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#91 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 82 weeks ago
James wrote:Sky Dog wrote:According to Duff….a little disappointed we couldn’t squeeze out a few more singles…Monsters and Atlas Shrugged? Those are the last 2 which sound completed from the CD sessions. I am sure there are more but those 2 are firmly documented.
Has anyone noticed they don’t sell Chinese on their official site but they sell that half assed Appetite for Democracy video?
Yep...other than performing a handful of CD tracks, they've acted like the CD era never existed since day one of the reunion.
I don't think it's going to change.
Blackstar wrote:Here is the Duff interview:
And Slash said that he is going to record a new SMKC album in the fall of 2024:
https://themusic.com.au/features/slash- … o/01-02-24
So, the schedule seems to be:
January-April 2024: SMKC tour in support of "4".
Summer 2024 (?): Slash solo album release and tour / Possibly new solo album/EP by Duff.
Fall 2024: Duff solo tour / Recording of next SMKC album.
2025: Release and tour (?) in support of new SMKC / GN'R tour (?)
This is all the confirmation I need that my theory was on the right track.
2024 a silent year followed by a 2025-27 anniversary/AFD anniversary/farewell tour.
I disagree about pretending CD never existed. In Axl's 2016 interview he said he enjoys performing the CD songs the most. At the last show in 2017 they played 8 CD songs, and with SOD being played intermittently now that's 9/14 songs total from the album they've played. Not to mention there are 3 CD songs (from the album, not live versions from NITL) included in the 2020 GNR pinball machine. If there was ever a place to ignore CD that would have been in it, since it's Slash's baby. Hardly forgotten.
Go to the official site and try to buy anything related to CD or new GNR. After that, scroll through their social media channels for new GNR.
You won't find anything.
They can play a few songs live til the cows come home or throw on some pinball machine no one will buy or play but it doesn't change the fact this era isn't being acknowledged or celebrated.
Hell...they initially tried to market Perhaps as a brand new song from Axl, Slash, and Duff.
#92 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 82 weeks ago
According to Duff….a little disappointed we couldn’t squeeze out a few more singles…Monsters and Atlas Shrugged? Those are the last 2 which sound completed from the CD sessions. I am sure there are more but those 2 are firmly documented.
Has anyone noticed they don’t sell Chinese on their official site but they sell that half assed Appetite for Democracy video?
Yep...other than performing a handful of CD tracks, they've acted like the CD era never existed since day one of the reunion.
I don't think it's going to change.
Here is the Duff interview:
And Slash said that he is going to record a new SMKC album in the fall of 2024:
https://themusic.com.au/features/slash- … o/01-02-24
So, the schedule seems to be:
January-April 2024: SMKC tour in support of "4".
Summer 2024 (?): Slash solo album release and tour / Possibly new solo album/EP by Duff.
Fall 2024: Duff solo tour / Recording of next SMKC album.
2025: Release and tour (?) in support of new SMKC / GN'R tour (?)
This is all the confirmation I need that my theory was on the right track.
2024 a silent year followed by a 2025-27 anniversary/AFD anniversary/farewell tour.
#93 Re: GN'R Downloads » Monsters with buckethead » 83 weeks ago
I'll download this when I get home.
100 mb for this song? 
#94 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
Exhibit B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYBOzI2TMiE&pp=ygUUZ3VucyBuIHJvc2VzIHBlcmhhcHM%3D
And
#95 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
Needless to say I think a lot of negative opinions come from expectations that we as hardcore fans needlessly put on these tracks. If we hadn't heard prior versions or quotes by drunken washed up rockstars, opinions on these tracks would probably be very different.
It's not just the unnecessary hype of the tracks that killed it for hardcore fans....it's the insane passage of time.
We first heard about The General and Leave Me Alone/Soul Monster/Monsters in 2002. ...and the songs were only instrumentals at the time. Yes...a hype train rolling for instrumentals.
That second batch of Chinese songs never should've been mentioned until closer to completion and after CD was released. Unfortunately, the project required hype to keep the hardcore base interested enough to keep buying tickets.
Fans had to wait until fall 2023.
No one complained about the Hardskool mix or the Perhaps solo lol.
A few things....
Most people don't complain about mixes/mastering of songs in a casual setting and in many cases, not at all.
The way a lot of new music sounds nowadays and how people listen(earbuds on a smartphone), it's not as abrasive as it is to either audiophiles or people listening on actual stereos. Some people just don't give a shit either way.
Unfortunately I'm not one of those people. I listen to a fuck ton of Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, and Soundgarden and when going from that to these leftovers, the contrast and abrasiveness is off the charts.
Only extreme hardcores know anything about the rough mixes, old solos, or even the CD lineups. Nobody else cares.
Exhibit A
And
You don't have to be an extreme audiophile to realize there are huge issues with the first song while the second sounds sublime.
#96 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
I just checked the video.
It only has 736k views in two weeks.
They have 11.8 million subscribers.
Horrific stats.
#97 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 84 weeks ago
I cried.
Robbed of an Oscar.
#98 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 84 weeks ago
. 2024 is not the same as 1999 in the same way the late 90s weren't the 1970s.
The only real difference between 70s and late 90s is the end of kayfabe.
Watch some Florida- Georgia -Mid Atlantic 78-85 and youll see a more realistic portrayal of the Attitude era.... including the cheesy sexual angles that probably shouldn't have been on TV.
They just didn't give names to specific eras at the time.
When McMahon, Russo,. and whoever the fuck were coming up with those storylines, they had stuff like this on in the background....
Stone Cold before there was Stone Cold....
The Undertaker/Ministry crap done much better with satanism in place of death....
The only reason that stuff isn't more outlandish as it would be in the 90s is because the crowd isn't being winked at and let in on the joke. Thank God for that.
#99 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 84 weeks ago
I don't know anything about what Cornette does now.
I'll say this...but it's true of most of those guys... he's a product of his time.
Wrestling isn't wrestling anymore and hasn't been for 20+ years. I'm not surprised he has a spotty record in the 21st century.
You know who else would have a spotty record had he continued? Ole Anderson...and he was a fucking genius.
Between movies I've been watching some late 84-early 85 NWA. I became a hardcore NWA fan summer 85 and that's my usual starting point when going down memory lane.
There's some killer shit happening there. It's right before key players like Steamboat, Slaughter, etc are gone and they have to freshen up the angles.
There's a really interesting angle being cooked up between Kernodle and Steamboat against the Russians...and they started including Magnum in it before both Kernodle and Steamboat bail...kiling the whole thing.
This is Magnums first confrontation with Nikita. No one knows at the time how historic that is.
The Dusty -Tully feud is kicking off even though Dusty is currently tag team champs with Raging Bull. This causes Bull to team with Magnum briefly.
It kinda sucks how this played out because a Dusty-Bull vs Road Warriors angle was starting before Dusty switched gears. This is why they quickly drop the belts to the Russians.
Flair feuding with US champ Wahoo. This is right before Magnum wins the US title.
If anybody wants to watch some of this....
Jan 85 Worldwide
Steamboat and Kernodle vs the Russians
Here's something bat shit crazy from 1983 in Georgia that makes you wish it had all turned out differently....
Magnum TA and Randy Savage as a tag team
While I loved Savage in WWF, he would've been amazing in NWA.
#100 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 84 weeks ago
Been watching a lot of movies while trying to recover.
Taxi Driver - Yeah...this is overrated. I hadn't watched this in probably 30 years. I didn't even remember the ending. I would've bet my life on Jodi Foster being a big part of this film. She only has a handful of scenes as it nears the climax. Only thing I liked about it is the 70s NY setting. I'd kill to eat at that cafeteria those cabbies eat lunch at.
I didn't remember him surviving. That was a trip.
I also never realized until now what a hot piece of ass Cybill Shepherd was in her youth.
Mean Streets - I don't think I had ever watched this.
This is THE prototype for Quentin Tarantino films.
Other than the 70s NY setting...which is amazing....it's not very good. Very little happens, mostly conversations, and there's no real payoff at the end.
Great soundtrack.
Una - Like Nesting Dolls, this film comes awfully close to greatness. If dealing with such a subject....child abuse victim confronting the guy 15 years later and you want to shock your audience, go all the way. Don't half ass it and then give it a lackluster ending.
While she's everyone's darling and she does a good job here, I don't like Rooney Mara. Not fond of her sister anymore neither. As I get older, I loathe these Taylor Swift types who are only in the position they are in because they threw fits in front of their rich families to become movie stars and then the whole world is instantly handed to them on a silver platter.
Society of the Snow - Until a few days ago I had no idea this existed. It's an Alive remake...one of my favorite 90s movies.
It was ok but I hated the editing style. I also didn't like how they handled certain aspects of the story...the lone woman dying is barely an afterthought here yet in reality it almost killed their spirit.
Loved how the actors took it seriously and went on crash diets to lose a bunch of weight. Made it so much more realistic.
The CGI plane crash was inferior to the 90s version.
I'll finish my list later. I gotta go somewhere.
