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#51 Re: Guns N' Roses » Post UR top 2 Favorite Gnr forum moments » 87 weeks ago
The top forum moment was, objectively, the time Axl himself came on one of the forums and the first thing he did was call one of his own fans a cunt.
#52 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 87 weeks ago
It's quite common in some bands to credit everyone as songwriters.
For example RHCP and U2 tend to do this regardless of who the actual first songwriter is.
There's pros and cons either way.
Dave Mustaine has sometimes spoken against that model - pointing out why should he credit people as songwriters who just happened to be sitting around in a room behind a drum kit when he wrote a new guitar riff on the spot.
On the other hand you get situations like Estranged - where a guitar line significantly elevates what could have been considered a completed musical piece without them.
Likewise when songs have been jammed in a group it can get complex - if a singer copies parts of a background guitar part in the vocal melody or a guitar solo rearranges parts of the vocal line - who wrote what. Sometimes its easier to just give everyone and nod and not worry about the drama of who made what first.
Queen used to have massive drama over songwriting credits in the 70s (most notably when Roger Taylor made a shitload of money from I'm In Love With My Car simply because it was the b-side to Bohemian Rhapsody). Then in the 80s they started just crediting everything to "Queen" and divvying up the proceeds equally.
That worked 'cos they had a stable line-up, of course.
#53 Re: Guns N' Roses » Atlas Shrugged (2023 ) - Rumour » 88 weeks ago
Miguelox26 wrote:and that he remade songs that according to his rocker point he didn't want because they weren't hard rock doesn't give him much coherence.
Likewise, I take the point that VR was trying very hard not to be an 80s band too - even though I love VR for what it was.
The irony is, Contraband was exactly the album that GN'R should've made in the 00's. If they'd taken those tracks, with that production, and mashed it up with the best of Axl's Chinese Democracy efforts (TWAT, IRS, CD etc), and released it at that time, we'd have had the comeback of the century.
#54 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 88 weeks ago
Sky Dog wrote:We all know it will be a complete mess….I literally don’t expect anything.
It probably sold so few copies it's delayed hoping for a spike in sales that will never come and will eventually be shit canned.
The single is already dead anyways.
Jesus wept, will you stop playing Eeyore? Literally every development is greeted with you going "all is lost, the band is doomed, fuck everything."
They could announce a new album tomorrow with Adler and Izzy back in the mix, a sell-out headlining tour and a concert film that outsells Taylor Swift and you'd still be whinging.
#55 Re: Guns N' Roses » Atlas Shrugged (2023 ) - Rumour » 88 weeks ago
it seems more probable that Axl's vocal difficulties have reached such a peak where ANY recorded vocals of the past where Axl sounds kinda like Axl are now prime meat for the band.
I very much doubt this is an issue. In a studio recording setting, where you have time for an infinite number of vocal takes and you're standing still instead of running around a stadium stage at 60 years old, it would be relatively easy to lay down decent vocal tracks. And that's before you even get on to the idea of massaging those tracks with some studio jiggery-pokery.
Hell, in a year or two it's likely that producers will be able to simply dial in an AI vocal filter that applies Axl's 90s vocal stylings from a model trained on their library of recordings, over his current voice – and no one would be any the wiser.
#56 Re: Guns N' Roses » Atlas Shrugged (2023 ) - Rumour » 88 weeks ago
I totally agree, oh my god in Rio 3 it sounded abrasive, it also sounded brutal in house of blues! I think it's a really fierce song! Absurd as the first single is a punch in the face to slash and duff... and well deserved! axlstyle!
I always like the way they fucked up the outro at RIR3, and Axl was left spitting the last line out on his own after the band had finished the song.
"The only one in the game who's lost is you."
They should keep that in the final version.
#57 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 88 weeks ago
If I recall one of the reasons Jason left Metallica is that he had a side project on the go and James wasn't happy about it. Great albums don't happen by mistake - band members need to be focussed.
Literally what happened with the new Stones album; Mick set them a deadline.
#58 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 90 weeks ago
Apropos of nothing, does it seem confusing that Absurd and Hard Skool changed their working titles but Perhaps and The General haven’t? Does that mean anything for writing credits or something?
I doubt it, it's probably nothing more than the "familiar" titles being working ones, like The Blues.
#59 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General confirmed next » 91 weeks ago
Hey Axl, look what happens when you get a band in the studio and just bash out a song as live, instead of overthinking it.
#60 Re: Guns N' Roses » If GNR goes on hiatus, NuGuns should reunite » 91 weeks ago
This was a really interesting interview from the point of view of "why the ChiDem-era band didn't really gel":
