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#31 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
From what I remember he was saying Axl looked like he was hit by a truck
No, he used the alleged Axl quote to wish happy birthday to his mom. I posted the link to the old thread above.
#32 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
The last I heard was her son made fun of Axl, Erin Everly came to Axl’s defense and dogged him.
I must have missed that one.
I remember Erin's auctions that included journals/hand-written notes/lyrics from Axl, and then Instagram posts with her at GNR shows, but not anything like that!
#33 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
AgesOfTheIce wrote:misterID wrote:I really don’t take it as jest, he was just being funny on the description. But who knows.
And I refuse to believe Oklahoma doesn’t have vocals
IDK, on the AFD podcast after Brain talked about writing The General and Seven, he said "and I think Axl sang on The General". Not only did he not mention Axl singing on Seven, he wasn't even 100% sure about The General. Granted, this was in 2019 and his email regarding Seven was in 2010, but it seems strange he would remember so much about the individual parts of these songs years after being done with them in 2010 but then completely forget everything a decade later. I definitely view it as jest. According to others this is not the only email he would answer like this, he had gotten tired of responding and wasn't giving serious answers anymore.
Dude, absolutely. That “we wrote it while eating general Tso’s chicken” always sounded to me like he was joking with a hardcore fan, definitely tired of being asked so many questions. That “ball sack bridge” or whatever he said about “Seven” was another example.
I find Brain's General Tso's chicken story to be totally believable. It was a lengthy interview with the Appetite For Distortion podcast and he gave candid answers. He had no reason to lie about that.
Most of the titles of the instrumentals in the locker leaks seem to be just random titles the members who wrote them came up with - most likely inside jokes. And,naturally, the same happened with the instrumentals written by Brain and his friends, like The General and Seven.
It generally appears that the earliest working titles were given by the band members in the case of tracks that originated from them and not Axl, whereas the tracks that originated from Axl and were developed by the band had working titles that he gave them (e.g. Jackie Chan, Oklahoma).
Then Axl would either change or keep the same working title the band members came up with when he would start working on the lyrics. It looks like he sometimes used the working titles as inspiration for the lyrics (or at least the chorus), e.g. for I'm Sorry/Sorry - he had done this before, e.g. with Locomotive. Or the working titles would give him an idea for a loosely connected lyrical concept/subject matter, e.g. Shackler's Revenge, and The General seems to be another case of that. And when he couldn't do either of that and would just write lyrics that were totally unrelated to the working title, he would give the song a new title (e.g. Three Dollar Pyramid/Better).
#34 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 84 weeks ago
The writing credits are not even right for the song, the left out some of the old band members from the CD era.
which is effed up by AxlThat website that people get the writing credits from are wrong all the time.
There are UYI songs where we know the writing credits and they are wrong
One of them gives Dizzy a writing credit he does not have for example.
The credits in these databases are not wrong. They represent who gets royalties for writing the songs, regardless of who are listed as writers in an album's liner notes (which can be just "written by Guns N' Roses").
Actually, in the UYI box set that was released last year the credits in the liner notes have been updated and are the same as on SESAC, ASCAP etc. with all the members being credited for all songs. Matt Sorum and Dizzy get a small cut of the royalties (1% and 0.5% respectively) for UYI and that's why they are listed.
It's all explained in detail here:
#35 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 85 weeks ago
For context, in that chat (via email?) Brain brought up Seven when asked about his favourite unreleased song:
Q: What's your favorite released and unreleased GN'R song?
A: TWAT and SEVEN
Q: TWAT is my favorite GN'R song hands down -- and I've been a huge fan since 1988 -- so now I am very excited about Seven. Can you tell us anything about this song? Is it a rocker?
A: ITS AN TIMELESS BALLAD WITH A BLOW YOUR FACE OFF CHORUS AND A SUCK YOUR BALL SACK BRIDGE!!!!!
#36 Re: Guns N' Roses » Me And My Elvis Instrumental Leak (2019) » 86 weeks ago
My two cents:
1. Monsters is Leave Me Alone/Elvis and The Monster of Soul/ Soul Monster because a) the high-pitched/scream-y part fits Axl's description b) it has work from Marco Beltrami (on the other hand, there's nothing heard about Beltrami working on Monstrocity).
2. The General and Soul Monster/Monsters started out as separate tracks and were still separate by the time of Axl's chats in 2008, but were merged into one two-part song by 2010.
#37 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 87 weeks ago
Or Slash/Duff getting credit for songs they did not write on AFD, UYI etc.
Right. For example, as far as we can tell from the rehearsal snippets of Don't Cry and Think About You with Tracii Guns and Rob Gardner, there were no significant differences with the released versions, aside from the solos. But Slash, Duff (and Steven, in the case of Think About You), all got writing credits.
#38 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 87 weeks ago
How the hell are Slash and Duff credited? Unless it was a condition to work on/release it
They are credited on all CD era songs released by the current lineup. There's obviously a deal in place.
However, it's not that different than the Appetite lineup getting credits for Hollywood Rose songs.
#39 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 87 weeks ago
Blackstar wrote:Writing credits for Perhaps and The General are on SESAC (which collects royalties for Axl). It looks that the full name of The General is "The General and Monsters"
https://i.servimg.com/u/f97/20/05/33/00/perhap10.jpg
https://i.servimg.com/u/f97/20/05/33/00/the_ge10.jpgSteve Freeman and Marc Haggard have written songs with Brain and Buckethead.
So I may have been right about the "Monsters call me Monsters coming" line
Wow. I guess we'll find out soon.
#40 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 87 weeks ago
Writing credits for Perhaps and The General are on SESAC (which collects royalties for Axl). It looks that the full name of The General is "The General and Monsters"
Steve Freeman and Marc Haggard have written songs with Brain and Buckethead.
