It's been funny for a while like that in GNR land!

Like we now have Axl releasing his first new song in what almost 10 years since OMG in a video game, when Slash was endlessly bagged for GH3.

My other personal favourite is Robin leaving the band, I read through thousands of pages of posts about how Axl is a saint and everyone who left the band previously are nothing but 'quitters' and how Robin is better than slash cos he had been in the band longer. It isn't a coincidence that every one in the old band is gone. I mean why would people just walk away from fame and fortune. Its obvous Axl is difficult to work with for whatever reason. And i knew this would happen one day to the guys in the new band.

Back to topic...my fear is this: Do we know this is a bucket dominated track? I mean it's *named* after a track he wrote clearly...but it might be like better...where in every leak bucket's part gets further back in the mix. And god knows how many people like bumble have added new parts. Just because the leaks we have that pre-date BBF don't feature him doesn't mean he hasn't done anything. Then again - axl did say about sharing his Dr pepper with Bucket...so i guess he will still be on there. I'll i'm saying is i wouldnt be shocked if it turned out his parts had been reduced to a quick solo burst going into a chorus here and there. Damn i hope this has some kind of wild guitar outro tho....

It was bad huh. The sad thing is slash was awesome on it. Makes me put on my 'reunion' hat.

Anyway...i think we should wait and see how this guy does singing his own melodies, as being bad at covers doesn't really mean he wouldn't be good in his own style.

thanks

There are a couple of songs on myspace or reverbnation you can listen to from the links on our site
( www.theevidents.com.

Hmm...not sure what we sound like exactly...hard to define it against other bands...

We have a mix of songs from lighter rock to some quite hard rock but only two are recorded as yet.

I play guitar with very little effects which tends to give it somewhat of a 1970s flavour perhaps.

Although the engineer who did the vocals and mixing for the recordings, put in some reverb on the singer and pushed him back in the mix, which has given the whole songs more of an 80s vibe than they have when performed live.

I don't know spacehog...so i'll give it a chance

Even if the singer isn't the best match for slash (seriously no one will ever be another Axl type fit) - i feel the  STP influence in VR was way too strong....I think VR with more GNR style song constructions could be cool. The VR demos were cool - and it seems to be scott who doesn't like slash to solo, and remember he went through 2 full cds of Slash and Izzy riffs and said slither was the only decent tune. Sounds like bs to me. I think anyone new could be a breath of fresh air for this band...