Hard school sooner than later?

[Executioner]

Shadow of Your Love-AFD outtake from 1987
Absurd-Chinese Democracy outtake from 2000
Hard Skool-Chinese Democracy outtake from 2000

Permission, no offense, but we have literally no evidence that these guys have recorded one note of new material.

Hard to know but one thing is certain is that Axl is in complete control of everything from tour dates to recycled material getting released and the others either roll over and oblige or find another band because there is no way in hell Slash and Duff would want to be involved with songs they had no part in creating let alone Chinese Democracy rejects that are starting to get released now.

[sky dog]

Honestly, I think Axl is in full control. He owns the name. As much as people don’t want to hear it, Slash and Duff may just be extremely well paid hired Guns. 

[dsaddler78]

Honestly, I think Axl is in full control. He owns the name. As much as people don’t want to hear it, Slash and Duff may just be extremely well paid hired Guns. 

Exactly. As I pointed out earlier, if in fact they have truly recorded new music they would of teased it by now I would think. Why do 2 singles of both recycled material if not for a creative difference? Look at the riffs and melodies Slash uses with Myles Kennedy and tell me why the new GNR stuff sounds not even 1 percent similar.

[Six Strings]

Two different bands, maybe? I can't say who's in control and who's not but it's obvious that both SOYL and Absurd are much different than the demo's we've heard back in the days. It's obvious as well that Slash and Duff are on them. Why the hell someone would like to here something similar to Myles anyways? Perhaps it's up to personal choice but for me Absurd is a killer and I'd prefer it over most of the Myles Kennedy stuff.

[Derick]

About that Hardskool link. How did fans find this out? Unlikely from my POV. You guys don't believe in the possibility that this link was actually “leaked” on purpose? To increase the hype around all this thing I mean..Too suspicious!

[Spirit]

About that Hardskool link. How did fans find this out? Unlikely from my POV. You guys don't believe in the possibility that this link was actually “leaked” on purpose? To increase the hype around all this thing I mean..Too suspicious!

The link is basically the same as when they started promoting Absurd. Nothing more to it than to switch out "absurd" with "hardskool" in the URL. Not unlikely someone just tried it, and it worked one day.

https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/absurd
https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/hardskool
https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/anythingelse (this doesn't work)

[Oliver]

About that Hardskool link. How did fans find this out? Unlikely from my POV. You guys don't believe in the possibility that this link was actually “leaked” on purpose? To increase the hype around all this thing I mean..Too suspicious!

The link is basically the same as when they started promoting Absurd. Nothing more to it than to switch out "absurd" with "hardskool" in the URL. Not unlikely someone just tried it, and it worked one day.

https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/absurd
https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/hardskool
https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/anythingelse (this doesn't work)

Let's try it with all of the unreleased song titles we know!

[Aero]

Shadow of Your Love-AFD outtake from 1987
Absurd-Chinese Democracy outtake from 2000
Hard Skool-Chinese Democracy outtake from 2000

Permission, no offense, but we have literally no evidence that these guys have recorded one note of new material.

Sounds like a joke, buy they're recycling 20+ years old demos and releasing them as fresh material.

Dizzy once explained that silkworms was just a demo and not meant to be released.


We ask for modern new songs and vintage enhanced bootlegs, and we get modern bootlegs and vintage enhanced demos

[jarmo]

People go on and on about only wanting new music, band releases new music. And.... Exactly.





/jarmo

[Aero]

People go on and on about only wanting new music, band releases new music. And.... Exactly.





/jarmo

Hi Jarmo! It's not the only thing we want, it's the only thing we never get.

[Ali]

People go on and on about only wanting new music, band releases new music. And.... Exactly.





/jarmo

Hi Jarmo! It's not the only thing we want, it's the only thing we never get.

This is demonstrably false. Absurd was released a matter of weeks ago.

And before anyone starts in with, "it's a song that was written a long time ago ", A) it is clearly not the same song as Silkworms, B) so we're Back Off Bitch, Anything Goes, Shadow of Your Love, Don't Cry, and November Rain. All were written years before the finished product was released.

This is nothing new.

Ali

[jarmo]

Some of the songs released on previous albums weren't even GN'R songs to begin with. Did that make the songs worse or the albums they were on worse? No....

And nowadays the age of a song it such an issue.

 




/jarmo

[PermissionToLand]

Shadow of Your Love-AFD outtake from 1987
Absurd-Chinese Democracy outtake from 2000
Hard Skool-Chinese Democracy outtake from 2000

Permission, no offense, but we have literally no evidence that these guys have recorded one note of new material.

We also have no evidence that they haven't. Nothing you just listed is evidence that they haven't. That would be like suggesting the release of Spaghetti and Sympathy for the Devil meant CD was not being worked on. Releasing revamped old stuff does not prove you aren't also working on new stuff.

Do you think SOYL will be on the new album? No? Then why do you assume Absurd will?

[PermissionToLand]

I could be wrong, but to me the vocals on the Shadow of your love single  sound 100 percent like Axl present day.  I’ve never seen this confirmed anywhere , but that’s just what it sounds like to me.  The drumming sounds nothing like Steven and a lot of Slashs guitar parts sound new.

You're out of your mind if you think those are modern Axl vocals. The drums do sound like Frank though.

[GNR4L]

Do you think they could release Hard Skool tomorrow in Ohio? Or wait and release it next Friday, and play it for the two Hard Rock live show's in Florida?

[Natalie]

If they release hardschool in the next few days and the Australia tour is cancelled then they might add more dates in North America... no? I mean they won't wait until next summer to tour again, no way

[AxlHBK]

Some of you are way too fixated on the release of this song. It’s definitely going to be cool when it’s finally released, but, god damn. I see the same “when will they play/release this song?” And “fuck this band for not playing hard school tonight”Comments every single day on this forum and on Reddit. You should realize that when it’s finally released, these same people will unlikely feel any sense of satisfaction. Rather, they will enjoy it for a hot minute, and then beg/complain for more.

It will come when it comes. Until then, enjoy life.

[Ignatius]

I didn't really like ABSUЯD when it was released. I was excited to hear a new GNR song though, but I wasn't overly thrilled about it.

A month later, I've added the song to the PlayList I tend to work out to and it's a great song to listen to when you are training.
 
Let's see what about Hard Skool, I can't wait for the official release. We all want the song to do well on radio, YouTube, Spotify...

In any case, I'm sure they have a few tricks up their sleeve though. If and when and album is announced, it will come along with a massive single behind it.

[Aero]

Some of the songs released on previous albums weren't even GN'R songs to begin with. Did that make the songs worse or the albums they were on worse? No....

And nowadays the age of a song it such an issue.

 




/jarmo

gotta say that I've heard the new song and i really like it. they nailed it!

I hope it's just the tip of the iceberg

 

[thomas]

i don't care what anybody says the old songs from the cd era yes being work on but with the current band on it it may be the same old vocals but with adding new vocals and new music and yes i heard the leak song if you heard the leak songs compare the 2 song they are very different i consider this new music from the current band