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This is a legacy touring band at this stage of the game.  

not only. we had 5 (very good) new songs since the reunion. it's half an album.
quite a lot, in GNR standard.

yes it's probably an intermediate title, of course it's guitar driven, but it sounds a bit too modern to me in its structure to be considered as a "could be on UYI" track,  probably because of its hip hop rhythmic too

as Slash said when CD came out, and I know you remember the quote " It’s a record that the original Guns N’ Roses could never possibly make."

I am not doing the coke taste test challenge.  Don't fuck with my classic coke!     Anybody try Coca-Cola spice?

Marsha is talking again.  She's on her first week of daily chemo with a three week break for 8 sessions.  We have plenty of garden drama going on to keep her off her butt, nothing important.  She does like some of my cost cutting suggestions for the plant sale.  She tested them and they worked.

Time to cut back the Asters or they will go to 6 feet tall by the end of the year.  Some of my cool season crops are bolting and I haven't even harvested yet.  My to do list is growing. 

I don't know for I.R.S., but certainly a track like Street Of Dreams could have easily found its place on the Use Your Illusions LPs,
however if I'm not mistaken it's predominantly an Axl composition albeit with the input of the other band members, so in terms of songwriting it remains in line with previous material.

Really? A guitar heavy track like that? It would sound different with Slash playing the guitar, but it's not as different as something like Riad or Shacklers....





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...on an official Axl Rose YouTube channel.
wonder why they didn't link them directly from the GNR one 

On the other hand, something like Street Of Dreams or I.R.S. doesn't seem that far fetched....

/jarmo

I don't know for I.R.S., but certainly a track like Street Of Dreams could have easily found its place on the Use Your Illusions LPs,
however if I'm not mistaken it's predominantly an Axl composition albeit with the input of the other band members, so in terms of songwriting it remains in line with previous material.

It's been updated with a Media section linking to the NITL Selects.





/jarmo

So annoyed.  I submitted a nomination back in January and the president has been dicking around with it since.  Today he asked if I mailed it in.  No that's his job and it was due April 30th.  Then he's giving me shit about not reading something to which I thought that was the way it was too but then what came out in our newsletter was for something I had done two days before.  And the two newspapers who said they would put the garden tours in the event section didn't.  And for some reason Beka can't seem to do anything unless I'm right there with her.

But really, Marsha didn't handle her first of 8 chemo treatments well.  She's not telling us something.  She's been quiet and staying away.  I suspect she's gotten worse news.  She'll tell us when she's ready.

I'm still sick.  The weather has settled and is good.  I'm anxious to finish up.

They played more new songs in their shows last year since the beginning of the tour. Four new songs is pretty common for most bands who are out promoting their latest release.

The Rolling Stones are doing three from their latest album. Depeche Mode did four when I saw them on their latest tour.


I get it. You want quantity. As long as they release albums, but the tours are about the old hits, it's ok. They're not a legacy touring act.

The reality is that any band with a longer career is touring thanks to their old hits. Most ticket buyers go see the Foo Fighters because of their hits, same with Metallica and Depeche Mode. Etc etc. Some GN'R fans use this as a label. On the other hand, not many bands have that kind of a timeless catalogue. Most bands touring would love to be in that position. 




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