TWAT Discussion - your opinions

[nonlinear]

thanks 

[DunkinDave]

really?? can someone give me the times?? the one I have is 6:43

does anyone know what the difference is between the versions?

The longer version has a longer guitar solo after the 4:25 (roughly) mark.

To compare, judge the length between where Axl stops singing around 4:25 to the time when he starts singing again.

[Axl_GNR]

i wonder which one will make it to Chinese Democracy

[Neemo]

i wonder which one will make it to Chinese Democracy

neither they are both demo's

My copy's of IRS are #3 & #5 and Better is #2 dunno wht IRS is supposed to be I'm assuming #1 so that leaves at least a blank @ #4 and then #6 & #7

[Saul]

damn , I only have the 6.01 version of TWAT. 

[DoubleTalkingJive]

I really am digging the guitar on TWAT...I like the whole thing...and the more I listen the more I like it   I think after this is mastered I think the vocals will sound less separated from the music.

[Jizzo]

i'm starting to love the zeppelinesque vibe that twat has been giving me

[ppbebe]

One thing for sure is Zeppelin wouldn't be able to make this.
Great vocal tune. follow up to estranged?
There're a few bits I don't like about this demo (like a few secs of loose guitar solo)  but that's kinda cool.

[HoldenCaulfield]

Every time I listen to it, I'm amazed. Such an honest, difficult song. Love Axl's delivery and it's guitar work is something to behold. The only slight thing I don't care a whole lot about is the chorus "it was a long time for you, it was a long time for me, etc.". After that line where Axl says "when I thought I'd heard it all" and everything stops for a second, you expect it to just crush you, but it's a bit anti-climatic. Still an amazing piece of work. Could end up being regarded as one of Axl's possible masterpieces...

[mr_yoshimaroka]

The only slight thing I don't care a whole lot about is the chorus "it was a long time for you, it was a long time for me, etc."

That's actually one of my favorite parts, fits in perfectly and gives the song a cooler edge. It sounds a bit like Jane's Addiction.

[ComeOnAxl!]

Especially the 2:36 solo,   

TWAT new favourite Demo!

[ARC]

This tune is unbelievable.

It grows on you. First time, I was unsure. Now I'm blown away.

This blows EVERY Velvet Revolver song out of the water. Truth.

Amazing.

[lookingforbigfoot]

I think TWAT is Axl remembering multiple incidence about his life from the beginnings of gnr...

When you listen to twat ---
Broken glass cigarettes, writing on the wall - it was a bargain for the summear and I thought I had it all...

Sounds like him moving to LA when he was young, gettting a place for the summer and he thought he was on top of the world being out on his own??  Then he goes into meeting people, relationships etc... I seem to remember something about him talking about his apt when he moved there...being hot, summertime...

The next verse I think is about the band - meeting Slash etc??
Social class and registers, cocaine in the hall, all the way from california, all your ways around the laws..slash is from california isn't he - didn't he go to college for a short time too? again, i don't remember correctly maybe someone can correct? just me remembering articles and stuff over the years.

[DunkinDave]

Slash didn't wake up next to a doctor, or a lawyer, or a stranger that he met.

At least I hope he didn't.

Point being - it's a love song about a girl.

[dangnr]

Duff went back to college

[ShotgunBlues1978]

I think this song sounds like it's about Stephanie Seymour, but your interpretation of the first lines is interesting.  That could very well be what he's talking about in those lines 

[lookingforbigfoot]

No - it's about a bunch of different things that happend to him around that time I think -

Moving to LA, getting a shity place, meeting crazy women, meeting slash, meeting more crazy women.

From what I read about slash I think he actually came from a decent family and was in school and all that before he started the music thing...

[lookingforbigfoot]

and each verse ends with - 'if there's nothing I can gain from this, or anything at all'  'something I can make of this or anything at all', - then he goes into a lesson he learned about the devil liking them and stuff like that... I don't think it's about any one specific person...just a collection of similar experiences from a time period..

[Axl4Prez2004]

DunkinDave and ShotgunBlues1978 are correct.  Man, LookingforBigfoot, this one's pretty obvious.  Have you ever been in a bad relationship where you gave your everything, and the feelings weren't reciprocated???  If not, you're alone in the world.   

[lookingforbigfoot]

dude, why does a song have to be about only one person? true the title is about women as are alot of the lyrics, but I think it's more about things and people in his life a long time ago - not necessarily one person...