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#291 Re: GN'R Downloads » Slash/Chester - Crazy » 151 weeks ago
I would have been interested in hearing a VR album with Chester.
That, to me, is one of the greatest missed opportunities in rock music. We know Chester had the skinny-cool Weiland vibe; the fact that he was hired for STP shows that, and the songs he wrote with them made a decent fist of replicating Weiland's lyrical flair. We know that he had a wider vocal range than Weiland, which opened up the possibility of covering more GN'R tracks beyond the low-register stuff that Weiland could do, and would've widened the scope of the original stuff they could write. He did a pretty decent job covering Slither:
And we know he could belt out Paradise City:
I suspect the thing that stopped it from happening was bloody record company politics, the same thing that stopped his Slash collab going on the album. Linkin Park's management didn't want him doing any side projects, or whatever.
#292 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » 2003 killer footage of "The Project" pre Weiland » 151 weeks ago
I miss Velvet Revolver. And it bums me out a bit that the GN'R reunion means that none of the VR milestones are being acknowledged. Like, where's our deluxe edition of Contraband? We know for a fact that there are unreleased VR songs, too; The House is Alive and a cover of Tie Your Mother Down, at least. Plus all the demo stuff.
#293 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Buckethead's guitars stolen. » 151 weeks ago
The guy who found and returned one of Buckethead's guitars: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/wd7eso
#294 Re: Guns N' Roses » Will the next single be something we've heard already? » 152 weeks ago
misterID wrote:It’s the Absurd logic of releasing singles.
My money is in Atlas.
This. I feel like I remember MSL mentioneing something about Slash working on Atlas around the time of the reniuon's first run. Or I could have just imagined this.
Yup. Which suggests that the next song will probably be Atlas or OMG, since the only one we know has been worked on with any degree of certainty is Atlas, and we've seen the OMG lyrics plastered on the screen during YCBM at live shows.
Given the almost universally positive reception that the Perhaps demo has got, I'd guess they've paid attention to that too.
#295 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Buckethead's guitars stolen. » 152 weeks ago
Apparently one of the guitars has already been recovered:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Buckethead/com … recovered/
Looks like the thieves didn't know what they'd got their hands on, the thing was bought for $500…
#296 Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Buckethead's guitars stolen. » 152 weeks ago
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What kind of lowlife would do that?
#297 Re: Guns N' Roses » Why no photo shoots after 1991? » 152 weeks ago
Nice juxtaposition, misterid. Basically the same pic, backstage at a show. As if someone decided tonight was the night. I wonder who.
IIRC the top pic was taken as a deliberate riposte to the RNRHOF - Axl basically saying "This is Guns N' Roses, deal with it." Kind of funny to see the continuity between the two pics, with Frank and Dizzy and Fortus.
Also will never stop chuckling at Pitman's spectacular self-own on the eve of the NITL tour.
#298 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash confirms “one or two” new songs by June » 153 weeks ago
metallex78 wrote:Why is it all so fucking difficult?
I kind of asked the same question a few weeks ago and apex twin gave a nice reply talking about Axl's anxiety issues.
When I read that I started thinking, yeah that makes perfect sense, but then I thought "I already kinda know this, why didn't I think about it?". And it occurred to me that his public persona is completely different from his actual personality. When you hear him on records spewing venomous lyrics with a screeching voice or see him on stage commanding the attention of 50,000 people with ease, your last thought would be that this guy suffers from stage fright.
So I think the public perception of him is completely warped from the real man and it creates a dissonance that is hard to grasp.
Yeah, you can see that in his reaction to the London gigs. He's pushing his voice to bust out the high notes, when he's forced by illness to dial it back and do the baritone he's incredibly apologetic and borderline insecure about it, despite the almost universally positive response from the fans.
It's also pretty common among musicians to have a wildly different public persona to their on-stage one. By all accounts Freddie Mercury was extremely insecure and shy. Slash basically hides behind this constructed persona with the shades and the hat and the cigarette. Buckethead literally wears a mask and cosplays as a space robot.
I can only imagine what it must be like, if you're wrestling with those insecurities, to have fans on Twitter and Reddit and the forums analysing your every move, monitoring your weight and your haircut and your choice of footwear, and picking apart your vocal performances. I remember in 2006 people were pulling out the "fat Axl" memes and the "Mickey Mouse" comments, and now that period is regarded as one of his high points vocally.
#299 Re: Guns N' Roses » July 17th 1993 - 29 years ago » 154 weeks ago
In like 1994 the teen music magazines talked about the internal division in the band. They presented it as Axl/Duff on one side and Slash/Matt/Gilby on the other. In 1995 they were pretty much off the news and by the time I got into music in 1996 it was like it never happened. GN'R did not register on my radar until they released Live Era in 1999. There was no talk, nothing going on. A dead band.
Ironically the point at which I got into the band - despite having been about the right age when they were actively releasing material - was the release of Oh My God. Because it was just so intriguing - "Wait, he fired the entire band and replaced them with a bunch of different people? Won't that sound completely different?" Then came the RIR gig with Buckethead and Madagascar, and the rest is history.
#300 Re: Guns N' Roses » Could the first Snakepit album have been a good record with Axl / Duff » 154 weeks ago
There are basically two things I look for in the frontman; lyrical flair and passionate delivery. Axl has it. Weiland had it, even if he didn't have Axl's vocal range; it's why Velvet Revolver stood head and shoulders above something like the Conspirators' efforts. Someone like Jeff Angell, from Walking Papers, has it too.
Vocal gymnastics, for me, come a distant third.
