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| "Madagascar"
followed, the best of the new tracks. A subtle ectronic backbeat and
keyboard-produced horn section propelled the mid-tempo ballad, which
featured Rose lamenting, "I can't find my way back anymore..."
before succumbing to a flood of movie and speech samples. If the new
tracks maintain this level of aptitude, he won't need to go back
anywhere." -Cdnow |
| "The live version
scaled back the industrial feel of the recorded version and featured a
heavy, crunching guitar line courtesy of Buckethead." -Cdnow
on 'Oh my God' in Rio |
| "A run through of
the tunes reveals that "The Blues" is a "November
Rain"-style piano ballad, "Silkworms" is an electronica
influenced opus, "Rhiad & The Bedouins" is an upbeat
rocker with cool Zepplin-esque verses butaso-so "Oh Oh Oh"
chorus. The best tune is the title track from the new album, a balls out
rocker in the tradition of Use Your Illusion. "Madagascar" has
yet to surface. In general, the live versions are definitely much more
rockin' than one might suspect, and less industrial sounding than many
feared." -Knac |
| They broke out a few new
tunes including the previously released track "Oh My God," the
new title track to the long awaited album, Chinese Democracy and a song
entitled, "The Blues," which kicked some serious ass and was
well received by the audience.-Knac |
| "About
10 minutes into their set, it became clear that the new GN'R is a rock
and roll event of the sort that a lot of people (well, me, anyway) have
been waiting for for a long, long time. Where the reigning rap-metal
acts of the moment — Korn and Limp Bizkit and their ilk — get over
quite successfully on murk and muscle and pure sonic wallop, the new
GN'R — with only one-month's worth of rehearsal (this was their second
gig) — already played with a passion and precision that's unlikely to
be matched in any other quarter anytime soon." -MTV |
| "a gorgeous piece
called "Madagascar," recalled nothing so much as the
mid-period Beatles, with all their quaint little horn ornamentations. It
also sampled the voice of the great, slain civil rights hero Martin
Luther King." -MTV |
| "An unworthy
electro-funk jam featuring a near-rap by Rose, the song fell flat and is
probably a good example of the kind of electronic rock Rose has been
working on for the past eight years. Altered from the version played in
Vegas on New Year's, the song did not work in the context of an encore
for a show of this magnitude " -Cdnow on
'Silkworms' in Rio |
| "Not only did Rose
appear, but throughout the two-hour and fifteen-minute, 22-song set, he
quite possibly reclaimed the rock and roll crown he abandoned eight
years ago" - Allstarnews.com on the Rock
in Rio Performance |
| "the
emotion of this next song..its that all thats 'bout it.Its not like an
intelligent song,it doesn't have the answer to anything but its the
title track of the record that ,God willing,we'll finish"-Axl
Rose before unleashing Chinese Democracy in the HOB concert. |
| "It's
a lot of different sounds. There's some other really heavy songs,
there's a lot of aggressive songs, but they're all in different styles
and different sounds. It is truly a melting pot."-Axl
Rose |
| "There
will be elements of blues-based things on the new Guns record. It's a
very diverse record. There's a lot of hip-hop beats, there's
straight-ahead rock".-Axl Rose |
| Check out the Concerts
Section to read the reviews of the shows by leading mags and sites for
more critics' opinions on the new GN'R . |