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#631 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Creative Crisis of Guns N' Roses » 418 weeks ago
The gift of hindsight would say that Axl should've cast off his lead guitarist after every album cycle.
At a minimum, when he wipes someone's contributions off the record for petty reasons, he should stick with it and not get back together with them a hot second later. Instead, we got the same stop-and-go bullshit for years.
Axl could've had his cake and eaten it too. An ear for diverse music, an eye for talented young guitarists. A rotating cast of players that deliver good performances which benefit "GN'R" musically, the fans as new albums are released, and Axl with his reputation and legacy. I mean if he had produced some records in the mean time he could even have captured Bowie off-stage as well.
It's hard to imagine CD without Buckethead's contributions but we're through the looking glass. That option doesn't exist if the chickenman doesn't enter the roost. It'd merely be a fantasy scenario on music boards. And as great as his contributions are, it's a perfectly acceptable album without them. If you release CD Mk. I 1997-1999, it's a hit record.
So much fuckery.
#632 Re: The Garden » Football » 418 weeks ago
KC put tape out on how to attack NE's D. Every halfway intelligent team should study that tape like the Bible. Their front seven looked like shit and that'll expose the secondary.
Brady and the O will improve but the defense is the one I'd be worried about.
It's a long season, we'll see how it shakes.
#633 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Interview » 418 weeks ago
I'd guess it's a Cold War.
Axl being a combination of the aging actress who is only still relevant in their head and simultaneously persona non grata with the handful of people he so brazenly burned his bridges with.
And dark as it is to say, Axl is probably a better commodity dead than alive at this point.
Releasing a GH/VBO could potentially release Guns from their contract. It gives Axl even more leverage.
Another compilation doesn't really make sense either. You can buy ala carte on iTunes or just pick up the Greatest Hits which probably kicks back more favorably to the record company.
#634 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Interview » 418 weeks ago
It's possible the culmination to the tour is a NITL DVD/CD release just in time to stuff your stocking.
The reasonable thing to do would be a CD 10th with new songs, re-recordings, whatever. It could be the icebreaker between Axl and record company. But it'll come and pass without a peep.
Maybe a tweet. Maybe.
Axl and the record company reunion is truly a not in this lifetime affair.
#635 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Creative Crisis of Guns N' Roses » 418 weeks ago
The record was supposed to come out in November 2004. The start of the promo push.
The broad strokes would be that he had long fancied New York City and was there on official business as Geffen started to fold into Sanctuary and UMG. Sanctuary and Merck were bankrolling the project, Axl was there making contacts, diversifying his network, and recording the album. He was also holding rehearsals for Buckethead's replacement and Bumble partially joined the fray at that time.
The Rockstar Games guys are huge music fans (they started out as music industry interns) in particular rock n' roll and 80s metal, as the name of the company would imply. It's not beyond the pale to suggest their deep connections let them know that Axl Rose was in New York City recording Chinese Democracy. A natural interest grew. Axl would've heard of the games. A feeling out process, the guys past the purity test, and then the big ask: Hey Axl, Do you want to be in our game?
It wouldn't be unfair to suggest after failing to pull the trigger, he turtled for a year before resurfacing in February 2006 back home in LA.
#636 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Interview » 418 weeks ago
Depends on the sound
Stay Of Execution > NITL > Guns N Roses Was
The fact that Catcher was intended as a song on the 3rd album interests me. Always seemed very parting glass.
#637 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson "Scream" - September 29th » 418 weeks ago
Wow...people question if he's singing on the albums?
His well WAS bone dry.
He sounds like Axl....willing to spend a huge chunk of his career doing anything but recording.
Invincible cost $30 million to produce.
$14 million, Axl? Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
That reminds me, there's still 1-2 albums worth of songs from those sessions as well.
#638 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Interview » 418 weeks ago
They should re-release it but the cover should be plastered with faux tape that says "Not Chinese Democracy" in black sharpie like Bowie did with Heroes/The Next Day.
#639 Re: The Sunset Strip » Michael Jackson "Scream" - September 29th » 418 weeks ago
they're using rejects from other albums to fill up the space on deluxe editions, its definitely bone dry.
Michael was his new project he was working on and I would say working on should be used loosely. Most MJ fans hate that record because 1/3 of it is in question if it's Michael singing and/or what he thought of it.
Xscape was a combination of Dangerous and Invincible sessions.
There's at least 1-2 albums out there including half of an album which made it to Michael and the other half equally controversial. It was briefly brought to auction and then rescinded earlier this year.
You hope to Christ we don't have to suffer through that sort of horse shit with GNR.
#640 Re: Guns N' Roses » Duff Interview » 418 weeks ago
Who else had the Axl cracking jokes story? Bumble probably?
Of course Beavan quoted Axl doing a stand up routine as a warm-up back in the day.
I don't see why they'd re-release CD with Slash and Duff, the songs are virtually the same. *shrugs*
