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It's 5'O Clock Somewhere as a GNR Album


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The issue with that album has nothing to do with lyrics. It's the fact that it all sounded like 80s cock rock. Ok but totally dated by 1994.

To be honest: so many bands play "80's cockrock" (btw, the terms is laughable, coz I5OCSW is a blues rock/hard rock album) in 2012 (included Axl coverband too :popcorn: )

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The issue with that album has nothing to do with lyrics. It's the fact that it all sounded like 80s cock rock. Ok but totally dated by 1994.

5 o'clock sounded nothing like '80s cock rock. Did you even listen to it?

Agreed. Most would interprete the term '80s cock rock' as being a genre which consists of shred guitar, polished production, power ballads and cock rock lyrics. It's Five O' Clock has little of that.

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The issue with that album has nothing to do with lyrics. It's the fact that it all sounded like 80s cock rock. Ok but totally dated by 1994.

WTF how is It's Five O' Clock cock rock? Its simply a hard/blues rock album.

As for lyrics, if What Do You Want to Be, Take It Away, and Be the Ball weren't written by Slash about Axl then I am a pork dumpling.

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Duff agreed with Axl on Slashs material. It needed more work to be GNR. I think if you took snakepit and added Axls ballads then they could have pulled it off. But slash wouldnt do those songs. To me it seems like slash wanted to do afd without the hits.

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But that's the thing, Snakepit isn't like AFD at all. It's essentially blues rock made with big Marshalls. It doesn't have the degree of guitar interplay as on AFD or even UYI (there's plenty on there) and it barely ever boogies and swings. The guitars drive the music, not the rhythm section like in GN'R.

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Had it been released as a Guns N`Roses album it would have tanked hard they would be a laughing stoke and never would have recovered even Axl`s and Duff`s input would n`t have improved it it was just weak from start to finish Beggars And Hangers On and Neither Can I had potential but overall as a cohesive album it sucked shit out of cat`s anus

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There is good riffs and components on that album. I think it is naive to assume that Axl couldn't have taken an instrumental passage as good as, say, the slow bits of Lower, and turn it into an excellent song. Axl after all had no problems expanding upon prior instrumental music composed by Slash - Jungle, Locomotive, Coma - and turning them into something superior and, more expansive. Or are you saying that Slash suddenly ceased to write good riffs in 1994 like he had before? If so, come on! There are few riffs finer than the riff in Beggars and Hangers-On.

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But that's the thing, Snakepit isn't like AFD at all. It's essentially blues rock made with big Marshalls. It doesn't have the degree of guitar interplay as on AFD or even UYI (there's plenty on there) and it barely ever boogies and swings. The guitars drive the music, not the rhythm section like in GN'R.

Exactly the boogie is the hits. But Slash wanted to do more of a Draw the line album. Fast and loose. Which is kind of what they did in VR as well. A harder faster punk sound.

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Axl Rose is easy to work with. Just look at all the people who have joined GNR to workr with him. Such is the demand two whole line-ups had to be dispensed with to make way for the current crop. Amazing work.

Whats the body count?

3 lead guitarists

3 rhythm guitarists

A bassist

4 drummers

Think if there were another two bassists, there could be three bands called Guns in conjunction with the current lineup.

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