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#11371 Re: Guns N' Roses » Is CD still in regular rotation on your stereo? » 927 weeks ago
Listened to it last night. The more I listen to it the more I appreciate it and the less Ron ruins the experience..... Almost 
I listened to the demos of The Blues and Chinese Democracy last night directly afterwards and they are still light years beyond the finished product. CD is just too busy; too filled with sound, guitars, vocals. And Ron's playing is very distracting on The Blues and bits of Prostitute. But I'm really digging IRS now. I can see what Ron brought to it so I have to give him some props and I take a few steps back from my initial dogging of him here. I still think Buckethead would have done a better job at adding guitar, but you can't always get what you want... But if you try sometimes... You might find... You get what you need. 
#11372 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lars Comments on "Better" Video » 928 weeks ago
And lets stop with trying to breakdown Axl's mind. For the record, some of you have spent a little too much time thinking about Axl and taking things wayyyy too personal, which makes me wonder about some of your states of mind.
#11373 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lars Comments on "Better" Video » 928 weeks ago
Here's a concrete example of cause and effect with Axl.
Because he behaves like an ass, I don't buy his CD.
Because people know me as the Guns and Roses guy, when people ask me about it, if it's as good as the old stuff, I tell them "No", it sucks and not to waste their money.
Because he can't show up on stage on time, I won't buy tickets anymore.
Because Axl can't play well with others, there has been an endless string of increasingly less talented musicians willing to collaborate with him.
As far as providing concrete examples of why I think Axl has huge borderline personality issues, read up on it, work with it for years, educate yourself, and then look at the history of decisions made by Axl AND the faulty reasoning he has given for his bad decisions.
If you can't do that, go to a strip bar, and talk to the older girls who work there, and listen to their stories, it's all the same thing.
So you basically just stated that your opinion is pretty much irrelevant involving everything involving the band 
#11374 Re: Guns N' Roses » Lars Comments on "Better" Video » 928 weeks ago
What I know from CD with Ron is that his playing (outside If The World) did not fit the music and actually hurt the songs, imo. Would it sound different if he wrote some music? Maybe, who knows. But as of right now, with what I'm hearing, his playing doesn't fit in with the band. Maybe that's Axl's fault for putting him on the songs and layering it too much. But his playing sounds the same on every song he's on and this was music he contributed to that he felt "helped" the flow of the songs... To me it ruined them. And it doesn't give me much hope for the future.... Re-recordings.
Its his playing and Axl's tinkering that took a great album and made it good.
#11375 Re: Guns N' Roses » sneak peek of new song? sorry if its been posted » 929 weeks ago
Nothing new, just the Checkmate clip, which Axl said is The General.
When did he say that?
#11376 Re: Guns N' Roses » "Better" starting to gain MASSIVE steam.. » 929 weeks ago
If people wanted to get the album, they can get it easily (and now cheaply) enough. Quit using best buy as an excuse.
Other artists, who are big names with big promotions like Christia Agulera have been burned by the same deal. If its not Walmart its not going to work. We both know if it was available everywhere it would have sold more. It wouldn't have been huge but it would have sold much better. So get off the bullshit express already.
And if Better isn't a progressive rock song I don't know what is.
#11377 Re: Guns N' Roses » "Better" starting to gain MASSIVE steam.. » 929 weeks ago
You still have to consider the "fact" that having the Best Buy deal hurt the sales in a big way. People can say what they want, but there's not a Best Buy on every block or even in every town or city. Not like Walmart, Kmart, Target, FYE and Sam Goody and the like. And please spare me the internet option for people to buy it. Not too many people 'browse' shop music on the net. And believe it or not, not everyone buys music on the net...
The BB deal did help Axl and Geffen, but it also hurt album sales. Not that I really care but I am glad its doing as well as it is, considering.
And stop trying to make out that album sales have any kind of relation to how good an album is. If you want to hold on to a number 1 single or album spot like it really means a whole lot, then by all means, hold your torch of irrelevance proud. I like seeing bands I like succeed, but other than that I could wipe my ass with an album chart... The same charts that have a long history of ignoring great music and awarding mediocrity... But yeah, VR kicked Axl's ass because of chart position... 
And to go on what Madagas was saying, its not that CD was an introspective album (which 90% of it is) its the fact that the album does not have a traditionally marketable "radio friendly" song on it. No matter what anyone thinks, good or bad, CD is much more progressive than anything on the radio right now. And that's what it was trying to be. So it really shouldn't surprise us that Better didn't set the world on fire.
#11378 Re: Guns N' Roses » sneak peek of new song? sorry if its been posted » 929 weeks ago
Yeah........ Its about 4 years old. There's no doubt its real, but I don't think its The General.
#11379 Re: Guns N' Roses » Metallica make offer to tour with Guns N' Roses » 929 weeks ago
Axl does good in a festival enviorment about playing on time. I think it would be clear he wouldn't be headlining. It could work.
But GNR need to find a new guitarist or start making negotiations to get Robin to come back... Or Buckethead...
#11380 Re: Guns N' Roses » "Better" starting to gain MASSIVE steam.. » 929 weeks ago
Many a band would love to be able to say they have 500,000 hardcore fans in the US and about another 1.5 million worldwide. Any record company in the world be interested in those numbers.....especially if they were sitting on other new material and a back catalog to kill for. Doing business with Axl Rose is still a profitable situation. If you don't think so, then you are the one who is delusional.
Yup. Karma.
This thing was a disaster a few weeks ago... It should have disappeared.... No single should still be on the radio... We shouldn't even be talking about the charts let alone a single moving up.... BUT WE ARE.
If you want to keep holding up the HTGTH fanboy section of the fanbase who said it would sell 2 million copies its first week, then yeah it is a failure. But if you want reality: its actually pretty successful, not just for an album with no promotion, but any album in general these days.
If some people want to keep holding on to the "this was supposed to be the biggest album of all time but its not" thing, then be my guest. Wallow in your negativity all you want.
The cold hard truth is, in reality, the album is doing pretty friggin good by any "real" standard.
And yes, its good enough so that we can expect future releases.:mosh:
btw, wasn't it the biggest album for Geffen in 08?
