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Re: Remember when...
Axl could easily do this right now. Waiting until 2013 is a fucking joke. Unless Axl is so flat broke that Uni will not fund any future new GN'R material, I dunno. Axl could drop all of this within the year. There is PLENTY of time.
I've been a big supporter for a long time that Axl needs to pull his absolute best material from the vault, re-work it with the current band, while also working up all new original songs and release it as a new GN'R album.
He needs to take the leftovers and demos (like you said) and just drop it as a massive box set chronicaling the "lost years" and just drop that stuff, untouched with Robin & Bucket's original work. Whatever songs that made the new GN'R album, need to be released in their demo form on the box set, with hand-written liner notes from Axl.
From that point Axl could tour that for another 3-4 years, while starting completely fresh with the band he's got now and he could completely forget that period.
I know some people thing "A good song is a good song, no matter when it's released", but the new GN'R did not have a timeless enough sound that they can just crack open the vault in 2012, thinking sounds and effects that were popular for 15 minutes in 1999 are still gonna sound "good and fresh".
That's why the new reworked/original album + the box set is his best option.
Re: Remember when...
Axl could easily do this right now. Waiting until 2013 is a fucking joke. Unless Axl is so flat broke that Uni will not fund any future new GN'R material, I dunno. Axl could drop all of this within the year. There is PLENTY of time.
I've been a big supporter for a long time that Axl needs to pull his absolute best material from the vault, re-work it with the current band, while also working up all new original songs and release it as a new GN'R album.
He needs to take the leftovers and demos (like you said) and just drop it as a massive box set chronicaling the "lost years" and just drop that stuff, untouched with Robin & Bucket's original work. Whatever songs that made the new GN'R album, need to be released in their demo form on the box set, with hand-written liner notes from Axl.
From that point Axl could tour that for another 3-4 years, while starting completely fresh with the band he's got now and he could completely forget that period.
I know some people thing "A good song is a good song, no matter when it's released", but the new GN'R did not have a timeless enough sound that they can just crack open the vault in 2012, thinking sounds and effects that were popular for 15 minutes in 1999 are still gonna sound "good and fresh".
That's why the new reworked/original album + the box set is his best option.
It would appear the 1999 sound didn't sit so well in 2008 either.
- Me_Wise_Magic
- Rep: 70
Re: Remember when...
Axl could easily do this right now. Waiting until 2013 is a fucking joke. Unless Axl is so flat broke that Uni will not fund any future new GN'R material, I dunno. Axl could drop all of this within the year. There is PLENTY of time.
I've been a big supporter for a long time that Axl needs to pull his absolute best material from the vault, re-work it with the current band, while also working up all new original songs and release it as a new GN'R album.
He needs to take the leftovers and demos (like you said) and just drop it as a massive box set chronicaling the "lost years" and just drop that stuff, untouched with Robin & Bucket's original work. Whatever songs that made the new GN'R album, need to be released in their demo form on the box set, with hand-written liner notes from Axl.
From that point Axl could tour that for another 3-4 years, while starting completely fresh with the band he's got now and he could completely forget that period.
I know some people thing "A good song is a good song, no matter when it's released", but the new GN'R did not have a timeless enough sound that they can just crack open the vault in 2012, thinking sounds and effects that were popular for 15 minutes in 1999 are still gonna sound "good and fresh".
That's why the new reworked/original album + the box set is his best option.
Agreed! 
The reason why I stated 2013 in my earlier post was due to management and all that crap.
- Me_Wise_Magic
- Rep: 70
Re: Remember when...
The 1999 sound wasn't heard in 2008. You heard 1999, 2002, 2004, 2006 all balled up together
I think the guitar and effects work was better on the 1999 version of IRS, it just needed that buckethead solo.
Sums up the mixes and takes in a nutshell. IRS and TWAT were great in the '99 versions; but just needed to be cleaned up a little in the mix and of course Mr. 
He added great guitar work to them and if they were released back in 2003 as singles, it would worked great in the band's favor. He gave the songs more of an edge and feeling to them. The 99' version of Catcher with Brian and the production at the time was perfect from what me and other forum members have posted already.
Re: Remember when...
I used Silkworms as an extreme example to show that anything he had would have charted higher and made a bigger impact than the Chinese popcorn fart in 2008.
Silkworms is B side material but it couldn't have been worse than the album's singles. Curiosity alone would have had an impact momentum wise.
- Me_Wise_Magic
- Rep: 70
Re: Remember when...
I think the synth intro from Mother Goose & Dizzy would work well for segueing into a new album or used some of the song for a bonus track for a box set on the session work. The lyrics for the song itself aren't great; but with Bucket's guitar parts on the live version from 2001 sounded really cool. The orchestral intro to The General would be even better. Starting a new record with that song would be a great concept to try or with a radio friendly rocker.
