Man. Ouch.

My school's having its homecoming week this week, hopefully no one loses their hands during it.

Could very well be right about Layne being the influence instead of Cobain. Certainly would make for better songs. But Nirvana blew the door open and made the grunge trend really happen. I hear a lot of post-grunge in modern rock, and if not for Cobain perhaps grunge wouldn't have been so big, and the exposure AIC had would've been less and you wouldn't see that grunge influence.

That really rambled and doesn't make nearly as much sense as it does in my head.

But Shadows doesn't sound like Axl or even write like Axl.

It's hard for the comparison because I don't see the influence. There are bands that are influenced by GN'R, but I don't see a lot of bands or singers doing anything that's clearly Axl. It's pretty easy, on the other hand, to see the influence Cobain, Corgan and Reznor have had on today's rock scene.

I do put Axl up on any list of greatest vocalists or frontmen, but between his small resume, unclear writing abilities (how much of GN'R was and is Axl remains a question) and the amount of Ax-influenced singers f today, it is hard to justify.

Could we get the signatures to look like signatures and not part of your post? Make the text smaller, or quoted or something?