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I heard Axl made Team Brazil management because he was tired of them sponging off him and wanted them to at least earn some of what they were ripping  him off for.

1 hour ago, Flake said:

What's "the truth"?

Whatever Axl says it is. 

6 hours ago, kiwiguns said:

Why cannot people just take what was said at face value. I don't get the concept of fans wanting the band to do what they want, when that's not going to happen. These guys are adults and can do as they please, when they want, and they can choose how they do those things. I often read comments on here, and don't understand why, some people get so court up in what and how the band or its members operate as individuals or as a band. 

They do things their way, always have, and the fans need to understand that, as what they say on a fan forum is not going to change anything the band or its members do. 

And yet we get fans, based on a simple interview, picking apart what was said, and than adding their own personal thoughts or turning the interview by Slash, in a completely different direction, that's not even relevant to the questions or answers provided by Slash. 

Just chill, sit back and wait. That's all us fans can do. 

What else is the forum for? Every one already kisses their asses in real life to their face. If they can't take some constructive criticism then f em!

Ive been on here since 2003 and probably a little while before I signed up. In all my years on the forum I never have understood this waiting game about new music. Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why Why! 

Ok I feel better now. 

Carry On.

54 minutes ago, Mfegz said:

Ok, get me in the studio with these guys and i will 100% come up with something far far better 👍

 

The song is just lame and basic 🤷‍♂️ 

 

Same goes for Atlas.. Which is just embarrassing 🤦‍♂️ 

Look at the Billboard  top 200 album charts if you think this stuff is lame and embarrassing. 

He's better than Axl live.

So....is  Slash's album title Living the Dream a poke at DJ Ashba?

8 hours ago, amandacssc said:

Oh no. Really? 

Uh huh. 

23 hours ago, D.. said:

Come on man, that's the impression Axl gave you? Performing with AC/DC & giving his all + reuniting with the old members? He DOES care. More than a lot of people seem to comprehend.

If he gave zero fuck, he would never have reunited and probably stopped everything entirely or just touring like he used to from 2011 to 2014 with the previous line-up. He has enough money to play golf for the rest of his life, to quote Uwe Boll.

His silence for a while is extremely good news to me. The more silent he is, the more it's an indication he is working his ass off, that's how he is. You can bet he is working like a madman on the new album.

I have little doubt the rumor is true and that a next album is further due. I felt it was coming. If it's for early 2020, then great. I'm not totally confident about the release date but whatever. At least that's some indication they are making a new record, that's all I care about.

 

Now I just hope it will be good, but I have faith in Axl. Maybe it won't be onpar with the previous albums, but it's alright as long as it sounds good.

As for someone who said "if it sounds like Chinese, it won't sound good"... it's because of people like you that the next album may sound inferior to Chinese.

The last track (which doesn't really count) that appeared in a cartoon was incredibly generic and bland. I never listen to it. I sure hope they won't "go back to roots". Fuck this "go back to roots" fashion, unless it means bringing Izzy back and delivering songs as good as AFD, but I think we can't reasonably expect that.

Any artist is supposed to evolve, not get stuck in the past. Axl completely embraced evolution and followed his guts.

Chinese Democracy has a lot of amazing tracks with great songs. I'd take most of CD songs over most of the songs that've been released in the rock n' roll landscape over the last 10 years.

It's just an amazing album all around with a couple of shit tracks (Riad & Scraped. And If The World is boring). The production is ace. You must be deaf to ears if you can't appreciate the quality (There Was A Time is hands down in the top tier GN'R songs, ever).

I sure hope Axl won't compromise himself and deliver a half-assed old-fashioned rock n' roll  generic album like Slash has done for the last 10 years. I want to hear The General! I want that over anything Slash or even Izzy could come up with. I sure hope this track will make it onto the album. I'm pretty confident Axl won't forget his hardcore fans and what he's made of.

 

Damn! Are you on cocaine?

I'm just like Axl.

The older I get the less I care.

I found a version  where someone brought the guitars up front where you could actually hear them and it made the song 100 percent better. 

When I  saw GNR in 2016 I walked up to the venue box office and bought tickets which were nosebleed for $33 a piece no fees or taxes. They had charts showing what was available.  It was my decision to buy the cheap nosebleed,  others were available.  Then because it didn't sell out I was offered seats in the lower bowl in exchange. Sometimes it pays to be cheap and old fashioned. 

15 hours ago, MYWIFEMYLIFE said:

I hate it too, but just because it means the show is over

I'm not into live music that much so after 2 or 3 hours I'm ready for it to be over. 

4 hours ago, lame ass security said:

I tend to like a lot of what Axl does in concert  as far as doing it differently from the recorded version.  But I've always hated the way he does the "whoa whoa whoa whoa" part live.  He has always done it as far as I know and I don't know why in the hell he chooses to do it.

I hate Paradise City  live because of Woncha take me home instead of  oh won't you please take me home.

That and the Mickey Mouse vocals.

I'm sorry for you, not sorry for me.

Which version?

7 hours ago, SoulMonster said:

It was a band decision. Still, it seems Slash was most involved because he was the one having to deal with Steven's state at rehearsals:

Slash: I felt really bad for Steven. He’s saying stuff like “How could they do this to me?” But it wasn’t a matter of how could we do this to him. It was how could he do this to us. He was taken care of by this band. Anybody who thinks we just kicked him out is just somebody who doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about and doesn’t know what went on. We waited for him for a fucking year. How long is a band supposed to wait around? We all wanted to get out and play, and he wanted to play, too. He was just too loaded to do it. Really, we did all kinds of things for this kid to get him back to normal, and he refused. Every time he went into rehab, he took off. I mean, I took off from rehab, but it’s because I didn’t want to be controlled by anybody else. I went and cleaned up on my own. Steven had no control whatsoever. He didn’t want to be in rehab and still wanted to be doing what he’s doing. He thought it was very rock & roll. What do you tell a guy like that? So I just said, “Fuck it, that’s it, I can’t deal with it anymore, we have to get a new drummer" [Rolling Stone, January 1991].

Slash: So a year went by (three visits to rehab) and I finally said, Steven, you've got to go. […] It still fucks with me [Q Magazine, July 1991].

Slash: "That's a sensitive subject. It's because as everybody grew up a little bit and tried to get out of the heroin thing and that whole trip [Steven] just never went along, he never grew up with the band. When I gave up a really serious habit he just kept going, the whole sex, drugs and rock'n'roll concept was pretty much all he could fathom and we couldn't work he wasted a lot of money in the studio with us. We've all gone through our trips and we've all had our fucking problems but we've dealt with it, if not for our personal lives for the band itself. We always took care of him and it stopped the band working for a fucking year. When I came back after cleaning out— and I had a really fucking bad habit with all kinds of shit and lzzy came back and we were ready to go, and having to go through this whole thing with Steve going to the hospital, we were wasting tons of money. The guy is sitting on the stool in the studio with his nose touching the fucking floor, with the whole band just staring at him. We'd wake him up and he'd go 'I'm just tired'. Finally it came to the point where I called him up and said 'Steve, it's over' " [Rip It Up, September 1991].

Even Izzy, who later seemed to have disagreed with the decision, or at least complained about it the most, was informed and supportive of firing Steven when it happened.

Izzy: At this time I had nearly managed to get clean up, from everything. When I was looking at the band, I would see Stevie, who was a good guy, who's been struggling with us during all these years, but couldn't handle it anymore. He was a real millstone, he needed to clean up! Fuck... We all tried to help him, to support him. But no, finally, we'd been on the road with this guy for years and we lived this dilemma: "OK. We leave him six months doing nothing without any guarantee it gets better, or we forget about the double album and we bury the band?" Actually, the industry's machine woke up and the answer was: "We take someone else to cut these records." It's wasn't an easy decision [Rock & Folk, September 1992].

Izzy: I took it pretty hard when Stevie was out of the band. It was pretty upsetting, cos I was watching Stevie trying to get himself together after pulling myself together, and it was kinda hard seeing somebody trying when they're not really ready for it. Weeks and months were going by, we were in that old dilemma; it had been two or three years and we didn't have a f**king album out, we gotta move [Kerrang! September 5, 1992].

Axl seems to have been the least involved, likely because he didn't have to deal with Steven on a daily basis.

Axl: "The misconception is that we kicked him out for the hell of it, and that I was the dictator behind it. The truth is, I probably fought a little harder to keep him in the band, because I wasn't working with him on a daily basis like the other guys were. They grew tired of not being able to get their work done because Steven wasn't capable of it" [RIP, October 1992].

Oh! Now I change my mind.

1 hour ago, Drexl said:

Duff "The King of Beers" McKagan - the ultimate villain for the GNR fanbase. He dethroned Axl.

People really need to hate someone.

Not hate. # annoying as fuck!

13 hours ago, Popcorn crew said:

It was 14 years ago. When he was shopping for shirts. Than the seller ask him what size do you need? "A XL!" And there you go. 

Thanks for the laugh,  that was a good one!

2 hours ago, Gambit83 said:

that's his job? 

Yeah,  I  was being sarcastic.

Someone needs to inform him that there is no reason to release new music now days.