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#1601 Re: Guns N' Roses » Ron Thal Survives Potentially Fatal Car Crash » 779 weeks ago
It's never that simple.
I walked out of my last accident bleeding in random places, only after I made sure I had no broken bones to mind for. The body restabilizes itself and starts to look for anomalies, which need to be taken care of. Hence the lesser pains/aches/etc generally come within a day or so.
#1602 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alternate artwork (NEW scans inside!) » 779 weeks ago
apex-twin wrote:James Lofton wrote:I find that incredibly hard to believe. Take into account Bucket bailed a year later, and it's REALLY hard to believe.
Why would Axl need Ron to contribute to decade-old songs if not for this very reason?
Microscopic hair splitting. An album that needs Ron to wank over a finished Riad or Fortus to strum an inaudible guitar is an album I consider finished. It's not like these were demos and the post 2002 lineup walked in and created an album to Axl's liking.
Are we to believe that if Ron, Frank, and Fortus do not contribute, Chinese Democracy is unfinished and we're still waiting for it in 2011?
Do you find it hard to believe Axl decided to recycle every take from the CD sessions to rebuild every jigsaw puzzle of a song after RTB and Tom Zutaut had left him with a near-finished album simply waiting to be mixed?
The songs remained the same. Axl simply tore every last bit out of them, toiled with each part, scrapped, reinstated or rerecorded everything. The album was recompiled in lack of a better word.
The actual album, as Merck put it, would in this instance refer to approved takes on different parts and the combinations thereof. Again, no-one's suggesting song structures were significantly altered.
They had the Library of Congress of raw material there. Each player played each of his part with at least a handful of variations. The Brian May solo in CITR is a good example; there's not just one take, but a multitude of takes crammed into one in ProTools.
Even if the whole band would've walked out after the 02 tour, Axl would've still had enough resources to toil with the album for several years, without seeking replacements.
#1603 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 779 weeks ago
He did, too.
Do revisit the novel, as I personally found it to be a grabbing read.
Pt 2 opens with Norman encountering a nun whom he constantly refers to as a penguin. For whatever reason, the psycho-killer train of thought revolving around a penguin cracked me up. 
#1604 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alternate artwork (NEW scans inside!) » 779 weeks ago
The "actual album" was made from 2003 onwards.
I find that incredibly hard to believe. Take into account Bucket bailed a year later, and it's REALLY hard to believe.
Why would Axl need Ron to contribute to decade-old songs if not for this very reason?
Bucket recorded most of his contributions on record with Sean Beavan in late '99/early '00.
Roy Thomas Baker came in and the drums were completely overhauled, for one. Not much of that era appears to be on the album, tho.
Axl reproduced / edited the album with Caram Costanzo from 02/03 onwards. There was a library of material and stuff was combed together from scratch.
Reason? Lunacy.
#1605 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alternate artwork (NEW scans inside!) » 779 weeks ago
Merck's letter to NYT following their enlightening article in 2005 should give you an inkling.
Sir - I find it remarkable that the New York Times - a newspaper of some repute - has chosen to run an article on the making of the forthcoming Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy without even bothering to talk to anyone who has actually been involved in the making of the album.
You quote 5 people on the record all of whom with the exception of Tom Zutaut have been out of the picture for between 6 and 9 years and like the author of your article have never even heard the album! Tom Zutaut himself has not been involved for three years and has heard virtually none of the actual record.
Your journalist Jeff Leeds - is this the return of Jayson Blair under a pseudonym? - contacted us last Thursday the 24th of February to inform us he had been working on an article about the "process" of making the album.
I explained that it was not possible for him to write such a story as he had not spoken to the band, our 2 engineers, myself or most importantly Axl all of whom have been working on the actual album for the last two years and enquired how he could write an investigative report with any integrity without doing so.
[Followed by loads of gibberish]
Sincerely,
Merck Mercuriadis
Chief Executive Officer
The "actual album" was made from 2003 onwards. The songs (and a lot of vocals) remained the same, tho.
#1606 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 779 weeks ago
yeah Psycho II was solid.
And criminally neglected for being the sequel to the Hitchcock film.
A fine little movie by its own right. The novel's a lot of fun too, although it doesn't bear any resemblance to the film beyond the title. A wickedly funny satire by a disenchanted author about the shlock-horror machinery of Hollywood - with practically unfilmable murder set-pieces for its time.
My old screenwriting professor used to say nobody defends the author of Psycho the novel, nobody remembers the awkward 10-minute finale of the film (AFTER Norman is captured), etc. We only recall the shower scene midway - during which the actual Norman/Marion interaction lasts about a minute.
Psycho 2 (both film and novel) is doomed to obscurity in comparison, for all the wrong reasons.
Awakenings(been ages since watching this)
Uncle Buck(same as above)
Election(same as above)
All firmly-handled mainstream movies with solid casts and satisfaction guaranteed. Love Bill Murray.
The Departed(FINALLY gonna watch this!!)
Big disappointment. Scorsese sleepwalks through his chores and you can tell how he tries to implement the Little Italy style to Irish mobsters, even down to uninspired medium two-shot framing, which once worked so well for him. The dude is so disconnected from the source material (recycled from the Far East, obviously) that it's not funny.
#1607 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alternate artwork (NEW scans inside!) » 779 weeks ago
Many involved in the project at the time said the music was there but there weren't enough vocals. A GNR album in 1999 would have been Oh My God with a bunch of instrumentals.
Either fallacy or misunderstanding.
Sean Beavan recorded a good deal of vocals with Axl at the time. CD, IRS, The Blues, CITR and TWAT are among the songs which had at least demo takes courtesy of Axl.
The vocals were not there in 1998 (as confirmed by Moby, Youth and A&R men), but they were there a year later.
edit to add:
Found the liner notes.
Axl’s main Vocals: Chinese Democracy, Prostitute, If The World, There Was A Time, Madagascar, Riad N’ The Bedouins, I.R.S., Street Of Dreams recorded by Sean Beavan, engineered by Critter, re-edited, processed and engineered by Caram Costanzo.
Over half the vocals were recorded in '99 and edited further. The mind boggles.
#1608 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ ASHBA Recalls 'Funny' Bar Fight Involving AXL ROSE - » 780 weeks ago
We kicked the livin' shit outta this dude.
he snuck into this private after show party
.... this drunk, obnoxious guy, big dude
... telling everyone there he's our manager
... was asked to leave several times... punched one of our tour managers.
... I grabbed the guy by his throat and slammed him up against the wall
... I walked him over to the door
... punched me in the face, so I just started unloading on him.Axl saw him hit me and flipped and jumped in, so we're stompin' this guy to a pulp, but it was all in good fun.
First off, the security was pretty lax. There was no-one around to escort the big, drunk partybasher outside. Just Del and some others, apparently. Wonder if Axl still has bodyguards, as this would've never happened on Earl Gabiddon's watch. Anyway, the gloves came off on the unlucky tour manager. DJ, at least, noticed.
DJ, a wireframe he is, grabbed the big bully by the throat and slammed him against the wall. The big bully was apparently intimidated by those weird eyes, as I get the impression DJ was no match for him physically. He even allowed DJ to walk him all the way to the door before landing a punch.
Axl saw the punch and jumped in. Fine. Too bad he didn't see the tour manager being punched. Strange he missed it.
(In other words, I believe Axl (& possibly DJ) engaging a bully. What I have a hard time with is DJ being that heroic.)
#1609 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Weiland joined VR for money » 780 weeks ago
“I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to hook up with these guys. Duff said, ’There’s soundtrack stuff we’ve been asked to do, and the money’s great.’ The money attracted me.
#1610 Re: Guns N' Roses » The chances of them playing unreleased songs @ RiR » 781 weeks ago
Voted I don't care.
While GNR aren't beyond making a good business decision, they certainly can't be dictated by the outside. If Axl wants to play a new song, he will. But there's nothing out there of which we know of to force his hand into it.
Having said that, this is RiR, historically a good place to hear all-new GNR music. At Sturgis, I reckon the band was playing it safe (song-wise) on their first proper appearance in front of an American crowd since 2006. Rio loves GNR, and they were the first to hear Madagascar back in the day.
Even so, I don't care. If it happens, I'll be pleasantly surprised. If not, it can't be any worse than following the Inland Invasion stream. I actually fell asleep on that one.
It's not that I wouldn't like to hear new GNR music, just that I've grown to the notion that waiting doesn't make time go by any faster.
