LysanderSky

11 hours ago, wasted said:

Thing is in 2001 Axl wanted Slash on CD. I think maybe Slash didn't really want to go back and Axl had to sort of do CD, complete the mission. Slash had VR going too. So I think mechanics has a lot to do with it too. I'm not sure if they had that big a problem. 

Fortus solves a lot of problems too. 

Alternative facts, lol. "Slash's a cancer best removed" etc...

Josh Homme has too much of an own signature sound. Not a good idea in my opinion. I love the new Iggy tracks but at this stage Guns need something else, someone who filters out the signature GNR sound and realises and brings out the purest, simplest most GnR like sound out of the band. You guessed it: Rick Rubin.

Like, 8 topics below yours, 4 pages of discussion.

Er...sorry for that. Mods, feel free to delete.

My sentiments exactly.

Ciao.

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/why-im-breaking-up-with-axl-rose?utm_source=noiseyfbuk

It's going to be a hot one on Sunday for sure. Being German myself, I really dread Germany losing in the final. We've had our fair share of "going far but not quite making it" in the last tournaments. Obviously, Argentina is just as keen on winning this, I think it's going to be a nerve-wrecking game.

In terms of favourites: There are no favourites. It's the freakin' final.

Pretty rich coming from a guy who does fuck all to "continue the legacy" of GNR.

Really like it. A bit of a swan song, isn't it?

No. Wild theory. I think you care more about the release of the next album than Axl does himself.

It's as plausible as the more consensus idea that a near finished album won't see the horizon of release until 2015 at least.

Sure Axl is concerned more with the tours primarily now, but to read everything in history ie. Axl's rabid preoccupation with continuing the GN'R record legacy, and suggest he has a limited interest in the CD follow up, simply isn't believable. I think he's deliberately playing down the prospects so as to not face the overwhelming pressures attached to the creation of CD.

Where frankly he spoke grandiosely about the project since 1999.

But do you really think the public interest in a new album is as big as it was for CD? I don't think so. Part of the mystique of CD was that Axl was pretty much a recluse for years and it was the follow-up to UYI 1&2, hugely successful albums that came out 'old music industry world order' if you know what I mean. CD was the most expensive and delayed album ever made, that alone generated curiosity for the album even for people who aren't massive GNR fans.

I think Axl is aware of that and since his and New GNR's presence in the media has become more normal, I think the burden of expectation is off his shoulder. Therefore he's in a much more normal place now to do a new album but honestly, while he might have had some demos recorded, I don't think he's too concerned with the release of the next album.

Hey, bro. Out of curiosity, how long have you been struggling with crack addiction?

Oh, amazing effort there, BraindeadBA.

On a serious note, is noone else willing to explore the idea that contrary to the deliberately misleading public stance Bumblefoot and co have been pedalling, that secretly Axl is getting on with the process of getting the follow up to CD out there?

No. Wild theory. I think you care more about the release of the next album than Axl does himself.

That would certainly be interesting. Maybe it happens in a parallel universe. But really, I think they'd both only do it at gunpoint. They're just too different and have nothing in common apart from being both musicians...

Dead Horse works quite well...

Wrong section....I know you need the attention it is ok.....

Splash is in my top 10 worst guitar players...see how these silly lists are useless and simply opinion based?

There he goes again, the gay trollcano. As if you understood anything about music and guitar playing...

As I said in the other thread:

Anyone who wears a Slash solo shirt to a NuGNR gig is looking to stir up shit and probably deserves to be kicked out.

An AFD shirt is one thing, but a Slash or VR shirt is just a "fuck you" to the guys onstage.

Are you serious, dude? What about more casual rock or Guns fans that don't geek out on forums like this? People that just want to have a good time and aren't even remotely close enough for the band to see them...(?) How is wearing a T-shirt a "fuck you" to "the guys on stage"? I don't think they mind (apart from Ax, maybe) and if they really do they should man the fuck up and be professionals. Just my 2c.

No.

Also I think it is likely that a new album will never come out. If it it does it will take a couple of years. And if the album remotely resembles that 'Blood in the Water' bollocks, GNR will be the subject of even more public ridicule.

This is really sad and affecting me quite a bit, since the Beasties were part of my youth. Was a big fan back then.

RIP MCA

I understand your logic. I am fairly autistic also we it cos t guitars. I have a blue-metallic Epiphone 335 with SD59s which I absolutely love. Eventhough it is really not te best gitar, I love it because so may memories (gigs, recordings, practice, struggle to make it an actual working guitar etc.) are attached to it. I haven't touched it since I bought a Gibson 335.. But I wouldn't sell it, since the money I would get for it does not reflect personal value.

The problem with guitars can be that you get overly obsessive with stuff. Especially in the day and age of internet 'experts' and cork-sniffers.

Back to my mai point: I get where you're coming from. If I was you, Iwould get rid of the guitars you don't play, keep your old Trussart and get the one that you think is "the guitar". If you don't play your old Trussart anymore, sell it and buy yourself some candy.

You are welcome.

Sorry for the typos, my keyboard is fucked.

I wouldn't. No matter if it has 'better' specs - the connection you have with a guitar is not really based on rationale. Chances are that you just don't quite fall in love with it as much. Maybe you would but I wouldn't take that risk.

I for one love semi-hollows and also quite like bigsbys but I can't intergrate them into my playing / handle them properly.

No surprises here, either. As I said in the Duff thread, if the guys really want to play, they should have started working with Axl from the start, both by mending bridges and by suggesting scenarios that Axl would be comfortable with. Waiting untill a few days before the induction with no prior communication, to let everyone know THEY are not the ones responsible for no music at the ceremony because THEY really want to play, is too little too late, and even worse, one might argue that they are deliberately doing it this way to make Axl the bad guy again, basically setting him up for the fall. To complete the work they should thank Axl profusely from the podium to really make it clear to the world who the good guys and who the bad guy, are.

Ad to repeat myself again: They are honouring a famously dysfunctional and non-communicative band by being dysfunctional and non-communicative.

What a bullshit argument. I don't even know where to start...

Why does everybody have to succumb to what 'Axl is comfortable with'? BTW: I understand Axl why he made his deision but don't blame the other guys

I kind of understand Axl as well, as far as his no win-situation argument goes. While this letter was mostly quite diplomatic for his standards, he still manages to be patronizing with this 'Life doesn't owe you a happy ending' bollocks. I mean seriously? Who is he talking to? How entitled does he feel that he thinks anyone's 'happy ending' in life is dependent on whether he drags his ass into the 'Hall of Fame' or not?

At the end of the day it would have been a nice thing to do for the fans. Not more and not less. But no big drama I guess the RHOF is a joke anyway.

utter shite

I can vouch for those Slash pick-ups if you want a tone similar to his. They are exact. When I got the Appetite guitar the first thing I tried was Knockin' with a little bit of chorus on the clean channel and it was nearly identical to the album. Real great crunch on the overdrive channels too. I'd describe the lead tone as "smooth" as opposed to "screaming" if that makes sense. Great pick-ups for classic rock in general.

Nice Slash LP by the way B)

Old thread.

I suppose my set-up hasn't changed much since then. Added the Slash Appetite Les Paul and a Peavey Wolfgang to my arsenal.

Which pick-up truly brings out my best tone? That's hard to say. I'd have to hand it to the Wolfgang. It's hands-down the best guitar I've ever played, even better than my beloved Les Pauls.

Wow, is that the gold top Les Paul? It looks stunning! Do you really prefer the Wolfgang? Hard to imagine for me

Bareknuckle Stormy Mondays (unpotted) in ES-335. Love'em!

By the time it came out the industrial/dance/rock kind of thing sounded dated. Korn did that a decade earlier. It's not bad song though. I'd have preferred a stripped down acoustic blues version of it.