First video - your predictions and ideas

[WTTJ]

Its basic but i would like the first single to be "Better" and maybe show a life performance from maybe one of the NYC shows with the studio verison dubbed in like they did for Jungle and Paradise City

[Steel_Angel]

here's an idea:

make puppets of all the band members and hire some puppet operators to move them about. That could be entertaining?

...this way Axl will show on time (for the shoot) and not throw temper tantrums and storm off stage?

wow u just quoted urself.. stfu.

Its basic but i would like the first single to be "Better" and maybe show a life performance from maybe one of the NYC shows with the studio verison dubbed in like they did for Jungle and Paradise City

thats what i would like to see.

[Martina]

I think first single should have closer sound to old gnr songs.
public will accept is easier.not some song which will shock everybody''' ''''.they will give up on album soon,probably. most of them(casual fans) think that axl shouldnt keep gnr name,and it will be HUGE shock if single will be very differenet sound.its gnr name.they expect fimiliar sound with that name.gnr name......
so song would be some rocker,video... something like pc,live shoots,some story behind.something simple.
I cant imagine watching gnr video with tommy,finck,rhicard and others on it.it will be very weird.I'm used to watch old guys on videos......
but I support new band and wish them best

[jimmythegent]

nothing too bloated, but lots of impact. A bit arty and edgy - grainy type footage.Its important that Axl looks cool in it, in many ways to try and make the public forget how awful and weird he looked at 2002 VMAs (which is the last image most of  the general public have of him)

[Bumblefeet]

im thinkin a kind of WTTJ style video for madagasgar! u know the one that has all the clips but maybe not because they prob wud be too similar!!! i think that they will release four traks and one will be an epic like november, im thinkin.................Better!

[RKD]

i posted this on CD.com and Frozen has seen it before but this is my idea for a TWAT video (Cheese alert)

Starts out with Axl doing the dance he does then when ?Social Class and cigarettes? part starts it cuts to Black and white footage of Lafayette Indiana like the school and stuff then moves to axl on stage singing the song. then  old footage of him and Stephanie and him and Erin. Quick cuts of Axl and the band doing the song. Then axl stood outside a TV store like in Jungle looking at the same set of Tvs hosting old footage of Gn?R. then back to Axl singing. When the first solo starts, Axl drops the mic and heads for the Backstage curtain although when he opens it it?s a sunset on top of the hill where Axls house is. Cuts to robin playing the solo. After solo where Axl sings ?I would do anything for you? hes singing it on top of the hill looking out to the sunset, arms out stretched and cut to fortus or whoever playing the second solo with a spark shower behind them as they play with cut backs to Axl in front of the sunset zooming slowly in on him. End solo and Fortus slams his guitar on the floor as the band starts the ?There was a time? chants and cuts between Axl singing to the sunset and the band on the stage playing. Then as the music ends you see axl walk out of shot and the camera pans in on the sunset. Fade to Black.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Black screen that zooms in overhead to a stage littered with pistols an roses. Music starts and the band comes out from underneath the guns and roses. People start appearing around the stage rockin out to the song until there are thousands of them. At the end of the song the fans cheer wildly and a single fan takes a picture of Axl,and Axl says ....THATS IT IM GOIN HOME. 

I think that's the greatest idea I've ever read...It'd really fit his humor, too. And if the video's Better, he can call us downloading motherfuckers in it.

[BLS-Pride]

Just them playin whatever the first single is.. Low down and dirty and something that makes them look like a real rock band.

[LaTeRaLuS]

hey, i think it would be interesting to read peoples predictions/ideas for a video. I have a gut feeling that the band will not be in the video, i dont know y i think this.

I think its going to be some kind of animation like that guy in the river on a boat that appears on the big screens during 'chinese democracy'

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

first, will they do a "conceptual" video (michel gondry?) or something simple ?

as much as i would love a conceptual video
for example that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_JD9ncoOE8&search=michel%20gondry%20chemical

i dont think i would fit GNR, even the new one

i guess they should do something very "the band playin" oriented

[bigcash2002]

RKD...I thought AXL was saying "Broken Glass, Cigarettes.." Not social class.....but I could be wrong

[johnnythunders24]

i really got the idea twat is all about stephanie...actually...it sounds like its about me and my ex..."broken glass and cigarettes"...all over my old apartment...."writing on the wall" I had writing all over my walls..."cocaine in the hall" there was cocaine everywhere

"to those non-negotiations
to simulate a call,
all the bad of learning evils and
your ways around the laws
that keep you up and sitting pretty,
on a pedestal of men
and now you're sleeping like an angel,
near the man who reaped it in."

this is totally the shit i went through

[Doc Emmett Brown]

But in TWAT, does he say "you were sleeping in another woman's bed"?   I dont know who it's about and I prefer not to.

and now you're sleeping like an angel,
near the man who reaped it in."

I like those lines.  The video for this song has a lot of imagery to play with here. It'd be nice to see it in b&w with a little bit of color, like in Sin City.

[LaTeRaLuS]

RKD...I thought AXL was saying "Broken Glass, Cigarettes.." Not social class.....but I could be wrong

at 1 point in the song he says "broken glass and ciggarettes"

and at another part he says "social class and registers"

[daviebuckethead]

if the band are currently mixing (which in an amateur set up takes say a week?) then going on in tour in april, should we be looking at video plans in march sometime?

alternatively, does the album have to be turned over to the record company, then the release the budget for a video??

either way i wasn't sure if the band had left enough time to make a video in that gap (say it takes a week to film, and then whatever productions needs to go in to it?)

seems like setting unlikely goals?

[madagas]

There is no release date set. The record is not finished. Why does everyone have to speculate about a thousand different scenarios every time we get an official update? NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING TO HAPPEN!: They have a scheduled tour, that is all we know.

[gunns1]

that put him in his place


lol

but seriously, things are starting to take shape. We will here from gnr berfore march 6th again.
hopefully
its a fucking single this time

[odd1]

They haven't set any goals as there is no release date set. The record is not finished.

[AppetiteForChinese]

i'd say "better" because more people know about it at this point
but i wouldnt mind seeing something like I.R.S. because when the final version of it comes out,
its gonna rock the shit out of everyone

[daviebuckethead]

There is no release date set. The record is not finished. Why does everyone have to speculate about a thousand different scenarios every time we get an official update? NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING TO HAPPEN!: They have a scheduled tour, that is all we know.

erm, duh.

1. yes there is no release date.

2. the record is techinically not finished, it is at the mixing stage, the music is finished. so dont patronise with your "this is the facts and thats it" shite.

3. your right no knows "what the fuck" is happening, but read point 2 and we have a reasonable idea of where we are.

4. we haven't heard anything about a video shoot officially, the band need a video for the first single to properly promote the album. fact. Therefore it is apparent
that if a vidoe has not been shot, then it will need to be shot between now and the tour starting. (i personally cant seem them shooting the first video while on tour)

5. the first single form an album usually drops on music tv channels say 3 weeks before the actuall album release. this means that if we are set for a summer release then the video shoot should be reasonably soon, if "normal" logic is followed.


Finally this point doesnt deserve a number, but opinions are like arseholes, everone has got one. That means im entitled to mine.