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Re: Rehearsals Streaming
I read an interview with Slash where he said he went into the studio with his guitar ready to overdub the entire album like some other classic "live" albums were...but had a listen to it and figured that most of it was already there, so he then just added a couple of little bits here and there.
I thought he had said that he was thrilled that they were doing a live album, like many of the classic bands he grew up listening to did. But he didn't like the way it turned out because it was far from live. Or something along those lines.
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Yes I think he said that too.
I think i para-phrased it bad
The impression I got was that he was pumped for a live record like he grew up with etc, then someone from the label or whatever told him to go listen to the masters and fix any errors.
So he went in there - and he was expecting that he may have to fix a lot - because looking back he realised that most of the band were high as fuck those nighrs and the insanity of those days..but when he played it back he was presently surprised that 90% of it was already there. And he said something about the natural chemestry of the old band.
I'll try and find the quote cos I'm not doing it justice. Anyway - impression I got was that he said he fixed the guitar in places where it was inaudable or out of tune badly and stuff but that most of his parts have their basis in the originals.
- Mikkamakka
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Those Live Era collaboration was the strangest thing that happened in the past 15 years of GN'R. I mean Slash, Duff and Axl all involved, with Del James doing some song selection. They were working on the same thing although separately (just like in the case of the never released Best Of).
I'd love to hear how those things went, and I'm really curious if the were still talking through assistants and house-keepers, and how they were able to finish something 'together'. The only juicy bit I know is that Slash wanted Bad Apples on the album badly, but Del James nixed the idea.
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That Big Daddy remix is fucking atrocious.
It's a mixture of the original vocals done live by Axl, mixed with new studio vocals, disguised to sound live, but the damn mix is different so it's WAY fuckin' obvious. The guitar solo is OBVIOUSLY not Slash. Even high, he doesn't play as choppy (that's what we're calling it today) as Robin.
What in the FUCK happened there. Did Axl think that Big Daddy would be some sort of cross promotional deal for Live Era? But he didn't feel safe enough to release it as-is?
It's incredibly funny in 2011 considering how many songs they've licensed, in their original studio form.
If I remember correctly Ridley Scott wanted Jungle for Black Hawk Down, and Axl would only license it if he were allowed to re-record it with the current band at the time, and Scott just said "no thanks".
Why alter perfection? Does Axl still look back on AFD, and think "yeah but this still isn't quite right, I need THREE guitarists" - wtfh?
The only case it'd make any sense at all is if you had Buckethead re-record Nightrain, specifically that solo, so not only to you get that SUPERIOR Bucket solo in the song, but Axl can alter the song at the end where it doesn't fade out, but it closes out like the live version.
Other than that, leave it the fuck alone.
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I'd chop off Axlins right arm for a studio version of Nightrain with Buckethead.
The Big Daddy SCOM doesn't sound good at all, but hey, it made for an interesting listen. Much more than if nothing had come out, as I don't think I've enjoyed SCOM since 1998. Anything for something fresh, even if it was quite ugly.
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If I remember correctly Ridley Scott wanted Jungle for Black Hawk Down, and Axl would only license it if he were allowed to re-record it with the current band at the time, and Scott just said "no thanks".
Close, but no cigar.
A formal request for WTTJ was made, Axl replied with a request for an advance screening. If he'd like the movie, he would offer the 1998 cut by Finck/Tobias/Stinson/Freese/Dizzy.
The producers agreed to go along with this and set up the screening in November 2001.
"[In November], Axl sacked Tom Zutaut at an advance screening of Ridley Scott's movie Black Hawk Down. The director wanted to use Welcome to the Jungle in the movie, and negotiations started to see if the movie people would accept a re-recorded version by the new line-up.
[...] 'Part of Axl's induction process for his new band [in 1998] was that they re-record every song off of Appetite,' [Zutaut] says. 'So we just had to spend a day mixing it.' [...] Axl had requested a private screening of the movie (a standard request). When he turned up to find strangers there, he felt that Zutaut had misled him over the nature of the screening.
[...] Zutaut, meanwhile, claims to have been set-up by someone looking to discredit him - an accusation denied by the Axl Rose camp." (Classic Rock, 04/08)
"[Black Hawk Down]'s music supervisor, Kathy Nelson, confirmed to allstar that her company had been dealing unsuccessfully with Guns N' Roses' reps to include that song in the soundtrack. [...] 'I found out that it's incredibly difficult to license Guns N' Roses songs,' says Nelson. 'We tried for the rights to the original masters, and then a re-recorded version. We came close, but it just wasn't going to happen.'" (Allstar, 01/08/02)
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