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#1681 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
Mikkamakka wrote:James Lofton wrote:Since we're on the topic of Axl vs Slash(again). Slash couldn't hold Axl's jockstrap in the songwriting department. Let's be real.
Please. Axl has never written too much material, he's more of a producer. Chinese Democracy also proves that, too. He needs others to write music for him. He can't even play guitar good enough to create something better than a 14-year old could. Besides the great Estranged, November Rain and This I Love, nothing proves his songwriting ability. Nothing.
that's a lot more right there than about anyone on the planet.
slash plays guitar. he's a guitar player, not a song writer.
axl sings and plays piano. izzy sings and plays guitar. that is y they are able to write songs. plus whatever personality traits they have that slash doesn't.
slash is too simple minded to be a song writer.
I think even you know that your attempt to downplay Slash's importance and songwriting greatness was desperate and ridiculous. It's not about having a different opinion. it's about having a valid opinion.
According to you Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Buckethead etc. are not songwriters. I'm afraid you don't play any instrument and has never got any music education.
#1682 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
Guns N' Roses would be be Guns N' Roses with whoever had the rights to the name.
You've just stated that it's Guns N' Roses if it's called Guns N' Roses. 
I can call myself Bonaparte Napoleon, but it won't make Bonaparte Napoleon, even if I own the name. 
Yes, it's a statement. 
So there is at least two parties: the judicary and the metaphysical party of Guns N' Roses fans.
#1683 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
I don't think I'd state my opinions as facts more than anyone else here. For you, madagas and some others Guns N' Roses is Axl Rose and without him, it wouldn't be Guns N' Roses. Right? For me he's not enough. The brand name is not enough. It's not McDonald's that remain McDonald's forever and doesn't matter who is there to make the meal.
#1684 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
Rock music without memorable guitars isn't rock music. Guns N' Roses without riffs isn't Guns N' Roses. Period.
#1685 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
And I totally buy Axl's remark about Slash not wanting to work that hard at making music. That's Slash's problem, from my perspective, going back to the Snakepit albums to this album. He just doesn't sound like he's trying. He's just playing, and it totally hits me as uninspired; just another middle-aged rock dude just making a rock album, not pushing the envelope.
Said the guy who hardly ever went to a rehearsal, and only occasionally turned up in the studio. Axl is the lazy rockstar, who wants others to write songs for him and the completes the lyrics in half a year. Axl spent more than a decade 'working' on an album, that SUCKS musically, except a few BH solos. CD's boring and unercognizable. There is not a single riff worth a mention, on a 'rock' album. What a joke. Nobody can tell which band is playing, without hearing Axl, while the old GN'R songs took 2 seconds to recognize. I remember hearing some music in the radio and I knew it was Slash's playing. Well, it was the first time I heard Ain't It Fun.
#1686 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
Mikkamakka wrote:James Lofton wrote:Since we're on the topic of Axl vs Slash(again). Slash couldn't hold Axl's jockstrap in the songwriting department. Let's be real.
Please. Axl has never written too much material, he's more of a producer. Chinese Democracy also proves that, too. He needs others to write music for him. He can't even play guitar good enough to create something better than a 14-year old could. Besides the great Estranged, November Rain and This I Love, nothing proves his songwriting ability. Nothing.
Out of the post 93 era, I'll take Axl's ability over Slash's any day of the week.
When it comes to GNR songwriting, you guys are measuring the wrong dicks.
Might want to get a ruler out and measure this one....
Izzy
It's a myth. Just because Izzy wrote a ton of Stones sounding songs, he didn't make Guns N' Roses. Slash, Duff, Izzy and Axl were Guns N' Roses, with the actual drummer strongly influencing the sound. Without Slash, all the Izzy songs would've sounded like Rapidfire or JuJu Hounds. That would have tanked and this forum wouldn't exist.
Second. I don't even agree with the 'Izzy wrote most of the GN'R stuff' statement. Quantity wise perfaps, but not quality wise. I mean compare his songs to Slash's monsters, like Locomotive or Coma, not to mention Slash's enormous contribution to songs were he didn't get a single credit (NR, Estranged etc.) - while Izzy was AWOL during the UYI sessions. YCBM would be a Richards-song without Slash's rocking it. Not one guy was GN'R. Stop downplaying Slash's importance. Without his song and solo writing ability, GN'R would have played in empty clubs. Same goes for Axl and Izzy, and maybe Duff.
#1687 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Beautiful Dangerous" » 867 weeks ago
Can't wait to hear it - when the album comes out. I won't listen more songs till I get the cd in my hands.
#1688 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » "Ghost" is streaming NOW » 867 weeks ago
Since we're on the topic of Axl vs Slash(again). Slash couldn't hold Axl's jockstrap in the songwriting department. Let's be real.
Please. Axl has never written too much material, he's more of a producer. Chinese Democracy also proves that, too. He needs others to write music for him. He can't even play guitar good enough to create something better than a 14-year old could. Besides the great Estranged, November Rain and This I Love, nothing proves his songwriting ability. Nothing.
#1689 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » The drumming on "Slash" » 867 weeks ago
I agree, Axlin. The poor drumming hurts the overall product. Jimmy wrote that
The producer did comment that he wanted simple arrangements to let Slash's subtleties come to the fore and I think thi is perhaps what we are hearing.
It could have been their aim, but if it was, they failed. Quality drumming makes a groove that takes the whole production to a different level. Listen AFD. Listen YCBM or Locomotive. Listen Bonham with Zeppelin. It's not true that even a 'monkey' can play the drums and there is no difference. Both CD and Slash's solo album are suffering from sub-standard rhythm work.
#1690 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Slash to play Civil War? » 867 weeks ago
I don't want to hear Myles singing Civil War.
People got used to 'The guys who aren't Slash' playing Guns N' Roses songs. It cannot be worse.
