James wrote:

As usual...this guy doesn't know his elbow from his asshole and states the opposite of reality.

GNR lost its "coolness" in 1997 with that nameless, faceless lineup that literally couldn't be marketed after first Slash, then Duff bailed out.

Three years later Bucket enters and along with Finck brings quirkiness in place of cool, a marketable lineup is now in place... which is squandered...and also allows the possibility of pushing 21st century GNR as a supergroup... also squandered.

The only reason Ashba was brought in is because Team Brazil... notorious haters of Slash...all of a sudden wanted a B grade Slash clone.

That's it.

Without that, he never becomes part of the GNR story.

It was also the point many hardcore fans threw in the towel...me included. It was obvious what was happening....no more albums and they wanted to try to market GNR to casual fans until reunion time.

This!!!

I threw in the towel as well.

Having seen new GNR in 2002 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Buckethead was the highlight.

Then in2006 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC, Robin was the highlight. Bumblefoot was ok. The band was all right.

When Robin left that was it for me.

When they added DJ Ashba l was like really? This hair metal poison motley crew freak? Fuck this band.

DJ is a cunt.

Wishes he had Buckethead’s talent.