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#1341 Re: Guns N' Roses » GN'R Twitter Updates » 736 weeks ago
@gunsnroses: One thing we can say about 4-14-2012 in Cleveland, Ohio It's gonna be a @GreenDay http://t.co/8QHxWbrj
Do @gunsnroses actually think anybody gives a #fuck?
#1342 Re: Guns N' Roses » Why Chinese took so long to make » 736 weeks ago
I would have placed it more around like 2002 than 1999...but the I do wonder what happened around that time that made it take a futher 6 years when it sounds like the bulk of the work was done.
Jim Barber (the A&R man in '98) claims the album was well enough done for a '99 release, but OMG happened and you know the rest.
Tom Zutaut (the A&R man in '01) says the same about a 2002 release, but given Axl's appearance during the ill-fated tour, it was plain that his mental state wasn't as good as it has been on subsequent tours.
Marc Canter implied the album was done in around 2002, but label issues prevented the release. Doesn't make complete sense as is, given the label cut funding after an additional year, and Axl fiddled some three years on Sanctuary dime.
#1343 Re: Guns N' Roses » Why Chinese took so long to make » 736 weeks ago
Sometimes being in GNR must be so boooooring...
Touring with GNR is probably anything but. 
#1344 Re: Guns N' Roses » RRHoF Discussion (Izzy/Slash/Axl Press Statements) » 736 weeks ago
Situation is all wrapped up
And no more needs to be said, oh no
#1345 Re: Guns N' Roses » RRHoF Discussion (Izzy/Slash/Axl Press Statements) » 736 weeks ago
if axl was willing to play, izzy would be there in a minute...
How about an open letter to Axl Rose? How about we draft one.
Possible.
Axl don't like getting singled out and begged for a reunion. If anything, the reunion aspect of the letter should in my opinion address all AFD (UYI?) members with the notion: "Screw RRHOF, please guys, just do it like Led Zeppelin."
Followed by a plea for CD2, VR3 and Loaded4. 
#1346 Re: Guns N' Roses » RRHoF Discussion (Izzy/Slash/Axl Press Statements) » 736 weeks ago
The Hell with them!
The one thing that matters -
IS DIZZY GOING TO SHOW UP?
#1347 Re: Guns N' Roses » RRHoF Discussion (Izzy/Slash/Axl Press Statements) » 736 weeks ago
A curious sidenote to the story came to play when Sorum (of all people) introduced Axl to Robin in early 1997. Apparently, everybody (sans Axl) thought it'd be the best of both worlds to introduce Axl to an avant-garde guitarist, who could play rhythm and also, would stand apart from Slash. This way, Paul Tobias could be dismissed and Slash reinstated.
But Axl wanted Robin to play lead. I still wonder whether Slash would've voluntarily returned to be a contract player, which he most certainly was during his last year in the band. But the story goes like so, and, without anyone ever asking the right questions, we may never know.
#1348 Re: Guns N' Roses » RRHoF Discussion (Izzy/Slash/Axl Press Statements) » 736 weeks ago
Thanks to FunkyMonkey @ HTGTH.
Guns N' Roses
Members: Steven Adler (drums), William "Axl Rose" Bailey (vocals), Saul "Slash" Hudson (guitar), Jeffrey "Izzy Stradlin" Isbell (guitar), Michael "Duff" McKagan (bass), Darren "Dizzy" Reed (keyboards) and Matt Sorum (drums).
Guns N' Roses inductor TBA.
Hometown: Los Angeles.
Claim to fame: These hard-rockers burst out of the Sunset Strip 25 years ago with "Appetite for Destruction," which has sold 18 million copies in the United States alone, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. The album's No. 1 single, "Sweet Child o' Mine," was unavoidable, seemingly blaring from every stereo and radio within earshot. A small army of musicians has passed through the GN'R ranks since the band's '80s-'90s heyday, with Rose and Reed as the only mainstays.
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So, the recording lineups between AFD and the UYI's will be inducted.
I do hope someone has the sense to point out to the RRHOF people not to mention Axl by his original name - remember the Azoff lawsuit? Then again, it's amusing to notice the drummers are the only ones without stage names.
In a typical GNR fashion, the inductor is still to be announced. 
#1349 Re: Guns N' Roses » RRHoF Discussion (Izzy/Slash/Axl Press Statements) » 736 weeks ago
You note that none of Axl's people have ever put it out there either. Why? Because there is nothing to tell. It would have been used by them as a weapon to batter down Slash's high approval rating by the public long before now.
Good point.
I've always felt the answer is deceptively simple.
First, Axl and Slash gradually grew apart over the years leading to their breakup.
Eventually, Axl found himself as the sole founding member with an album to complete.
He spent years on end working on the album and eating up the negative press with him as the Evil One.
Many people denounced his Slash-less GNR from the get-go. The record company was concerned as to whether he could deliver without Slash.
In that sense, one can see Slash as a metaphorical cancer, his shadow looming over each and every professional venture Axl undertakes.
I know, Axl makes it personal. Makes everything harder.
#1350 Guns N' Roses » Axl, about that RRHOF... » 737 weeks ago
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My theory is that fans could roughly be divided to three different groups regarding RRHOF.
There are those who want a performance.
There are those, who'd settle for a possibility of a reunion if peace'd be made between Ax & Slash.
There are those who can appreciate the burying of the hatchet without a reunion, at RRHOF or otherwise.
Are you one of which?
