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#411 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
It's my favorite studio version of Madagascar out there.
The drums hang back and then kick in at the chorus, giving it the proper emphasis. The other percussive elements are more audible, you can hear the samba shakers for example. I liked how Andy Wallace's mixes would bring in the ambient elements as little flourishes here and there and this follows a similar style which is great.
The vocals are also pitched up with the various processing making it more in line to the superlative Rio 2001 performance and of course no horrid vocal stretching to be found.
If this were a final mix, I'd say the synth and strings during the sample should be brought up to cascade in levels but on the whole, it's the best version of Madagascar I've heard.
It also made me wonder about and pine for a truly seamless version of Chinese Democracy where each outro and intro blends into one another. This has another weird, extended outro like the Riad leak which I quite enjoy alongside the extended intro on If The World.
The mix is better than the album version but some of the guitars on this version need to be cleaned up.
#412 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
Madagascar was chosen to test the waters. I haven't yet ruled out The Blues and maybe more, but I was hoping this could hold us over until either Appetite 30 comes out or xmas comes. Either way, the fans will have some new GNR tunes when Santa comes.
The blues is the one I care about the most, if just basically a studio version of the live 2002 and from your description that is what it sounds like.
I just want a decent studio version of the blues lol The leaks and the album version ruined the song for me
I hope we dont have to wait long for at least the blues, I can wait longer for everything else ha
#413 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
yes, I also think they spoiled The Blues with the album version. those old live versions sounded very... intimate... hard to explain as I'm not a native English speaker, haha. the album version sounds sterile, can't tell why, maybe it's just the mix.
For the blues, all I wanted is a studio version like the live boston 2002 version
Like the guitar lick he does at :30 not sure why that was ever removed on the first set of demos then when it was added back in for the album version it was a shitter version of that great guitar lick
Also that flute syth thing they do during the song ilke at the 2:00 and again at 3:14 was always great too
And not sure why he took out the ahhhhh ahhh part at 3:45 it always added to the build up to the outro
Not to mention him adding the cringy lyrics to the outro instead of just leaving it the ahh ahh ahh ruined the song for me
The tempo of the live 2002 version was always way better too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSx3QBr_mt8
#414 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
Ragnar wrote:Thanks for PM folks. Great version much better than what ended on Chinese.
Rawer, with more guitars and actual drums. Could have used some rasp but still it`s awesome.
There's far less guitars than the final version.
And the guitar playing is much worse on this version at least the non BH stuff. The solo is the same or very similar but the rythem guitar is awful on this version
#415 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
I think it was Fortus but someone in the band admitted Axl had like 15 versions of each song.
#416 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
twat must’ve been the song Axl was tinkering on
So many versions to that one
Well you did hear the Richard Fortus story right?
He was kind of joking but someone came to his house and he had a small stack of cds, and someone asked him oh is that differetn versions of the album and he said no, that is just one song
#417 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
funny how we here get excited about 16 years old work-in-progress version of a song we already know for like 17 years, have numerous live versions, an official album version and a few other mixes.
sad times, actually.
Well my favorite version of the blues was always the 2002 live versions, they ruined the song with the album version and I always wanted a good studio version of the 2002
I still want anything from the 99-2002 sessions. Anything without BBF on it
#418 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
Walker wrote:Nobody else is out there, and if they are and they have something, I still have plenty to use as bargaining chips.
Just curious: why did you chose Madagascar?
because everyone wanted the blues, so hold back his "big gun" as the finale maybe lol
#419 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
I still hope you share the blues at some point
that is the one song along with silkworms that I really want to hear the 2001 version of
#420 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 469 weeks ago
dave-gnfnr wrote:see i told you to have faith in him, he didnt seem like a troll like the other people on the other forum.
depends on how much shit from other "traders of unreleased stuff" he'll get now. I'd imagine that lawyer threats could discourage anyone from further actions.
we'll see.
the lawyers dont care about demos from stuff already released
they never cared about the better, twat irs etc demos either
as long as someone is not hosting these songs and promoting it on their site, it will be fine.
