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I have an idea. Maybe Axl could get the rest of Gn'R to re-record Crash Diet. Entirely new music could be made for it and leave the lyrics the same, so it's like a fresh song. It could be a B-side for the first single as well, as an added bonus. Your thoughts? (I hate that marathon shreding solo Slash plays during the song!)

slash doesnt play on it and that solo is great

Appetite for Destruction's only problem was that "Crash Diet" wasn't on it....

West Arkeen plays Lead Guitar for the entire song.

There's no way Axl is going to rehash a rejected Illusion song and put it out now, even as a b-side.

It wont happen...


Anyway, i agree... it should have been on Appetite!

I love that song!.. anyone heard the alternate mix to this song?... its not as good.. buts its still a cool listen.

Not to mention that Asphalt Ballet recorded the song an ass long time ago, so it would technically be a cover song.

can someone hook me up with that version?

Here's the alternate mix for Crash Diet...



http://www.sendspace.com/file/ik89n9

thanks efish

Sorry but I wouldn't bother....lol. Even the GNR demo is 10000x better.

Well, it was just an idea. Eh, it'd be cool as one of those fantasy things, kinda like Chi Dem coming out.

i would love for it to be on CHI-DEM, it kix arse, i only wish for a finished version of it :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

WTF.. this version is the one i thougt was the original version.. can someone post the "original" version?

Original version:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/tc2yz1

Thats not the original one. Thats the cover of the original.

yeah i thougt so to.. this aint axl's or gn'r.. it can't be

my bad  :-[

no harm done.. just got a little shock.. thought the guitar part in the beggining is great but when i heard the voice three words just popped up in my head and i write it as WTF

it just wouldnt work the song has no relevence to the present day gnr! we have herd sum of da new stuff and it just wouldnt fit in amongst it but it stil is my fav gnr!

Well, I'm mainly just sick of the tinny demo version. Meh.

All B sides must go remastered in a box set  ;D

I think it would be amazing if they did a studio recording of the version of Knockin' On Heaven's Door that they play now-a-days and use it as a b-side or something. Similar to how they recorded the slower version of You're Crazy for Lies, except leave it as a b-side. I think that would be amazing.

It's not really a cover, IIRC it was written by West Arkeen, Axl, and a couple of guys in Asphalt Ballet. Axl adn the guys did a demo ver. with Axl, and then the band AB did an official released version of the song.

I can't remember the names of the guys from AB who wrote the song with Axl, and I'm too tired and lazy to look it up.

yeah that would be cool.. or maybe in like 5-7 years there's another greatest hits album and they record it then.. (the version of KOHD that they play live now)

i'd like to hear a acoustic version of IRS instead.. like lies version of you're crazy

Gnr doing crash diet would be amazing though

sorry if it has been answered, but when was this song played, and why was it unreleased, how did it get out into the public

I cannot access this file...however I know about this song. The original version was recorded as a side project called Smith & Wesson. It included West Arkeen on Guitar, Axl on vocals, a drum machine, and I can't remeber who is on bass...it is either West or Duff. The guy you are thinking of in Ashalpt Ballet is Danny, a childhood friend of West. I first heard this song about 20 years ago.. great, great song...one of my favorites. This version has been floating aroung for years.

oh, so you can read my mind  :peace:

I haven't given this song any thought in a decade.  I was thinking about it tonight for some reason.  I do remember looking for it back in 1995 during my GN'R bootleg collecting days because I read somewhere that it was released as a B-side on the Paradice City vinyl single in the U.K.  Can someone either dispell or confirm this rumor?

Ok...well how do you propose we get this idea to actually happen? ::)

I have an idea, maybe Axl could get the record released! What do you think?

 :P

Damn... this thread is a little old, don't you think?

They definitely should record some kick ass b-sides with this band, such as Crash Diet, Knockin' On Heaven's Door (02/06 version), and possibly songs such as Sway or Sailing. They could do some amazing stuff for B-sides that wouldn't necisarily be appropriate for Chinese Democracy (or even future albums i suppose) but that would be amazingly done by then band.

its a very heavy song.. I like it.

Yes.  B-sides are great.  I used to love the great B-sides that Oasis put out.  When they released an album compiling all the b-sides (Master Plan) it became my favorite Oasis album.  The only GNR singles I ever bought were "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Live and Let Die".  The former because it was otherwise unavailable at the time, and the latter because it featured the B-side "Shadow of your Love".  Other than that GNR singles really didn't offer anything great...  I'm OT here.

Regarding Crash diet, does anyone want to take a stab at my earlier question from a few posts ago?  Was this ever released?  I vaguelly remember reading that it was released on a rare UK vinyl single of Paradise City.  I am not trying to start a rumor here, I am just trying to figure out if this is true.  Anyone?

didnt Axl once say it was due to some "biker" and a legal matter the song was never persued any further than a demo? theres 3 versions of it by 3 bands im sure you guys have heard them all as the is old topic since ive just joined this forum i thought id comment on this as i think song is great  i feel its the very "metal" sounding the bass at the verses is brilliant in the tiny version as it sounds heavy and muted which GNR seldom use to this extent as for the solo which obviously isnt slash which is frenzied in a cool way IS wEST ARKEEN a rare yet brilliant track

I'd love to have a new Guns n' roses album full of NEW songs, but that's just me...

Was really necessary to bump a 3 years old thread?

u should see the asphalt ballet version! its really really cool!

cant agree more, but....

WAS A THREAD ABOUT ME and didnt know about it, till now...  :hihi: :hihi: