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#121 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 395 weeks ago
Matt originally picked out Robin as a good fill for the rhythm spot...that would have worked imo - he could have still done the occasional lead line or something on new songs - but he wasn't really suited for Slash duties.
It would have been interesting to have Robin on rhythm and Bucket on all leads. Although even then - I love and respect bucket's playing but his style and technique again isn't really suited to the old GNR catalogue. He has the chops to play anything but the way he plays is so avant garde that he isn't a logical choice to front a classic rock aerosmith/stones style band like GNR.
I know that's because Axl wanted to change the sound - but then that didn't really happen. Aside from Silkworms, Riad and a few other tracks (which I like) most of the time the band played AFD stuff. If that was going to be the case it would have made more sense to go with a monster classic rock player like Aldrich to try and replicate slash.
Sometimes I think CD would have been interesting as a side project. Imagine the GNR name was owned by the AFD guys. Then in the same way Slash did snakepit cos they couldn't agree, Axl could have run off and made CD as a sideproject - free to do as much synth and non-traditonal gnr sounds as he liked complete with bucket and the whole 2001 circus vibe - toured clubs for a year like snakepit - they they could have regrouped GNR and made some new projects artistically. Different universe I guess.
I actually love CD, but its weird to me that these 15 songs seem to have dominated 30 years of Axl's life or something. it's why i'd like to see them move on and do a new album. It's kinda weird this long after we're still doing remixes and still considering these songs new. It's weird that there's never anything truely new.
That said - the clip of Axl on the TIL remix is insane...makes u wonder what else is in the vault....such amazing rasp...it's killer...better than the released version IMO.
I prefer the This I Love alternate vocals as well, same with preferring the 2001 demos to the album tracks. I've always wished the album would've been released in 2002 following the Boston promo. The tracks from that era sound so much better to me.
#122 Re: Guns N' Roses » someone needs to mix the studio silkworms with the remixed version lol » 395 weeks ago
I didn't realize Silkworms and/or Oh My God weren't stereo until I played them in my car yesterday. At first I thought my speakers blew.
#123 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 396 weeks ago
I prefer the 2001 version of Madagascar because it reminds me of the first time I heard the song when GNR performed at the VMAS in 2002. Same with the 2001 version of TWAT. Actually everything that surfaced and is al alternate version to the Chinese Democracy album version, I prefer LOL.
#124 Re: Guns N' Roses » Silkworms - General discussion and Rumors » 396 weeks ago
Yeah, really not digging that funk/disco stuff that was added to OMG. Side note, though: the idea of Slash & Duff doing it really titillates me. I feel like they'd make it more of a punchy punk rocker like they brought that vibe back to CD. Or making it sound like the second coming of Perfect Crime would be fantastic.
Silkworms I liked, but I really miss the chorus. Think the vocals need to be higher in the mix, too.
I agree with you about Slash & Duff. I enjoy the way they perform Better!
#125 Re: Guns N' Roses » Silkworms - General discussion and Rumors » 396 weeks ago
I think that OMG is not a type of song that requires elaborate solo or solos. those short twisted guitar parts fit it nicely
Hopefully we'll get a video of Oh My God performed live on youtube in the next week or so since it's an alternate on their setlist.
#126 Re: Guns N' Roses » Silkworms - General discussion and Rumors » 396 weeks ago
What happened to the flute sound that was at the beginning of Silkworms when it was played live? That was the first difference I noticed. I do like that version of Oh My God though over the End of Days soundtrack version.
#127 Re: Guns N' Roses » Silkworms - General discussion and Rumors » 396 weeks ago
What's the consensus on these, fanmade or leaks? I'm terrible at trying to decide when I listen to stuff like this is it's fanmade or not.
#128 Re: Guns N' Roses » Are we still gettig the blues 01 for xmas since the madagascar 01 » 422 weeks ago
I’m pretty sure I have this from when it came out in 2005/6. I’ll check when I get home
Please let me know if you do. I have a version from that time frame but it has the guitars from the 02 version already replaced with the piano similar to the album release.
#129 Guns N' Roses » Appetite for Democracy CD question » 423 weeks ago
- benny
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Does anyone know where I can buy just the CD from the Las Vegas residency release a few years ago without also having to buy the blu-ray or dvd?
#130 Re: Guns N' Roses » LEAKS THREAD » 424 weeks ago
Wagszilla wrote:The VMA performance made me a super fan. It's why I'm here with you fine people.
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I was entranced by Madagascar, Buckethead, and Axl looking like a Neo Tokyo rockstar.I hope to hear the unreleased Chinese Democracy / CD2 material some day but will be forever let down we didn't get many long years of collaboration between pseudo-asian Axl and space alien Finck and technobot Buckethead.
The things we could've done together.
I realize that I'm wayyyy late on this thread, and this post, but fuck it.
I've said it a Brazilian times. That VMA performance/ band gets shit on a bunch by casuals and some hardcores, but that band was a versatile fucking monster that should have put out at least 4 records. As prolific and brilliant as Bucket/Brain are? Guns 2.0 would have turned all kids of heads.
The eclectic, soulful shredding of Bucket, with Fortus holding down the traditional blues based fiddlin'. Robin's unique industrial punk vibe?
The rhythm section from Hell, Dizzy Fucking Reed... The douche canoe on the keytar on stage right and Uncle Anime Axl?
It was quite the beast that was put together, and I didn't really care how gassed Axl was at the VMAs... I was sooo pumped. Maddy was EPIC.He was hitting the notes, mannnn... "AHHHH FREE FROM ALLL THE CHAINS"
Round One indeed.
That shot of Buckethead in a typhoon of confetti... Shredding with one hand, swingin' a fuckin' Num Chuck
with the other... His head cocked to the side?
All the yesses.
I worshipped the old band, but that band was so like... What the fuck? That I was on board. They kicked soo much ass.CD should have dropped 2 weeks after that show as a 4 album box set or separately (CD1, 2, 3 and 4) It would have one upped UYI 1 and 2 debuting as the top two records, by being the first band to have the top FOUR albums on the charts.
Could you imagine?
I salivate at the thought.
They would have fucked shit up.
PS... I dunno if anyone has mentioned it, but we need a Melissa emoji.
I had lost track of what was going on with GNR for a few years in the late 90s/early 2000s. I didn't even know that they were performing at the 2002 VMA and as luck would have it I just happened to be watching the VMA that night. So when I heard the opening guitar to Welcome to the Jungle it caught me by total surprise and I was instantly hooked on the new lineup. To this day I still watch that VMA performance every few months or so on youtube.
