EDIT : Aussie model Rosie Tupper....sorry just found out she's only 17 so have removed the links to pictures for taste reasons.

Ahh ok cool...each to their own I guess. My only issue with loaded is Duff on vocals...he sings really well in that punk style I'll grant...just for my personal music taste it's not the type of vocals I tend to enjoy. Not that i was super into scott either...but he's ok. I just miss Axl lol.

Yeah and I guess as much as I was kinda bagging brain for it then, I guess that mostly comes from my lack of understanding about how different drum sounds are created. Like i'm a guitarist and even on my crappy home recordings and demos for my band, if i have a particualr idea of a sound in my head, it can be really challanging to try and make it go that way on the tape. So i can relate to how this must have been when on a massive scale like a real band like GNR, and when we're talking about albums that will become famous and live on after death etc (unlike my stuff that lives on my pc LOL). Anwyay so i guess to be honest...as much as i'm sort of knocking it....if i was playing on a GNR album....and I was told to do whatever was necessary...I'd have like a ton of different guitars, amps, pedals and whatever else on hand that would aid the process too!!!

I don't mean this to sound insulting to the band members..but it almost makes me wonder to what extent maybe sometimes people are almost taking advantage of Axl. Like clearly he's willing to do whatever is needed to make the record go to the level he wants. (Like he doesnt seem to give a fuck about budgets or timeframe or wierd requests). And while a lot of things would aid the process both technically (lots of instruments) and creatively (setting a mood)...when you hear about the project renting out a temple, and bucket building a chicken coop..I sometimes wonder if Axl's being taken for a ride.

Kinda reminds me of when I was a kid. My dad let me take some friends to the movie for my birthday. I was a fat kid, and to me part of the experience of being at the cinema was you get popcorn or candy or whatever. Anyway...my friends didn't have a lot of spending money, and I didn't want to be eating my popcorn in front of them, but I didn't wanna miss out, and so i talked my dad into buying stuff for everyone. But then i realised I didn't wanna make them have my choices, so rather than have him pick for them, somehow i talked him into giving them cash each so they could go get their popcorn or whatever. Anyway...my friends of course pocketed the cash from my dad..and didn't buy any food!! Only my stupidity to blame...and my dad for not being able to resist a smile and "pleassse" from his little kid But anyway...sometimes I think maybe it's like that. You know like i had an intent in giving them that money, it was for them to enjoy the experience of my birthday party...and they kinda abused it, and like with this album...they're spending a lot of money to set the mood and get the perfect sound, but some of the stories make me wonder if maybe they also lost focus of the goal behind the blank check....

Good point. Although personally I can't fault Axl's vocals in the final product...(oh well...actually I liked it in one of the leaks when the high part on TWAT was more prominant in the mix) but in general...I dunno to me it seems the challange with this band post Izzy/Slash loss has always been getting the music up to par with Axl's vocals and melodies, most of the changes always seem to be relating to guitar parts. I think they did it in the end though. I've realyl grown into CD. The more I listen to it the more I like it.

Just thinking....as much as Axl as captin of the GNR ship has to take some credit/blame for the delays and expense...from this interview it seems like he had a bit of help....like brain talking about how he set up different versions of every drum and pedal...moved recording into a gothic space...seems his whole mindset was "we have budget lets go crazy". I'm just saying cos like often we get the idea as fans that the band members just want to do their thing and get it out and it's all axl being perfectionist....

Anyway...I totally love what we came out with anyway...so i'm not knocking it...just interested in hearing from him. I agree what he says about frank being closer to steven's groove too. That's why this new tour could be cool...frank of AFD songs...brain on CD....can't ask for more than that drummer wise at the moment.