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#71 Re: Guns N' Roses » GNR Should Do A Rolling Stones cover.... » 211 weeks ago
93 they played Dead Flowers and Axl sang it on Gilby solo record
Easy song, basically the same as Used To Love Her.
#73 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy is 12 years old » 251 weeks ago
When elderly people say it's about the journey not the destination, Chinese Democracy comes to mind.
The saga is much much more fascinating than the final product and the lackluster release just made it all so frustrating.
Hopefully we get a definitive edition someday, with what was originally intended.
#74 Re: Guns N' Roses » You are the new manager of Gn'R, what do you do? » 258 weeks ago
1: Get a fuckin' album out. Be it CD left overs or whatever good material 95-97 lineup had, but a GREAT 12 song album released in 3 song packs in Spotify with a Deluxe edition.
2: No more "let's play in your backyard for money" tours. Fewer shows, more time for Axl to recover and get him in to a LEGAL, physical commit to be 100% vocally and fit
3: Whatever is left from CD lineups, Axl releases as solo + whatever his instrumental ideas. Get him a movie deal to appease his Trent fettish.
4: With UYI Anniversary, release Perfect Crime doc on YouTube as an extended 3h version with new interviews (Tom Petty's Running Down a Dream is a great example)
5: Whatever is on the vault from CD era, release as Axl Rose and promote it as solo on social (YouTube, Spotify, whatever)
6: Whatever is on the vault from 86-97 or 2016-onwards release and promote as GNR
#75 Re: Guns N' Roses » How much has Axl worked on CD since its release? » 259 weeks ago
otto wrote:I'm critical to death on Axl's lack of push to move forward through the years but with tidbits and Tommy's comments
I don’t doubt there was a good measure of record company nonsense but the point is these things weren’t unique to other big acts.
Instead Axl put his housekeeper in charge.
AgesOfTheIce wrote:At some point they must have really wanted something out, to sink 14 million into it.
I suspect there was some level of malfeasance afoot by multiple parties involved. This to say nothing of the opaque yet legitimate tax write offs, mergers, what have you.
I’m not optimistic the record company wanted it out post Mar 2004 when the plug was officially pulled.
To be fair Axl put his housekeeper in charge way late in the game.
Before her it was Doug (a Hanger on) and Merck, a successful manager on his own before embarking on the GNR craziness thing.
I'm not AT ALL excusing Axl, I think he was the one the holding the project from achieving all the heights it could, but I also think the record company has its blame.
#76 Re: Guns N' Roses » How much has Axl worked on CD since its release? » 259 weeks ago
I'm critical to death on Axl's lack of push to move forward through the years but with tidbits and Tommy's comments about how the record company handled the band through the years + interscope/geffen/universal merges I found this video to be reminiscent of Guns situation in the early 00's... A record company not knowing what to do with a band.
#77 Re: Guns N' Roses » How much has Axl worked on CD since its release? » 259 weeks ago
Chinese Democracy is the ex girlfriend who you wanted to make it to the altar with. But it didn’t happen for whatever reason and it’s always gonna rub you the wrong way.
this
#78 Re: Guns N' Roses » Perfect Crime doc » 261 weeks ago
This has been online for a looooooong time.
13 years to be exact.
#79 Re: Guns N' Roses » Tracks on the album better than the Rough Mixes » 262 weeks ago
Street of Dreams to me is the most obvious about Slash song.
IRS and Madagascar about the old band breakup
#80 Re: Guns N' Roses » Matt Sorum's book leaks online. » 274 weeks ago
otto wrote:Some things that caught my eye while reading:
Matt confirms Axl had two bands going on in the late 90's. One was GnR as we know it (by the time, Axl, Duff, Matt, Paul and Slash that was gone for Snakepit tour) and one composed of "Dizzy and some of his friends" with Axl overseeing.He states he teaches Axl in 97 what was a loop and most shockingly what was a bar in music theory. Really hard to believe considering Axl knew how to play the piano and wrote all November Rain's orchestrations.
On a side note, CD project started in 98 and took 10 years to see the light of day. We're already 12 years past its release.... Damn, time flies.
Didn't Axl have piano lessons when he was a kid? I'm pretty sure he'd know what a bar was by 1993, he'd been a professional musician for years at that point. Loops, yeah, I can believe he wouldn't be familiar with them 'cos that's more of a production thing.
Exactly... Looping and protools I totally believe Matt could have taught Axl. But music theory is a stretch.
