Ant

I'll go for a nice solid three to avoid just naming all my favorite bands.

Opening Acts:

Van Halen circa 1984

Alice In Chains circa 1992-1993

Featured Band:

Guns N' Roses circa 1991.

Encore: Some kind of crazy vocal collaboration with Layne, Axl, and Chris....along with a guitar orgy featuring Slash, Jerry, and Eddie.

Honorable Mentions: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Jane's Addiction, RHCP, Faith No More, Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, RATM, The Cult...hell even Heart or Fleetwood Mac...Aerosmith, STP, AC/DC with either singer. Didn't I say I was going to avoid listing all my favorite bands?!

Hell just buy Rearviewmirror. That's probably the best Greatest Hits collection I own along with Thank You by STP -- it's extremely well put together.

Also, I never really noticed the killer guitar solos in Life Wasted until I played Guitar Hero 2. I had heard the song on the radio but the guitar is like, really far back in the mix and quiet. They should have turned that shit up to 11 because it's really, really awesome.

I like Dirt better than either Ten or Superunknown personally, but Ten is definitely one of the best albums of the 90's and of the grunge scene.

That said, how can anyone say Superunknown is boring? The gorgeous musical textures, the masterful guitar work, the crazy time signatures, the howling vocals of Chris Cornell in his prime...I'll be honest I didn't really like Soundgarden when I first heard stuff like Spoonman on the radio...I mean it's a neat song but I thought meh. Then I heard Jesus Christ Pose, and listened to Badmotorfinger in it's entirety along with Superunknown on my dad's killer stereo setup, and now I can say "get it," in regards to Soundgarden .

The 80's had some great bands no question -- but saying they were Poison and Ratt is so absurd it makes me question whether or not you really believe anything you say Chris_Axl .

Bands like Van Halen, GNR, RHCP, Metallica, Prince and the Revolution, Jane's Addiction, The Beastie Boys, AC/DC 2.0, INXS....these are some of the bands that really hit their stride during that time period made up the more credible element of mainstream music in the 80s. Then there were all the crazy pop acts too which have their own appeal

That said then, hair metal is the ultimate form of style of substance -- a true embodiment of everything that was wrong with the 80's vapid culture. It basically took basically took the crazy glam style of early underground bands like Hanoi Rocks, who actually had musical talent, and just used that veneer to disguise their cheap hooks and shitty disposable sound. Most people probably can't distinguish Ratt, from Poison, from Cinderella, from Faster Pussycat...it's all trash.

Me personally, I think like 1987-1994 was a real musical golden age. It's been a steep decline ever since that last musical hurrah.

he's rubbish now...really cheesy shit.

Cornell is great man. I bet he'll do Soundgarden songs like "Black Hole Sun", Audioslave stuff like "Like a Stone," and maybe some shit from Temple of the Dog like "Hunger Strike" (awesome song featuring Eddie Vedder of Peal Jam). Probably a cover, his new Jame's Bond theme, a couple songs off Euphoria Morning or his new solo album.

If your not familiar with him, I mean Soundgarden produced some of the heaviest rock/grunge you'll ever hear, but I imagine without a true band behind him with a lead guitarist and all that jazz he won't be doing things like "Jesus Christ Pose" .

Did anyone say Mike Patton from Faith No More? That guy has a fucking weird ass voice but the range is insane.

Axl of course.

And CHRIS CORNELL MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

PS: Listen to Faith No More's cover of War Pigs (Sabbath), I think its better than the original .

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Slash is his muse, man!

-There's no way Axl's voice today is anywhere near the peak he achieved in 88-90.

-As far as Slash goes, listen to his work in Street Child; the guy is as good as he's ever been. I don't really like most of Contraband, but his playing is probably the only solid thing through most of the album. I don't fault the guy for making the Snakepit albums when he was just looking for a chance to do what he loves, and again I think, like Contraband, the guitar work on those is also pretty awesome. If Axl was the one singing on It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere, you'd be listenining to it multiple times a month .

Halifax?

Over Vancouver or Calgary? Wow.

Good to hear guys, good to hear!

I'm curious though, if it really is back.....why? I mean I'm exstatic about it obviously, I'm just curious why he would all of a sudden start using it again. Anyone think maybe he read our comments? Maybe someone close to him got the balls to tell it to him straight: that helium is a dangerous drug that should not be used under any circumstance .

And I agree sometimes on the UYI tour he was TOO raspy at some points (like in areas of SCOM), but it was better than the total opposite alternative of the 2002 tour with none.

Here's an example of some crazy ass RASP btw. More so than I expect him to employ nowadays because its sort of insane and must hurt his throat like a mofo, but I've just always wanted to post this movie 'cause its so crazy:

Perfect Crime featuring RASP!

The defining characteristic of my favorite frontman of all time: Rasp!

It dissapeared at the turn of the century, without a note or a message to tell us where it went; what its plans were. The result was the voice of the '02 tour, dubbed "mickey mouse." I don't have to tell you how sad I was to hear Nightrain with this newly neutered abomination of a singing voice.

All I need to know is, has my best friend little old raspy returned to his former master?

Two things I had a wait and see attitude about: The style and the voice.

Haven't heard any music from the show yet, but god damn did he nail the style! Fuck 2002 right in its face, wooooooooooot!

CITR is the wrong song to listen to if your trying to listen for Axl's vocals. Try Better.

...IT'S JUST A DEMO

Setting yourself for a huge fall, my friend.

Hopefully he's used the four years or so since the last tour to brush the fuck up.

I remember when Finck quit the band, Axl was pretty candid about his abilities. He said something along the lines of Finck holding them back, and Finck leaving to go back to NiN was actually a good thing for new-GNR. Not sure why he changed his mind; he was right.

Zakk Wylde would have been so cool, sigh....

PS. Ditch the fucking stance, Fink . It's almost as bad as that new Metallica bass player's crab stance.

Off the Wall and Thriller are great....but I'd rather go to a Prince concert .

How can you possibly pick a single greatest song to rule over the rest? You'd have to divide it into genre's atleast, and decades probably too like above. Even then you'd need to do like a top 3 .

So with that said, I'll go with Paradise City.

Fucking awesome man, Knopfler >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Clapton.

Oh, as far as songs go I like Telegraph Road, Brothers in Arms, On Every Street to name a few...Sultans too obviously.

Well, this topic could be easily revised to say the majority of commercial music sucks (from bands formed)post-1994. Yes, yes - there's always these mythical underground bands people talk about when this topic is brought up; underground bands that are hyped to be the second-coming of christ, but hardly ever live up to expectations. Meanwhile, a great amount of commercial music used to be great, and the word commercial wasn't always associated with vapid, talentless crap like it is today.

I think record labels have really become too careful and no longer take risks with younger talent; or, when they find younger talent, instead of letting said talent grow and develop, they stifle the creative process and try to ensure profitbility regardless of the creative cost.

He kinda looks like Mick Mars.

I heard Jungle like half a dozen times between the ages of like 8 and 11, and I always thought they were some dead 80's band with a lead singer who looked like Brian Johnson from AC/DC. My mom made a few negative remarks about them to, and being young I was impressionable so I never really checked them out despite liking the song. Then the whole commercial rap thing of the late 90's started and I didn't really "discover them" 'till like 7 years later.

Favorite riff you say...hm

Well there are some songs that have killer riffs that I don't really like the whole package but I love:

GNR - Mr. Brownstone

GNR - You Could Be Mine

Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knockin'

Oasis - Columbia

Aerosmith - Last Child

Led Zeppelin - The Ocean

AC/DC - Girls Got Rhythm

Not the most technical or anything but they're infectious .

Ant, you know exactly shit about metal, and your post shows that. You generalized the whole metal music basically into extreme metal music. If you would even know what different types of metal music sound like, I would maybe consider having a sensible argument with you. Right now, dont talk because you dont know shit about shit.

Now shut the fuck up, and die.

Woahhh, simmer down my friend .

All I said was I hate when people get pretentious about garbage metal music. That's quite different from saying all metal is garbage. Haven't you ever been presented with a metal band that was just absolutely terrible, but the person who showed them to you was enthralled with them and you just couldn't figure it out? I dunno, it's happened to me many times and to many people I know. I was just pointing it out in a humerous way; wasn't putting metal down as a whole genre.

I hate metal.

I hate when people get all pretentious about metal, and start firing off dozens of names of the most obscure and bizzare sounding bands you could imagine; and then when you hear one of them its the crappiest band you've heard all year. Just random yelling and generic guitar thrashing. I've experience it sooo many times lol .

OMG Killersofwrist-slittinggenocidemetalx are so awesome! They're a mix of thrash metal, speed metal, black metal, grindcore, thrashcore, with deathmetalcore influences! Their album Slay a Puppy had only 50 copies made and I just bought one off ebay!

The Ocean, or Over the Hills and Far Away for me .

Nevermind for sure, I can listen to it all the way through.

In Utero on the other hand I dislike Milk it, Tourette's, and Radio Friendly Unit Shifter. Rest is pretty good though, some of it is more of an "aquired taste", whereas Nevermind is instantly accessible.

I was watching the 1992 VMA's the other day and it I just found it ironic how they mocked Axl while coming off as pretty pretentious themselves at the same time (in sort of a "I'm too cool for this" sort of way ). Maybe it was just because it was an MTV gig, I dunno.