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Oh, that's awful. Thoughts to Marc and his family. 

Tracey and Roberta will always be the women in GN'R way before I think about Melissa. 

Axl was never a Racist, just a moron. 

Axl's biggest mistake was immortalizing this hack of a journalist. Should have never done that Get in the Ring rant. This guy deserves zero attention. 

Canter called some members on this board Assholes! Lol awesome. 

Amazing. Nice to hear from Marc!!

I think one of the reasons GN'R isn't in the current cycle of "PC" outrage is because this is old news, no one is breaking any stories over GN'R's lyrics and past behavious. The money is in bringing down seemingly respectable individuals in pop culture. 

25 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

I've posted part of this before:

McKagan convinced Seattle University to let him complete his degree online, and almost before you could say "Welcome to the Jungle," he relocated to Hollywood and began writing songs with Slash, Sorum, Nel­son and Todd. But within a matter of months, the Buckcherry guys were gone. Perhaps "musical dif­ferences'' reared their ugly head, or maybe the fact that Buckcherry were generally perceived as a poor-man's Guns N' Roses imbued the whole enterprise with some­ thing of a not-so-fresh feel­ing. "The initial thing with the guys from Buckcherry would have been a complete­ly different band," Sorum admits. "No disrespect to Josh - I mean, what he does is cool - but I think that particular style or direction we were going in might have not been taken as seriously as what we're doing now. I think what we're doing now just has so much more substance.''

[...]

Deciding to carry on in the wake of the Buckcherry misfire, the three musicians invited Dave Kushner to join the party. Kushner and Slash had been friends in their L.A. junior high school days but had never played music together, since Kushner didn't become serious about playing guitar until after Slash had moved to a different neighborhood Having paid his dues in such L.A. punk and hard rock bands as Wasted Youth, Electric Love Hogs and Infectious Grooves, Kushner moved to Japan a few years ago to seek his musical fortune. He didn't find it, but he did run into McKagan in a Tokyo nightclub.

"I was playing in this band called Zilch," Kushner recalls. "It was this crazy thing with a guitarist named Hidé - he's big in Japan - and Joey Castillo from Queens of the Stone Age on drums. Duff was there with his band, Loaded. We'd met before, and we just started talking and hanging out" Kushner eventually joined Loaded, and when the rhythm guitar slot opened up in what would become Velvet Revolver, he seemed like the obvious choice.

"Dave's real forte is sounds," says McKagan. "He's got a million different pedals, and that adds a whole other 'mad scientist' element."

"He's got really good ideas," Slash agrees. "Dave's as sober as a judge; he used to be a real fuckup at one point, but now he's got this great work ethic."

"I've always been into really tweaky sound effects," says the deceptively mild-mannered Kushner. "I think it was because I could never afford good amps, so I always bought tons of effects-wah-wah pedals that sound like talk boxes, that kind of shit. In this band, I'm just really trying to do something that takes it a little further from being a straight-up, fivepiece, two-guitar rock band."

While Kushner's predllection for Fernandes guitars, Bogner heads and a whole arsenal of Line 6 and Boss pedals might seem at odds with Slash's Les Paul-into-Marshall approach, the two guitarists quickly meshed. But when Izzy Stradlin suddenly started showing up at rehearsals, Kushner began to wonder if his days in the band were numbered. "Izzy just came out of nowhere, as Izzy does," Slash says, laughing. "Poor Dave. Izzy's sitting there, this ominous presence, and Dave's thinkin', That's the original guitarist from Guns N' Roses. Am I still gonna have a job? But we're real loyal people. It wasn't like, 'Hey, Dave, we're gonna work on some songs with Izzy; call us back in a couple of weeks!' When Izzy was there, we just played with three guitarists.'

Stradlin hung out and jammed with his old mates for several weeks, but Slash and McKagan both say there was never any real possibility of their old guitarist joining their new band. "The Izzy thing probably got misconstrued a little bit," says McKagan. "I think he wanted to come in, like, `Let's go out on tour right away! I've got eight songs, let's go! We'll do some covers; Duff and I will sing!' [laughs] But Matt and Slash and I were more like, 'If we're gonna do this, we're gonna have to do it so it's amazing.' I've heard a lot of fans saying, 'Why don't you have Izzy in the band now?' Well, this isn't cut out for him; he's more of a guy who will be here one day and be gone the next, and you won't know where he's gone to. But he added a new energy that we probably needed at that point."

"You have to understand our relationship with Izzy," Slash explains. "Izzy's always been the guy who's sort of there and sort of not there. Duff and I have seen Izzy periodically; I've played on his records a couple of times, and Duff has done the same thing. And then he called up right when we were in the midst of writing, and he actually came over and brought a couple of songs with him. And then we just started hanging out and jamming, and we wrote, like, 10 or so songs. It was just a lot of fun, but he didn't want to deal with the fuckin' long haul at all. As soon as we started to physically audition singers, we didn't see him again." Slash laughs. "He's so fucking shattered from his experience [with Axl] that he refuses to ever do anything involving a singer again!"

[...]

"The first CD that Slash gave me had a lot f music that Izzy had written with them, and it was a lot more classic-based," Weiland remembers. "I wasn't as excited about that stuff, you know? But when I got the next batch of songs, it was like, 'Okay, there's a handful of songs in here that I definitely feel I can  wrap my head around.

                                                                                                                                                                   [Velvet Revolver - The Big Bang, Guitar World, 2003]

 

 

 

Yes! I remember Slash saying they went to school together. Great post!

I personally didn't care for it, which is fine. Not for me. I can see why it would appeal to people though.

The only song I can stomach GN'R playing from CD is Better.

55 minutes ago, Dangom1 said:

 

Underrated show from the 2002 era imo, up there with rock am ring 2006, clean vocals sound great and some rasp aswell! Miss Bucket head and Finck! 

Opinions?

I always loved the version of Street of Dreams (The Blues) from this era. The guitar intro is far better than what we got on CD in my opinion.

Adler looks great... he's one lucky mother fucker.

I've always enjoyed Believe in Me. Impressive when considering the shape Duff was in.

Well obviously Axl is one of those "One in a Million" type of individuals who are allowed to bypass security. 

On 7/3/2017 at 9:53 PM, The Holographic Universe said:

Do those 10 dots truly represent the avaible fan club seats for purchase?

Really shitty thing to do. 

29 minutes ago, EvH said:

This is an awful compilation which doesn't make sense at all. The tracklisting is stupid.

I wasn't being serious. 

This is as close to what Use Your Illusion should have been. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_Your_Illusion

13 hours ago, IncitingChaos said:

Sterns interviews over the last 5 years have been some of the best out there. His ability to get people to talk about anything and everything is what makes him who he is. He's brilliant, go watch Slash's last interview with Stern...the entire ending is talking about Axl and why they should get the band back together...60% of the show was about Guns N Roses and Slash had just released his latest album. Nobody else  was getting to talk to Slash about Axl and even if they did Slash wasn't open to talking about much, but Stern gets more out of his interviews

Wasn't Slash very pissed off about that interview? I remember him going on Opie and Anthony shortly after and not sounding his happiest about that interview. 

4 minutes ago, Dar97 said:

I imagine it's because he's under so much pressure to perform well that he gets too stressed 

I imagine that's very true. It's just shocking how he hasn't figured that out yet. 

52 minutes ago, Zurimor said:

I just got to know about this story, did a search, but searching for "Dr Pepper" just leads to the homecooking thread..

Speaking about this offer: https://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-free-dr-pepper-for-everyone-except-slash-and-buckethead

So what did he do to be excluded? Just because "he took Slash's place"? But why is Slash excluded, too, then? And why weren't the other band members excluded as well then?

don't worry Axl promised to share his Dr. Pepper with BH. 

I sincerely hope his marriage lasts, the amount of money he's bound to lose would decimate his lifestyle. 

5 hours ago, DieselDaisy said:

My view is the opposite: hated Contraband and liked Libertad.

Last Fight, right?