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#3111 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 922 weeks ago
I think Robin put his heart and soul into GN'R, he stepped up to the plate big time after Buckethead left. I honestly dont think he would leave GNR in the lurch if there was any suggestion of the band going out and working.
Hey mabye he is a selfish bastard, I dont know. But I just dont get that impression from the guy.
He seems hurt by something though, suddenly GNR is taboo. Strange.
#3112 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 922 weeks ago
To say the band is dead is to neglect how GNR works. What history has taught us. For some reason, not know to us, it always rises again. From 93 and from 02. Died in 2008? Ah come on. Way to early to tell. Suddenly a tour pops up. History has taught us JUST that. I'm not claiming GNR to be dead as long as Axl lives.
Has anyone actually seen Axl recently? Who's to say he is really still with us and its not some ghostwriter with a twisted motive for keeping up the pretense?
Poor guy could be pushing up daisies and most of us are giving him his worst bashing in years.
#3113 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 922 weeks ago
You could argue Robin is a big part of the reason there hasn't been any forward movement by the band. They're missing a key component from Chinese Democracy, one of the lead guitarists. I don't know for sure, but if he never left things might be a lot different right now. We don't know why he left exactly because he's never commented on it. Everyone assumes it's because Axl's an asshole and everyone eventually leaves him and he was sick of waiting around and just wanted to tour. We don't know that for certain though.
You could argue that, a cynic might say your clutching at straws, but you could argue that 
#3114 Re: Guns N' Roses » GUNS N' ROSES (false)rumored For Spain's KOBETASONIK Festival » 922 weeks ago
Well its Faith No More for Download, not that anyone was holding their breath.
#3115 Re: Guns N' Roses » VMA rehearsal and HOB 01 » 922 weeks ago
I'd be very interested in the 2002 version of Chinese Democracy, that would be worth paying for. I couldnt care less about rehearsal footage, I seen the live performance and Axl sounded like a pub karaoke singer!
#3116 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 922 weeks ago
He could make people wanna hear them by bigging them up and actually putting in a little effort to praise the album. Their not that bad, not bad at all. I would love to hear some of them songs live, Prostitute would be killer, Brain's drumming is awesome. Scraped would rock as well!
I thought at the time Robins manner of departure was iffy and it suggested all was not well. I dont think he would have went back to NIN if he had faith in Axl. I think he knew it was going to another long period of inactivity and just decided to bail and see what steps they would take. Giving that noone seems to have had much communication with him it seems like any fears he had on GN'Rs focus on moving forward, were justified. After experiencing the slick operation and professionalism of NIN again, would he want to go back to GN'R?
#3117 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Revisiting Slash's Snakepit » 922 weeks ago
I quite liked Been There Lately, it has a good bouncy rocking vibe 
Never got into VR at all, I think the lyrics of Contraband put me off them, I found them quite weak, I was really excited about that album as well. I havnt heard Libertad other than seeing the videos on TV.
#3118 Re: Guns N' Roses » VMA rehearsal and HOB 01 » 922 weeks ago
Axl looks furious in that picture.
#3119 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 922 weeks ago
I wish Duff was a hot-head and just told him to get stuffed. Mabye its just me, but the way Axl words it is so patronising and there is always a not very well disguised dig straight after the olive branch.
"I suppose Duff could play guitar on something somewhere"
"Duff [McKagan] tries convincing himself he's equal partners with Slash."
"Maybe something with Duff [McKagan], but that's it, and not something I'd have to really get down into, as I'd get left with sorting it out and then blamed on top of it."
#3120 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 922 weeks ago
It keeps happening because there is only a grain of truth to it, why shoulder responsibility for failures when you can simply pass the buck and there are still people who will buy it.
Others are paid to repeat it every day and relentlessly spread his propoganda on his behalf.
Decades pass with the same pattern of calamity and failure, but its never ever his fault. There are always mysterious demons, spooks and goblins - that he cant speak about - who are to blame for everything.
I sometimes think the whole saga has been drawn out so long because there are days, weeks and months where Axl shuts down in a depressed state of mind and noone can reach him. When he recovers work begins again but its an unpredictable cycle that just repeats itself.
But the people he surrounds himself with and brought on board to be part of the GN'R camp, from housekeepers or forum mods, actually turn me off GN'R completely. The sycophantic and arrogant bullying nature of them I find utterly repulsive, and the strong association with Axl they possess, almost like ants with no will of their own, makes me wonder who the puppet master really is.
