Jaison

After seeing a few G n R cover bands around England, I left thinking a tad dissapointed as these bands didn't really sound or look like G n R. Donning wigs and just being able to screech does not make you G n R. Actually being able to sound like them through quiet songs and loud songs I think is a prerequsit. Granted some soundalikes may not be lucky enough to have the hair to grow etc but if they can then they should. When seeing a cover band we as fans of the original band want to see similarities, otherwise they may as well call themselves somthing completly different.

I have seen other cover bands of The Rolling Stones, U2 etc and they really do make it so for me my experience of the G n R cover bands was a little dissapointing.

Note :- I haven't mentioned the cover bands names as not sure if I can.

I went to the show Sunday night where they played very few "New" songs. Although I thought the production of the show was very very untogether I know it was one of thier first shows and chances are they will sort it out. One guy almost got blasted by pyro the first night and the night I saw the guitar players were all over each other. Regardless I love this band and I am not a "hater".

My wife however had this interesting observation...She didn't understand why she was watching a "Cover band" play old G n R songs and in all due seriousness they still look like the friggin Village People. There's the one guy singing with about a million dollars in diamonds on, The Punk rock guy dressed in plaid, The keyboard player with dreadlocks down to his ass with his shirt off, One guitar player looks like a confederate soldier and now there is a "Bumblefoot" in the band..must I go on? I read in this forum where people are talking about the fact that this band "Finally got thier look together"? This band???? That's together? Ahhhhhhh OK.

The best stuff they played the other night was the new stuff hands down.

Drew Stone

Hey there Drew,

As a life long fan, I have been there since the very beginning. As many others have also been there since the beginning also we remember when G n R hit the scene with the likes of Sweet child & paradise city etc, The first albums - Appetite, Lies. Even now I still follow them or should I say HIM. There will never be a Gn R as they were all those years ago with the full original line up, but through indifferences etc a time came when the band did indeed go there seperate ways leaving Axl to reform. By doing this G n R still maintained the name, lead singer and of course what makes G n R G n r - the songs.

Just as memories of childhood remind us and momentarily take us back to that time so does the songs that were there from the beginning. For me personally anyway those early songs were G n R.

As for the remaining original surviving members of G N R forming Velvet Revolver and doing they're thing, well it aint G n R is it, but none the less those guys, Slash, Duff and Matt are what also made G n R what they were. A combination of these two forces, Axl and the other original members are what is for me G n R. Thay may never regroup again but that certainly does not stop me listening to both.

The newer stuff from Axl and G n R is ok but unless they want to get stuck in the past and get labelled then they have to go forward with new material as well as older stuff too. This is what makes the band, a collaberation of old and new.

As for the bands dress and attire, well this is Axl Rose were talking about here, a great believer in freedom of expression without a care for authority ( maybe a tad more mature these days ). But Rock & Metal is essentially a rebellion against those who try to keep us in line and to show that we are individuals weather it be the clothes we wear or the words we speak. As long as there is no purposely unfounded harmful intent then I cannot see a problem.

Perhaps because of the gap in which there was no G n R then maybe I am stuck a little with the origional and want to remember that era, who knows. I will continue to follow them and Revolver as these guys are what gave me the bug and I will always thank them and remember them.