tejastech08 wrote:

He did not write the main riffs on songs like Jungle, Child, or Paradise City. These particular songs were written based on Slash's riffs. It's revisionist history to say Izzy came up with those big guns that the general public most associates with this band. Axl is most responsible for the lyrics and vocal melodies of those songs. The band would be a little cult band if Sweet Child didn't blow up the way it did.

When did we start keeping score by the hits, or what the general public most associates with? Not getting at you tejastech, I've seen other people say this as well. It's just, we're here because we love all the records and songs & know the value of them. So when you're saying that PC is more valuable than say Coma, well that doesn't really cut it in these parts: it's the tunes that matter, not the amount of cash the song makes.

Look at it this way, would you be a fan if there had been only Jungle, SCOM & PC on AFD? There must be more to it than that to have kept you a fan for fuckin however many number of years? Izzy's contributions must've played some part in that.

There'd have been absolutely nothing wrong had they just been a cult band. We'd still have had the tunes, that's all that matters.

Disagree his post GNR discography is the worst - quite the opposite in fact, however that will be forever a subjective point.

You can re-write history to big up the Axl/Slash theory of songwriting all you want - Izzy bought the bare bones and the others worked the magic off of it. His sense of Stonesy, bluesy timing and sensibility was absolutely crucial to their sound and once he left it was never the same. Amazes me the revisionism of some fans in that regard but i guess we all see things differently

They were all important but in my opinion, he was crucial to the creation of amazing songs. He was the catalyst. Look at how many great songs they mustered post his departure. Says it all.