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DJ honestly has more in common with Slash than people give him credit for. The focus on image, the hat, the self-promotion, the social media, the loose playing style live.

And that's why i don't like him

he's not a liar he's just like slash and most musicians/celebrities/politician's out there.

Bumblefoot tries too hard to be the good guy, would love to see his answer if someone just asks: Why don't you fucking quit already? It's clear GNR makes you miserable. Axl likes DJ, probably gives him more money, Axl's security aren't aware Ron is in the band (funny video), Tommy probably hates his video game music... So yeah, the paycheck must be REALLY good.

It's easy to see why bbf doenst quit, he's a guy who loves fans, interacting with us and spending time with us is he's thing. I mean he has traveled to abhu dahbi or whatever (can't spell that shit) to play with a small band from gnr fans who talk to him on facebook.

Gnr allows him to be on the spotlight for millions of people and he likes that because he likes people, don't think it's about money or fame but simply doing what he loves and making people happy.

Try and send a message to ashba to see if he answers, and then try and send a message to bumblefoot about some trivial shit like cooking or whatever and i guarantee he will answer even though there are no cameras pointing at him and he's not being paid to spend 10h on the internet answering our boring questions.

He's a genuinely good guy

The guy says he would like to talk to Axl about it but the only thing he does is posting "open invitations" on facebook ? Im sure axl checks facebook everyday and looks for people who want/need to talk to him... LOL

And the only reason im against what kevin is doing is because he's doing it wrong! And it's stupid the way he markets everything with Axl's name and image... i mean he says he has every right and he owns the stuff bla bla bla but can he use axl's name n' image ?

Come on... He could go to Axl's house or try to contact his managers on facebook.

So much polarizing conjecture on this board. Some people believe Axl and GNR were the victims of "the label," while others think Axl just ruined it all by himself.

People here are howling for new music, with mythic titles like General Tso's or Atlas Pooped or whatever. Apparently, these songs are the holy grail of music, just so revolutionary and will change the world. The only problem is that "the label" doesn't want these songs released.

And some people say that DJ and BBF will create the ultimate GNR album, far surpassing AFD.

Yet here we are, with no new music since ChiDem, no plans to release music.

So, what do you think Axl's point of view is?

I think Axl knows just how colossal he was back in his heyday, and he now realizes just how impossible it is to recreate that magic with hired employees. He knows he was on absolute top, and he knows that he'll never be there again. He also knows that his employees aren't talented songwriters. They're great cover musicians, but they're no better than the thousands of kids who post YouTube videos of themselves playing GNR hits.

I think he also knew that ChiDem wasn't a great album, which is why he kept layering more and more shit on those same old tired songs, in the desperate hope that something magical would happen. Instead, all that happened was that some moderately decent songs got buried under mountains of wheedly-wee videogame noises, courtesy of BBF.

I believe that from Axl's point of view, he knows the ship has long ago sailed, and that took the fire out of him. Instead of becoming depressed, he just said fuck it, I'm gonna eat a ton of great good, travel the world with my sycophants who keep telling me I'm so great, and just go through the motions so I can continue my lavish lifestyle.

give me some of that shit man

people r strange

*clothes for the demented*

Exactly.

As for your last sentence....no, that's not the situation. More along the lines of a group of people on here see everything through Rose colored glasses instead of using common sense and logic. Axl is against the release - so they must be against it as well.

Opposing the release - or thinking that the guy is unethical - aren't "seeing everything through Rose colored glasses," and to assume so is to assume that people aren't capable of logical, independent thought. I don't like everything Axl does. In fact I don't like most of it. That doesn't stop me from thinking he has a point with this and that he's justified in wanting it squelched.

I wonder if many see the irony in all of this. On the one hand, Axl attempts to legally block old recordings, greatest hits albums, books, associations with previous members, all the while successfully touring off most of the same content and associations.

He didn't legally try to block Marc Canter's book, as far as I know. He just was upset that it was released when it was, and decided not to be friends with Canter anymore as a result. No legal blocking there, and he didn't say a word about it publicly.

As for Greatest Hits, perhaps it's important to remind that the GH opposition was probably the only time that Axl, Slash and Duff have agreed on anything in the last 20 years, because all three of them fought it. Not just Axl.

When has Axl tried to "legally block associations with old members?" The lawsuit against Steven Adler was 24 years ago and the entire band was involved. Other than that...when? He's played onstage with two of the four classic AfD members and one of the Illusions guys, he's buried the hatchet with ALL of the AfD and Illusions guys except one (although I'd be surprised if Adler wasn't back on his shitlist, given the drama with the RnR HoF and Adler's constant pleas for reunions). So he doesn't want to do a reunion and he didn't want to show up at the RnR Hall of Fame to play with the entire old band. So? People move on. There's no reason he shouldn't still be proud of the old music he helped write and play it. Velver Revolver proudly played GnR songs too.

And the Rapidfire stuff has nothing to do with the classic AfD lineup in any way, shape or form.

hi axl

It's an amazing song with a very cool dark vibe, love the way axl sings it! Definitely one of my favourite gnr songs

bucket never plays the same solo twice n' that's why they all sound different

Is it so hard to understand he wants nothing to do with this former member and has moved on with HIS band?

Because it was much better when it was THEIR band.

VERY debatable statement.

Not very and certainly not debatable at all.

It was their band, that's why Axl had to ask for the name. Whether Slash and Duff were dumb enough to sign it away, that's another story. Fact is, Guns N' Roses was their band until Axl dissolved the patternship.

It was always their band but the name of the band always belonged to axl, they never signed it because they were friends, when shit began to fall apart axl thought it was better to put on paper what already existed as a verbal agreement among friends. Simply enough 4 you ?

I love how Axl finds so many unique phrases for his songs. To take the time to do this is just amazing to me.

You're delusional. Do you think Axl wrote Civil War then watched a lot of movies for months trying to find the right quote? LOL

He's simply a fan of the movie, remembered it and though he could use it -- if the one who made the decision was really him.

of course it was him, he's always quoting movies and stuff in concerts and some interviews too.

I saw this movie so long ago, but my son told me about it.

I love how Axl finds so many unique phrases for his songs. To take the time to do this is just amazing to me.

How'd you work that out? It'd be more amazing and impressive to me if somebody, anybody could draw some kind of association between the song and the quote so as to perhaps show on whats so amazing about it, cuz to be honest it always seemed kinda random to me. War is a result of our failure to communicate with our fellow man perhaps? Well if thats the case then why have the bit where it's like 'so we can git what we had here last week which is the way he wants it, well he gets it. i don't like it anymore than you men', thats kinda REALLY specific to the film, isn't it, to Paul Newman and repeatedly trying to escape off that chain gang, what the fucks it got to do with the song?

I don't think it really takes time, I mean he's basically just put a quote from a film which has a really really really really convoluted association with the message of a song, thats really not difficult, not at all, you could do it with any song, like right now, sitting here, like OK, for example take a song like No God by The Germs, which is basically about there not being a God and, thematically is like, to do with war against God or going against God...and if I were to pick a random movie quote with a vague association to the topic to tack onto that you could take the scene from The Ten Commandments where Moses opens the red sea and barrs the Pharoah, played by Yul Brynner, with a pillar of fire and his commander in chief begs him to turn back and retreat:

Commander in Chief: He opens the waters before them...and he barrs our way with fire, lets us go great one, men cannot fight against the God

Pharoah: Better to die in battle with God than live in shame!

There you go, movie quote, from the 50s, tacked onto a song with a vague thematic association...now tell me I'm amazing

yeah well that's just like your opinion man

So Hollywood Rose before GNR, and Rapidfire before Hollywood Rose, when did Axl play in the band that he took his name from? Was that just before Rapidfire?

before Hollywood Rose was Hollywood Rose it was Rose and before it was Rose it was Axl I think, but don't quote me on it.

I think the "AXL" band thing happened when he was still in indiana but what do i know.

Some people are always upset.

GnR is the modern day Spinal Tap. It's very fuckin rock n roll to just walk on stage and go. Like Chuck Berry did, old school.

Comparing Axl Rose to Chuck Berry?

HAHAHA.

I see a black willem dafoe in that picture

I enjoy the 3hour shows and the solos but understand if the casual concert goer feels bored/tired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukwHR4OqWc

Failure to communicate.

Hey man, am i driving ok ?

To those of you who haven't seen the movie i say "LOL"

Why?

Because its a damn good movie and like previously said a "must see"

this guy goes on and on, on how he wrote all the material and axl just recorded it but he has all the rights and although that may be true i don't think that gives him the right to market everything with Axl's name and use his image on a t-shirt. Axl never signed off on it, i hope Ax sues this guy into oblivion

To those of you who haven't seen the movie i say "LOL"

I think Axl should invite schwarzenegger to go with him, and in case slash appears arnold would warn him like this:

and then axl

Slash won't be there, he's not stupid and he knows he's presence will mess axl so he won't go .

everything starts reunion rumors, you people are fucking desperate