A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
07-05-20 | 07:42 PM
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A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Should be interesting
https://www.guitarworld.com/news/sla...r-guns-n-roses
Slash recently spoke with Sweetwater for the music retailer’s GearFest 2020, and during the conversation the electric guitar player revealed that while he’s been home quarantining like the rest of us, he’s also been working on new material for Guns N’ Roses.
"I've been pretty much a homebody, but I've been back and forth between my studio in the house and doing a lot of writing and recording on my own,” Slash told Sweetwater’s Nick Bowcott.
“I've been jamming with Duff and I've been jamming with Axl, and I've been doing stuff like that. So we've been getting some work done that way.
"But I haven't been doing much else. I haven't been doing any collaborations with the odd artist and whatnot. I'm basically just focusing on writing new music and recording demos and recording guitar stuff for Guns.”
The new material would be Slash’s first original recorded music with Guns N’ Roses since 1991’s Use Your Illusion records.
"I've been pretty much a homebody, but I've been back and forth between my studio in the house and doing a lot of writing and recording on my own,” Slash told Sweetwater’s Nick Bowcott.
“I've been jamming with Duff and I've been jamming with Axl, and I've been doing stuff like that. So we've been getting some work done that way.
"But I haven't been doing much else. I haven't been doing any collaborations with the odd artist and whatnot. I'm basically just focusing on writing new music and recording demos and recording guitar stuff for Guns.”
The new material would be Slash’s first original recorded music with Guns N’ Roses since 1991’s Use Your Illusion records.
07-05-20 | 07:48 PM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
I’d be interested to hear a new album from them. Especially now that Slash is back in the picture. I liked Chinese Democracy, but that was already twelve years ago.
07-05-20 | 08:56 PM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
I'd be down for this. 
07-05-20 | 09:23 PM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Not without Izzy.
Just pay him what he wants. A really good GnR album is going to, in the end, bring in more money than Chinese Democracy Part 2.
Just pay him what he wants. A really good GnR album is going to, in the end, bring in more money than Chinese Democracy Part 2.
07-06-20 | 01:28 AM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
I bet when it does come out people will say they like the old stuff better
08-30-20 | 04:59 PM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Judging by the past studio efforts of various GnR members, I suspected Izzy might be the master songwriter. (I don't know how much producer Mike Clink contributed to GnR's overall song arrangements + sound).
Subjectively I found the solo efforts of Duff and Slash, were not particularly memorable. Nor most of Chinese Democracy. Stuff I only listened to once or twice, and the cd ended up collecting dust on my bookshelf ever since.
The few Izzy cds I heard, were easier to listen to and got as many as a dozen or so plays when I first purchased them.
08-31-20 | 03:42 PM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
West Arkeen also deserves a lot of credit for the early Guns songs. Supposedly he had a hand in a lot more songs than the ones he was credited on.
I went to see Izzy and the Ju Ju Hounds at the Avalon nightclub in Chicago right after he left GNR. They didn't play a single Guns song.
I went to see Izzy and the Ju Ju Hounds at the Avalon nightclub in Chicago right after he left GNR. They didn't play a single Guns song.
08-06-21 | 10:23 AM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
This dropped today.
08-06-21 | 10:29 AM
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re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
That song IS absurd.
The riffs are mediocre, there's no real vocal melody, and no chorus hook. And the vocal style is, shall we say, less than stellar.
It's all attitude, almost no substance.
And that's the song they lead with? A leftover from Chinese Democracy that didn't fit on that album and wasn't very good to begin with?
The riffs are mediocre, there's no real vocal melody, and no chorus hook. And the vocal style is, shall we say, less than stellar.
It's all attitude, almost no substance.
And that's the song they lead with? A leftover from Chinese Democracy that didn't fit on that album and wasn't very good to begin with?
08-06-21 | 01:24 PM
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Re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Sometime between "Use Your Illusion" and "Chinese Democracy," Axl decided he wanted to be Nine Inch Nails or Filter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
08-06-21 | 03:24 PM
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Man, that was gross. Oh well, rumor is the Use Your Illusion box set is still coming out this year.
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08-06-21 | 04:30 PM
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"Absurd" makes me nostalgic for "My World"
08-06-21 | 10:34 PM
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08-07-21 | 10:08 AM
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Re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Sometime between "Use Your Illusion" and "Chinese Democracy," Axl decided he wanted to be Nine Inch Nails or Filter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
I bought Appetite for Destruction when it came out in 87, and it was the soundtrack for my spring 1988 semester. To me, this sounds like a 90's band with backwards letters in their misspelled name. Older fans won't buy it, and younger fans may like this, but they won't buy a ticket to a show when they'll have to sit through Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, and ten minutes of November Rain.
08-07-21 | 11:16 AM
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Re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
The biggest fault of Absurd to me is that there just isn't much of an actual SONG there. There's some noisy, mediocre riffing, Axl yelling in a voice that's snotty and annoying, and that's it. No real melody, no hook, nothing particularly musical - it's noisy and has a lot of attitude, but nothing else.
To steal from an old Wendy's commercial - Where's the song??
To steal from an old Wendy's commercial - Where's the song??
08-07-21 | 08:53 PM
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Re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Sometime between "Use Your Illusion" and "Chinese Democracy," Axl decided he wanted to be Nine Inch Nails or Filter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
. Doesn't sound like AXL, don't think it's even him 
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08-08-21 | 03:15 PM
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I can’t believe they even released this. Listened to it twice just because I couldn’t believe how awful it was.
I wish they would get together and write a few new songs.
I wish they would get together and write a few new songs.
08-08-21 | 05:03 PM
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I am seeing them at Allegiant Stadium in less than three weeks. I need to learn that opening riff forward and backwards so that the moment I hear it played I can make it to the bathroom before the rush.
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08-09-21 | 08:05 PM
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08-09-21 | 09:31 PM
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Re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
Or you could just look at setlist.fm, they aren't changing it up very much.
So far it's consistently right after Let Me Be Your Dog and right before Civil War
So far it's consistently right after Let Me Be Your Dog and right before Civil War
08-11-21 | 02:28 PM
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Sometime between "Use Your Illusion" and "Chinese Democracy," Axl decided he wanted to be Nine Inch Nails or Filter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
That's just not in the Guns N' Roses wheelhouse at all, and all of the stuff since then has just been somewhere between mediocre and unlistenable. When they're playing stripped-down hard rock that skirts hair metal -- sort of in the AC/DC mold -- they're great. But it seems like Axl has this obsession with making over-processed, industrial sounding noise that the old fans don't like, and the people who like that kind of music don't want it from Guns N' Roses. Maybe he's doing in an attempt to mask the fact that he just isn't a very good songwriter.
09-23-21 | 09:25 AM
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Re: A new Guns N’ Roses album coming in 2020?
New reports share that...
"GnFnR" tracklist:
1 - "HardSkool"
2 - "Wichita Lineman"
3 - "Black Hole Sun"
4 - "The Seeker"
5 - "Bennie & The Jets"
6 - "Absurd"
- "Hard Skool" will be released as a single tomorrow, Sept 24
- "GnFnR" -- an EP of 2 original songs and 4 covers -- will be released the following Friday, Oct 1.
"GnFnR" tracklist:
1 - "HardSkool"
2 - "Wichita Lineman"
3 - "Black Hole Sun"
4 - "The Seeker"
5 - "Bennie & The Jets"
6 - "Absurd"
09-23-21 | 10:10 AM
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I heard the same. I think Duff may have also said something about it recently on his "3 Chords and the Truth" show on Sirius. Regardless, I poked around and didn't see anything definitive but did come across this recent picture of Axl backstage with a fan. That outfit rules...enjoy.
09-23-21 | 10:50 AM
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