If the AFD Lineup Created ChiDem, and ChiDem Lineup Created AFD...

[ChristmasFnatic]

How will it pan out? How do you think each album will sound and which will be better?

[bacardimayne]

A studio version of Buckethead's Nightrain would be better than the entire Slash version of CD.

[batman007]

Brain's work would of been awesome! I can't picture Steven doing any CD stuff. Maybe, because he would be passed out with a needle in his arm.

[bacardimayne]

lol at the thought of slash trying to play shackler's

[niceguy]

Slash can't make his guitar sound like an Atari game from the 80s.

[Anonymity]

I think AFD would still be a big hit (had it been released in a time when music actually sold). CD would be bigger than it is, because because it probably wouldn't have raised such impossible expectations (e.g the classic lineup would have released it way sooner).

[MEXzilla]

Slash can't make his guitar sound like an Atari game from the 80s.

This, exactly this.

[Broskirose]

Slash would die attempting to play Buckethead/Robin material.

[wasted]

I think it would be easier to be successful with the AFD songs.

Sex, drugs and rock n roll always sells better than geopolitical break up albums.

[IncitingChaos]

Appetite line up playing Chinese democracy, or even writing that album together would have been incredible. I think Axl put really good lyrics on Chinese. I think Slash would have orchestrated the sound that that album needed to succeed.

[sturginho]

It's a very difficult question to answer. Are we talking the same songs but with other guys playing on them? In which case we know how the chidem lineup plays the AFD songs, but Chidem probably would have gone in a completely different direction with the AFD guys playing on it so who knows how it would have ended up sounding?

One thing is clear though, the DJ Ashba version of both albums would be teh demented #AppetiteForTheFriction!!

[Majestic Beast]

What a bullshit poll,what if jesus was the bad guy and devil the good guy?

[maynard]

lol at the thought of slash trying not to spit his coffee listening to shackler's

[tinyrobot]

Impossible

[DR DOOM]

Let's imagine any of the current musicians in GNR are worthy of shining the members of Guns N Fuckin Roses' boots?

[Nosaj Thing]

Slash can't make his guitar sound like an Atari game from the 80s.

[RandallFlagg]

We see these guys playing most of Appetite on a hamster wheel so it's easy to imagine it, we don't see Slash or Duff (for a week or two) or Izzy playing the majority of Chinese Democracy week in, week out.

[SlashisGOD]

Slash could play the CD material because he'd add feeling to those wank solos. They'd end up sounding much more tasteful.

[wasted]

I thought the Shacklers guitar part was pure Slash.

[Smokin' Cigarettes]

No matter how you spin things, Chinese still wouldn't have been a commercial success.

It's a record that only hard-core fans and hipsters who sit and drink coffee at Starbucks in 90 degree heat with toboggans on could enjoy.

[ChristmasFnatic]

No matter how you spin things, Chinese still wouldn't have been a commercial success.

It's a record that only hard-core fans and hipsters who sit and drink coffee at Starbucks in 90 degree heat with toboggans on could enjoy.

Im a hardcore GNR fan and a Starbucks addict(frapp only) but I still dont like ChiDem!

[Apollo]

Personally, I've loved all the versions of the band.

As long as Axl is singing, it doesn't really matter that much to me who else is in the band as long as they are capable of adequately playing the songs.

And it is just silly to keep comparing BBF and Slash. They both have their strengths. BBF might be the better technical player - which is awesome. But he doesn't have the same ju-ju as a teammate of Axl's. By ju-ju I mean BBF and Axl haven't worked together to create rock masterpieces like Axl-Slash did.

[luciusfunk]

Depends on what you consider the ChiDem lineup.

[dalsh327]

If Buckethead never came in the picture, Chris Pitman being a guitarist/keyboardist would have wound up being the one doing solos on the keyboard. Depeche Roses.

[luciusfunk]

If Buckethead never came in the picture, Chris Pitman being a guitarist/keyboardist would have wound up being the one doing solos on the keyboard. Depeche Roses.

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