Current Musical Selection: GnR - November Rain [demo version]

a funny, spookily- incomplete version of the song that was taken from an old bootlegged DAT tape from long, long ago. axl has been publicly stated as laughing at the song in its prior forms, but i kinda like it. its different from the album take.... but good music should evolve. good anything should show maturity with age. its not a filler song, or an off the cuff type of thing. people dont usually realize it, but this song was the true opus of axl rose... the man litterally carried around this song in his soul for years before he ever committed to doing much with it. it was just a simple piano melody that he would fiddle with, whenever he could find a piano... back in those days, of living on the streets and constant cocaine/heroin parties, pianos werent as common as other things. so he brought it with him. he worked it out as the time appeared, and watched the song grow. it was some time later that the band actually started throwing some of the backing music into it. sometime after They were a band [not counting Hollywod Rose], but with the Them that was GnR; axl sat down and worked on it. from the time they started out playing things like Brownstone and Jungle; he carried this piece of himself around, in song format. supposedly it was to this point [the mp3 im speaking of] by the time Appetite was ready for release... but axl didnt feel right about it. it needed more work i assume. it needed something. it wasnt comfortable yet. and thats hard to believe really; that to have a gift to compose, and to carry around a beautiful piece of melody for how many years... and to still not feel comfortable with it. to still not feel ready to let it go out into the world. so he sat on it. and by 90/91 durring ithe illusions recordings time, he came back with it. 7 years later, he came back with it. and its turned into the staple of every show he plays, its the song of a generation of mtv watchers, its one of the more highly requested wedding songs of the younger generation, and he still tinkers with it. he still advances that part of himself, that wants more, that desires more from the work he puts into it. no new verses or anything. but new interludes, different harmonizing chords, different resonating features of a melody that still echo's deep within him.


play it.... reward yourself. -right click, save target as- {{ November Rain - Demo Tape }} ps its zipped