Michir Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Had it been taken as is or with some minor changes by Axl and Duff, would it have made a good GN'R album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wasted Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Cant remember any of the songs. I think Hate Everybody but you might been a single. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lies They Tell Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I agree with Axl on this one. It had some potential, but it would have needed a lot of work in order for it to be a good GNR record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volcano62 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Maybe a couple of songs that would have to be worked on intensively by Axl and Duff.That is all...MAYBE 2 songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 There were some cool riffs there and really good solos and leads, but as songs it's just wasn't good enough imo.Minor changes wouldn't make it better to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 It's Five O'Clock Somewhere rocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 It's one guy's vision. Once you introduce the other people's influences into the mix, it probably will have come out sounding different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 If it had a lot more input from Axl and the gang, then defiantly in my opinion. Its great as is but it would have needed to be taken to the next level by the rest of the guys. Too bad though, would have made a great follow up to UYI, more stripped down and sleazy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 If it had a lot more input from Axl and the gang, then defiantly in my opinion. Its great as is but it would have needed to be taken to the next level by the rest of the guys. Too bad though, would have made a great follow up to UYI, more stripped down and sleazyI picture a similar effect to going from the big band part of the UYI tour, to the Skin N' Bones last leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmapelian Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 If the whole band worked the songs out like they did w AFD, then yeah, it could have been a real good GnR album -- would have been a helluvalot better than CD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 If Axl had written and sung the lyrics to Neither Can I and Be the Ball, you would have had two GN'R masterpieces, right there. The main riff in Beggers would have been an amazing Guns N' Roses riff. The rest of the album also has good riffs and bits here-and-there but they would have needed greater work than those three songs to bring them up to GN'R standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chunder Monkey Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 The guitar work is top notch, classic slash playing right up there instrumentally with his solos on the GNR records.Had Axl and Slash had a functional relationship at that stage - I believe with Axl's lyrical content, melody ideas, and of course his tone, it would have pushed it to be the real follow up to AFD in terms of an album full of GNR rockers with less ballads than the UYI records - a return to their roots for the people they'd lost with the queen stuff. I think it would be on par with anything GNR did, and probably better than the lesser loved UYI numbers people call "filler".Unfortunately by that stage Axl was interested in Industrial so dismissive of guitar pieces, and Slash was desperate to get back out on the road and so unwilling to risk Axl's timeframes for reworking. Thus leading to the absurd "take it or leave it" scenario and power play that happened.It's a good record as-is from a guitar standpoint, but the fans are the ones that lost out - as a GNR record it would be revered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotsfired cro Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 lower, neither can I, be the ball, beggars and hangers on, good to be alive, take it away all great songs.would it have sounded better or worse with everyone else on - hard to tell.just like saying id AFD would have sounded better with Gilby and Matt or UYI with Adler and Gilby.you can ask this question for almost any band out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 I think Axl could make almost anything sound great.Shame we never got to find out.Shame Axl has only released one album since the old band split up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted October 25, 2013 Share Posted October 25, 2013 I think Axl on that first album would have been great, most of the songs are mentioned already (no mention of Back And Forth Again or What Do You Want To Be? ). But I'm hesitant to say I'd like Axl on Ain't Life Grand. Rod just fits perfectly for the tonal darkness of the music on that record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfuckinga Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Hell no, 5 O'Clock didn't even make a good Snakepit album, save for Beggars and Jizz Da Pit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvH Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 I'm tired of repeating it, but Axl on Ain't Life Grand would have been awesomeness. The Alien, Serial Killer, Life's Sweet Drug with our favorite redheaded banshee on lead vocals, now we're talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfuckinga Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Axl on ALG would have rocked. It's by far Slash's best post GNR album. 5 O'Clock though..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmapelian Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Lower would have been killer with axl on vocals - IMO both snakepit albums w the UYI lineup would have been way better than CD ever hoped to be - as they stand, I still like them better musically than CD -- but that's juste my taste for slash rockers vs axl's ballad's/mid-temporock operas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfuckinga Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Ain't Life Grand (album) rocks. Serial Killer and Just Like Anything are some of Slash's best works imho, and I'd love to hear them with Axl's vocals. Same w/ Speed Parade, Mean Bone, Shine, Been There Lately and Ain't Life Grand (song). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nosaj Thing Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 (edited) With Axl's input several songs would have been killer and good Gn'R songs. I enjoyed both Snakepit albums.Ain't Life Grand (album) rocks. Serial Killer and Just Like Anything are some of Slash's best works imho, and I'd love to hear them with Axl's vocals. Same w/ Speed Parade, Mean Bone, Shine, Been There Lately and Ain't Life Grand (song).Don't you think Axl would have sounded awesome in Slash's ballad 'Back to the Moment'? That song has an incredible melodic solo and a killer outro. Edited November 7, 2013 by Nosaj Thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moreblack Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 save for Beggars and Jizz Da Pit.And Neither Can I, Be The Ball, Lower also. I think Guns could've done something with the odd time groove of What Do You Want To be, or at least they should have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 the first 4 songs on 5 O' Clock would've been good GN'R tunes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crash Diet Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 It's one guy's vision. Once you introduce the other people's influences into the mix, it probably will have come out sounding different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bacardimayne Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 pretty boring album overall, and the best song on the album (be the ball) i can't really imagine as a GNR song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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