Ritchie Sambora is a class guitar player with fine, tasty solos. He's way better than that clown from Poison. Just because Jon moved his band to a lesser rockish direction, Ritchie's still a good player.

Slash
Just finished checking out the final edit of the "Gotten" video, it's pretty heavy. Will keep u posted on when that's coming. IiiI; )'

Axl is hit or miss live. Always was, always will be. He had some awful nights, mostly in 1991 - I guess it had a lot do to with the 2-years of no shows. Axl singin' miss a night or two (or five) isn't new. What is new, is today when he's hit, it's not the bull's eye, but somewhere in the outer range of the table. At least, he's still on the table, though.

You know, the difference between

Axl on a good night sometime 1985-1993

and

Axl on a good night sometime in 2009-2011

Agree. When you're at a concert, it always sounds much better for you, for different reasons. Very loud mix, excitement etc. Youtube handy-cam stuff doesn't mean shit, it's just not that quality, and the mixing is going to the muddy middle, so you won't hear the real misses.
Only pro-shot, soundboard recordings show the truth - and that's where people are always complaining that these don't do Axl justice. It does. Just some can't accept the truth.

God, I miss this, it was so great... according to Axl, the band was dying at this point, but  I just don't see it. They're having fun and performing with so much feel, energy and musicianship!

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