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- monkeychow
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Re: Stay of Execution Album Cover
Amazing work. Is this your profession or are some people just that good at stuff casually?
Re: Stay of Execution Album Cover
Can you explain the title Chinese Democracy to me please?
I always thought it was about the direction of our country not China's.
https://web.archive.org/web/20030831052 … ml#chinese
Typical vague axl rant, but clearly nothing to do with pro democratic Chinese paramilitary brigades.
Surely some.more about in those chat transcripts.
Re: Stay of Execution Album Cover
Haha nicely done! Fits the style of the proper Chinese booklet and uses the classic typeface.
I have an image of a hotel 'stay' as well with the title's fun wordplay. Stay of execution = not being executed and also stay of execution = 'my time here was an execution'. Who's to say if that wordplay was intended.
That's an interesting interpretation.
I thought Red Panda was a joke about Axl disappearing and of course his hair color.
Stay of Execution I thought something like a joke about Axl being late all the time and taking two decades to release a record. As in... not executing. A stay of execution.
Axl probably spent 5 years in his bunker just thinking up triple entendres for his trilogy of records.
- monkeychow
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Re: Stay of Execution Album Cover
The just need to do something.
Either a remix of CD with Slash and Duff, or the long awaited CD2 that was written mostly in at least 10 years back with Slash and Duff, or redo that DJ stuff recorded 2 years back with Slash...or record something entirely new....just do something....it's 18 years since most of CD was recorded...and nearly 10 since it came out.
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well, but they're doing something - milking the reunion cow during the world tour 
and the world is still not saturated enough, so this can go on for a year, or maybe even a couple of years. remember the neverending UYI tour or even 2009-14 tour (hell, I don't even remember how many legs did that one have)
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The last time soon wasn't the word, it was effectively 4.5 years until the possibility of a release which ended up being a full 6 years by the time it came to pass, for perspective.
I think Axl is saving whatever maestro moments he has in the vault for Hollywood and doesn't generally give a hot fuck about the CD II stuff.
After the 2nd leg, they'll pause for everyone to do solo stuff / other ventures, then maybe come back for a 3rd leg. It's possible they could use the 95 GNR sessions as the backbone of a new record and use that as marketing for the new tour. It's also possible they market it as a farewell tour and get people that way.
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I don't think anything from middle 90's was more than just some ideas. it makes no sense to get back to that stuff, especially considering the times have changed (it's 2017 now, remember?).
it makes more sense to dig into the ChiDem stuff, which MIGHT sound much more modern. the problem is, 1) it's almost as old as the middle 90's sessions - most of that stuff was written and recorded in about 1997-2002, 2) nobody from the current lineup except Dizzy was ever working on that stuff, 3) nobody knows how many completed or almost completed songs are there, as most of that stuff might again be ideas, riffs and only in Axl's mind there might be a complete song here and there, which (as was the case of Chinese Democracy) must be glued together from millions of separate pieces (and the final products sounds mostly incoherent and inconsistent).
