The Blues

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

The Blues!  
From first listen to The Blues at the HOB I was in awe.
I love everything about this song... Its just great
Beautiful, powerful, emotional... the lyrics... the guitars and piano...
the vocals  
Studio version is going to be breathtaking
and yes I agree... to imagine that this song isn't one of the 'big guns'..? ? ?
my god
can you imagine?

hehehe well... guess we have no choice at this point but to imagine

i want the new music!  

[bolton]

for me madagascar lyrics is the best and deepest axl lyrics,but that song is something like estranged.
and the blues have bigger commercialpotencional

[grog mug]

Madagascar is the best new song.  The Blues does come in a close second.  Believe it or not Silk Worms ROCKS live, one of the top five songs by the new band when your right up with them.

[Snakepit__]

The Blues Is A Killer Song, It's Like A Mix Of November Rain & Estranged With A Tuch Of Happiness & Warm!  

[bolton]

for me the blues is mix of sweet child of mine,november rain and estranged

[anarchy]

It's a quality song. but remember people it's:

"Stardust on my feet" not "Starburst on my teeth"

Some idiots at another forum insist that that makes more sense.  

[HoldenCaulfield]

"Stardust on my feet" not "Starburst on my teeth"

Some idiots at another forum insist that that makes more sense.

Wow. I'm speechless...

[MadmanDan]

The Blues and Madagascar are fuckin brilliant!! They are proof that CD will be GNR and the ultimate argument that the new gnr should ba indeed called GNR

[Billo]

Blues is great....I like maddy as well but i like the Rio 3 vers....with the rockin BH solo....I love the MTV awards part but i hear later versions of maddy and i hear where the guitar solo would be and dont like it..

[D]

i still like rio the best, MSG was to slow

the blues is more of a "breakdown" type song, great song, very moving but not really a single

[Booker Floyd]

i still like rio the best, MSG was to slow

Agreed...the Rio version is beautiful.  I think the solos in later performances might be better, so if they combined them with the Rio rendition for the album (meaning speed up the tempo and lose the sappy synths), I would be very happy.

[D]

i totally agree

MSG drags and drags, but rio is really powerful

some of the emotion feels lost in the msg performance

[nesquick]

The Blues RIO version is the best one I've ever heard. The tempo is perfect. During the US tour, the tempo was too slow and it was boring. The blues is a blues/rock song and should have a blues/rock tempo, not a slow one in my opinion. a potencial Number 1 Hit if it is ever released as a single. General public  loves that kind of piano/blues-Rock songs.

[just_one]

the blues is without any doubt among the top5 songs by gnr for me

new gnr or old gnr

that song is simply amazing  , beautiful melody , heartbreaking lyrics , just beautiful

best version i heard was the boston 02 version

[Reinaldo]

Vegas 01 (before RIRIII) is also a kick ass fast tempo... first time the song was played live.. Axl?s vocals were technicaly greater than Rio, but RIR emotion is really unique.

Some questions:
Has anyone heard the Vegas 02 versions (12/30/01 & 01/01/02)?? Don?t even know if they're in faster or slower tempo...
Has anyone been there? Are there bootlegs of those shows? Can I find these "The Blues" versions on the web?
 

[HoldenCaulfield]

I think I kinda like the slower version better. I'd like to hear the Rio version, but with Fortus's guitar and Pittman's synths...

[Fuckin' Gunner]

I'd like to hear the Rio version, but with Fortus's guitar and Pittman's synths...

Exactly like me...

I think that the Finck solo is very very very better in the slow version, it?s gets a lot of emotion. But the rest I prefer faster, exactcly lkike you said, with Fortus's guitar and Pittman's synths.

[SLCPUNK]

Well I know I'll get flamed here...but I never could get into this song. It's not bad, but it (to me) doesn't capture anything that November Rain or Estranged did. It's just an ok song to me.

Maybe the studio version (when I'm in the retirement home) will change my mind.

[GNRisAFD]

The Blues and Madagascar are rubbish.

If this was Axl's vision for GNR than he can stick it. In comparison to Don't Cry and Estranged, The Blues and Mad fall well short in my opinion.

Both VR and Axl's band have on the whole been dissapointing so far, i don't envisage either will be successful particularly the circus that is GNR.

[nesquick]

ok I've just listened once again to "The Blues" RIO VERSION (the best tempo, the best version ever) and if this song is one day released as a single it could absolutely become a huge success. I don't speak about the boring American US tour version, with a slow tempo and exessive keyboard effect, but about the Rio 3 version, a very blues-rock version, light and wonderfull to listen to. Perfect voice, perfect tempo, perfect song.
In my opinion, Axl should release it one day as a single with a nice video-clip, Axl sitting in front a white piano, with champagne, wite vine etc... a video-clip with a piano-bar ambiance, something like that. Have you ever seen the video of "imagine" of john lennon? yeah something like...

"The Blues" is really wonderfull.