You are not logged in. Please register or login.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#1401 Re: Guns N' Roses » Question to fans of 01-02 lineup... » 582 weeks ago
I've always thought that if Axl had gone out at the VMAs looking and sounding like he did in 2006, it would've made a huge difference. And if they'd not tried to squash two old songs and one new one into a medley, and just led with Better or Chinese Democracy or TWAT, they could've come out of the gate swinging.
Picture Axl belting out WTTJ as he did at Rock Am Ring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEHLoc-G_M
instead of his uneven vocals at the VMAs. It would've made all the difference in the world. The music industry's all about image and perception, and the perception in 2002 was: squeaky-voiced, fat Axl wearing hockey jerseys to cover his gut. The bearded, braided 2006 Axl with the vocal coaching he'd had ahead of that tour would've turned opinions around in a heartbeat.
#1402 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash and Axl friends again? » 583 weeks ago
Actually, never mind the reunion – a reconciliation between Axl and Slash means we could get GN'R Rocksmith tracks...
#1403 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash and Axl friends again? » 583 weeks ago
for the record, a reunion tour is meaningless to me...of course, I would go if it was in my town, but, in the end, already seen that band when they were in their prime....
How perfectly lovely for you. I, and many others like me, didn't get to see them first time around, so don't have any of those happy memories to humblebrag about. So yes, I would rather like to see the "fat 50-year-olds" up on stage just once in my life.
#1404 Re: GN'R Downloads » Best quality audio boot of new band? » 655 weeks ago
THE Better performance for me. The band's hungry to play it and Axl's in shape. His voice is yet to get to his peak during this tour, but he's all there with the rest of them.
Funny how things change. I remember the naysayers ripping that performance apart, calling him "out of breath" and laughing at the bit when he gets stuck trying to clamber back onto the stage.
Just imagine if he'd gone out at the VMAs and delivered WTTJ looking and sounding like that. I'll wager the record would've been out within the year, and Buckethead would still be in the band. That VMAs performance really torpedoed new GN'R.
#1405 Re: Guns N' Roses » sp1at thread » 661 weeks ago
I actually like that Monster song....always thought Eminem and Ax were cut out of the same cloth.
But seriously, I'd love to hear a collaboration between the two of them.
#1406 Re: Guns N' Roses » sp1at thread » 661 weeks ago
oh yeah, and fuck all the 14 guitarists...he needs to write with Tommy f'n Stinson if he wants to take it back old school....Tommy, Richard, Ax, Dizzy, Frank could make a killer album on their own.
Y'know what I really want to see? Duff, Fortus and Tommy doing an album together. Axl can come in and do guest backing vocals on one track, or something.
#1407 Re: Guns N' Roses » sp1at thread » 661 weeks ago
I definitely think Axl is a huge fan of Bucket's. They've tried to get him back more times then we probably even know, and the treatment of Ron by the band pretty much says it all. "This guy won't be around for long, so don't get used to him". I just get that overall feeling.
What stuns me is with Ron's medical problems, plus his vocal criticism of the dynamics of business in GN'R, i'm shocked somebody else wasn't called before the 2009-10 tour. Then Ron spoke of, well if Ron's not doing it, then Axl's not doing it, which is kinda stand up, but what's the overall point of it all?
I have full belief that DJ Ashba is there to write with Axl if and when the time comes. The rest of the band already has. Ron? Seems to be on the outside looking in.
Is he waiting for Bucket? I'm sure he'd take Bucket back in a second, at a high cost. I think Robin & Bucket inspire him, and maybe even DJ even though when haven't heard anything from him. Axl paling around with DJ and DJ saying "he's played me this, he's played me that", is definitely a man that has at least kicked the tires on new music with certain people he likes.
I personally am half hard right now thinking of a Guns N' Roses album with Axl vocals/lyrics, DJ radio melodies, Bucket melodic Padmasana solos, with Richard in the background waiting to Slash it up when they need him to.
Pretty bad ass hybrid of GN'R if you ask me.
Yeah, as much as I'd like to see Robin Finck return, and as much as I detest Ashba, I appreciate that the guy is very talented at writing commercial rock hits. So a combination of Ashba writing and Buckethead bringing the crazy shred would probably be the band's best hope for commercial success. And given their shared interest in horror movies, Ashba and Buckethead would probably get on like a house on fire.
#1408 Re: Guns N' Roses » Robin Finck first substantial interview on how he got GNR gig » 665 weeks ago
"I played with Robin a few times and he's a great guy." (Duff, Hard Force, 07/99)
Theoretically, those tapes do exist.
otto wrote:Exactly. Robin was Axl's ticket to a new band. DJ is a ticket to nostalgia land.
Axl's idea of an AFD reunion would be himself, Duff, Izzy, Frank and DJ.
Robin would've made a wonderful lead guitarist in a new Axl-fronted band, without the baggage of the old.
It would've been genuinely fascinating if Axl had managed to keep the Duff/Matt/Huge/Robin/Dizzy lineup active – you'd have Robin's distinctive guitar style, which is very different from Slash's, but none of the baggage of "breaking up the old band," since most of 'em would still have been present.
The publicity would've been very different; there would still have been naysayers, but it would've reconfigured GN'R as a band more along the lines of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, where the guitarist slot has been filled by a number of different people.
#1409 Re: Guns N' Roses » Robin Finck first substantial interview on how he got GNR gig » 665 weeks ago
Also, interesting to note that Finck presumably played with "the original band minus Slash" – by which I'm assuming he meant Axl, Paul Tobias, Matt Sorum and Duff. What I'd give to hear the tapes from those sessions...
#1410 Re: Guns N' Roses » Robin Finck first substantial interview on how he got GNR gig » 665 weeks ago
elevendayempire wrote:Wow, he's going to do a solo album? Fucking finally. It's been so frustrating knowing he's capable of stuff like the TIL solo and seeing him relegated to chugging away next to Trent on rhythm tracks. And knowing that the only solo showcase for him is a couple of Chinese Democracy tracks, Ghosts of Mars and a Cee Lo Green song. Ever since seeing this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzEU_MnZdHg
I've been waiting for him to round up a decent drummer in the Dave Grohl mould and a Robert Plant-esque singer and become, essentially, the new Led Zeppelin.
Yeah, Robin played that solo when they toured Australia in 2007 too. Some pretty cool soulful blues playing there, in typical Robin style.
But to me it's more along the lines of Stevie Ray Vaughan than Jimmy Page though
It's less about the style of his playing than that I'd love to see him in one of those 1970s-style bands where there's one guitarist with a unique tone who defines the band. Like Queen or Zeppelin. No fucking about with rhythm players, just a stripped-back beast of a band.
Alternatively, lock Finck and Jack White in a room until they produce an album.
