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Mean Bone - Snakepit II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2999XTL0U8g&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Mr. Brownstone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o219pngYMrw&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Back to the Moment - Snakepit II
What a brilliant song, I love Rod's voice at this show..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG7eAOeQJek&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Speed Parade - Snakepit II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEGCIxvE4bQ&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Neither Can I - Snakepit I, performed by Slash's Blues Ball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfcCN3UeQlo&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Been There Lately - Snakepit II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUnwm3I-TtI&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Back and Fourth Again - Snakepit I, peformed with Snakepit I singer, Eric Dover...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ-VOYYwO0A&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Ain't Life Grand - Snakepit II I like how versatile this band was..... Great song, again, Rod's voice is killer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYTz2avPQjA&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

The Truth - Snakepit II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTmIjklEzVI&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Its So Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOCCdhq-QRU&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit


Beggars and Hangers On - Snakepit I, this song should be heard now.....VR please play..ha.  It ROCKS! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BNF07daZtU&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Lower - Snakepit I, performed by Snakepit I, what a brilliant song!  I love it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJDzHjOy0cI&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Doin Fine - Snakepit I, performed by Snakepit I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1YYaNOES0&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

Just like anything - Snakepit II, performed by Snakepit II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2T6YbTx9RI&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit


Jizz Da Pit - Snakepit I, peformed by Snakepit I, Great Jam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqqB7sGaNc8&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit

There is some excellent playing here and it really shows Slash's versatility outside of GNR and VR.....  I really enjoyed both versions of Snakepit, these are really rare videos.. Hope you enjoy.

Ha those brought back some memories!  I enjoyed the Snakepit albums......I mean they weren't the greatest thing ever, but they were pretty cool to listen to.  I thought the second incarnation was really gonna make it......Been There Lately was getting some really great airplay.  Sad to see those songs shelved for what appears to be a long time.

Thanx for the links man, i really love slash?s work? : ok:

Where are the bootlegs for some of those? Specially the show with Rod, seems great!!! around 2000 right?

I love jiz da pit... Snakepit gets a bad rap from the new gnr fans, guess everyone is hearing impared

It's a shame I never saw this band live :no: But thanks for the links Smoking Guns!

Snakepit rules. It's time to acknowledge that. Thanks for the links!  : ok:

iv been an old GNR fan since i was like 4, i grew up listening to them, im now 18, 19 next month and it was only a cupla years back when i was around 16 that i started to listen to all old GNR members solo work, and snakepit is realy cool, the second version is alot better i thought than the 5 oclock era : ok:

Does anyone know where to find the video for "Beggers and hangers on"? I saw it once one MTV, back in the day. That's a damn good song. Love the slide guitar on that one.

Oh yes this one brought back some very nice memories since I was at that concert? :beer:

Can't wait to check those out... I really liked the first incarnation of Snakepit.. The second not so much really , although they did have a few good songs on there...

Beggars and hangers on is awesome. If im correct it's written by Slash & Duff?

Slash has less part on it. It's Duff mostly...

How do you know it?


And Eric Dover.

I saw the second Snakepit twice both in Dallas......once in an Arena opening for AC/DC and the second in a blues club in Deep Ellum.........the second show was really really great and personal.  Rod Jackson was alright, but in small doses.......the band was really tight though.  Been There Lately and Life's Sweet Drug were both really cool live.

I really like Beggers and Hangers On  :beer:
I prefered the lead singer (Eric Dover) on the Slash's Snake Pit 1 line up (opposed to the 2nd line up)

Here's the song is perfered by line up no.2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BNF07daZtU&search=Slash%27s%20Snakepit



It would have been a great band to have Eric Dover (Lead singer) + Slash + Sorum/Adler + Duff + Gilby.
This line up would have been better than the new GnR  ;D

why does it seem that most new gnr fans don't like snakepit, or even say that was a cool solo or something..  Even though I'm more towards the gnr that ruled the world I can say that's a cool song or solo or something..

Just seems strange that so many guys from the original gnr get overlooked post gnr

I'm sure a lot of the new GNR fans from the past couple years were very very young when Snakepit came out and didn't experience it the first time around.  They're both really straightforward basic rock albums too and I'm sure that goes over the head of a lot of them.  As for not getting new fans.....the material has basically been buried.  As with Izzy's solo albums......they just rock....you have no 10 minute epic pieces (which I love from GNR don't get me wrong), you have no orchestra or picalo solos....you just have good old fashioned heartland rock.  I love the Juju Hounds album now more than ever.  I just listened to Shuffle It All one day and it hit me in a whole new way. 

Thanks for all the thanks...ha.  This shit rocks.. Like Mike, I feel this demonstrates Slash's versatility and the fact he can play cool stuff with just about anybody... Something many players can't say, for example Eddie Van Halen...  The only thing outside of VH that he did good was Beat it with MJ.  Slash is a genuine badass.  Also many say he can't write without Izzy or Axl.. Again, this proves otherwise, some of these songs are fantastic..

I absolutely agree. Some people here tend to say that Slash is making 'Brownstone-type of songs' only. These guys haven't heard a Slash song or plain deaf. I don't want to compare Slash's versatility to anyone's, but if somenone listens Neither Can I, Beggars, Good to Be Alive, Jizz da Pit, Lower, Be the Ball, Back and Forth, Shine, Serial Killer, Life's Sweetest Drug, Ain't Life Grand etc. must realize that these are all very different songs, with various influences. Give the guy a listen.  :rant:

BTW his guest appearances are great, too.

The beauty of Slash is that you can throw him in any genre on any stage and he will probably own the place.. Period.  He is not stuck in one type of music... 

I think he is a great song writer personally!!

yeah he could be with lemmy, lenny, MJ, blackstreet, ellan, or le chic and fucking rock out :beer:

Its just that none of the music is particularly memorable.   Sure, Slash has some awesome solos and licks in some of those clips, but in general, the music is really lacking.    Slash's best stuff was his GNR stuff, hands down.   Theres a reason Snakepit didn't have any commerical success.

I'd take IRS and Better over any of that stuff.  Its not like its bad or anything, but just not very good.

You have to be kidding about IRS, right? The IRS riff sounds to me like something Axl came up with himself on guitar. You know, the kind of thing a lead singer with limited guitar skills usually produce: simple chord progressions, dead-easy strumming, run of the mill, everyday licks which could've been written by a 14 year old kid playing guitar in his parents' garage. The vocal melodies are nice, and save the song, but take away Axl's voice and melodies and the song is a complete dud.

I'ld take any snakepit I song over IRS, and most of the snakepit II songs as well.
Better is a very good song though.


As for the "no commercial success" argument: Snakepit wasn't a band, it wasn't even a project. It was Slash and a bunch of guys enjoying themselves, keeping themselves busy.

No, I'm not kidding on IRS.  I dont care how simple or complex it is musically, a good song is a good song, and it sounds better to me than any of those snakepit clips.  (I'm comparing these clips to Manchester IRS)

The reason these songs weren't commerically successful was because they were GNR rejects.  Axl and Duff didn't want to do them(at least not the way the songs were at the time) so Slash made the first snakepit album.   They aren't great or memorable songs.

Yeah, Coma for example :smoking:

Yeah, indeed, a good song is a good song, I agree. I find IRS to be mediocre, at best. Allright, I haven't watched the manchester IRS clip, nor have I watched these snakepit clips yet (at work 'n all, you know...). I'm comparing the IRS demo version to the snakepit albums. Maybe it's not really fair, but comparing live performances isn't really fair either, now is it. BTW: listen to "beggers and hangers on", the studio version, with Eric Dover on vocals: he does a killer job there. I've always preferred Eric over Rod; especially live.


A lot of them are great songs, but I guess it's a matter of opinion. Yeah, Axl didn't want to do those songs back in the day, 'cause they were too blues rock oriented for Axl at the time. Later, when Slash was about to put out "It's 5 o clock somewhere" he tried to get the songs back; I guess realising their potential as GnR songs.

IRS is not a good song by any means, the only bright spot was the outro solo by buckethead... The start is blah the song is boring the outro is very good..  Better is a very good song, but take cd it stinks, riyad stinks, silkworms stinks..

As far as gnr rejected songs for snakepit, that is a laugh because of axl's vocals were behind it that entire tune would change for the most part around here

Look at all those leaks, everyone listened to them six zillion times in seven different ways to appreciate them ,.you think the same anti old gnr people gave those snakepit songs the same attention.... People are so band wagon that I bet half never even bothered to listen

just to clarify, i'm not anti-old gnr, i grew up loving that band.   :peace:  even slash  : ok:

if something doesn't catch my ear, I'm not going to sit there and listen to it over and over again.   I listened to Slash's stuff a few times and it just didn't do anything for me.   When I first heard Better, I couldn't stop listening to it.  I wasn't listening to it to appreciate it better, I was listening to it because its a catchy fuckin song.  IRS didn't grow on me so much until I saw it live that night in NY.

I'm sorry I even like VR's stuff better than any Snakepit.   Its got some good guitar stuff of course because it is Slash, but beyond that  :-X

that's fair enough JB, I'm only talking about those with the leaks who sai dwell TWAT took me 5 listens to get into it, and this was better if you used headphones... The point is if you want to you can find good if you listen long enough, or even convince yourself something is better then it is because you've waited forever

well, could someone upload theese videos to rapidshare or megaupload so we could have them all and not only watch them online? thanks ;)

1st of all, THANK YOU for the links!!


I ABSOLUTELY agree.  :yes:

Ppl who say his Snakepit stuff was not memorable and that's why it didn't get much commercial success must 1. be deaf :hihi: 2. have forgotten that the Snakepit was mostly a small club touring band, sth Slash put together just to be closer to the audience.


Hehe, would be great! Some of these are downloadable by eMule ( http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/general.cgi?l=1 ) , but not all of them...

thanks buddy! great shit! speed parade is amazing  :yes:

yeah man I love the playing on that song.. :)

What's even cooler is that Slash said that was one of the songs he wrote for GN'R when he was still in the band, but ended up using it for Snakepit. That's such a great riff! :beer:

Dam, that shit really rocks!  You know, I think these songs sound cooler now then when the album was released.....  Does Slash ever dissappoint?  I think not.  Great stuff!

Just watched Jizz Da Pit.. That was pretty damn sweet..

Does this subject title contain 'classic' and 'snakepit' in the same line?  :nervous:

Every new gnr tune has "instant" and "classic" in the same line :rofl:.. Classic can mean old too : ok: Anyway those snakepit songs are good, I just know many people can't allow themselves to like things outside of axl rose vocals... if people can like the song chinese d then they should be able to like other music too :hihi:

Mike, I am with you all the way.  I think these are "classic" for Slash's Snakepit.  Its great stuff.  Tomass, I love that Jizz Da Pit video as well!

gunnerdownunder should just go to his new gnr thread. and, btw, jizz da pit is "classic" too!

Well I don't know people will praise the song cd up and down and it is quite boring, yet they can't find one thing they like about a snakepit song where the playing is 100x's better,,,

True Dat.... I do like the song CD though.. Although I haven't heard it in like 4 years...

yeah...its beyond me how people can fault the guitar on "it's five o'clock somewhere" - some of the coolest and most wicked riffs ever!!!

I must admit lyricly I miss axl on the snakepit stuff, like its all cool anyway...but it would have been interesting with Axl...but i guess that wasn't to be!

Now i'm obsessed with the song IRS at the moment as we all know, so i won't go saying anything bad about IRS. But I think snakepits guitar is far more complex and interesting than IRS. (ok so bucket has a big solo..but the rest is simple stuff - nothing wrong with that tho cool song) - but what makes IRS cool is the lyrics and the passion axl has.

Anyway...when people say that SP isn't memorable I think its cos they havn't dug the lyrics really. I mean musically the songs are similar to GNR, I mean is perfect crime really any different from like one of the SP songs? Bad ass riffs etc...its just that GNR had more going on with the lyrics...

Anyway, i love the leaks and the new songs. But snakepit deserves respect for the awesome records they are!

Hey, I've just watched The Truth and Just Like Anything. Any idea where and when they played them?? ???

The thing is I uploaded Ain't Life Grand and put it in Appetite for Collection (http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/board/index.php?topic=48384.msg988139#msg988139) and now I can see it's from the same show as The Truth and Just Like Anything and it's the same version of Ain't Life Grand as the one Smoking Guns posted.

Thanks in advance. :)

I think the live footage is from Buffalo, NY 2000 or 2001.

Thank you, Smoking Guns, I found some info on it and gnr2k6 said he has the dvd, so now we know for sure it's from the Niagara Guitar Festival, Buffalo, NY, the 17th of june 2001. : ok:

I fucking love this band! :D