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That's the big question - will Slash's ego allow Axl's approach? Or can they meet somewhere in the middle, which would probably be the best scenario?

In the end, I'm much more for Axl's approach. 

Slash NEEDS to be challenged at this point of his career, it really pisses me of that he wants to do ANOTHER boring album with Myles.

So for Guns, more power to Axl! 

Oh Man...why can't they just give a clear and meaningful answer in the first place for once?!

Following Guns is so not fun, we're all insane!

7 hours ago, Nice Boy said:

People saying they've never heard a bad Its so Easy, lol. Of course you haven't.. because it's easy to sing, especially for Axl as its all in low register apart from a bit at the end. This is why he opens with it, it's the best to warm up with rather than going straight into a high pitched screamer. Also why Scott Weiland felt comfortable singing it (he didn't do any high pitched GnR songs because he would have sounded rubbish).

Plus Duff is backing him up.

45 minutes ago, jekylhyde said:

Loaded's albums Dark Days and The Taking are very good. The EP Wasted Heart is also worth checking out, the song No More is a gem.

When it comes to purely solo albums: his officially unreleased record Beautiful Disease is pretty darn good. The album Believe in Me, sans the song 10 Years, is utter shit.

I listened to the album a couple of days ago again, I found it surprisingly good. 10 years is one of the weakest, if not THE weakest songs, imo.

I always loved Jeff Beck's Becks guitar work on Fucked up Beyond Belief, super cool.

The only guitar players you will hear on any new GnR music will be Slash, Fortus and maybe Izzy. 100%.

2 hours ago, shotsfired cro said:

to cut story short...listening to Adler for 5 minutes makes one wanting to turn him off. he is mentally on the level of a 5 year old, now imagine being on the tour with him and having a choice. there is no way he will ever board that train.

Yeah, that's pretty much it I guess. It's understandable they won't have him back on a permanent basis, but man did they sound like Guns N' fucking Roses with him! There is no better drummer for this band than Steven Adler, he was,  is and always will be No1.
 

2 hours ago, vloors said:

I reckon they should do what Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age did on their tour a few years ago and have turns on whose opener and whose headliner.

 

Would be great for back to back shows on cities. One night guns opens for the stones the next night the stones open for guns.

The Rolling Stones opening for Guns? WTF?

1 hour ago, RONIN said:

This might be just me but from the interviews I've read from Slash over the past few years, I don't get the feeling that GnR is his band. He doesn't talk about Guns in the same way that he talks about SMKC. There is no sense of ownership from him like in the past when he referred to GnR as "my band". The subtext I get from his words seems to suggest more of a handsomely paid hired gun with some high level managerial/creative cache - he doesn't sound like a part-owner of that brand/band. Put another way, he acts like a 20-25% shareholder who sits on the board of GnR corp with Axl, the chairman, controlling 50-60% of the company.

I think that's why people feel this is just another iteration of Nu Gnr - because Axl still appears to be fully driving the band's affairs while Sluff are simply along for the ride. Hence, the non-committal answers from Slash and Duff about the future of the band with some positive prognosticating because the three partners re-discovered how much time and money they pissed away with their foolish feud. 

All that being said, Marc Canter mentioned in 2016 that the partnership is active again so who the hell knows. Given Axl's MO though, it seems highly unlikely that the old partnership has been rejuvenated without some major amendments to it so that Axl can legally continue to run the band as he sees fit without interference. @Blackstar thoughts?

Yes, feels like Slash is some kinda guest musician, the way he talks about GnR these days.

None of us knows anything.

Avocado party! 

What's Rotten's opinion of GnR in general? I think he mentioned Guns in his book but can't recall.

24 minutes ago, DTJ80 said:

Is it just me or is the wording ‘odd’ when he talks about the GNR album which ‘they haven’t done anything with’? It almost reads that there is one in the can which needs to be dealt with? Which could be true bearing in mind how much material was ready to go before the reunion PLUS there has been ample time over the last 4 years for overdubs/rework to have happened.

No, you're the only one that reads it like that.

2 hours ago, Lies They Tell said:

That might be true actually. We know that Axl's into some kinky shit. 

It really is! Guns fans starving since forever, what do we get after 3 years?

Some fucking tenderness! 

More Conspirators. Nothing at all happened with Guns music so far.  It's like they enjoy torturing us.

That's a very stupid thing to say. LA Guns

- Slash should quit doing these mega long solo sections at the shows. The stuff he plays is not interesting enough to do it, it's just noodling. Boring.

- Steven Adler made GNR sound cool. The more time passes by, the clearer it is to me.

- They shouldn't dress like their 20year old selves anymore.

8 hours ago, Homefuck said:

I think the original poster was referring to that It's pretty obvious that patton would never want to be the frontman of a band like velvet revolver. If you read/see some interviews with him (or fnm) it will become really obvious. Besides that- Patton's been asked about VR before and he pretty much said that he thinks they Were a joke. 

Yes, that's what I meant. Patton would never want to be associated with them. 

30 minutes ago, Ericstacey said:

Wasn't part of the story that Hetfield wanted Faith No More and Axl wanted Body Count to open (not sure if it's mentioned in the video). I also thought I read years later, oddly enough, that Slash had asked Mike Patton to front Velvet Revolver after Scott left, which Mike turned down

Axl loved Faith No More's music, afaik.
And yes, VR (or Slash) asked Mike Patton to be their singer, which is quite delusional I would say.:D

Mh, I can't find anything interesting here. It's not bad, it's not good, it's totally forgettable.
I don't know, all these side projects and all that...I just don't care anymore. New GNR or nothing.

Interesting that about nobody (me included) here thinks of SCOM, which most people would probably choose.

The one two punch from the first album known as Welcome to the Jungle and It's so easy. Can't seperate them for this topic.

On 2.3.2019 at 1:26 AM, Georgina Arriaga said:

 

Fuck this shit. How old is she, 10 years old? 

24 minutes ago, ZoSoRose said:

After the LTD Tour, if the next thing Slash does isn't new material with GNR, we can lose hope then

True. 

Yeah, it's pretty safe to say now that it will be happening.
Could definately take a while though.
The best scenario would be that Axl really changed at lot, is not overthinking everything anymore and just letting it all happen in a more natural, real band kinda way.

The worst would be Chinese era leftover material only with Slash and Duff barely involved.