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#1141 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Great Interview with Slash on UYI I and II » 789 weeks ago
No it's not. You guys paint Axl as an asshole that destroyed the band on a regular basis (he did), and Slash as some sort of cool guy that got taken advantage of by bad frontmen (he didn't).
I'm just being fair. Slash is just as much a dick as Axl. I actually think Axl's nature deserves alot of credit for Slash pushing himself and performing what we got on the Illusion's.
I think if Axl had babied Slash, we wouldn't have the same NR or Estranged solos we have today.
jmho
Axl is Axl. He does rarely do something in order to achieve a goal. He's only an egomaniac frontman - you think it helped the band, I think someway it did, but on the other hand destroyed it completely.
Anyway.
Slash did those songs. Had he been so against it, we wouldn't have them in that magnificent version we all know, cause (like Intercourse pointed it out) nobody can come up with such an amazing guitar work, if he's not touched by the song and not completely dedicated. You just can't create something this great, while thinking 'this song sucks'. Maybe Slash didn't like it first and it took Axl days or weeks to convince him. But in the end it was Slash who wrote that and not Paul Huge, like some HTGTH fanboyism would suggest. Had Axl been this cooperative on the Slash stuff he didn't like first, we'd still have Guns N' Roses, and not this fake band.
#1142 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Great Interview with Slash on UYI I and II » 789 weeks ago
You guys like to take that Axl comment as gospel and forget about another Axl comment about the UYI wars: "I don't do your song, if you don't do my song". They were all fighting against each other - just look at the nearly zero contribution Izzy made in others' songs. And you also forget that even if Slash was so against (this amount of) ballads, he was fuckin' 23 or 25. Using that against him now and describe him as someone playing in his safe zone is simly denying the truth, all the songs that Slash wrote or co-wrote in the past 20 years.
#1143 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rehearsals Streaming » 789 weeks ago
Those Live Era collaboration was the strangest thing that happened in the past 15 years of GN'R. I mean Slash, Duff and Axl all involved, with Del James doing some song selection. They were working on the same thing although separately (just like in the case of the never released Best Of).
I'd love to hear how those things went, and I'm really curious if the were still talking through assistants and house-keepers, and how they were able to finish something 'together'. The only juicy bit I know is that Slash wanted Bad Apples on the album badly, but Del James nixed the idea.
#1144 Re: Guns N' Roses » I bet the US Tour goes smooth » 789 weeks ago
Here's the thing; Guns N' Roses will go out and play great shows to their fans. That's a success to me.
No "blind fantasicm" needed and certainly no continued and unwarranted pessimism either.
I don't think it'd be enough to call it a success. Cause in that case, both the 2002 and 2006 torus were mega-successful. They were not.
Anyway, I think all of us should wait a few weeks with the judgement. They are doing a tour and it's good news.
#1145 Re: Guns N' Roses » Bach describes new Axl/Dj song concept... » 790 weeks ago
I think Baz is telling the truth, or an exaggerated version of the truth. Something should have happened on the songwriting front, there are some achievements for sure, whether it'll be used or not, and when, is a different question.
I have a strange feeling reading Bach's GN'R-comments though. He's starting to become the man who is famous for knowing a famous man. Such a shame, cause Skids were great.
#1146 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Bach flip flops on being the singer in VR.. » 790 weeks ago
Yeah.. cuz he's done a lot of THAT lately...
They played together this week again and they seemed to enjoy themselves.
@ monkey:
I agree that Slash often handles personal conflicts badly (I'd add his divorce and nearly-divorce situation to the list), but your list contains more than 20 years... I don't know about you, but in the last decade it's my 5th job, and usually I try to avoid conflicts, but in the media it often comes to a point where enough is enough. Imagine the music business...
#1147 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rehearsals Streaming » 790 weeks ago
to amp up the convo....there are more guitar players that can do what Slash does than there are singers that can do what Axl can does.
Every second guitar player (Finck not included 
) can redo Slash's stuff note by note, but anyone with ears can tell you, it's not him. Slash's playing (and writing) is unique and irreplacable.
Half of singers can sing Axl's stuff note by note, even better than him, cause it's not so difficult or technical some here would like to believe. But the voice and style is so unique that noone can come close.
#1148 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rehearsals Streaming » 790 weeks ago
Axl was inconsistent back in the 80s and 90s, and he's still inconsistent. The difference today is that when he's great, he's not that great than he used to be. Comes with age and no practice.
#1149 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rehearsals Streaming » 790 weeks ago
I still think that the GN'R camp overreacted some fans' overreaction. BBF's simple explanation would have been enough and the videos could have stayed.
This paranoid bullshit is really boring. People, especially on the internet, are taking everything out of context, motivated by love, hate, wishes, stupidity... Learn to live with it. As I see, outside of Axl's camp, everybody got it. Politicians words are twisted 24/7 on forums, yet they don't try to delete their speeches. Thanks God, the 'Axl for President' campaign didn't succeed.
#1150 Re: Guns N' Roses » Rehearsals Streaming » 790 weeks ago
Mikkamakka wrote:I wish Ron had more say in the business aspects of the band. He's a talkative, funny, great guy with a lot of music and marketing talent. He could have been the next Slash marketing wise.
I hope to God it doesen't get to THAT level!
A lot of people may have liked it. Me, not so much!
A fan friendly approach would only do good. A band member, who's intelligent enough, easy to like and actually speaks... it's what GN'R need to change their current media-hater, fan-hostile, hysterical super secret image.
