NicoRourke

9/10 - not a 10 because I really can't get into ITW, or at least not all the time. The others songs I can listen day in day out.

Especially TWAT which is (based on my iTunes' most played list) the song I've listened the most in my (iTunes) life apparently.

I just love it.

Great album, but it's hard to grasp that what we have isn't even the 100% final product :-S

If that's the case, he's an asshole.

We shouldn't give a platform to such crap - I bet it will be in a few of the newsletters I receive before the end of the week.

Maybe a less dramatic option than 'it will be a flop' could be added?

I don't think it would be as successful simply because of the genre of music. Rock n' roll isn't mainstream anymore, regardless of how good the story is. And in this case it's a great story (if treated right).

Yes indeed. And also that he says he wasn't looking for the most technical player that could align fast notes etc.

Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore what Bucket did on CD (some playing like the Sorry solo is to me full of soul) but he's like the anti-Slash. Same goes with BBF.

In the second part he does talk about Slash but I see it as he parralels what he was looking for, someone that was approaching music from the heart, like he felt Paul did?

What connection? You have Slash, Duff, Axl and maybe Izzy there. That's already something no?

Having Adler there just to have the original 5 is 100% nostalgia.

The departure of Ashba and BBF opens the possibility for old familiar faces to return. And build something with that instead of doing a 180*

Estranged. Above all GN'R material (but TWAT is right behind).

There is a simple solution which will satisfy everybody: split drumming duties, Sorum on the Illusion stuff, Adler on the Appetite stuff, and have Sorum take over the Appetite stuff if Adler relapses.

Have Frank behind the kit, playing everything including the CD material.

Adler is a fuck-up.

Sorum's a little bitch.

You do understand that there's a ratio between sales and teritory population yes?

The guy would ruin it. Always shooting his mouth off, he'll eventually say something that will piss off someone badly.

And you can call me crazy but I'm not a big fan of his drumming either.

Yeah, he really need to keep his mouth shut on that subject. I've always found him annoying to be honest.

Slash and Duff have become seasoned professionals; Axl hired his nanny to be his business manager.

Maybe she learned, like Slash and Duff did?

What did Tommy say about a pretty face?

What was that?

I've always liked that 'answer' to Slash's solo.

Somehow though very different it reminds me of what Mike Macready (spel?) did during Siren's solo. I like the echo / delayed vibe.

I didn't recognized her, tkx!

He was a lucky bastard

I like the lady dancing in the back (you can see her during One in a Million).

She's got some moves!

I really believe no one's talking because there's nothing to say on the Slash / Axl being 'friendly' again.

What concerns me more are the vacant spots in the band...

I can agree with the above, however it seems to me that Axl wanted it to work as a band. With collaborations from everyone involved in the making of the album. With the same people defending the material live.

But for whatever reasons it took an eternity and an an ocean of difficulties and all the crap that we know (and what we don't!). Not saying Axl is not partly responsible. But I think he tried to make it work. As a band. Even with all the contracts and all, some were not afraid to speak their mind (Tommy, Robin, BBF) or show that sometimes they were not happy at all with how things were going. Not like they were forced to silence as some are suggesting.

For people that prefer CD over any Guns album- that's fine but you realize it's NOT Guns n Roses right? It's (for all intents) an Axl Rose solo album. Period.

I consider it a GN'R album - though created under insane circumstances with a lineup that was everything but organic (as opposed to the classic ones).

However in spirits and for what GNR means to me it works as a GNR album.

When somebody says ''they prefer Chinese Democracy over Appetite'' or ''Robin Fink'' or some other tosser ''over Slash'', that says two things about them. Firstly, it says they are up Axl's bum: ''look at me, I am such a hardcore Axl supporter that I have chosen to prefer the new band in order to devalue Slash's contributions''. Secondly, they are saying ''look at me, I'm so bold, cool and different from everyone else''. On the second point, there are people who prefer the prequels over the original Star Wars trilogy or people who think St Anger is ''Metallica's best album''. Those people are rare but they exist because they are rare: they are smug in their obscurity.

Or just maybe I really do like CD better than Appetite? Regardless of all the crap you wrote?

I prefer CD over the rest, and I'm a massive GN'R fan.

Lol at you, for deciding what's what.

Do I want Slash onstage with Axl? Yes. Do I want CD to be forgotten because of that? No.

I believe that 97% of GNR fans are fans because everything that happened in AFD and UYI era.

True when it comes to me. In the end I prefer CD however, though my favorite song is on UYI2.

Dare I say, I'm not a fan of AFD at all, sorry I do like the songs, but live (can't listen to the studio versions anymore) and only a few, like Nightrain and ISE.

Not sure I want either Sorum or Adler in there. I'd be very happy with Axl, Slash, Richard, Izzy, Duff, Frank, Dizzy and Chris. Interesting!

Bon Jovi's now without Rchie Sambora. Though his playing was not what it used to be, he was still an essential part of the show and his vocals will also be missed. Great live band, though JBJ's voice is also weak nowadays.

I've never seen Megadeth live.