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#341 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
I was spelunking through the When's Album thread and came across this gem:
Once the tour is over, Guns N' Roses will turn their focus to working on a seventh album. Despite dozens of songs in rough form, the band are in no hurry - but there won't be another decade-long delay. "It won't be another Chinese Democracy but then again we're in no rush to make a bad record," says Ashba.
The "rough form" line stuck out to me. It'd be interesting to know how much was finished. Axl's comments seemed to suggest CD II was finished.
Also Axl mentioned 32 songs in 2006, Tommy mentioned 22 remaining in 2011, so that leaves 4 new songs written/assembled 2006-2011.
We don't know if Silkworms or Oh My God are included in the bunch but they probably are.
...but there won't be another decade-long delay.
#342 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
Axl reinvented himself.
He ditched the sha-na-na's, hey hey, and extended nasally notes. He sang with his natural voice and it sounded great and genuine. He sounds the worst on songs he's faking it on. It's a shame he didn't skip the excessive overdubs but hey, progress.
The wall of sound, computer samples, real samples, patchwork song structure, not bad ideas in and of themselves. It's a solid exploration if not marked progress.
The difference between Axl and Baz is Axl has a stronger mental game, had proven himself as a diverse artist, and well Subhuman is merely average. Chinese was a tasty dish, it just got to the table far too late, and that spoils the experience for everyone.
#343 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
Who knows what the truth is. What we get publicly is 99% bullshit and spin which is why I believe Axl more often than not.
Eh, I don't care much for Slash's solo work. Very Skynard. UYI I has a southern rock style to it on Izzy's songs.
Even if they do AFD 2 style and do it perfectly, it's not contemporary, like Flash said.
And a Skynard style album in an era of industrial post gen-X malaise? They'd be laughed out of the room.
Slash and Axl are opposites. Slash is Lemmy and a leather jacket. Doesn't change for shit. Just does his thing. Axl is high art high fashion. Change constantly. Who is right and who is wrong is merely a matter of happenstance and the changing of the seasons.
#344 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
Axl said in the Loder interview that it would've been easier to make an AFD style album 95-97 as that was his headspace at the time but Slash prevented it for whatever reason.
He also said he wanted to do songs about love and positivity or something to that effect and Slash just wanted to do songs about hate in his peak Arizona days.
Oy, who knows.
#345 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
The new A-List referenced in 2002 is a mystery considering near everything we've heard dates to 1997-1999. Tommy mentions stuff he hadn't heard which again, would've likely been something else than what was on CD.
The cover was already solidified as of 2001 so the trip would've been before that.
And yes, a music video commissioned for a song 2+ years old. The label was smartly not having any of that.
#346 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Chinese Democracy Sequel References Thread » 388 weeks ago
I loved those titles from Kerrang but they're unsubstantiated and could be read as someone taking the piss with them.
Todd The Intern will live on in our hearts.
I don't remember the chronology but I'd bet "Prostitute" was mentioned before that in 1999. I couldn't find the date for the Spin article off the cuff or Zakk Wylde's comment about it sounding like "fire and ice". And "This I Love" was pretty much the most infamous unreleased GN'R song, so really, taken holistically the Kerrang thing is nothing new combined with hot air.
Axl is acting coy about it being an ironic statement, he told it to the new guys and they liked it and went with it. I'm sure it was at least partially influenced by Duff calling him a dictator but I mean, it was Axl's clear vision. Note the year Kundun came out and his comments about going to see movies with Zakk too. Then you have the line about the album being what he did over the summer (maybe 1999).
The video was the least of his worries. At the time of release, he didn't have a lead guitarist. 
#347 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Slash solo album with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators incoming » 388 weeks ago
It's not too surprising considering it all dates back to 1997-1999.
Books, abstract themes, and ex-lovers.
It's partly why I was amped to hear the Beltrami stuff. It was like, eh maybe he found a different vein.
#348 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Slash solo album with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators incoming » 388 weeks ago
No, but I've read all the books Axl wrote songs about, so there's that.
#349 Re: Guns N' Roses » Dissecting Chinese Democracy: Track 6 - There Was A Time » 389 weeks ago
Yeah, the "I would do anything for you" line and "There was a tiiiiiime" scream in the Bucket addendum is pretty incredible.
#350 Re: Guns N' Roses » New Slash solo album with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators incoming » 389 weeks ago
I said it somewhere he replaced GN'R the band but not GN'R the business.
Tommy is Duff without the kids and exploded pancreas and ensuing come to Jesus type revelations.
The new guitarists were in Axl's own image, about the art, press shy, and iconoclastic.
In a perfect world, he would've abandoned (or released) CD, but whatever legal albatross that was still would've been. Advance money doesn't grow on trees.
But he's also under pressure just like he was in 97-99 - rebuilding and reinventing GN'R or embracing the nostalgia circuit.
