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Re: Guns N' Roses Vinyl LPs
Axlin08 wrote:Have you ever heard the live albums from other bands? They all have massive work done on them before release.
Kiss Alive! is considered a holy grail of sorts of a live album, and it's got tons of work done to it. And the more Alive albums that came out, the more and more refined they got.
I just don't see why Axl was an asshole for what he did with that album. Everybody does it.
I have many live albums that have been tinkered with and many that haven't. I should've clarified, it's not the overdubs themselves I have a problem with, it's how poorly they were done and inserted that bothers me.
I could understand that. But honestly I didn't mind the overdubs as much as I liked didn't like that fuckin' constantly cheering audience. Ozzy's live stuff does the same shit.
I can't stand that. No fuckin' audience constantly screams "Yesssssss, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" thoughout the whole fuckin' thing.
It's something that has ALWAYS irritated the fuck out of me in modern live releases and Live Era is no different.
Nightrain, Jungle, Dust N' Bones, It's Alright, November Rain, Yesterdays, YCBM, KOHD, Estranged & Paradise City are all bad ass imo. Which is basically half the album.
The rest I either A) didn't like the work done to them, or B) preferred their original live performances. Ones that "stunk out" particularly was me being super-pissed that the Omaha '93 performance of Coma was used, rather than the FAR superior Chicago '92 performance. Out Ta Get Me sounded better at Ritz '88. Move To The City & Rocket Queen both sounded better in their original Tokyo '92 performances, rather than the remix. Don't Cry was better with the near Shannon Hoon dueted Chicago '92 performance. And Sweet Child O' Mine was the biggest steaming clusterfucked turd of the whole thing. Bitch sounded TERRIBLE. It was obvious SO SO SO much of it had been reworked, and the outro sounded terrible. I always loved that outro and to see them rip it apart like that, broke my heart.
So it's a mixed bag.
Re: Guns N' Roses Vinyl LPs
I listened to Live Era the other day, and there's no doubt in my mind that the majority of the vocals are from the AFD redux 99 album.
SCOM from Live Era and the rerecorded segment from Big Daddy use the same exact vocals, they've just been mixed with live parts, the old band and a "92 era" ending. But it's the same vocals from the 99 re-recording. Nightrain, RQ and YCBM were also from 1999, it sounds. I'd also wager NR and Estranged were, too.
Maybe MSL wasn't bullshitting.
But listening to "Yesterdays," I swear to God... if there was a reunion, even just one show, and Axl sang Yesterdays, it'd probably make me cry like a little bitch.
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