all 5 of those together as "Chinese Democracy (Leaks)".


Somewhere in 2007, I got 5 more tracks, which I labeled "Chinese Democracy (Final) [<--HA!]:
1. TWAT
2. The Blues
3. CD
4. I.R.S.
5. Madagascar

I believe this is where the synth choir first appeared in IRS, but I'm not sure.

Somewhere along the way, I got something called Street Of Dreams 2002 remix. I don't know when I got it, but it was clearly post name change.

Of course in July 2008, I got my to-this-day favorite version of most of the songs with the big leak:
1. Better
2. This I Love (actually Prostitute, but I took the wrong side of that fight, and refuse to rename it smile)
3. TWAT
4. Rhiad and the Bedouins
5. Madagascar
6. If The World
7. CD
8. The Blues

Not only were the version my fav, but the running stuck with me. The actual for-real release of CD messed me up, because I thought Better should've been the lead off.

Finally, August 14, 2008, we got Chicken Dinner.

So, to the many of you more knowledgeable than me- are any of the pre-2008 leaks identifiable, or did I come across mish-mashes well after the fact? Is there anything of note I'm obviously missing? Any guesses as to the provenance of some of them (for example, the first 3 leaks I got, is that version of IRS likely to be the 1999 version?)

Anyways, unless I missed it and this thread exists already, I thought it would be fun to chronicle in one place the different leaks that came out over the 14 year saga of CD. Especially since coming back into the GNR scene in 2005, I'm a relative newcomer. big_smile

#750 Re: The Sunset Strip » Roger Waters Discussion (NEW ATD vinyl coming!) » 726 weeks ago

russtcb wrote:

Amused To Death is as good or better than ANYTHING in the Pink Floyd cannon. If he puts something out that's anywhere near as good, this planet is in for a treat.

I played the ever loving shit.out of that album and feel.much the.same way. I've been.itching.for.new.stuff from him for.years.

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