mygnrforum.com Guns N Roses Forum: Would GN'R have been just as good or better without Axl? - mygnrforum.com Guns N Roses Forum

Jump to content

  • (2 Pages) +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

Would GN'R have been just as good or better without Axl?

#1 User is online   MetalForever 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 608
  • Joined: 14-July 09

Posted 19 October 2009 - 04:01 PM

Hey,

Since many of you think Axl ''can't do it'' without Slash, yet Slash can do it without Axl, I have to ask you guys--Would GN'R have been just as good or better without Axl ever even near GN'R? This is not what I feel, but I'd just like to extend the logic posited in the other thread by HRS--That Axl can't succeed without Slash, ever, but Slash can without Axl--to the next level.
"Hustler, What are you doin' with your time, I'm slow to catch on but I think you wasted mine''

#2 User is offline   Lose Your Illusions 

  • Full
  • PipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 229
  • Joined: 24-July 09

Posted 19 October 2009 - 05:00 PM

View PostMetalForever, on 19 October 2009 - 05:01 PM, said:

Hey,

Since many of you think Axl ''can't do it'' without Slash, yet Slash can do it without Axl, I have to ask you guys--Would GN'R have been just as good or better without Axl ever even near GN'R? This is not what I feel, but I'd just like to extend the logic posited in the other thread by HRS--That Axl can't succeed without Slash, ever, but Slash can without Axl--to the next level.

Well the facts are GNR would not exist without Axl.
But i guess your saying if another singer took the place of axl in the beginning would they make it? I say no. Slash would find a great singer,which we probly know today as, other than axl. but say early GNR without Axl and some average joe Hell No.
LOSE YOUR ILLUSIONS

#3 User is offline   PTZ 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 783
  • Joined: 22-June 09
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:On This Board

Posted 19 October 2009 - 05:42 PM

No. Axl has a unique voice and a unique range that they could not have replaced.

#4 User is offline   ItsSuchACrimeUKnowItsTruee 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 648
  • Joined: 07-April 09
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Philadelphia

Posted 19 October 2009 - 09:27 PM

Not nearly as good, both talent wise and popularity wise.
ItsSuchACrimeUKnowItsMOON alliance. We run this.
hurrr black sabbath

#5 User is offline   Satanisk_Slakt 

  • FRONTMAN
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 10,963
  • Joined: 20-January 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Linköping

Posted 20 October 2009 - 03:05 AM

No of course not. Axl is equally important for that bands as Slash, Izzy, or Duff.
Posted Image
Tälje, kebab och kapade flygplan!
Södertälje Stockholms avlopp! Täljes bussar är kameler!

#6 User is online   seely 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 971
  • Joined: 07-December 07
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Nottingham, England

Posted 20 October 2009 - 08:19 AM

no fucking way
GN'R is my religion!

#7 User is online   Soulseller 

  • DEMI-GOD
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 1,733
  • Joined: 10-September 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Sweden

Posted 20 October 2009 - 04:02 PM

Nope they wouldn't have been as good... If the other four (Izzy, Slash, Duff, Steven) had formed a band with a different singer they would probably have been good, but there are very few frontmen that can rival Axl at his best, and I don't think they would've found one nearly as good. Izzy would probably have left anyway and then they would've been pretty fucked since Izzy and Axl are the two best songwriters of the bunch, but either way it's when you combine those five or at the very least three - Izzy, Axl and Slash - in songwriting that things really happen.
"I hit the city and I lost my band / I watched the needle take another man / Gone, gone, the damage done. "

#8 User is offline   Noriko 

  • Newbie
  • Pip
  • Group: Banned
  • Posts: 3
  • Joined: 12-October 09
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Uptown Again

Posted 20 October 2009 - 06:24 PM

GNR is not GNR without Axl, Slash or Izzy. The proof is the last 18 years.

#9 User is offline   Gibbz 

  • Junior
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 101
  • Joined: 21-May 09
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Canada

Posted 25 October 2009 - 03:46 AM

LMFAO, is that a fucking joke?
Guns N' Roses first of all, wouldn't even exist with out Axl Rose.
Secondly, just no. Guns would be nothing without him.

Sorry to say so, but seriously.
The frontman is a main focalpoint.

#10 User is offline   sweetness 

  • FRONTMAN
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 9,556
  • Joined: 01-February 06
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Michigan, US

Posted 25 October 2009 - 01:11 PM

No, that you're even asking this just screams how you don't understand what people mean when they say "Axl can't do it without Slash n' Co"

No, Axl, no Slash, no Izzy, no Duff, no Guns N' Roses. end of discussion, those were the key players in defining their sound, without any one of them the band is missing a serious component. without three of them it isn't even the same band...
Posted Image

#11 User is offline   CryptElf 

  • DEMI-GOD
  • Icon
  • Group: Supporters
  • Posts: 1,796
  • Joined: 25-November 08
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Black Sabbath's womb.

Posted 25 October 2009 - 04:38 PM

No GNR without Axl. No GN'R without Slash.
Posted Image
Broken bottles under children's feet, bodies strewn across the dead end street!

#12 User is offline   Y2marmar 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 713
  • Joined: 10-September 04
  • Location:the Universe

Posted 25 October 2009 - 08:28 PM

I think they needed everyone from the original line up to make it as big as they did. Everyone was important in his own way. THey all played a part
"Boosh, boosh, stronger than a moose. Don't lock your doors or we'll come through your rooftop. Trapped like a rat, take your mind off the floor. Cause the Boosh is loose and we're a little bit raw!"

#13 User is offline   floyd the barber 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 575
  • Joined: 01-April 09
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Minneapolis, USA

Posted 25 October 2009 - 08:51 PM

It would suck just as much as it does now.
Posted Image

#14 User is offline   FuddMckagan 

  • Senior
  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 676
  • Joined: 15-December 08
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Auckland, New Zealand

Posted 26 October 2009 - 03:22 AM

No. Guns needed at least Axl, Slash and Duff (performance wise) and needed Axl, Slash and Izzy songwriting wise. Taking one of them out of the equation would make something that isn't Guns N Roses.
Posted Image

#15 User is offline   fransesselaar92 

  • Junior
  • PipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 183
  • Joined: 28-August 09
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Grathem, the netherlands

Posted 26 October 2009 - 07:19 AM

View PostCryptElf, on 25 October 2009 - 10:38 PM, said:

No GNR without Axl. No GN'R without Slash.

and izzy
Posted Image
  • (2 Pages) +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users