Guitar playing on new tracks - your opinion?

[SADIS]

with tommy wishing he shitted in his bucket....?

 

Whahaha, can't stop laughing man!

[Shoco]

in nothing against the playing in any of the songs, tho im not keen on the shredding

the thing that bugs me is the sound, im not sure what effects the guitarist use on theyr sound but they sound to "digitalised" if you know what i mean

[D]

He has to keep Bucket's parts.

Maybe Bucket can come back once the record is released.
his parts are amazing!

Ive said it all along, U cant replace a legend like Slash with Robin Finck cause he is a good guitarist but no where near Slash's level.

Bucket head on the other hand can fill that fuckin role greatly!

[Dont Try Me]

He has to keep Bucket's parts.

Maybe Bucket can come back once the record is released.
his parts are amazing!

Ive said it all along, U cant replace a legend like Slash with Robin Finck cause he is a good guitarist but no where near Slash's level.

Bucket head on the other hand can fill that fuckin role greatly!

but then.....if he'd keep bucket's parts...... and he's waiting for bucket to come back...........he might be in for a long wait... That would be a bad situation coz the one who's calling the shots would be Bucket...... what if he didn't come back.........the fans would go bad cause they can't reproduce the songs live.....would be a bad idea.... + the current bandmembers aren't exactly on real good terms with bucket.... I thought axl was much more angry then he stated in the press release from Rio..... "open for discussion?" hah yeah......whether or not he should hang him or push him of a cliff

 but I have no clue realy,

time will tell.....

[jimmythegent]

I hope his parts stay, hes pretty mindblowing, I like the textural stuff he does the most

no one seems to have mentioned it here, does anyone think that shredding solos are a little 80's? like the fret tapping and sweeps, they're very Eddie Van Halen, Satriani, Vai etc..? Ive been surprised that Axl is willing to incorporate that sound, as old GNR was never comprised of that as Slash was very much in the Page/Perry/Young mold.

Perhaps Axl feels that it is unique these days and his new version of Guns will bring this style back in vogue much the way Slash brought in vogue the old bluesy pentatonic style and killed the very thing that Axl seems keen to reintroduce

[Parabola]

I think the guitar work on these three leaked tracks is awesome!!!! some of it even reminds me of Slash!!!! 

[mikegiuliana]

I tried looking at better like paradise city guitar wise, how at the end there is a lot of craziness.. Both have  heavy guitar  near the end and the same type during the first part of the songs.. Just PC has the vibe you feel the song's second half... Too hard to explain on the net really...

All the songs in general with the exception of maybe the end of irs are not there guitar wise if you like gnr for their guitar rock ,lyricaly n vocally yes not guitar wise..  For a band with a three headed machine of guitar players it's not there   I know they are only demos, just something like better is all over the place on the second half and not in a good way ,but it has the moments of excellent playing.. needs a trim

[younggunner]

these songs are loaded with guiatars...am i the only who has heard the extended version of TWAT?
I just dont know what you people are expecting with this new band. Its not gonna be AFD all over again. Theres not gonan be any double talkin jive type solo or some simple song liek u aint the first...its just not that type of album or band....

TWAT,The Blues, and IRS all have old gnr type structureds and guitars....

CD is the simplest of the rock songs so far.

And Better is something fresh and new.

So far we have heard half the album and have been given a littl ebit of everything. And thats a GNr thing to do. A littl ebit of everything. And it all works in a weird, special way. Thats what GNr is all about post AFD.

[axlsalinger]

From reading these quotes, it seems like some people are open to the new sound, while others want every song to start with the "Sweet Child o' Mine" guitar riff, but only if Buckethead wears a top hat on top of the bucket when he plays it. Funny thing is, Slash himself thought that was a throwaway riff and apparently always hated that song. Heh.

Would people really turn down great music because there isn't one particular guitar riff repeated over and over? Riffs are overrated and have been done to death. I honestly could not give a fuck if there is one "riff" on the record. The guitars on "Better" sound awesome and all 3 guitarists deserve some credit, who knows who played what although it seems like Bucket is prominent on the track.

I suppose I can understand people expecting kick-ass intros like Welcome to the Jungle, that may come (these are demos after all) but I suspect the last thing Axl wants (and the last thing I would want) is to have to follow a blueprint of the old songs from intro to riff to verse-chorus-verse for every track. Axl has gotten into sampling, looping and all that "new" stuff but no one can argue that the electric guitar is not front and center in these songs.

I am down with all 3 of these tracks and can't wait to hear more.

[tippasaurus]

Dunno if this already has been discussed, but for me, the solo at about the 3:40 mark in "Better" is far and away the best solo out of all the songs we've heard from this new version of gnr.? I'm guessing it's by Robin, which is suprising for me because I'm a huge Buckethead fan...you'd figure one of BH's solos would be my favorite...

Something about Axl working with guitar players seems to squeeze the best guitar solos out of them.  I've noticed Slash's solos (especially in VR) have become predictable since his leaving gn'r. 

How do you guys think they compare to the old Slash solos when he was in gnr??

[Lord Kayoss]

I'm going with that one as well.

Better rocks!

[BigDeech]

TWAT by far

[Saul]

Buckets solo's on better and TWAT .... I'm not being bias , if they were played by anyone else I'd still feel the same. 

[nesquick]

Outro of "Better" (Finck)
Outro of "the Blues" (Fortus)
Main solo of "The Blues" (Finck)

[avesia]

How do you guys think they compare to the old Slash solos? 

they don't compare to Slash's solos, but that TWAT solo is just...

[AxlsMainMan]

All the solos on all 4 leaks we've heard thus far are pretty damn amazing...

[A Private Eye]

I really like the solo in TWAT, it's really catchy and sounds almost dare I say Slash esque in terms of emotion and soul. I'd be really interested to know who plays it. Any ideas?

[AxlsMainMan]

I really like the solo in TWAT, it's really catchy and sounds almost dare I say Slash esque in terms of emotion and soul. I'd be really interested to know who plays it. Any ideas?

I completely agree.

The pre-solo, solo I guess you could call it gives me absolute goosebumps...

For some reason, I totally just envision the Estranged video where Slash rises out of water just as he's begining to play his solo...

No doubt Slash could do amazing things with this song, but I wanna see what the band that actually wrote, and composed it can do with it in a polished format, before the Top Head picks up the sheet music...

[Jonathan]

There Was A Time, the extended version with the longer solo is just AMAZING.

[RebelRose89]

The Blues both outro and main solo by Finck n Fortus
and Madagascar's solo under/ beneath the quotes by Buckethead