Axl without Slash

[Romotov]

axl without slash i like a rose without scent. slash without axl is like a uncut diamond.

they were completing each other in a way like Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did.

between g'n'r and slash's snakepit are worlds. g'n'r without slash sucks.

i just can't understand why they split up. G'n'R was the best "Rock'N'Roll" or "Hard Rock" or whatever band in the last 20 years.

what do you think about this issue?

[fizz]

Well i think that slash was good. but they as a band werent progressing as they used to.
time to break up i spose - like a marriage if you will.
Slashs snake pit -
havent heard
but - G'n'R, i think the name should be changed to , Axls head stuck up his arse or something - he is so up himself
hated his vocals anyways
LOVE TO BUCKETHEAD

[fizz]

and ALSO
the guitarists always last longer
look at jimmy page now
hes probably asking everying - HAS ANYONE SEEN ROBERT?
get my point?

[Slash]

well they split 'cos slash wanted to continue to do the stuff they were aldready had been doing for all that while while axl wanted shift to the more alternative rock style. In fact fizz, they split cos their ideas for the bands progress were on different lines.
The original line up of gnr has some sort of nostalgic aura to it and can never be reproduced.

Anyways slash always did and will shine, with or without axl.

Slash forever.

[treyphish]

they split cuz axl was a heroin addict and slash couldnt stop drinking. how i wish they werent f***ed on that stuff cuz when there first album came out no one on this forum can deny it was something special at the time.sex drugs and rock n roll good for some bad for others.

[ZakNafien]

'they split cuz axl was a heroin addict and slash couldnt stop drinking."

Sorry but it was the other way around Axl hated heroin where you think the anthem Mr Brownstone came from?

[eische]

I can't speak for Axl (never cared about him - I mean that's not a voice, not to speak of a singer that's a state of mind and not a happy one), but on Slash and the drinking:
Well, he was off other drugs (except cigaretts) a long time even before the split with the old g'n'r. So that couldn't have been the reason.
And for now he stopped drinking for about a year (just to inform you).

On the split: I heard a Slash-comment on that recently in an interview, where he stated that the situation within the band was giving him a suicidal feeling, because they had to argue on the music, they were rehearsing in vain and the ideas (computerised, with techno- and what you call now »nu metal«-influences on Axls side and the same straight handmade rock on slashes side) went in too different directions.

@ romotov: world's between g'n'r and snakepit????? - why are people always comparing them?????? (that's making my sick)
It is a completely NEW BAND with a NEW ATTITUDE and a NEW STYLE.
So, I think, they shouldn't be compared even. Because with Snakepit, we just have a new band on the market - and a damn good one, if you ask me, because at least Slash got himself a SINGER now.
Also (with all the years inbetween in mind) I guess Snakepit is the closest you can get to the sound g'n'r would have proceeded to (at least when it comes to the guitar).

For the end: Have anyone of you saw the 20-years-of-rock-thing on mtv???? There was a Lars-Ulrich-comment on the old g'n'r, which went like: »I never supposed them to last longer than a year, because they were all so agressively depressed - now that it lasted for five or six years is a big thing«.....-hmmm, we should be lucky then for the music we got, shouldn't we.

[Romotov]

well, you may be right, eische, it's a new band with a new style, but the reason why i compare them is that i love the music gnr made, and so i was looking for more. i knew that the "new gnr" wouldn't be the same, because slash is missing, so i thought snakepit would be the band i was looking for... well, it's not.

they're rockin', but not the way gnr did.

and fizz: you're right that people rather know jimmy page than robert plant, but what about tony (or tommy? i just donnow) iommi and ozzy osbourne? i'm sure more will know ozzy, although he was the singer of black sabbath, and iommi was the guitarist.

i still think that gnr were the best in the past 20 years, and they will be still for some years.

and i'm sure that slash was THE member of gnr who made the band what they were. okay, axl wrote most of the songs, but what would they be without slash's solos?

i think that axl wanted to go in his desired direction because he wanted to make his voice more important, and the guitar parts less important (he's very selfish we know).

[eische]

Originally posted by Romotov
[B]well, you may be right, eische, it's a new band with a new style, but the reason why i compare them is that i love the music gnr made, and so i was looking for more.

well, I may understand that, but for me it was just granted, that with the basis splitting up, there could never have been similar music ANYWHERE. So with a sigh I just closed that chapter, long before Snakepit came up.
And having been to a concert of Snakepit, where all the kids yelled g'n'r-song-names at a band, which haven't the slightest to do with it, just drove me mad (sorry, for misspelling that last time). They wouldn't respect them as newcomers in every sense of the word. I mean, just forget the famous name and let the music speak.

i knew that the "new gnr" wouldn't be the same, because slash is missing, so i thought snakepit would be the band i was looking for... well, it's not.
they're rockin', but not the way gnr did.

Just close the g'n'r-books of glory (hard, but true). And at least snakepit do rock ;), even on a more bluesy edge (that was to be forseen, having the name Slash in mind). It could have been worse, like only having the new g'n'r left :p .

And by the way I wonder what the Slash-solo-thing - that is coming up soon - will be like (something of asian and other influences it is said to be, hmmm sounds queer :confused:).

[Problem Child]

First of all, Axl is an idiot. He has a great voice, that's all I like about him. As far as I know Paul Huge (his surname rhymes with boogie) was the final reason Slash left the band. When the band was recording Sympathy For The Devil Axl put Huge's guitar in the song without telling Slash (and Slash used to call Huge a bedroom guitarist). Slash told Axl, that either he or Huge had to go, and one week later or so Axl annouced that Slash had left the band. Anyway, in my opinion the good GNR stopped existing when Izzy left, coz he was actually that one that wrote, or at least co-wrote all the cool songs. Axl's songs weren't good at all (don't tell me November Rain would be a hit without Slash's solo). All that happened after Izzy was gone is joke. And there are no longer GNR, coz Axl as the only original band member can't make that band. What a pity...

and remember
"with your bitch slap rappin' and your cocaine tongue you get nothing done .... " :cool:

PS: Does anybody know where can I find GNR power tabs, or at least good normal tabs?

[Romotov]

Originally posted by Problem Child
First of all, Axl is an idiot. He has a great voice, that's all I like about him. (...) Anyway, in my opinion the good GNR stopped existing when Izzy left, coz he was actually that one that wrote, or at least co-wrote all the cool songs. Axl's songs weren't good at all (don't tell me November Rain would be a hit without Slash's solo).


Don't say that. November Rain has a good text, i think. And you HAVE to listen to the live version, it's much much better!!!! Another good song Axl wrote is "Estranged" (But again, Slash's solos made it as good as it is). So i think that Axl is a good songwriter, too.

But he a stupid selfish boy who thinks he is THE member of GnR who made the band. But he just isn't.

You should find GnR tabs at

http://www.tabcrawler.com

Does anyone know if there exists a G'N'R Video?

[Problem Child]

Yeah, it maybe has a good text, but this doesn't make a song - if it was a poem, then I'd agree with you. Anyway, I just wanted to say that November Rain isn't really hard rock or whatever the GNR were - it's just a pop song. It's totally overloaded (if ya know what I mean) with effects, and the keyboard orchestra - nooooo... I know the live version, it isn't cool either, and that 5 min piano intro - again nooooooo... Despite this most of the people I know enjoy this song, so it probably has something I don't understand.

[letheirberock]

slash rocks,and in my opinian axl's vocals sound good on the album's but when it comes to preforming live, axl sucks! and so does his attitude!