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In the November Rain video, Axl makes the dubious claim that Slash plagiarized one of his most iconic solos from Axl, despite the fact that Axl had yet to learn guitar. I am usually team Axl, but as a father and a husband I often have to be a peace keeper between multiple large personalities, so I try to see things both ways. I think that Slash lying about Axl in the media during the mid 90s could have been a way to mask the hurt he felt from Axl taking credit for his portions of the songwriting. Really, the entire music video shows too much of Axl's hand, as far as how he viewed Slash. You have to understand that the video is an Axl dream sequence. We know it is a dream sequence because there are no cars parked in or around a church. Even a multi-millionaire would have to have some form of transportation to and from a church. Axl was rich at the time, but he wasn't Dubai Oil Prince rich. He could not have built a Church in a secluded area of the desert, with nothing around, and flown in his friends and family to prevent the need for cars or facilities in or around the church. Not to mention, there was no hint that the wedding had any Islamic influence. It looked mostly catholic, or maybe agnostic. Even if you think this was creative liberties, the final hint that it is all a dream would be Slash playing the solo and getting electric tones despite his guitar not being plugged into an amplifier. Let's look at the facts. Axl Rose created a music video, where he exists in a universe where the song November Rain doesn't yet exist, and he wrote himself to dream Slash playing the exact solo Slash wrote for the song. That is similar to Axl saying, Slash is a dream thief. Not only that, he dreamed that Slash was a careless asshole. Not only did Slash almost ruin the wedding by being too drunk and stoned to manage the one responsibility Axl gave him (the ring), or alternatively, Slash was never given that responsibility by Axl, but he is so arrogant and drunk that he thought Axl had entrusted him with the ring (Axl trusted Duff, who in Axl's dream was clearly sober). Then, unhappy with the wedding being about Axl, Slash left to play guitar. Can you imagine what kind of person leaves their coworkers wedding to play electric guitar? Now keep in mind, Slash never did this, but Axl dreamed that Slash would. That shows the kind of low opinion Axl had of Slash, and provides a real strong deep dive into why he felt he had to bring in Zakk Wylde back in 1995.

Party Tonight came out as a single last year, but unfortunately there hasn't been any news about a new full album.

I have written the admin many times to convince them to ban the OP, but they never respond!

I felt uncomfortable in the pit at one of their 2010 concerts. I was a reasonably built athlete at the time, but I have no formal combat training to help me deal with the strength that comes with being a drunk 50 year old who wasted $200 on a babysitter, and at only 5'8", no matter how strong I may have been pound for pound, I hold no illusions about my combat limitations.

I must apologize. For the past three nights straight I had lucid dreams about past loves I had when I was a younger man. Cathartic, maybe? The dreams paralyzed me with a longing, nostalgia. Similar to the protagonist in this story, I felt trapped in a storm. This piece of fiction was my way of escaping the storm those feelings trapped me in. After spending hours in deep talk with both my wife, and my priest, they both felt that I should clarify, I never met Axl Rose in 1986. I thought it was evident that this story was a work of fiction, but I will admit that the rush of my online pals believing the lie that Axl told me he would become a Dolphin took me over. I became everything that I, and I assume Axl, hates, a liar. This is my promise to this message board, and to my wife, I will do better. I strive to avoid falsehoods in my future interactions on this message board, all 6 foot 2 inches of me.

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60 instrumentals or rough sketches for songs isn't that outlandish, considering that between Chinese Democracy, the NuGNR songs Axl/Slash/Duff chose to cover, and the locker leaks - there are already close to 60 songs. I'm not going to go back and count, but just spitballing it I'd guess we 40 or so. I think the big sticking point is that people don't consider them Guns N' Roses songs until Axl at least lays down vocals. I suspect there are less than 30-35 songs with actual vocals, and that we have heard most of them already. It's basically two albums, CD I & II, and then a few extras. It would surprise me if there is a lot out there that have vocals. The instrumentals from the Village Session have some cool stuff, but I don't think the average Axl fan cares about instrumentals. It would be like if a Slash fan listened to leaked Slash demos that only had the backup band, and didn't have his parts oni t. If you go through the history and people who worked on the album, the bottleneck in the studio was always getting vocals on songs. My hope is that AI technology can become a new "auto tune" and liberate Axl to record vocals that are able to be edited and on par with his best work. Basically, think of a professional version of those dorks who try to add rasp to This I Love on Youtube. Peter Jackson can save Guns N' Roses.

I think that people make up cannon in their head about what these songs are. They end up being completely wrong, because it will usually be based off of a quote or a tiny seed of information that grows into the expectations of some sort of epic. It's what happened with The General. People were expecting something completely different than what it was. Had I described The General on this forum prior to it being heard, I would be called a troll. The reality is, we don't know much about the songs we haven't heard.

It's very hard to explain to my family and relatives how much Guns N' Roses message boards mean to me. I do have a bit obsession about this community, as prove this post - that I'm writing on a weekend night, after hours of reading different post about hair metal and whatnot. I have been lurking here for a decade now. I remember coming here after every big event, and not only related to Guns N' Roses, from 9/11 to more joyful events and what not. I discovered my favourite guitar player through the board - a player, DJ Ashba, I have now seen 7 different times in three different countries. I've met some people IRL that I first met here, online, that have become close friends, even. I almost lost a job because of GNR message boards - and even back, I kept going back. Because I have such a strong bond with this community, it's bigger than me. So this is why I decided to take a time to share one of my most personnal stories, that I have mostly only told to my first wife and my parents because of how unbelievable it seems - and because honestly, no one except real GNR nerds will truly appreciate. So here it goes : let's go back to December 23th, in the year of 1986. I just was kicked out of my hair metal band. This is where I first heard the name of Axl Rose - a person I couldnt believe would save my life, a few months later. I went back to my hometown, to meet with my girlfriend which I would end up marry for Christmas. I was driving through one of those exceptionnal snowstorm you would end up telling your kids about. I just had a freak injury, working in the shop, so I was driving my Toyota Camry with a arm in a plaster. It was a 8 hours road, through snow and hell, with only one functional arm! This was obviously very dangerous, but I was in a hard place in my life and I just really wanted to be with my girlfriend. So I drove until I got lost - and snowed in. I remember it being around 9 pm, only, and thinking it was a matter of time before another car would take the same winding road as me and help me out. Keep in mind this was mid 1980s. I didnt even had one of those bad car phones with bad reception. I was just sitting there, hoping for glowing lights to appear behind me. My mind was running wild - I kept thinking about my future, the dream I had to get signed with my hair metal band was all but lost. Between the band pratices, my bad grad at school, a girlfriend I would neglect... I got lost among my dream. Then the snow got thickier, thickier, and I had to get out every hour or so to make sure my Camry wouldnt get snowed-in. I had a fair amount of gaz left, but I thought... what if? What if no one pass by this road? What if I have to sleep here? Would I get frozen to death? Probably not, but I was starting to get scared. I couldnt start to walk anyway, because I was seriously lost, and I might have been miles away from the closest home. So I did what I had to do : I slept there. I took all the clothes I had in my luggage, made myself a nice bed, and prayed I wouldnt get frozen to death, and thinking my girlfriend would be worried sick. Just like in a horror movie, I was waken up by a loud banging on my window - giving me the scare of my life. And there was a young dude, besides his pickup. I checked time, it was a little bit past 6 a.m. Axl Rose was there, on his route to meet his bandmates. It's the band that he founded, and for which he'd ended up getting famous. My car was out of gaz - but I was so relieved to finally see someone. Axl picked me up, and we would do the road to the closest gaz station. Even at the times, he was already extremely beautiful, with his long red hair and his dreamy eyes. I remember thinking how nice he smelled, especially for someone who just drove a long night roadtrip. We discussed the previous year, in which we were both, in our bands, hoping to hear our name get called by the label. And then, he told me : '' Dont worry. Life will find a way to make you happy, just like I found you. '' He was so confident. You could tell by the time he was a future rockstar. I was a bit shy, to tell the truth. But he made me feel so comfortable. He's an easy talker, he had well thought opinions on everything. Keep in my mind, we were just entering the space with what would turn out to be the columbia fiasco, he was really informed about it. I was so enlighted. But one thing that made me doubt, is when I asked him about his future. He told me : I will make it as a rockstar. I will play on MTV. And I will become the first white rock musician.. I told him there was already plenty of white rock musicians, which is still mostly played only by caucasian musicians. He didnt seemed to mind. And at this point, neither did I. It was just one of those perfect moment. On the road back, I asked him to sign my plaster, which he did. But he didnt only signed his name, after dropping me by. He told me : ''For Guns N Chalupas. Just watch me, in a few years I will be known as the Dolphin to play on MTV. Axl'' I told him: there's a much better chance of that to happen, if you mean Dolphin the football team, and not the animal. And then he winked, and told me ''Sometimes, Life finds a way'' And he drove away.

If I had to guess, he is highly neurotic and sensitive. I am only basing this off of anecdotal stories about him from the 1980s until now, and all the documented accounts about difficulties with him recording or finishing vocals. If he was simply lazy, we would have another dozen albums by now. He would have "shut up and sing", and called it in. There is also the dichotomy between going on 7 hours late because you're jerking off to the Ninja Turtles movie or whatever it was, and then going on stage and sprinting for 3 hours. I don't know what personality issue is the cause of Axl refusing to go on stage in the past, but I don't think laziness is an accurate assessment.

During ROR 2011, I fractured mine while listening to Axl sing.

Ctrl+F Axl Rose replace with Bon Jovi.

I would love to run into Axl and get an autograph, so long as he isn't aware of my forum posting activity. Wouldn't want to answer any questions.