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11 hours ago, Tom-Ass said:

Then he should work with Izzy.

Well yeah :). 

You know how he trashed Izzy's thin guitar sound in the wake of Izzy leaving -- I wonder if its still the case or if that was just sour grapes or trying to find a silver lining or whatever. 

Seems weird someone could be so into the Mick Taylor / Keith dynamic, or Keith and Ronnie, or Joe and Brad and then work with Izzy so infrequently. I don't think Slash is an EVH or Page style guitarist... he's best bouncing off another voice. The most annoying thing is -- I think it's just like logistics and the convenience factor... so annoying!

Izzy > Gilby > Dave > Fortus > Frank S. (not a knock on Frank at all, but he's just playing what Slash writes afaik) in terms of interesting chemistry, for me. Wish Fortus would lean harder on his obvious Stones fandom and loose rhythm ability... but I don't know if Frank F. really inspires that kind of rhythm dynamic in a Charlie Watts kinda way. 

On 2/5/2020 at 5:11 PM, Tom-Ass said:

A blues album would be f'n killer.  He could spit one out in a week with that Jimmy guy he jammed with a few years ago.  Huge Slash fan but I am done with SMKC. 

I want him to get like.. Stonesy, you know.

Assemble a band based on Mr Brownstone. 

Slash can groove so hard, the 70’s stones are up there with Aerosmith as his fav bad... but he does weird quasi-metal tangents all the time.

The first Snakepit really benefitted from Gilby... he needs a strong rhythm guitarist personality. 

Get a fucking black dude in there... and not Kravitz. Less hot topic more grit. 

the clock is ticking

Still a huge fan... but they didn’t push for a full reunion because they have bills. I get it... but they’re no longer beyond reproach.
 

AFD 5 could have done a Shine A Light style blowout performance in 2016 — Axl still had a voice... it would have been immortal. They passed for easy cash... oh well.

Greta Van Fleet play without shoes... f that flower child shit. 

Just get the SD pickups. Signature gear is kind of blah. Cool that Gibson has new owners, though. Maybe it’ll get turned around. 
 

The snake pit one is still the coolest, to me. Just because it’s so rare and kinda kitschy. 

4 hours ago, sl4yer said:

included song called „Rock N Roll Pool Party” 

I wish that was real.

Hey Slash...

Yeah Ax?

Looks like it's gonna be a scorcher today -- you know what I' m thinkin?

BANAT

(music video shot of pool floaties)

BANAT

(shot of a sizzlin BBQ)

DUNANAT DAAAA, BUMTISHHH

(shot of the the whole crew)

BANANANT BANANT, DUNANNT DAAA

(party ensues)

9 minutes ago, sofine11 said:

Obviously you weren't around from 2001-07 because that's exactly what they did. I would prefer an album, and soon.

Hah Well, I was here.... in 2004-2007 at least. That's really not at all what I'm talking about. I'm talking about how they did it in the run up to recording Appetite. Or how Metallica will write a song like Lords of Summer, debut it at a festival, realize it's kind of shit and bin it without wringing their hands about it. Songwriting is about getting the reps in, or in this case dusting-off the treadmill.  

I'm not talking about having a bunch of songs for CD ready to record, playing them to tepid half-filled arenas, refusing to jettison shitty material, adding more layers to songs than a lasagna stuffed with onions and kicking the can down the round for a decade. But we're not here to re-litigate that circus. I'm talkin' 'bout THE BIG THREE ERA. LET'S GO!

They should be like Metallica and the GNR of old -- debut and work over songs live before they actually record anything. Get into a rhythm, see what the crowds respond to.... add new parts to existing songs, do medleys. STOP BEING FUCKING BORING, YOU'RE GUNS N' ROSES. 

If it's too taxing then cut the runtime in half. LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

Not that anyone cares or should care, but this show is going to make or break my continued fandom! The stakes are high! haha

Let's gooooooooo

The VR stuff is probably more interesting than GNR.  I don't think he was cut in to anything interesting GNR related. Maybe an expanded anecdote about the NR Pat Boone / Debby Boone fill.... if you're lucky a couple pages on the mid 90's recording era. 

Who knows, though! He gives off that douche vibe, but at the same time he's been humbled enough times and never broke big enough to go full guns deluded asshole... he might be more thoughtful than people think. 

11 minutes ago, Tom-Ass said:

It was a girl singing Jungle before class in the 7th grade..   

What a badass.

Did she snake dance in the halls?

welcome to junior high... you know where you are?

I’m just happy I was there to witness the moment GNR really broke into the mainstream.

8 hours ago, Creed said:

Slash is probably bored with playing the same stuff on every gig...gnr classics are cool, but without new stuff its just boring...

I get kind of sick of practicing guitar to AFD sometimes.

He's got like 30 years of playing those songs on me, haha.

You can only stretch out so much within those boxes.... hence the bowls full of shreddies on some nights, I figure .

Plus... I think the worst concert in the 80's or 90's was probably way more interesting as a player than concerts nowadays... in terms of the crowd vibe... except maybe those occasional Central / South American shows.

9 hours ago, janrichmond said:

I'd forgotten about that!

 

I think that's kale.

8 minutes ago, Chester 524 said:

have you read Slashs book?  says Axl is a big pothead.  heard that from somewhere else too, cant remember where off the top of my head

Oh yeah? I did read it... like 13 years ago now (holy shit!). Guess I forgot  . 
 

It’s interesting Slash says he begins writing songs with his drummer. I wonder how that bodes for GNR with Frank.

Axl doesn’t strike me as a stoner. I feel like the whole NITL crew could use some weed... loosen up the whole enterprise.

On 2019-11-07 at 6:29 PM, Tom-Ass said:

It was the first time I ever skipped any Slash tour in my life too. In hindsight I wish I went but I was so underwhelmed with Myles and the record and it looked like they were playing a lot of it. 

I skipped, too. Myles from the vids I saw wasn’t even a good version of Myles! And I don’t really love his SMKC singing on his best days. He seemed spent. 

6 hours ago, ChildOfTheMoon said:

Like, for Dead Horse, let’s have a horse video! 🙄

For sure... but don't forget to make it dead. 

The sort of neon amps backdrop when they do Slither is cool. Just the Marshall's with Slash's little chick logo on there pulsing with colors. 

22 hours ago, jamillos said:

Why do you guys keep insisting on "Better"? Maybe in 2016, maybe. But now... 

NOW YOU KNOW I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW WE ALL KNOW BETTAHHH!!

1 hour ago, MaskingApathy said:

I mean if he's saying that then there's a good chance that that's what's going to happen.

For sure... but Axl never had a dearth of instrumentals, nor was Slash ever not constantly spitting out riffs and ideas like an uncapped oil well.

But we'll see!

55 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

I mean does Axl have anything better to do on a Tuesday afternoon in LA than to go have a conversation with another human being that millions of people can listen to later. 
ideally he’d be promoting something but with the stories and career of Axl it would be a great conversation. 
Slash interviews just don’t have much substance anymore 

It’d be awesome. Axl is so shy, though, (and Slash... why the fuck is GNR all shy guys now? What is this Super Mario Bros? boom!).

I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s a fan, though. Billy Corgan, Rob Zombie... lots of musicians say they listen all the time. The Steven Tyler one was great.

You’re right about Slash... this interviewer was okay but no real revelations aside from the chips. That’s why I liked his appearance on Chris Hardwick’s podcast (even though I don’t listen to it otherwise) because they geeked out about dinosaurs and all this random shit. 

4 minutes ago, IncitingChaos said:

How do we get Axl on Joe Rogans podcast? 
At this point Axl can do a tell all interview. 

That would be the best. Send him off with some Elk meat. 

I like the image of a tipsy Slash being like “Ax check it out” and playing the Coma instrumental. Just an interminable power chord slog for 10 minutes... Axl just kind of looking around like... tf?

And a montage of Axl leaning against the shower wall, chopping vegetables and doing this demo... trying to figure out what the f to do with it for weeks on end.