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#1921 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Names Dj Ashba As Band's Newest Axeman » 885 weeks ago
the only way TWAT, Catcher and ITW would work as singles would be if they were backed up by an epic video production...NR style...which gets massive airplay partially because it is so overblown in its thematic and size...to show off the new songs and members in as epic a way as possible...
Absolutely - there's no question, in my mind, that TWAT deserves a November Rain style epic video. I always entertained hopes, when Buckethead was still in the band, that we'd get a TWAT video in which Bucket emerges from a chicken coop on top of the same mountain that played host to the church from the November Rain video. He does his massive solo, and is then beamed up to a waiting spaceship to return to his home planet, his work on Earth done.
#1922 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Names Dj Ashba As Band's Newest Axeman » 885 weeks ago
Bugger Prostitute, they should release TWAT. That's the one with the great big epic solos that prove once and for all that you don't need Slash, it's the one with the amazing Axl voice, it's the one that tops November Rain. I mean, ideally they'd have come straight out of the gate with Better and a video as the first single, then dropped, say, Street of Dreams and followed it up with TWAT. At the moment, though, I think TWAT's their last best hope for a strong video that'll grab peoples' attention.
#1923 Re: Guns N' Roses » Guns N' Roses Names Dj Ashba As Band's Newest Axeman » 885 weeks ago
It's good news as far as I'm concerned. Yes, I'd like to see Robin playing This I Love and TWAT live, but Ashba's a solid replacement. He's got the emotive playing down pat, he should shut up a few of the wankers who seem to think image is important, by looking like a more typical rocker, and he's obviously more of a Bumblefoot when it comes to interacting with the fans.
I think it'll be really interesting to see how Ashba and Fortus - two fairly conventional rock axemen - interact with Bumblefoot's Zappa-esque weirdness.
#1924 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite '99 » 886 weeks ago
Yeah, but from the material that's available - the updated SCOM - it's clear that the AFD re-recording is very different to the original material.
#1925 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite '99 » 886 weeks ago
Of all the stuff that's out there, the material I really want to hear is the '99 AFD redux/CD sessions with Finck and Tobias on guitars. The versions of I.R.S. and TWAT we have from those sessions are so completely different from the finished versions, you get a real picture of how CD developed. And the AFD material is a fascinating curio - I'd love to hear studio versions of Finck's reinterpretations of the tracks.
#1926 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite '99 » 886 weeks ago
So who does? Is it not, in fact, in circulation?
#1927 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite '99 » 886 weeks ago
Seconded. I NEED to hear this.
#1928 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite '99 » 886 weeks ago
Jeez, the hoarders have 'em? This should be MSL's new mission... 
#1929 Re: Guns N' Roses » GnR holding audititons for a replacement for Robin? » 886 weeks ago
On Topic: John 5 is a great player but it would be like Robin in 01 all over again (image wise).
Nah, John 5 wears what suits the occasion. MM's image was all Gothery and make-up, so he wore makeup and goth togs. It suited him to carry on that image in his solo albums, 'cause it brought some of his MM fans along. But if you look at him on various YouTube videos, he tends to favour civvies.
TBH though, I don't give a toss about image - the music transcends that (FWIW, I love Robin's work on tour and in the studio, and they'll have a hell of a job finding someone who can replicate his feel and passion).
Having said that, I kinda liked the demented carnival that was GN'R in 2002 - Axl in his baggy sports jerseys, Buckethead in his... well... bucket, Tommy in his tartan suit, and Robin dressed up like someone who'd wandered in from a Tim Burton film set.
#1930 Re: Guns N' Roses » Appetite '99 » 886 weeks ago
Nah, Bucket didn't join until very late in the day - like, mid-2000, IIRC - and the AFD re-recording was in 1999. There was an interview where Axl mentioned the "tension" between Robin and Buckethead, with the two jockeying for position as lead guitarist - which, we can assume, was basically due to Robin having been the lead guitarist on the AFD re-recordings and assuming that he was the lead guitarist, whereupon Buckethead rocks up late in the day and takes over most of the spectacular solo spots.
