RNRS

I actually enjoy the rants. I enjoy them because it is like living vicariously through him. There are many times that I would love to flip someone off. There have been plenty of times I wanted to go on an obscenity laced tirade aimed at the person who has been pissing me off. There have been times I wanted to tell a manager, a supervisor, a director to go fuck themselves. Once or twice, I've done all these things. Most of the time, I am your average, upstanding citizen who just grinds her teeth and bites her tongue and seeths silently. The part of me that is still 21 years old, 10 feet tall, and bulletproof LOVES every second of these rants because my inner rocker roars with delight at the prospect of some poor dipshit who had the bad luck to draw Axl's ire. Yes, I'm sure many instances were of his own making, but he is unapologetically honest. He lays it out there for the world to see, in all his furious glory and I, in my suburban home, with my "normal" family, my Monday-Friday job, and my repressed wild side, bask in the ferocity of all the things that he is free to say, shout, or shriek in front of tens of thousands of people. Oh, to be so free.

The thing is that he "lays it out there" when the other party can't really respond. He's ranting when he's relatively safe, which differs a lot from the average Joe ranting to his manager.

As a 12 year old I thought the rants were mighty cool. Then I grew up and realized they were rather pathetic and lame, especially considering what a pussy he is when he's not on stage.

I know that in my heart of hearts Guns N' Roses/Sweet Child O' Mine's in Eb, tuned half a step down from E, or is it?

I've found that moving a whole fret up (how one achieve's the transition from Eb to E) gets me playing Sweet Child O' Mine... It's like I know the song, what I knew was okay, move it up a fret and I'm playing it...

Or maybe it was just a backing track in E instead of Eb?

I forget right now but I was wondering about this last week.

A lot of backing tracks are in E.

All GNR albums are recorded in Eb except some tunes on CD that are E standard.

Some CD tunes are tuned down to B also. Such as Shackler's, ITW, and Scraped. And Better is C#

Yeah. Wonder why they make it so complicated!! I guess it don't matter when you own a gazillion guitars tuned differently.

With the amount of work done on Chinese Democracy it wouldn't surprise me if half of it was recorded in a completely different key and then changed to a different tuning altogether when mixing it. Same goes for Axl's vocals. They might all have been recorded 3 steps down and then tuned up on a computer. Who the fuck knows with that record.

Great lawsuit. Doesn't stand a chance though. In order to be able to win this lawsuit he'll need to come up with proof as to how he's lost money over it.

Reunion or GTFO.

I've a feeling that this is what UYI would've sounded like would Slash have had his way. Sounds very rough and gritty at times. It's remarkable what they can do with just a bit of mixing.

Why the fuck would he want to live on a turd world country? There's a good reason for a lot of people here in SA trying to reach first world countries. Life is actually not a tropical paradise here.

It's not a tropical paradise in the U.S.A. either, it's mostly Americans thinking America is such a great place to live, while it's only really great if you've got a lot of money to spend and can afford all the things your average Joe can't. If you've got loads of cash, why not live in a place you seem to be most fond of?

Him not being able to keep a band together. Any band, for that matter. Old, new, whatever. None of them ever seem to work and there's always excuses and contracts forbidding the truth to be revealed, but somehow it all leads back to Axl.

Steven's actually the only "dispensable" element from a Gn'R reunion... No one really cares about tthe guy.

Says who Mr. Delusional?

Common sense.

EXCITING PLANS. MORE OF THE SAME WE DON'T WANT ANYMORE.

This will without a doubt screw up plans for Chinese Democracy II. Without a doubt.

And this band is supposed to make a record?

Still haven't bought it. Have downloaded it, obviously, but never played it all the way through. Think there's a few bright spots on the album but most of it is just not my cup of tea and has not much to do with the GnR I grew up with.

lol wut

Yeah, cool

As if anyone cares about DJ Ashba.

The man seems to have a few issues with people thinking he's a tool who can't play.

People thinking this might be true kind of shows how little common sense there is on this board.

November 21, 2008.

Worst: This I Love, but most of Chinese Democracy makes me cringe anyway. For every highlight there's at least two new lows.

Yeah, Axl posting long rants and then Slash saying "I think it went down differently but we all have our own truths so whatever" and there it is, 10 years of more drama on mygnrforum.com

Great topic. Please post it again next year to see if the outcome is any different.

Only 37:30 minutes? You know right away it ain't nothin' like GNR lol.

At least they were all actually on stage though.

Now that's something I didn't expect to happen. Fingers crossed it'll be a regular.

Beta.