23 October, 2020

You could be mine but you're way out of line. Oh well, can't have everything.

Just a note on something I noticed just after pushing 'publish' on the previous entry:

["Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators To Release New Studio Album In 2021"]

So this'll be his second solo album since G'n'R reunited and it's been less than four years since they announced that Slash and Duff were back.  Barely two weeks ago Slash even made comments that he's worked on a new G'n'R album this year and obviously that's not going to go anywhere.  Axl gets nothing done even without his bitch slap-rapping or his cocaine tongue.

Axl has been on 18 songs released in the 21st Century, the 14 on Chinese Democracy, three songs he sang on with Sebastian Bach in 2007 and appearance on a recent Looney Tunes cartoon in 2018. [Which doesn't sound like a place you'd expect Axl Rose to show up, but by all accounts he was there.]  Add "Oh My God," "Sympathy For The Devil" and apparently there's something called "Ain't Going Down" on a 1994 G'n'R pinball machine, that's his entire output in the last 26 years.

Great, now I have to look up that last one.  A Youtube news video says it was cut from the Illusions album.  Another Youtube video has an instrumental track called "Ain't Going Down No More" and says it was recorded in 1986.  Looking a little more, it seems that was on the Appetite For Destruction re-release with all the extra tracks except "One In A Million" so I've heard this before.

Ok, searching through more Youtube videos, I think I've found it and was able to compare it to the 1986 track.  Both are pretty generic hard rock tracks and sound pretty similar so that's probably it.  The first version has better production, but it was probably taken from the AfD rerelease while the second version was made for a pinball machine and probably recorded on someone's phone to put on Youtube.

Since 2010, Slash has released four studio albums, a movie soundtrack, four live albums, another two sets that were probably live but don't qualify as albums for whatever reason and guest-starred on several more songs.  Axl has released nothing except the extra songs on the AfD rerelease which were recorded closer to the foundation of Sun Records and Elvis' 16th birthday than to today and most of them had been released before.  "Shadow of Your Love" is literally his only release in the last decade and it was first released in 1987.

I've been developing a theory that Axl Rose's basic life has all been to set an example for humanity on what not to do.  Sort of an expanded version of the Rolling Stones.  It's not like I stop listening to them.

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