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#491 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Better » 279 weeks ago
I'm just going to get ahead of this and say Axl absolutely destroyed The Blues.... Right down to the damn name change!
I hear you…and I’m going to use the original title 
#492 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 280 weeks ago
Been on a massive Corrosion of Conformity kick lately. Awesome grooves and dirty metal. Stare Too Long is amazing as a changeup.
#493 Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Better » 280 weeks ago
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One of the biggest dropoffs in my opinion. The original leak was fierce with a powerful mix. The album version loses punch and tones everything back. The leak was as good as this song was ever going to get, which is really good. They buried the album version with nonsense.
#494 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Shackler’s Revenge » 280 weeks ago
Scraped is a good companion song to SR, imo. TWAT should have been the second song, Shacklers should have been saved for later in the album.
I appreciate what you’re saying but I think TWAT should have closed the album. How do you come back up from that outro (especially considering the material on the album). I think they should have chose between TWAT and Prostitute for the closer and left one off CD. But, they were both leaked so I guess…they both had to be on the album?
#495 Re: Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Shackler’s Revenge » 280 weeks ago
I dig the song. Reminds of Rob Zombie. Kind of funny, when I heard Dragula for the first time I thought CD would have similar sounding songs. If you ever get to hear the stripped down version, Tommy has some really killer bass riffs here.
I always thought White/Rob Zombie was the direction Axl wanted to go with the album. Classic rock, heavy riffs but with the samples and drum machines that were prevalent at the time.
I hear Thunder Kiss 65 and can easily envision it Guns song in it’s purest form.
#496 Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Shackler’s Revenge » 280 weeks ago
- FlashFlood
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The second song on the album and likely one of the last ones finished.
There isn’t much about the Chicken Dinner leak that differentiates is from the album version, outside of extra bells and whistles and Ron noodling on the verse. As is the case with a few of the songs, I don’t know why you wouldn’t leave Bucket’s solos. I don’t mind Ron’s solo in this, actually kind of like it, but it’s a Bucket song and it should have a bucket solo.
#497 Guns N' Roses » Wtf happened to…Chinese Democracy (song) » 280 weeks ago
- FlashFlood
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In an effort to talk GnR with you guys leading into the tour, I wanted to see if I could start a series. Starting with the title track and moving on throughout the album, I want to see what people liked about the song when they first heard it, and what their final impression of the album version is.
I am in the minority but I like Frank’s heavy drums and Ron’s riffs on the verse. Also, the song is better with Bucket’s solo which wasn’t in the first gigs at HoB and RIR3. The intro on the album is nonsense and should start where the Boston 2002 radio promo started.
#498 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rearranged US dates announced » 281 weeks ago
James wrote:Have they downsized a bit on this tour? Yeah there's stadiums but I see some arenas in the mix.
Don't want to risk playing in a half empty Levi Stadium so they're going to SAP Center instead.
A band like Guns generally gets paid up front by the promoters, who in turn get sweaty palms over eventual attendance. For Guns, bigger venues are more money in the bank. Downsizing and upscaling is an ongoing thing, but it's mainly driven by local markets and grassroots realities that the promoters need to adapt to. Then they haggle with the band over dates and expenses.
Axl's generally less concerned about venue size and attendance and more about getting the whole of the show "right". If he can bask in the adulation of the first three rows and is able to hear himself while singing, he can be a happy camper even with half the seats curtained off.
Oh. What's changed since 2002? Or 2014?
#499 Re: Guns N' Roses » Former Guns N' Roses' keyboard player? » 281 weeks ago
I don’t think many people would but good luck with that.
#500 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rearranged US dates announced » 282 weeks ago
This year is almost a little make or brake mentally for me...like if they come out and they do a 'new' song like Hardschool and things are a bit different and you could consider these the warm up shows for a new era with maybe an album to follow in a year or two I'd be right behind it....but if it's NITL tour year 6 then I'm going to struggle.
I can see not releasing a new album until the global situation is fixed, but this big break has been a perfect time for a tonal and mental shift...like really you'd hope this tour will be the start of a new era....but then....it's GNR lol...
In a way, the pandemic takes them off the hook for new music. Sell the old show at high demand. I did feel in 2019/2020 they were trending towards new material…I feel like we’ve likely regressed.
