Here Today... Gone To Hell!

As the Sirius GNR Channel has just started, it would be great if those that can tune in could let us all know what they're playing- anything out of the ordinary/special etc......

Channel opened with a nice intro and retrospective......and right into wttj, then locomotive. So the obvious choice to open, and then a deep cut. Bodes well for what they will play (hopefully everything!)

Its been a good hits to deep cuts mix, with some "music that inspired" like zepplin and old alice cooper, as well.

For those wondering: live november rain from coachella right now!!

So def some live rarities, too!!

Slither! They aren't ignoring VR.

That means they'll play a fair amount of Chinese IMO

Yup, so that answers that question! :) good mix so far!

So, do we all think the Motley Crue inclusion is an allusion to the vince neil fued?

Or is it the program director NOT realizing that ever existed?

It was funny that the last song Faction played was My Way by the sex pistols which used to open UYI Tour Shows.

I heard that, thought the same thing, and chuckled.

If nothing else, i'm getting a chance to give my kids (14,12,10) the Guns n roses a to z. :)

Every song has brought on another conversation. Except the bowie song. But bowie is just awesome (and we are still on tsi).

Live from coachella! That's cool.

Oh man- good luck with get in the ring, rocket queen, pretty tied up, etc etc! Haha!

Reckless life, scom, ac/dc (highway) and aerosmith (sweet emotion).

So far, this mix is pretty much awesome, for me. It'll stick here until they shut the channel down, if it stays like this.

Ok...i see no label for this version of its so easy. Its live....from when/where?  Troubadoor? It doesn't sound like a version i have heard. Indoors, for sure.

Hammersmith in London. It's a great bootleg.

Gonna find and grab! But that was soundboard version. Is bootleg soundboard?

no not sbd

Got the venue wrong... it is the Marquee in London.

Not positive if the links are still good, but: http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=57860.0 (http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=57860.0)

Kohd from coachella!

Bacon would be swearing at the radio....

I actually thought that in the car when they played the special Duff intro for covers.

This station sounds awesome! Jealous of those that can tune in!

I'm not sure about the regional restrictions...but I do know SiriusXM offers an internet only streaming subscription for like $10 or $11 a month!

A steep ask for a couple weeks of GnR radio, but...it's there for those that can take advantage of it.

I haven't been listening for the last 30-40 minutes, any CD tracks? I thought it was odd that they played VR before CD.

Nope. Yesterdays (or maybe 14 years? maybe both?), My Michelle, Something live (off Live Era..but I can't remember what right now).

AC/DC again, now. TNT.

I've had it on, streaming off my PS4, while cleaning up from dinner.

About to hop into my online class so it'll be on (i have earbuds in for class audio) but I won't get much listening done for the rest of tonight....

I see you lurking, FernandoR!!

They've done a pretty awesome job with this, so far! :)

This is our 30th Anniversary kick off folks, join the party, it goes all year.  :D

who sang brownstone with axl

Wow... Snakepit

Really surprised to hear Sympathy for the Devil...

Forgot how much I liked Sympathy. Axl sounds amazing!

The song that killed original GNR (until NITL) and sent AXL into hiding for 6 years.  Loved that song though

I remember being utterly confused as to what was happening with gnr when i bought the single! Ah...the days before the internet!

IDK why Sympathy seems to get so much hate. I always thought it was a great cover.

It's not that it's not a great cover. It IS (at least, IMHO).

It's what it meant to the band.  That song is basically GnR's "Let it Be".  So, it gets given short shrift by GnR fans based on that.

I mean, it's not like the song is the REASON the band broke up. It was the straw that broke the camels back, so to speak.  It was a symptom, not the actual disease. But still, it's hard not to listen to it (maybe a little easier, now) and think "That's the sound of my favorite band imploding" as you listen to Paul Tobias play that dueling guitar part....

Not sure how legit it is, but I've been using BugMeNot to gain access and listen to it online.
Played Black Leather and then Duff introduced Rocket Queen.

Sympathy might be a good cover but it can not beat the original by the Stones . I prefer Guns version of KOHD or Since I don't have you comparing to the originals for example, but Sympathy naaaaah. ::)

OH, I totally agree. Nothing beats the Stones version of that song. It was made for Mick's voice (literally).

But, the dueling guitars part in the Guns version..GAHHHHH...I have a love/hate relationship with it for exactly the reasons outlined previously.  It's such strong work and totally compelling...I could listen to that part over and over again.  And then....I get bummed out. :)

I completely agree, when it was released and hit radios in 94-95 I loved that guitar work, it wasn't until the revelations years later that I cringe a little listening to it because of the significance... but I still love the solo.

LOL!

They're playing The Fastbacks right now, with Duff on the drums!!!

:)

Turned it on this morning to Scraped (now some Zepplin D'yer Mak'er).  The are really hitting everything.  I'm going to listen to this nonstop.

this station is incredible. just an amazing mix of songs. they put good thought into the non-gnr bands to play. NIN on right now.

my only complaint is that yesterday they cut the last couple minutes of a live version of NR. where the song pauses for a second before the ending (the best part of the song and where Axl just puts everything he has into it and takes the song to a whole other level), they just ended it. really strange. something you might expect from regular radio due to the length of the song.

i'll be listening to this with friends and family on the beach for the next 3 days. just a great station.
 

At some point, I'm going to reach out and see what it would take to get this added as a permanent station type thing. Or at least get it a longer engagement.  They're doing SUCH a good job! Even if it was just one of their internet streaming only channels......

There has been zero announcement about whether Faction is coming back after GnR radio ends....so.....If Ozzy and Pearl Jam and Jimmy Buffet can have their limited engagement channels extended....maybe there's hope this one is, too.

Riad on now.

I have an older Stiletto radio that allows me to record up to six hours at a time, so that's what I'm doing. For some reason I couldn't record individual songs, so I guess six hour blocks will have to do.

I'd obviously fully support that, but I inquired about a full time Michael Jackson station when he died and they said they'd take it into consideration. Obviously, my wish went unfulfilled.

Sounds like a great beach weekend to me! The version of NR from Coachella was cut like that when they originally aired in last year on the Coachella channel. Not sure why they cut it off but they probably just pulled it from that.

Just cranked up IRS so loud it's making my windows rattle. ;)

Can't get enough.  Love Sirius/XM in general, but this is a whole other level...

And now one of my favs.....  Breakdown.  What a great song!

Loving this.  But heard ZZ Top's Legs earlier.  i don't get that connection.

ZZ Top was a big influence on Slash, and ZZ Top is opening for GnR. They have been playing opening acts as part of this.

The thing is, I don't think most people actually know that. Like others here have said, I was also unaware of the song's significance until a while after hearing it.


Slash has also played with ZZ Top as a guest multiple times.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl34aTt4d10

Tobias' guitar part in Sympathy is very cool in my opinion. Objectively, listening to it now.  :-\

Slash just didn't like the guy.

This guys just completely vanished.

Last I heard, he didn't like to tour and was working on material for the band at home.......

Another GNR story I would like to hear/know.  What happened to this guy.....

Slash's issue was with the 'tone', he said 'when you listen to it you'll hear my guitar then you hear this tinny little thing in the background'

BUT, yes he didn't like him, and he didn't like the way it was done.

Seemed to be more of a Slash problem than a Paul problem. 

I really havnt heard anything bad about Paul, other than what the ex/reunited members had to say about him on the way out.   

But

I really havnt heard anything about him period.

Slash has always seemed to want to play the big dick part in any band.  Nothing wrong with that, but he is the one that strikes me as the one that cant get along well with other guitar players all the time.  There is no way I could ever see him in a 3 man guitar band.

He's right though, it's not a great tone.

As far as Paul as a person, I'm with you... who knows, he's basically been seen 3 or 4 times and almost never talked about.

3 guitar... who cares, the only band I've ever seen that pulled it off OK was Skynyrd. NITL is proving that 14 years of GnR's 3 guitar attack was unnecessary. They should have cleanly broken from that in 2006, Ron was never needed to fill in for Bucket, it should have been Richard and Robin (who like Paul had poor tone :) )

I love finally seeing and hearing Chinese songs on SiriusXM

It is an odd feeling to hear them just pop up on the radio.

I would love to understand the way this station is being programed, and how much say Axl, Duff and Slash have in the specific tracks that are being played. I am very surprised at the volume of non GnR material from Slash and Duff.

I do wish this would be extended, I love this channel.

Oh to play the songs, as the where written the 3 guitar player thing was needed.  Unless you just dump Richard and of the two leads backfills on rhythm, that would of worked.

Deep Purple pulled off the 3 guitars very well also

Now this is what would make this station worth it too me. 

Anyone can put the GNR Catalog on there radio.  Put it on shuffle and listen away.  Sure most of us have done that for years, including putting in our fav live versions, or cutting out our most hated songs.

BUT

What I am hearing that I really like, is the playing of Guns members side projects..  Slash and Duffs stuff.  I personally don't have a lot of there work, think I bought a Duff solo CD in the 90s and one VR album.  So I would love the chance to hear a random song popping up.

Are they playing any of Izzys solo stuff?  Or is this station just focusing on this current version of GNR??

Would be really cool to through in some NIN stuff to represent some of Robins work.

Or some of Tommys stuff, considering he was one of the longest serving band members.   

Or perhaps those years didn't happen any more....

I don't want to derail the topic at hand, but they are playing CD songs just fine today with two guys. The recordings have more than three guitarists and tracks on certain songs, which I think lead to a bit of Axl's production 'analysis paralysis'... but back to your regularly scheduled thread topic.

I think this is a focus on 87-93/2016-present... with the addition of studio CD.

I obviously haven't been listening 24 hours, but I haven't heard anything outside of today's 'core three members'

I would be interested to hear if anyone has heard live CD era material (like from London or Vegas) that was officially released.

I think Finck and Bucket had issues with him as well. As in he really couldn't play well. Then they got Fortus who is a monster player but was mainly hidden until the NITL tour.

There's been talk about Izzy by Slash and Duff when they do their little intro bits, but no solo Izzy songs that I've heard. And no live GNR from the CD era either. Great stuff overall though.

I do wish we'd hear a little from Axl at some points. I wasn't expecting that, but Slash and Duff add their insights every so often. It'd be nice to hear from the one constant in the band since the beginning. Even if it was old clips of him talking about certain songs, I'd take that.

They have played NIN, at least once, that I've heard.

They played at least on 'Mats song, that I've heard. No Tommy solo stuff.

There may have been more...I'm not listening 24/7. ;)

I haven't heard anything from Izzy and the JuJu Hounds, yet.

Any hint of a concert being broadcast, or are the live songs just on their own?

Couple of Coachella tracks... most live stuff is Live Era, but there have been a few songs off of Live from the Jungle.

I think NIN is being played as a reference to them opening for GnR in the early 90's (I've really only heard Head like a Hole)... and the 'Mats is a Duff influence.

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/jarmo

Sorry has someone form Europe  been able to tune in? or it's just for the States?  ???

This was broadcasted a couple of days ago:

https://youtu.be/zqPQEQKavt0

Glorious!

Hope to see a live album released from this tour, all their best performances.

Ozzy and Buffet have huge catalogs. Pearl Jam released every time one of its members farted within range of an open mic.

The couple of things that could lengthen the stream are:

1. Guns N Roses has to have an extensive back log of live shows that can be cleaned up and played on the channel (Including Guest Stars), with the possibility of Axl/DC content as well.

2. Guns (as they have been doing here for the past few days) has an interestingly wide array of influences, which has made for a pretty eclectic station that is sort of (for SiriusXM fan/subscribers) a mix between Faction/Classic Vinyl/Hair Nation...

3. If there is any intention of new music, this platform (for North America anyway) gives the band something it didn't have in 2008 airplay. The number of cars in North America with access to free trials or cheap subscription (on top of the web streams and integration into Alexa) gives the more mainstream play than they ever had access to in 2008. I've heard IRS more on the radio in the past week than I have in almost 9 years.

GnR radio has played, by a WIDE margin, more GnR than either of the 3 stations mentioned above play their namesake material.

You mix in influences, even more than they have since the launch, and you're fine.  Add in the odd show hosted by Duff (like the one from the other day), Slash, and maybe Axl.....and you're good to go. 

No matter how anyone wants to spin it

Gun n roses has about 80-90 original songs in the catalog.   Not much at all for a band with a dedicated station.   It's actually very very small for band that has been around as long as it has.

It's why I was unsure this would work.  Why, I could put all there albums on repeat take out the songs I hate   Mix in some live tracks and gnr inspired music.  Very very easily   Would take me a few moments on iTunes.   Hell I already have it as travel music and I am sure a lot others here have as well

What is making this station work is effort

Effort by band member to give value.   Interviews.  Talk programs etc...   

What I have never seen gnr do.  And what will be the death of a station like this.  Is

Refer to its past...

What I mean by that is

A band that only has 80 original songs needs as much help as anything coming up with content to give listeners of a paid service
What gnr has that no other band that has been around for 30 years is.   Is a huge backlog of side bands
Velvet revolver
Duffs bands
Slashs bands
Izzys bands
Tommys bands
Buckethead
Robin
Etc.....

Son much material there.  That would be so cool.   They could play six degrees of seperation of all these current and past members    Would be so cool

But that's not what gnr does

Gnr doesn't talk about the past.   Never has and when they do it's usually in a negative tone

For a station like this to work long term the band would have to embrace its past.

Shit have a live gnr song from the early 2000s broken down by slash and duff.  That would be cool

AFD is nearly 30 years old.   Where is all the talk surrounding it    Where is talk about past song writers.   One that is past away   Now that would be cool

For this to work the band had to get it. 

If not

It's just us playing our iPods

They're actually playing One in a Million. I'm a little surprised....

Why surprised? I was about to visit toilet when it started and had to hold for a little longer.

'Bad Apples'

Never got the hate for this one.  I love it.  Great lyrics, and I think the truly underrated Slash solo in the catalog.

The content has not held up well, and...it's a song that Axl has taken a LOT of flack for.

I'm not complaining. I like the song, and understand what it actually is, and what it means.

But not everyone does. ;)

If there was ONE GnR song that was left off the playlist for a very corporate radio station....that would be the one.

Yeah, it's one of my favorite deep cuts off UYI, too.

And, you know, Back off Bitch. ;)

Just like a bunch of songs about heroine and drinking wine   This song hasn't aged well and is a snap shot of the band at that time

However.  Just like the songs about heroine and wine.  The music in "one in a million" is great.   It has a great melody and is fun to sing along to    I wish they would break it out more live.  Hell they only play one song off of Lies live every second night at best.   I would love to hear more off this album

For me Bad Apples, Back Off Bitch, Right Next Door to Hell, and Breakdown are all contenders for UYI's 10th man

Eddie Trunk on the pre-show.

Well isn't the majority of both albums.  "Deep cuts".   What ever that meaning even means

To me, it means tracks on a album that the band hardly ever plays live...   there is a ton on both albums


My deep cut list I want to hear live off of just the UYI albums

Dust n bones
The garden
Bad obsession
Locomotive
Right next door to hell

And now...Back off Bitch!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH.

And after the show tonight this post is even more true

This band never celebrates its past.  Or talks about its future.  Good luck to Axl in ac/dc

http://blog.siriusxm.com/2017/06/21/guns-n-roses-radio-iconic-band-launches-not-in-this-lifetime-tour-with-limited-run-channel-special-concert/ (http://blog.siriusxm.com/2017/06/21/guns-n-roses-radio-iconic-band-launches-not-in-this-lifetime-tour-with-limited-run-channel-special-concert/)
Guns N? Roses Radio extended by popular demand! Hear replays of epic SiriusXM concert to launch Not In This Lifetime tour
by SiriusXM Editors  ? 
Guns N? Roses rocked the legendary Apollo Theater with a legendary show to kick off the band?s Not In This Lifetime Tour of North America.

Hear the concert on the limited-run Guns N? Roses Radio on Ch. 41, which has been extended by popular demand to August 16.

Sunday, July 23 @ 2 pm ET,  6 pm ET,  10 pm ET

Monday, July 24 @ 9 am ET,  1 pm ET,  5 pm ET,  9 pm ET

Tuesday, July 25 @ 12 pm ET,  6 pm ET

Wednesday, July 26 @ 6 am ET,  11 pm ET

Thursday, July 27 @ 1 pm ET,  7 pm ET

Friday, July 28 @ 2 am ET,  4 pm ET

The exclusive SiriusXM concert, which marked the first time that Guns N? Roses performed at the iconic venue, featured the band performing songs from throughout their career. The special event aired live on SiriusXM?s Guns N? Roses Radio, the band?s limited-run SiriusXM channel on July 20.

SiriusXM?s Guns N? Roses Radio features music from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees? entire iconic career, including the 1987 Appetite for Destruction album, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The limited-run channel also includes music by artists who have influenced Guns N? Roses, GNR live tracks and rarities.

Guns N? Roses Radio will air through August 16, via satellite on Channel 41, and through the SiriusXM App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.

For more information about Guns N? Roses and their Not In This Lifetime tour, visit www.gunsnroses.com.

YES!!!!

I'm hoping if the listener numbers stay high, it might stick around even longer!

Does satellite radio have the ability to track listener numbers on individual channels?

To some extent, yes. Because they can track bandwidth OFF the sat being used for those channels (they do this, actually, to adjust compression ratios...less used channels = more compression, so lower quality). So while it's not down to the individual user level, they do have an idea of served bandwidth for that channel.

In addition, about 35%+ (maybe more...that was from their most recent SEC filing) of their usage is now net streaming. I will say that MOST of my use, in relation to the GnR channel, has been streaming from the net via the app on PS4.  That DOES allow them to monitor, to the user level, who is listening to what.

I wondered why some channels have songs that tend to sound like poor quality mp3 downloads. I listen to ozzys boneyard more than  anything else and it's pretty obvious they compress it pretty badly.

I'm a subscriber and never knew any of this, thanks for the info!

Nice! I noticed the channel was still going strong yesterday and today. Good to hear they've been given a "Stay of Execution".

Sort of on topic, I didn't listen much to Sirius today. Did any one catch the Stern Show? Did they cover the concert at all?

I didn't listen to the show today. I know Gary went to the concert but Howard gave a lame excuse for not attending. Probably would have been a big topic of conversation if he made the effort to attend but since he didn't they probably didn't cover it much. Probably more talk of it on the Wrap Up Show. All just speculation of course.

I'm not sure I understand this channel. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm pretty sure they play zero studio tracks off of AFD. Anyone else noticing this?

Also, every time they break in with a story from Slash about the old days, they then transition to a song from CD....obviously Slash played on none of those songs and they certainly aren't from the early days!

Whoever is programming this station should be fired.

I hear plenty of Appetite tracks. I do get what your saying, but they have like 3 5 second clips of Slash that they just drop in. The only one that tends to make sense is when he talks about guitar lessons and they tend to lead into a track by Led Zepplin or Aerosmith.

I've heard AFD tracks, but they are all live...I'm talking studio tracks, from the album.

They just played Slash talking about the UYI albums and how much interesting material that contained, then they go into 'Knockin On Heavens Door'.  lol, lame.  That might be the most un-interesting song on that entire 2 album set.

I've heard studio tracks of most of AFD (Jungle, Nightrain, Rocket Queen, Paradise City, Sweet Child).  Arguably, I've listened to it more than the average person.  They are playing Paradise City (album version) right now.

Nah, lots and lots of AFD studio tracks.

I think whoever programming it is actually doing a bang up job. I've listened to this station for HOURS since it launched...

Edit:
Nevermind...its gone already.

That's cool they are keeping the channel now till August 16th. Hopefully demand will still be high and just keep it for good. Wish they bring back the Led Zeppelin channel also.

There's probably not enough music available to keep it going for good, sadly. It's a decent station though, while it lasts.

Music there is but what is available. Where is our promised Stay of Execution :D

It's with the Chinese Democracy remix album.

Just heard One in a Million.  Haven't heard that on the Sirius channel before.  They must still be putting "new" content on there.  FWIT, I think there's enough content to have this be a regular channel.  Between Guns, bands that influenced them, their contemporaries, and member's other projects, there's enough to keep it going.  Fingers crossed.

Ah, it has been on before- a week or so ago. I was surprised to be honest. Still a bit 'lively' for most people!

Got it.  First time I heard it on there...and yeah, I was surprised a bit too. 

Ever witnessed it played in pubic? I was once in a bar that had one of those jukeboxes that takes random stuff off the internet to play. It came on. Was carnage- people were shouting at the bar man and stuff "have you heard this song", "turn this disgusting shit off" etc! I loved sitting there as it came on, looking around, waiting for it to 'kick in' and see what people made of it!

Holy shit, that's hilarious!  No, I've never witnessed it at a bar.  Been at a house party where it's been played, but never heard it out in public. 

Nope, heard it like the 3rd day. In fact...if you go back, you'll see my comment being a little surprised they played it.

:)

I heard Look at Your Game Girl today too, tagged on to I Don't Care About You

Another 'spicy' moment from their history!

Has anyone been listening in the past hour or so?

They are playing a replay of The Apollo show, BUT this time the have it broken into individual titled tracks instead just displaying that is the 7/20 Replay. Does it sound like it is much lower quality to anyone else... like they tried to play with the mix after the fact?

May not be the mix. It could be compressed for bandwidth. Sirius/XM will do that.

Ive noticed that sometimes songs on Boneyard should like shit.

I heard it again today, I really think 'they' (I'm not sure who they is) played with levels... It sounds like this 'version' has moved guitars and vocals forward and back in the mix in places... but it also seems like they took the Spinal Tap approach and found 11 on the faders in places.

It has sort of taken on a feel of the Appetite for Democracy DVD (not trying to say it is the same them mixing)

Would you say it sounds better or worse than the original broadcast?

IMO worse...

They definitely removed the overly excited guy that the live mic's were picking up (the I love you man guy). They also brought the guitars way forward which sort of highlighted some little playing errors that didn't show in the live broadcast. I just compared the download from the first replay to this morning, and it is completely different... my guess is Guns got their hands on it which is why it has the same 'feel' as the late CD era live material we got***. They also pull Axl way forward at points, which doesn't sound good either. When him and the guitars get pulled forward, it sounds like who ever did it 'dimed' those tracks.

***again this is a complete wild ass guess... I really have no idea who did it, but it was definitely re touched - re mixed - re mastered by someone.

Interesting. it's strange that they've even bothered changing it really- although the mixing/recording was horrendous for the first couple of songs, so i could understand them wanting to sort that out. Have they done this?

It sounds like they sorted it out by just making it louder in places. I'll be honest the raw live mix, definitely covered up things that are not presented well in the new format (guitars and vocals).

I would love to hear someone else's opinion who heard these recent Apollo replays yesterday and today.

Edit... it just started again right now at 4:10PM EST