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Never cared much for him-I tried to, but his songs just didn't do it for me. Talented yes, and an original/unique guitar player. Wind Cries Mary is my favorite.

Have all their CD's. 3 Sides wasn't that good. 4th was terrible. Porno was a great record. Good band, but doesn't sound as good as they used to back in the day.

I like the older stuff, up to Decade of Aggression. I listen to them more now thand I did 10 years ago.

Dude, without a tuner, even your standard tuning will be off. Spend $20 and get one. Will save you headaches down the road.

Action does have to do with the bridge, but it specifically refers to how close the strings are to the frets.

Time depends on talent. Patience is pretty much CCDA chords for rhythm, with the occasional Em thrown in there. Solo isn't too tough if your fingers are in shape and can hold the bends while striking the next note.

If you can play Patience well, then you cna play Yesterdays and KOHD easliy too. Plus acoustic SCOM minus the intro.

Good luck (& get a tuner) I assume you have a beginner qualityguitar. If so - tuner. They tend to come out of tune moew easily. esp. with whammy bar.

Thia was the "cheap" version of the Slash custom one. These sold for about $400 bucks in the U.S. The real ones sold for $5,000-$8000 with the snake inlay going up the neck. Cool guitar for collectors, to hang on a wall, but it's basically an epiphone with a slash logo painting on it. The real one has the logo carved into the wood and hand painted, ltd edition of 50 pcs, sweet...

Until GNR, it was the best cover of that song out there.

I just got the BOSS ME-50 in Oct, $299 at GC. Good sound, effects etc. If you plan on getting more pedals buy a combo unit, saves alot of money in the long run. I use a LP Std and Marshall Stack and this pedal sounds very good through it. I used to play straight into the amp but finally decided to add a few effects from time to time.

Sorry, not that impressive. It's only 2 or 3 notes, and you pretty much ripped off No Doubt's "Just a Girl" intro.

Thanks for the feedback-it helps.

Anyone here have a Gibson Les Paul that they put the SD Alnico II pickups into? I have a '98 GLP Standard that I have been debating swapping out the original pickups on and going for the SD's. I play through a Marshall TSL 100 Full stack, little to no effects used.

I'm wondering how much different the sound of the guitar would be with the new pickups vs originals. Since the Marshall/Gibson combo is common, I figure someone here has tried this. Worth the $250 to swap out? Did you get more of a Slash sound than with the originals? Overall I'm pretty happy with the current sound. Just curious to see if anyone did it and noted a big difference in tone, hum, sustain, anything.

why do you all hate linkin park? just curious

because

1)There music is crap and it dosent require any skill to play

2)Rapping,Rapping,Rapping

3)Shitty Techno elements

4)One of the reasons why metal scene is floated with shitty nu-metal bands

5)No respect for GNR(their live SCOM cover)

and a hundreth reasons more

And because they are a "boy" band assembled by the record company.

So when can we expect to see a new wave of metal? Cos face it, we're still in a mess.

Yeah, still in a mess. But, at least we're starting to get away from the nu-metal/ rap-metal of the past few years. The Bizkits are gone, Manson is fading. The Motley reunion can at least help spark something of what we once had. That plus VR, plus an Axl release in 2005 could help change the scene overall. But, I'm not confident that can all happen in 2005-unfortunately. Even the new GNR material really isn't metal or hard rock(maybe), from what we've seen so far.

At the same time, we have this Linkin Park vs Jay-Z crap. just when I thought things couldn't get worse...they found a new bottom to the barrel. I had high hopes in 99 with Buckcherry and in 2001/2 with Beautiful Creatures, but both went pretty much nowhere. That's why i keep listening to CD's from 1983-93. I buy alot of the new stuff but it has no lasting impact.

That is "Cry Tough", from Poison.

Would love to see them, but I think Vince will be the weak spot. He's been out of shape physically and vocally for so long that I hope he doesn't blow it for the rest of them. Saw them in 90, Great show (one where they filmed S.O.S). Would love to see them do well, but I got a bad feeling about this tour...

Please Vince, don't put a rusty nail into the coffin that was once Motley Crue.

I have the CD. And I play guitar, but I can't tab it for you, (i suck at tabbing) even though I've played for 15 years.

Good tune.

Buckcherry's 1st CD was one of the best debut cd's since Appetite. 1st cd in a long time to be just good old hard rock with out trying to be part of the mainstream. 2nd cd also very good, but 1st was better. Been a fan of theirs since 99. Still listne to both cd's regularly. Great band. New Josh Todd CD is good too.

why did it disappear?

one word.....grunge.

Almost, grunge+marketing.

Metal in late 80's to 92 became saturated and, basically crap by 93. Look at the bands that got signed and videos made. Was more on looks than the music in many cases. Labels snapped up every band they could looking for the next good pop-metal act to sell 5 million albums. Werentt any left. Then came Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and others and that started a whole new pool of possible bands for labels to market to the public, since kids were buying the records. The metal crowd got older, got out of the 13-18 year olds targets that buy most of the new material, and found the new market with grunge(new 13-18 year olds to sell to).

Unfortunately, the music industry has little to do with talent and everything to do with how many records can be sold and at what pace.

After Metal, it was grunge and country that people bought into. Then the boy bands, then the latin bands and wuss college rock, now the female divas, hip-hop, and american idol. Plus all of the new metal/rap crap that is out there. It's crap, but it sells. It goes in cycles because items are consumed as the fad grows. When the sales slow down, new fads are found and expolited by our friends at the record companies, then radio, then mtv. they all tell us what to listen to...

Metal needed to disappear for awhile. Got pretty ridiculous in 93-94 with the crap that was being put out. Too bad Metallica pussed out, another Master or Lightning style album in 1996 coud have done wonders for the metal industry after grunge died, but alas, we got Load of crap 1&2.

It's always about how much money the record companies can make. Few artists (no new ones) can snub the record labels early on. Just the way it is, and always has been. Follow the mony, that's why you hear what you hear on the radio today. It's all just another business concerned with profits and losses.

In long form, that's why metal, and every other musical fad dies.

Sorry, I never liked them much. But then again, I don't smoke dope.

Bad comparison to the Crue. Yes, Crue is full of crap these past few years, (with the re-releases) and getting to be as bad as Kiss in ripping off their fans. But the original albums were good, and still are today.

GNR

Cheap Trick

Motley Crue

Manowar

Skid Row

Buckcherry

Dangerous Toys

Queen

Helloween

Bang Tango

Megadeth

Metallica (pre-Black)

Tesla

Iron Maiden (old)

Poison

Misfits

Distillers

Many many others, but these are the main ones