Easy! in hard skool and absurd slash it has the same sound, it is no longer that classic gn'r sound, it doesn't sound so bluesy, it sounds more hard rock somewhat distorted, and even though they are not such direct songs it makes the same impressions, sound when crushing, its sound when you press the pedal is unmistakable! And finck in this i love for example strident, sharp and staccato sound and in street of dreams likewise, it hatches like slash but staccato the notes and those are the differences that make me give myself Realize that it's slash and not finck, it's cool to have different points of view!

without the intention of offending anyone. It's slash because it sounds on the recording, recognizing the sound of a musician you like is not easy, but you know it when you are able to do it. I recognize many other guitarists easily and this case is no different It's slash, duff and brain on the drums. What do I base it on? What I hear! Robin staccatoes the notes and has a more piercing, distorted and strident sound!

monsterscantkillme wrote:

jimmythegent wrote:

Coming round to the idea that it is Slash and Duff on Monsters

The General, I’m convinced that is Finck etc

What makes you come around to it being Slash and not Robin on Monsters? I think the Monsters solo towards the end is Robin. Sounds like Street Of Dreams and other Chinese solos. Do you hear that in Monsters?

I agree that Robin Finck is The General. The solo towards the end of The General is classic Robin Finck!

It would help if a source would throw us a bone and confirms who does the solos on these demos.

You could be right … there are some very sort of cliched sounding Slash licks on Monsters but it could be imitation. I’m more inclined to think it’s Slash present day - not particularly inspired or inspiring .

That said the songs are pretty good - definitely growers

Both of them need stronger endings - they just sort of end abruptly and out sort of end with a whimper

misterID wrote:

General is fantastic. For me it was everything I expected (knew it was gonna be in the vein of Shacklers, Scraped and Sorry, a very tight, non epic song). Just wished we got a longer solo and better intro/outro and no tin can effect vocals

TIL probably took the place of Atlas on CD because Finck lobbied hard to get it on the album. Catcher might be the culprit also cuz I don’t think it was ever intended for CD until it leaked, and the tracklist was very influenced by the leaks

Bingo! While I enjoyed every second of the leaks, ultimately they hurt the album in terms of track listing. I'm in the same boat as James. The songs we got from the village sessions and now these tasty little treats, are exactly what I was expecting from Chinese as an album. I love the UYI3 style songs. They are great tracks. But these SOG ,Monsters, General, and all of the voxless instrumental type tracks turn me on something fierce. I think if Axl just would have gotten his rocks off with a solo project we could have had the best of both worlds. We would have that trip-hop/experimental material on Axl's project and then the hardskools and twats on the guns record.

Either way I'm giddy to have so many vintage usernames pop back up into the discussion. Even some of the known "hoarders" are at least participating in the conversations about these new tracks. I think at this point in time, even the hoarders are starting to show some empathy towards getting closure to the Chinese era for the fan base.