Who's your least favorite member of GNR?

[themadcaplaughs]

Ashba. He's exactly the opposite of what I want GNR to be.

This.

[Chuloputas]

the guys who've been playing with axl since 1997 are not gnr, so i won't mention any of them. they're equally bad, all of them.

out of the original line up, no one. they were all great.

out of the uyi line-up, i didn't like dizzy reed.

[RussTCB]

AFD: Adler

UYI: Dizzy

CD Eras:

[D-GenerationX]

The cold reality of the situation is that this band, at this point, is Axl Rose and a bunch of guys named Harry.

He could literally replace every single one of them, and I would just roll with it. And I suspect that holds true for most.

[Daedalus]

Ashba and his swag.

[Johnny Drama]

Pitman - mostly pointless

Dizzy - definitely unnecessary and a giant hack

Ashba - total clown, dresses like a 14 year old emo girl, generic playing

Fortus - has chops but comes across as soulless to me and in it for the money

Frank - shit drummer, ruined everything live

Paul Huge - see Dizzy

Pretty telling all those guys bar one are currently in this "band"

[Guest NGOG]

This is not my favourite line-up of GNR, but there is nobody that I would say is my 'least favourite'. They all bring different things to the table - strengths and weaknesess.

What I will say is that Richard Fortus is hugely overrated by this community. He's been involved in the project for over a decade yet he's contributed nothing of significance to the writing process. Even Bumblefoot, who joined the band nearly 5 years after Fortus, was featured on Chinese. He's a good guitar player granted, but he's motivated by making a living. His entire purpose in life is to do justice to other people's genius.

Edited December 24, 2013 by NGOG

[TombRaider]

The Slash-wannabe, 40 year old emo whose name I can't remember.

[Nosaj Thing]

Isn't Richard Fortus a well-accepted session musician? People saying he's in for the money, well, yeah, that's what he does and he's pretty content with it.

Oddly, from the current line-up I like him the most.

[Mr. Dude]

This is not my favourite line-up of GNR, but there is nobody that I would say is my 'least favourite'. They all bring different things to the table - strengths and weaknesess.

What I will say is that Richard Fortus is hugely overrated by this community. He's been involved in the project for over a decade yet he's contributed nothing of significance to the writing process. Even Bumblefoot, who joined the band nearly 5 years after Fortus, was featured on Chinese. He's a good guitar player granted, but he's motivated by making a living. His entire purpose in life is to do justice to other people's genius.

Yeah I like Fortus, especially as a live player, but I agree that a lot of guys overrate him here. Paul Tobias, Dizzy, and even Pitman seemed to leave more of their own stamp on CD than Fortus did. I'm not saying that his playing on the records isn't great, he just doesn't seem like much of the songwriter. He can play some serious guitar though, he's very versatile, and he's in better physical condition than anyone who's ever been in the band.

[Hollywood Gunner]

Probably Frank

[TeeJay410]

Dj

[Guest NGOG]

He can play some serious guitar though, he's very versatile, and he's in better physical condition than anyone who's ever been in the band.

Absolutely. I would never dispute that Fortus is an accomplished guitar player that has developed an apparently 'endearing' image.

My point is that artistry is more important. It's rather pathetic that despite being in GNR for the majority of Chinese, he contributed virtually nothing to the finished product. He's not even prominent on Goin Down. As I said before, his career is centred around paying tribute to the genius of others.

[Mr. Dude]

He can play some serious guitar though, he's very versatile, and he's in better physical condition than anyone who's ever been in the band.

Absolutely. I would never dispute that Fortus is an accomplished guitar player that has developed an apparently 'endearing' image.

My point is that artistry is more important. It's rather pathetic that despite being in GNR for the majority of Chinese, he contributed virtually nothing to the finished product. He's not even prominent on Goin Down. As I said before, his career is centred around paying tribute to the genius of others.

Definitely agree that artistry is more important. He has a role, he knows that role, and plays it well. It just ain't a feature role, if you will.

[niceguy]

If we extend the range to "employees of GNR", then the list takes more clear shape:

Dizzy is in the band because he's Axl's lapdog. He is not a songwriter, he can do nothing that 100 million other people can't do.

DJ is a pathetic douche bag. Not a talented songwriter. Cringe worthy.

Pitman is not a legendary synth god, as some people here seem to think. No one outside of these forums knows or cares who he is.

Bumble is an absolutely soulless shred monkey. Fine, he can play a million miles per hour, but so can several million people on YouTube. He's no better than any of them.

Frank is a drummer. That's it. He's not good, he's not a historical figure, he can play drums like several billion other people can play drums.

Richard is the same, except with guitar.

The only genuinely talented people to have been in GNR are Axl, Izzy, Slash, and Buckethead.

[NachoLZ]

Pitman

[Crash Diet]

Pitman/Ashba

[John Bonham]

Of the current lineup, I would say that Dizzy Reed is the least popular member. He doesn't even have an "Army" on Twitter.

[TeeJay410]

Is it just me or do a lot of people here not seem to get that 90% of the time when Pittman is referred to as a synth god making funky techno beats, it's being done ironically?

[John Bonham]

Is it just me or do a lot of people here not seem to get that 90% of the time when Pittman is referred to as a synth god making funky techno beats, it's being done ironically?

I think it's only being done ironically 45% of the time.

[Silent Jay]

Adler

[Apollo]

Doesn't really seem to be a point of having two keyboard players, especially when Axl can play piano.

The only reason to have DJ on board is for his producing skills and his marketing abilities.........two things that Axl and Team Brazil are choosing to not use him for..........so he seems kind of pointless as well.

I'd vote to drop dj, dizzy and pitman and to start releasing albums.

[EvH]

Where's DizzyReedSexMachine when you need him ? xD

[niceguy]

Is it just me or do a lot of people here not seem to get that 90% of the time when Pittman is referred to as a synth god making funky techno beats, it's being done ironically?

That's not the case here. Many people on these boards don't listen to electronic music, and so they think Pitman is a bona fide genius for being able to upload a synth plugin into ProTools and hold a middle C on the keyboard.

[TeeJay410]

Is it just me or do a lot of people here not seem to get that 90% of the time when Pittman is referred to as a synth god making funky techno beats, it's being done ironically?

That's not the case here. Many people on these boards don't listen to electronic music, and so they think Pitman is a bona fide genius for being able to upload a synth plugin into ProTools and hold a middle C on the keyboard.

Maybe I'm in the holiday spirit and am giving people far too much credit, but the loving Chris Pittman ironically deal has been a thing posters have done since 2005. Maybe the perception has changed since then and I assumed everyone was still kidding.