Son of a Gun wrote:

Sky Dog wrote:

wtf, Pitman is cowriter with Axl on Madagascar and If The World...Pitman has been there since 1998...and why fuck Finck? He has writing credits on 7 songs plus some pretty killer guitar parts on Better, TWAT, IRS, ET...ACTUALLY the whole fuckin album outside a few songs.

As far as I know, Finck has only one writing credit on  " Better " as good as his guitar work on that song is, something tells me that it would be much better with just Bucket on lead guitar same goes to the whole album. As for Pitman, yes, he has credit on " Madagascar " but I consider it moslty an Axl song. According to official booklet, Axl came up with that horn intro on synthesizers so, I don`t understand why did Pitman get credit for it. "If the World" is weak except Bucket`s solo. I don`t get what the hell is he doing in the band. I appriciate his work in " Lusk " but his place is n`t in GNR there already is one keyboardist, there`s no need for another.

gotta get your facts straight before coming here...writing credits have been discussed before...legally Finck has 7 credits...
http://www.gnrevolution.com/viewtopic.php?id=7377&p=1

Son of a Gun wrote:

You are n`t familiar with Bucket`s material are you ?

Well it's hard to be as it's utterly unapproachable to the mainstream audience.

He releases like 15 albums a year and it's 90% instrumental unless you count the samples as vocals.

I've probably got around 10 of his records, and they're great playing, but there's nothing there that would be easily transferable to a release that would sit with any of the GNR back catalogue or even CD to be honest. Even as a new direction for GNR it's unlikely to create anything that would sit well with conventional rock fans.

I'm a guitarist and listen to a lot of instrumental guitar stuff as well as rock but it's just very hard to get into. I respect his skills as a guitarist - but style wise - his playing is not for GNR imo.

Son of a Gun wrote:

Writing songs with DJ and Co ? : facepalm album from this lineup will sound like Sixx AM and Beautiful Creatures type shit with tasteless shredding from Ron and some keyboard parts from Dizzy here and there. I`ve been saying this for a while and I think it`s close to truth Axl won`t write music with current incamation.

yeah but he also stopped writing with the old guys. It's why GNR fell apart fundamentally. He rejected all their songs and is never satisfied with his own. In 20 years he's put out what 15 songs total? Despite having a huge budget and at least initially his choice of world class talent to work with. Even know he has a band of accomplished players who are chomping at the bit to record but it's a miracle to even get a new old song back in the setlist let alone record anything. It's obviously become a psychological block of some kind for him, and that seems to be about Axl himself not who he has in the band IMO.

I enjoy Sixx AM - but it's the  blend of DJ with Nicky Sixx. Not to inslut motley crue passively as I enjoy some of their stuff...but I think a blend of DJ with Axl would be much better, as Axl's a far better songwriter than Nicky in an artistic sense. Just like GNR's songs are better than Motley's...I think DJ+Axl if Axl didn't have this block against releasing stuff could be great.