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Civil War sounds great just the way it is. I wonder more of what UYIs would have sounded if Steven did all the drums. Would it have sounded completely different? Would it sounded more like AFD? Would it have been better?

Yes they would have done better to go back to their roots of being a hard rock band. GNR was one of the few hard rock bands that did well in the grunge era. They could have continued to be great. I believe losing Izzy was really the start of the falling apart of GNR. Axl firing of Gilby the replacement for Izzy that Slash hand picked also did not help. Slash picked Gilby because he could write with him. Then Axl goes and hires his buddy without consulting Slash.

Anyways, That is what I see as the begining of the fall of GNR.

We can only imagine what GNR could have been if things went different. GNR at the time had more gas in the tank they just needed to get the pieces that worked back. Mainly losing Izzy was a big disaster that caused the domino effect of the self destruction of GNR.

An example of a band that did not change much was AC DC they are still successful. GNR could have stayed doing the same style stuff and probably been popular because people just loved GNR.

Matinator I like your music. Sounds pretty rock'n to me.

Hey guys, we've just made our single available online...it's not out till the 29th of October. Would love to see what you guys think...

My link

I like your music from what I have heard. Need better production but it sounds good so far as the song.

New band, not recording till next week but we've done a few gigs with admiral fallow etc. Enjoying it. Only got some early acoustic versions of songs but decent enough quality.

For the youtube video it sounded pretty good. The recording audio fidelity was not the best but the song sounded good too me. Would be better to hear what it is supposed to sound like on a album.

Axl could record a hard rock record that sounds more like old GUNs. Just make a rock n roll record. Another option is he should join Bach's band that would be a good alternative imagine Angel Down with Bach and Axl for the whole album. Would be cool.

I would like Axl to release archive material from the old guns. I would like to see more concerts footage from 1987 to 1993 on dvd or bluray. Would like it if more rare tunes from 1987 to 1996 were released. Would be interested in hearing any demos they have from before the band split up and Slash left. Would like An't Going Down to be released in a final mastered form. Would like some other rare tracks on a rare tracks album. Maybe heart break hotel, jumpin jack flash, any given sunday, etc...

Of course a reunion with Axl having his voice in great shape again would be my wildest dreams but I am not getting my hopes up. Even better a new tour and album with a reunion with Axl in top form again.

Maybe Axl should do an album where there are different guest musicians on it like Slash did. That could be cool. They could do maybe covers and some new songs.

At least with VR break up we got a STP and Rage reunion so the timing was pretty good. I think the Audioslave breakup was a little early but the timing worked out since Soundgarden had a reunion. I really wish original GNR did not breakup so soon. I can only imagine the records they could have done if the continued after Illusions. Or imagine what Illusions could have sounded like is Steven did no get kicked out.

Check out this bands music. Grunge sounding band that has some good lyrics I think. It is a two person band. I found them on CD Baby years back. I think with better production this would have been a cool cd. Still pretty neat i think in its rough form. I really like some of the tunes like Swell and several others they are all pretty cool. The song called Unordinary seems to be a favorite on the cd. It is a pretty straight ahead rocker. I like the vocals. The guitar is simple but cool. The lyrics are pretty cool.

Here is their myspace

http://www.myspace.com/bendingspoonband

"Bending Spoon was formed in late Dec of 2005 with former frontman of Honeywell, David Crozier and drummer Ben Byrd. After many ups, downs and members quitting the band, they decided to stick to the two member format. After a few weeks of trying to figurer out how to pull off a 2 member alt rock band, David picked up his guitar and began to joke around about modifying it to play both bass and guitar at the same time. After a day or two, that humor became reality when David modified and rewired his guitars to create both true bass and guitar notes at the same time. The band is no stranger to success or press; after landing the front page of several newspapers, radio rotation worldwide, magazine articles and even an article in Music Connection Magazine, they began to see that there might be a place for their music in this world. To the fans, Bending Spoon shines more like a symbol than an icon. "To give someone something to believe in is difficult until it is worded in a way they can relate," says frontman David Crozier."-cdbaby

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bendingspoon

Sounds great it does remind me of Bach for sure. I like it. Sounds a lot like Angle Down except faster. Pretty cool.

Powertrip is my all time favorite. Monolithic Baby is my second favorite. Then my third favorite is God Says NO. They were great albums. I do have most of the albums I think the only one I have not got yet is Mastermind.

Yeah I noticed Dave does not look as good now days. I know in 2007 or so they were really great live and Dave did great and he was in shape. I know Dave gained some weight and he is looking older now. I know his singing went down hill when Mastermind came out I looked at some live videos on youtube and thought wow Dave does not sound as good. Hope he turned it around since then. Dave used to have a lot of energy on stage when I seen him before he put a lot of effort in to it. I am sure old age caught up to him and slowed him down.

Surprising you said they were terrible because when I saw them in the 2000s they were amazing live. Maybe you saw an off night or maybe MM got better live. I have seen the band live at least 3 times. I know the line up changed some between God Says No and Monolithic Baby but they were amazing every time. They really impressed me with their live show.

I like Monster Magnet. My favorite is Powertrip. I have seen Monster Magnet quite a few times in Detroit. Met the drummer and guitar player after a show last time I saw them at the Filmore (used to be State Theater) years back during the Monolithic Baby album tour. Another band was the headliner and I was at the bar and the guys showed up to get a drink. I also saw Monster Magnet during the God Says No album tour at St. Andrews Theater. They were amazing live each time I have seen them. Dave lit his guitar on fire I remember smelling the lighter fluid at St. Andrews show. Then they put it out with fire later.

Guns N Roses

Soundgarden

Stone Temple Pilots

Alice In Chains

Rage Against The Machine

Toadies

White Zombie

Motley Crue

Van Halen (if Roth Never left)

Nirvana

Bush (if their lead guitarist never left)

Sublime

Megadeth (if the band stayed the same as Countdown that would have been cool)

Metallica (wonder what if they did not lose Cliff)

Loved Audioslave but would have rather had Soundgarden and Rage not breakup

I think it was a nice story. I never heard. Pretty cool that they can all hang out together. Bon Jovi New Jersey was a good album and I liked the Young Guns 2 soundtrack.

Ain't Goin' Down. I think Don't You Cry demo would be agood unrelased track to release too. I like the Heartbreak Hotel cover song and the Jumpin Jack Flash cover not sure if those were ever released officially.

After this performance was the first time I felt ashamed to be a GNR fan because I knew that people would make fun of that horrible performance. Axl had fallen from the graces. Axl sounded out of breath running around and his high voice was mickey mouse. Something happened to Axl's voice he lost his power and raspy gravel voice he used to have. Not sure but he sounds completely different than he used to. This was the first sign that Axl lost it.

The band looked like freaks and did not fit the image of GNR. Then you get a mickey mouse sounding Axl overall I was shocked. The band has a good performance but Axl was off do to monitor and what ever happened to his voice (not sure if he had surgery and lost half his voice or not but seems so) Axl how could he go from amazing in Illusions and AFD days to this beyond me.

AFD was revolutionary similar to Nevermind when Niravana took off. People remember those albums that really defined a breakthrough for music. I think AFD has such iconic songs and the who album is amazing. I liked Illusions too and think they are amazing. I think one of the huge differneces was Steven. Having Steven do the drums on Illusions would have made it more like AFD sounding in my mind. Illusions sounds different because of the drumming and keyboards. I think AFD is more of a party album since it is more of a rocker and has less ballads. I think most GNR fans remember Illusions and AFD. Lies has a few hit songs that people remember.

Lies was not a full studio album some of it was live and it was more of a cash out album that they did while waiting for Illusions to come out. I think TSI was a cash out album too something they could put together quickly since it was all covers. It was mean to tie us over tell the next album and also make them some money. That is the reason both those albums are not remembered as much. They did not put a full effort in those versus the albums where they write all the material and put a lot of effort into them like Illusions.

This is sad in retrospect because this was the ending of the last concert with Slash. Really the last old guns GNR show.

1. Chinese Democracy

2. Madagascar

3. Better

4. Street of Dreams

5. Catcher in the Rye

6. TWAT

7. IRS

8. Shacklers Revenge

9. If the World

10 Scraped

11. This I Love

12. Prostitute

13. Riad N The Bedoiuns

14. Sorry

I think the IRS demo version was better. The final versions vocals could have been better. I prefer the Brian May version of Catcher in the Rye.

Not enough Axl singing the songs that is what I did not like about TSI. I love So Fine. Axl should have showed up in the studio so he could be on more tracks. Duff is fine but we need Axl on the songs too.

I think it depends on what the Label and Axl can agree to release. If the label is hell bent on a traditional rock album then I don't see Chinese Democracy II coming out tell they are dropped from the label or maybe as a last minute cash out by the label to try and recoop some of their money. I really think it will be a new rock album with DJ writting a lot of it. DJ wrote a lot of the last Motley Crue album Saints Of Los Angeles. so I don't see why he could not do a lot of the next album. Of course it may be a little from everyone and may be a lot of Axl's songs since he is the leader of the band.

I like Metallica Black and Load the most I think because those are the records I listen to the most. I did enjoy the other early albums and even reload but don't reallly listen to them much. The Black album is so amazing to me. I just think it is one of the all time classic albums much like Megadeth's Countdown to Extinction album is a classic.

I really liked Load it took me a little to get over the shock of the style change and the hair cuts but the album grew on me. It was a great album even if it was more of a alternative rock/hard rock/country western ablum I enjoyed it.

There is some cool songs that came out in that time period.

Soundgarden is amazing. Not sure why anyone would say they were not good grunge. Love early Pearl Jam too. I guess it just depends on your tastes. I like Nirvana and AIC too. Loved Stone Temple Pilots stuff too. Anyways, I guess it depends on how much you love grunge.