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#1451 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alice's take on Axl » 842 weeks ago
D and J.R. summed it well. Some things to add.
First of all, I need to point out that I'm satisfied with DJ's playing as a tribute band replacement. He's doing a great job. But it's ridiculous to idolize him as him being better for GN'R than Slash. 
I have issues with DJ's being an asskisser, but I can get on with it. My main problem is with Axl Rose and how he runs this band. If he really wants to do something new, if he doesn't wanna live off the old success, if he's so proud of CD, then play 14 of the 14 songs every show. At least 12 and no AFD tribute fest.
Then go to the studio, release the old CD tracks to ease the wait, and write new songs with this line-up and release them in a year. Cause this new band has no identity - just like the 2002-2006 didn't have any. They are playing other people's songs better or worse. The absolute lack of identity is my biggest problem with the whole band.
#1452 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash in NYC (PC and My Michelle) and Review » 842 weeks ago
I think nobody does see it as gospel. The main difference between Slashites and Axlites is that only the Axl fans (most of them) think that the Redhead is the second coming of Jesus and he never lies or he's never wrong or he's never to blame. and everything he does is perfect. I'm not talking about you though.
Back to topic: I think happiness can be a huge factor in the improvement of Slash's playing. He is really enjoying himself with this band, especially with Myles, and he rid of Perla - one can only guess how bad their relationship was in the last years.
#1453 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash in NYC (PC and My Michelle) and Review » 842 weeks ago
This was awesome, thanks for the videos, guys! 
Slash's playing is better than ever.
Now I feel sorry for those unfinished tracks on his album even more. He had really-really great ideas to begin with, but some of them would have needed more work. Most of them. Anyway, Slash is on fire again! 
#1454 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash in NYC (PC and My Michelle) and Review » 842 weeks ago
With Axl and his hired Guns absent since 2006,
Anyway, good review, thanks for it! I'm really happy that they added My Michelle, too. Now it's time here to go to bed, but tomorrow I'll start my day with that song. 
#1455 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Renaissance » 842 weeks ago
russtcb wrote:faldor wrote:Just a quick note related to this topic. Listening to The Eddie Trunk show from last night on Sirius and a caller called in and asked him which he liked better, "Slash" or "Chinese Democracy". He said that for him, "Slash" was a better record because it was more straight ahead rock and that CD had a lot going on in it. He did say that the record has grown on him and there a lot of thing on it that he now really likes and that maybe down the line it'll be viewed as a masterpiece. He went on to say that AFD was his favorite GNR album and that he wasn't even a huge fan of the UYI's because even they were getting too bloated for him.
Just made me think when people say CD doesn't sound like a Guns N' Roses record to them. To me it sounds EXACTLY what a Guns N' Roses record was going to sound like. It was quite a progression from AFD to UYI, so the continued progression was only natural.
This.
I feel the same way. I placed CD just slightly ahead of AFD for that reason. It truly seems to me to be the natural progression of things.
As Ron has pointed out, it's like you're skipping from, say, Meet the Beatles to The White Album without hearing the intervening years of musical development; all that stuff is locked down in Axl's vaults. It's a crying shame that we'll never get to hear that material; I'd love to hear the sessions that gave us the so-called 1999 versions of TWAT and IRS...
Please... AFD is like Meet The Beatles, and CD is like The White Album? I'm sorry, but for me it's like skipping from Sticky Fingers to Steel Wheels.
Stop the 'CD is progressive' nonsense. It is not. Just different. Very different, cause other people had to write the music for Axl and nobody told him not to use stupid '80s synth effects. Dream Theater is (was) progressive. AFD GN'R is debatable, but CD was not progressive at all. Not a second of it. It was dated before it got released, not to mention the uninspired songwriting. OMG 
#1456 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 842 weeks ago
Robin Trower & Jack Bruce: Seven Moons
#1457 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alice's take on Axl » 842 weeks ago
When the wait gets longer, the setlist shorter and even more stable, then it's a sign of his downfall.
The setlist got a bit longer, the wait shorter, and they play more songs than in the last months, plus they did this acoustic show again. It shows (for me) that Axl has a bit more joy in performing and does not hate performing so much now.
#1458 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash and Myles on WRIF in Detroit » 842 weeks ago
Is it Slash, who sings the backing vocals? He has a good voice.
#1459 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alice's take on Axl » 842 weeks ago
Paris is a city of fashion. Every time Axl played an acoustic show it was in a fashion capital. Only Milan didn't get it for some reason.
Playing an acoustic set is good news though, maybe he's in better mental state now.
#1460 Re: Guns N' Roses » Alice's take on Axl » 843 weeks ago
They are there to imitate something which they are not.
And when they did not and Buckethead dressed in a yellow rain coat and Robin Finck dressed like some kind of goth alien, they got shit because they "looked like freaks".
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
And I personally dug Finck's 2002 look because it was his image alone.
I heard Ashba's stuff, he can play, but he's nothing more than one of the 1 million guitarists in LA. Even mentioning his name with Slash's in the same sentence would be ridiculous.
So why are they nobodies and Ashba writing with Nikki Sixx and Axl Rose? What you are saying is that you actually claim to know Ashba's skills better than two of the most legendary rockers in the world.
And I am mentioning Ashbas name with Slash, because Slash haven' done anything of interest since 1993 in my honest opinion, and DJ has. There I've mentioned them in the same sentence because that's my taste and opinion.
While Ashba prolly won't ever write a new Jungle or SCOM or PC, he and Sixx wipes the floor with Slash 1993-2010 on "Saint of Los Angeles". Yet another personal opinion there.
That 2002 bunch was another cover band, who pretended they were Guns N' Roses. I don't care about Ashba's look too much, but is fits GN'R. 2002 was worse with that awful Finck image, not to mention his playing 'skills'. To tell the truth I'm happy that Robin is out, and DJ's doing a much better job.
Ashba's writing with Axl Rose? It's news to me. This 'band' hasn't written jack shit for 4 years at least, but I think it's 8 years.
BTW neglecting Slash's amazing work post 1993 never stops surprise me. He's doing the same great stuff, with exploring new territories of music. Anyone who criticize the quality of his post 1993 work, cannot like (or love) his old GN'R work, cause the man's still there, and, to tell the truth, he's better than ever. Just the other players changed. Messages guitar work is on par with Estranged, Slither isn't worse than Jungle, and so on. Just listen the acoustic show with Myles Kennedy. He plays like in the Lies days, just much better.
