Need... new.... songs... soon....*gasp*

Lol at Axl's reaction to the reality show. At least he has a sense of humor... or is totally crazy... or both...

Hopefully there is some news in the next Rolling Stone

The only song I can see as a single is CITR as a second single.

All the other songs I couldn't see as a single, and especially not as the first single.

Gosh, seriously?

Sure Buckethead could play it note for note. There are technically talented musicians that can play Mozart note for note. Doesn't mean they could come up with something just as good, or even in that style. Just because Buckethead could play it doesn't mean he could come up with it as easily as it flows out of Slash. Slash during the GNR hey-day was on a creative roll.

I have listened to alot of Buckethead albums and I've never heard anything that sounded like Slash. They are just completely different styles of playing, they have different tones to their guitars, etc. Buckethead just happens to have a more diverse plethora of styles while Slash has... lol, one style. Pretty much.

And please don't tell me about how "Buckethead DOES play hard rock bluesy-style Slash guitar on *insert Colma, Electric Tears, Peppers Ghost, Population Override, Decoding the Tomb of the Bansheebot, here*"
Just because there is bluesy influence doesn't mean it's the same style Slash plays. The only Buckethead album I've heard that has anything that sounds remotely Slash to me is some of the songs on Giant Robot (namely Buckethead's Toystore) but even then, it's still almost completely different.

Could Buckethead write the same hit hard rock songs that Slash has? Maybe if he wanted to. But why would he want to? It would be completely NOT HIS STYLE. I love Buckethead's albums. There is literally so much depth and so many different genres that one cannot help but feel the guy is a creative monster in his own right. When you go from playing "Sketches of Spain" to fucking "Jump Man" to "I Can Only Carry 50 Chickens at a Time" to "Traveling Morgue" to "Forbidden Zone"... (man Buckethead is awesome) you cover SOOOOOOO many fucking genres. I mean seriously, none of those songs are even close to being in the same genre. And there's still more songs from other albums I could list that are even different genres from the above listed songs (Caution Drop, Octave Of The Holy Innocents, etc.)

So honestly, quit comparing Bucket and Slash. It gets old. I love both of them. I'm (probably) never going to hear Slash's same tone, style and heaviness on a Buckethead album and I'm definitely never going to hear Slash cover 500 genres perfectly and with a unique style like Buckethead does.

So talk about a FUCKING DEAD HORSE. Lol. Daaaaaaamn. No more Slash v Buckethead... -_-

I agree. Let's leave the old band comparisons at the door please. Slash rips it up and you can hear it on AFD, his live performances and the UYI disks. Buckethead rips it up and you can hear it in Bucketheadland, Colma, Electric Tears, Peppers Ghost, and 40 other of his solo works. They are both great respectively. So lets leave it behind us.

Someone earlier in this thread brought up CITR (a leak I totally forgot about) and it got me thinking about what I was saying earlier about mixing and mastering. When you listen to CITR everything blends and sounds correctly mixed. The only problem is that it was ripped from a cassette tape (wasn't this the story?) so the actual song quality is deteriorated..

If CITR came out in full quality (as in a WAV or FLAC high bit rate file), but had the exact same mix and sound as the original leak it would be a song that could be on an album.

The other leaks just sound like demos.