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#5421 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard » 901 weeks ago
buzzsaw wrote:Fuck all of you that think you have to be 100% behind CD to be interested in Axl or Guns N' Roses. It's you guys that need to wake up to reality, not the rest of us.
That wasn't very nice. You don't need to be 100% behind CD, but CD seems to exemplify what GNR is these days. So if you don't like that, I'm not so sure you're ever gonna like anything they do in the future. That seems to be the reality to me.
It wasn't intended to be nice, it was intended to be honest. You guys need to get off your high horse. You preach about how people can't accept the new band, yet refuse to accept that some people are always going to prefer the old band and that doesn't mean they aren't interested in what is going on. Somewhat hypocritical, don't you think?
I like and have always liked 2 songs on CD. Does that mean because I don't like a majority of them that I don't have the right to voice my opinions?
I see people preaching that the band is evolving. Doesn't that imply it will continue to evolve? Doesn't that mean the sound will change? Doesn't losing Finck (possibly) mean the sound will change? Doesn't giving Axl more time to tinker with the songs mean the sound is going to change? So how can you say if you don't like it now that you'll never like it?
#5422 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard » 901 weeks ago
[although you're the first person i've noticed say that bucket is more suited as a solo artist.
I said that immediately when I was introduced to BHs solo work. It's far, far superior to anything he did in GnR. It was further proof that he didn't fit in with the band.
#5423 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Elimination Round 11 » 901 weeks ago
Better is atrocious on the album. A horrible mix with unneeded additions.
Agreed, but it's still a better song than Sorry. So Sorry is next on the list.
#5424 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard » 901 weeks ago
Fuck all of you that think you have to be 100% behind CD to be interested in Axl or Guns N' Roses. It's you guys that need to wake up to reality, not the rest of us.
#5425 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard » 901 weeks ago
I think it is pathetic that fans want the old band back together and will beat that drum all the time at a web site devoted to the new version of the band. I think it's very pathetic, and nothing anyone says will change my mind of that. I do not want BH back in the band, I'm very clear on that. He's better solo. I heard him on CD, and it wasn't the Bucket I know and love, but do you see my pining for his return. No. Some, maybe. But that's for them.
I could give two shits about how much a reunion album would sell. I want to see the band evolve. If that means, it's just Axl and a computer, so be it. Let's hear it. Bucket plays with just himself and an iPod all the time and it owns.
Axl tries to slam the door shut on a reunion whenever he "talks" publicly, but some are too thickheaded to take it in. He's trying to tell us all something, but we don't listen. Or we don't choose to listen. Go on and keep preaching how old GNR was better, how this would be so much better with Slash, how GNR will never be as successful as it once was. You know what? You're mostly right.
The difference is, I chose to move on. Others cannot, will not or simply do not want to. Good for you. Like I said. I think it's pathetic they hang out here for the sole purpose of denigrating Axl and this band. It's like a badge of honor to hate Axl and GNR, it's a badge of honor to only like two songs on the album, it's a badge of honor to think CD sucks.
Hooray for you. You've made it effectively impossible to have a positive conversation about GNR. Not just here, I understand that James, but everywhere. You guys have made a difference.
It certainly says something about GNR "fans" that the best conversation I can have about CD is over at buckethead.tk, a place that HATES, absolutely HATES, Axl and GNR. But guess what? They talk about the music. About the present. Not about the past. And that's fucking refreshing.
My post wasn't about you. My post was very general. I'm not sure why you've chosen to make it personal.
Before you go blaming me, take a look at my posting history. You'll see it's been drastically lower since CD came out. I don't like it, therefore I have stayed out of most of the discussions unless a response is warranted. I haven't asked for or about a reunion in quite awhile. Yes, I only like 2 songs and yes, I think CD sucks. That's current, that's all about the music. According to you, I should move on and not post on a website dedicated to my favorite band. That's not going to happen and if that makes me pathetic in your mind, so be it. I'd prefer being pathetic and true to what I love than to be playing an Axl apologist on a website dedicated to a band and not to a person.
CD has vindicated me. I've said for years that if it ever came out that it would be a failure. I was right. The facts back me up, yet you don't see me gloating about it. I never wanted CD to fail, I just saw it for what it was. And it was all about the music.
#5426 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard » 901 weeks ago
I think it's sad Axl has the views he has, but c'mon. He's totally right about the media negativity toward him and GNR. Yes, I understand if he didn't take so long, it might be different. But if someone is constantly, continuously dissing you PUBLICLY, you're gonna get sick of it.
I don't think it's a pathetic life at all. I mean, what's pathetic is that "fans" carry a torch for a reunion that Axl and Slash extinguished years ago. This guy's a millionaire living life as he wants. Artistically frustrated, yes, but otherwise living the dream.
Money doesn't buy happiness. If you think Axl is happy, you need to reread EVERYTHING the man has said for the past 20 years. He is not a happy person at all, and I'd argue he NEVER has been.
I don't see how fans who loved a very successful band that no longer exists wanting it to get back together is pathetic. If it is, where do you place the BH fans that want him back in a band that was never successful? Other than a couple thousand crazy internet people, nobody cares about this Guns N' Roses. It's not me saying that, CD says that. If there were to be a reunion album, it would outsell CD in a week (maybe a slight exaggeration, but the point stands). Everybody knows that. So what's pathetic is carrying on with something that nobody cares about, arguably including the only original person still in the band, just to try to prove he didn't need somebody that he obviously needed.
As for being dissed publicly, I'm not sure what reaction you would expect people to have. Maybe if he had done something positive or said something positive or even said something that actually ended up happening, people wouldn't give him shit all the time. When you set yourself up to be attacked, you can't be surprised when the attacks come. All of this is his fault. He either created or allowed the situations that still haunt him today to continue to haunt him. Shit, he still thinks Slash is doing things every day to make him miserable.
#5427 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Speaks to Billboard » 901 weeks ago
I really feel sorry for Axl after reading that. What a pathetic life.
#5428 Re: Guns N' Roses » List your top 5 song on Chinese Democracy » 901 weeks ago
1. TWAT
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#5429 Re: Guns N' Roses » Chinese Democracy Elimination Round 10 » 901 weeks ago
There are only 2 CD songs I can tolorate and it looks like they will be the final 2. Way to go me.
#5430 Re: Guns N' Roses » The Gloves are off, I have to know..... » 902 weeks ago
The thing about Slash is that I've never heard one of his solos and thought WTF? His solos fit the songs and while they may not all be shredding masterpieces, they flow well with the songs and fit the structures.
That isn't the case with CD. The solos are choppy, don't flow, and often don't fit the songs.
