As some of you may know, I went to school for audio engineering. With an engineer's ear, I have picked out some shitty production moves on this album, and a lot of you (even without a trained ear) have picked out a lot of the same shit. After imbibing many beers yesterday, as well as some 50 year old Canadian Club, I've decided that bitching about the production is pretty petty. The cut and paste drums in 'Better' are not what we're supposed to be putting our magnifying glasses over. We (the fans) should be more focused on lyrical content, songwriting, etc. Not shit that happened in post. Besides, for every instance of crappy production on this album, there are 5 instances of really cool productions. As we've been discussing, there are so many cool, almost buried bits of musicianship going on, that even though they're not obvious, the songs wouldn't be the same without them. Listen all the way through with a nice pair of noise-cancelling headphones on.. you'll be shocked at what you can pick out.

Besides, shitty production on GnR recordings has been going on since day one. Even the twin opus albums are riddled with that stupid, "kazoo" tone that some of Slash's parts ended up of having. I'll take repetitive drums over shitty guitar tone any day.

Prost!