jamesrandolph

I agree with most of what the original poster is saying. I studied music at the college level, and I remember my guitar instructor commenting how Slash was the most famous top-hat in the industry.

As far as musical knowledge and musicianship goes, my teacher, and many others, can play circles around Slash. He has a marketable image to rock fans.

Congrats to all those nobodies. I look forward to their new albums and seeing them on tour...oh wait. The notion that Slash is just marketable and that's what he owes his success to is fucking asinine.

Sounds like the 40 year old dude who is still claiming be was the best basketball player in high school.....but he didn't make the team because the coach didn't like him and picked his (the coaches) best friends son instead.

All this crazy crap to praise Axl and bash Slash is embarrassing to me as a die-hard Axl Rose fan.

These comments are made by musicians who grew up recording albums and gigging to support themselves and their families. These are the people making these comments. These guys didn't really care one way or the other about Axl or Slash. They are professional musicians, teachers, artists, who supported themselves and their families gigging and recording and teaching. I think they have a little bit of knowledge on the subject.

So did slash. And my guess is slash did a better job supporting his family and gigging and recording.

Miley Cyrus probably makes a lot of money as well, and she is also a great musician.

I agree with most of what the original poster is saying. I studied music at the college level, and I remember my guitar instructor commenting how Slash was the most famous top-hat in the industry.

As far as musical knowledge and musicianship goes, my teacher, and many others, can play circles around Slash. He has a marketable image to rock fans.

Congrats to all those nobodies. I look forward to their new albums and seeing them on tour...oh wait. The notion that Slash is just marketable and that's what he owes his success to is fucking asinine.

Sounds like the 40 year old dude who is still claiming be was the best basketball player in high school.....but he didn't make the team because the coach didn't like him and picked his (the coaches) best friends son instead.

All this crazy crap to praise Axl and bash Slash is embarrassing to me as a die-hard Axl Rose fan.

These comments are made by musicians who grew up recording albums and gigging to support themselves and their families. These are the people making these comments. These guys didn't really care one way or the other about Axl or Slash. They are professional musicians, teachers, artists, who supported themselves and their families gigging and recording and teaching. I think they have a little bit of knowledge on the subject.

"I could name at least 100 guitar players who are technically better than Slash. Naming one who wrote something better than the Estranged guitar parts would be a lot harder though."

the original quote is saying that there are many guitarists technically better than slash, but not many who can write better parts than him (i am paraphrasing, not quoting word for word).

I am saying that there are many that can write better parts than him, it is easy to name them. To say that it is hard to name them is absurd.

Whatever you're saying isn't really making sense.

Music teachers tend to dislike guitarists like Slash. I guess it has to do with envy. Slash barely studied music theory and still managed to become a great player (besides rich and famous). I could name at least 100 guitar players who are technically better than Slash. Naming one who wrote something better than the Estranged guitar parts would be a lot harder though.

Great music has been written throughout history. To say no one has ever written anything better than the Estranged guitar parts is absurd.

I don't know where you are reading that "no one" has written anything better than Estranged.

"Naming one who wrote something better than the Estranged guitar parts would be a lot harder though." -- actually it would be quite easy because a lot of great music has been written throughout the course of history. Saying that it would be hard to name someone who wrote something better than the guitar parts of estranged is absurd.

Music teachers tend to dislike guitarists like Slash. I guess it has to do with envy. Slash barely studied music theory and still managed to become a great player (besides rich and famous). I could name at least 100 guitar players who are technically better than Slash. Naming one who wrote something better than the Estranged guitar parts would be a lot harder though.

Great music has been written throughout history. To say no one has ever written anything better than the Estranged guitar parts is absurd.

I agree with most of what the original poster is saying. I studied music at the college level, and I remember my guitar instructor commenting how Slash was the most famous top-hat in the industry.

As far as musical knowledge and musicianship goes, my teacher, and many others, can play circles around Slash. He has a marketable image to rock fans.

Congrats to all those nobodies. I look forward to their new albums and seeing them on tour...oh wait. The notion that Slash is just marketable and that's what he owes his success to is fucking asinine.

There are many other greater, nameless, faceless, better musicians, better guitar players, that don't have the same popularity as Slash. Slash is a marketable image. There are many other great musicians, who are better guitar players, that have not achieved the same success as Slash.

I agree with most of what the original poster is saying. I studied music at the college level, and I remember my guitar instructor commenting how Slash was the most famous top-hat in the industry.

As far as musical knowledge and musicianship goes, my teacher, and many others, can play circles around Slash. He has a marketable image to rock fans.

Can your teacher write original music? Could your teacher cope with performing under such conditions. Waiting back stage for hours on end never knowing if and when the lead singer might show? all the while hearing the audience outside becoming more and more pissed off. Having read the book by Duff, it was this that really got to him. He (Duff) was drinking, drinking and drinking to shut himself off from all that side of things, then having to do drugs to cope with the drinking, then back to drinking.

Yes, original music with complex harmonies. Remember these guys are teaching at the college level. AS far as musicianship goes, there are much greater guitar players than Slash.

I agree with most of what the original poster is saying. I studied music at the college level, and I remember my guitar instructor commenting how Slash was the most famous top-hat in the industry.

As far as musical knowledge and musicianship goes, my teacher, and many others, can play circles around Slash. He has a marketable image to rock fans.

I don't know any replacements songs, so I decided to listen to see if they were actually good or bad...... since the majority of comments here are saying they aren't good

this is the first vid I saw...

Anyway, this is really good, and the video is cool, simple speaker thing focusing on the music, at a time when probably everyone else was doing something different....

regardless the song is good and the video is good to go with it... don't get why everyone is disliking them so much... what's with you guys?

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Using your same logic, nobody would ever criticise a book, unless having written a book, nobody would criticise music, unless having created music, and nobody would criticise a film, unless having made a film.

um... people who professionally critic art DO HAVE studies on art, whether is literature, film or music. Those studies usually belong to the fields of arts, communication and/or journalism.

So are people who unprofessionally critic, not entitled to review?

Just for the record, I have never once filmed a music promo yet I find the trilogy a big pile of steaming poop.

Haha, this word is definitely critique. Critic is a noun. Critique is a verb. A critic critiques art.

Anyway, I like this video. I first saw it when I was 9 or 10 years old and I liked the imagery.

I like One In A Million, not for the sentiments it portrays but I guess because of the honesty of the song. I like the untampered with sound of the album and Axl sounds great on the acoustic tracks. I feel like any other band could have taken this song and turned it into a top 10 radio hit. I feel like GNR, on the other hand, whether this was this intention or not, I don't know, but they didn't edit or filter themselves, and overall the song still sounds great, the chord progressions are good, Axl's melodies are good, the only part I'm not real big on is the chorus, the chorus seems kind of lacking, but it seems they perhaps had a chance to turn this song into a top 10 radio hit, and well, with the lyrics it would never be received that way.

I don't agree with the lyrics or agree with what's being said in them, I guess I like the unfiltered nature of the song, that they decided to take that route despite the criticism that would come about, I like the idea that they took a beautiful sounding song and decided to write the ugly lyrics over top of it because it presents sort of a dichotomy, beautiful sounding chord progressions with beautiful melodies from Axl, combined with these ugly yet honest lyrics. That's what I like about the song.

What's with all the negative comments? I'm not so sure artists have a lot of money these days, since the internet and downloading has come along, who still buys CDs?

On one hand people are calling him a millionaire, on the other hand, people are calling him a "faceless guitarist from axl rose backing band."

Anyway, I don't know how much money the guy has, but I at least thought some of these were funny and original (the things you are getting if you pay). It seems like it's for a good cause, something for the fans, and I thought most of the ideas were pretty funny and original.

dude, if he just jumped around on each song, his vocals would improve.... i wonder if he's thought of this yet? the problem is though playing november rain, sitting at the piano, will he be able to jump on this song?

perhaps not that one but most the others he can jump around on, so most vocals from now on should be good as long as he is jumping

lol

dude, if he just jumped around on each song, his vocals would improve.... i wonder if he's thought of this yet? the problem is though playing november rain, sitting at the piano, will he be able to jump on this song?

perhaps not that one but most the others he can jump around on, so most vocals from now on should be good as long as he is jumping

dude.... hasn't Axl's voice been different since like 1999? I think it sounds different on Oh My God, studio recording, not to mention Chinese Democracy, not to mention all the live shows I've seen since them.........

I think his voice has been different for like 15 years now

So there's some unheard stuff out there, alternate versions of Better and a song with Tommy Stinson on vocals, right?

Am I the only one who doesn't give a fuck about these?

I would LOVE to hear new music, but it takes a little more than those outtakes to get me excited or hang in there until the next greatest hits tour.

C'mon guys, give us at least one good song.

The tracks are sort of how I expected them to sound. There's a lot of love going around for Going Down, which if I hadn't heard it, I would think it was like amazing. I listened once or twice and I think it's a good song, it reminds me of a lot of the other leaks and stuff really, different vocalist though.

better by ron, acoustic better

i heard an unfinished demo with lead guitar loud in the left channel and vocals sometimes low and solely in the right channel with rhythm, i mean... who wants to listen to an unfinished demo like that?

i prefer listening to released songs that are properly mixed, whether they are by gnr or a different band

am i missing something? i heard a non-finished demo with vocals low, the mix split in different channels.....unfinished song, not mixed, demo

was always wondering about the lyrics to this song, now i think i know them

Do you really think new music is on the way?

How do you follow up the release of the most anticipated/expensive album in rock and roll history?

Record new music soon after it's release? Is that what people are looking for? New recordings?

That seems to me, judging from the release of the previous album, like that is no where near being done, if ever.

Maybe, if anything, release the songs that were supposedly recorded when Chinese Democracy was recorded. 3 albums worth of material or whatever it is, which if it exists, I would think would see the light of day sometime. But all new recordings with an all new band? Like really happening sometime soon?

u don't have to smoke so much pot