What Opportunities Is Axl Talking About In Regards To B's Leaving The GNR Fold?

[oneway23]

The opportunity to perpetuate the blame game even further....

[mikegiuliana]

The opportunity to perpetuate the blame game even further....

It's just people throwing out feelings, it's a message board it doesn't matter.. Not one person knows anything for sure regarding anything, it's just fun, like a mystery you figure out..

[Buddha_Master]

The opportunity to perpetuate the blame game even further....

It's just people throwing out feelings, it's a message board it doesn't matter.. Not one person knows anything for sure regarding anything, it's just fun, like a mystery you figure out..

I take what oneway said as being about Axl, and not what we say in here. And mikegiuliana...I hope you are right man, about B's parts not being removed and recorded over. If B doesnt get credit on CD, that will be sorry.

[GNFNR_UK]

When I first read that statement I took it as Buckethead leaving had given Axl and co the 'oppertunity' to work with some amazing guitar player who would become the replacement for Buckethead. In a similar way to Robin leaving in 99 thus giving Axl the chance to work with Brian May.
However now this looks unlikely since the stuff with Bumblefoot and interviews with Tommy saying there is no replacement for BH and they don't need one etc. Unless they do have this amazing replacement and Tommy and Dizzy are in on it and they want to keep it as a HUGE surprise...

BUT it's probably just like that other guy said, Axl's pissed off so he has to say something to make it look as though he's not bothered.

As for GNR continueing with NO replacement for BH, I find this unlikely. If BH was never really neeeded then why have him there? Sure maybe the other guys can handle BH's parts on record but they obviously need a 3rd guy live.
And on the topic of re-recording BH's parts, I believe Axl will have BH's parts re-done. The reason for this is cos this is AXL's album as we've said before, he wants this to be perfect and if he has fallen out with Buckethead do you really think he wants the album to go out with someone who he doesn't like playing guitar on it???That would just piss you off every time you listened to it,plus he said Buckethead used GNR for attention, why give him more attention by releaseing the album with him on?? I (like the rest of you) just want the album out, with or without Buckethead cos I don't have anything against the guy and he was an amazing player bur in reality I really think Axl will remove his parts thus delaying the album. I think February is the earliest we will see the album.

[thelostrose]

As for GNR continueing with NO replacement for BH, I find this unlikely. If BH was never really neeeded then why have him there? Sure maybe the other guys can handle BH's parts on record but they obviously need a 3rd guy live.

i guess the new stuff we haven't heard is kinda complex, so they really need guitar players. don't you need 3 guitar players for locomotive to be played correctly? if there'S more stuff like that, someone really is needed...

[ChristineP]

For real...? What the fuck? I think Axl knew Buckethead's departure would only worsen the situation by giving the media and us yet another thing to criticize the band about.? So they basically made up this bullshit story of how it would help the band... knowing it wasn't true. That's what I think anyways.... But we'll probably never know what the fuck Axl meant by those statements.

Bucket come back you fucker!

Well, being in a band is like having a family.  If someone in the group is being an ass it breaks the energy of everyone.  So obviously he is thinking of the future of the new GnR!

[matt88]

I can't understand some of you people . When Buckethead was in the band everyone was going on and on about him being the best thing that could happen to GN'R. Now he's gone you are all happy that he's gone? That's it's for the best?

How the fuck can it be good. All it means is that CD will take longer to release now cos of Buckethead's departure. The only plus i see is that without BH the band will look less like a joke. But without his skill the album may suffer.

[norway]

the current members says his parts is not removed

The most members in this newgnr has mot been 1. range stars like axl, kylie britney, elvis, steven tyler and on and on, the next biggest celebrity (or former it's been a while for axl) is buckethead. He's a soloartist or? Like satriani?

If so, maybe that ruins the chemistry in some way, like the axl and slash feud

Buckethead is insane on guitar, it's bad he wen't but 'll stick to axl and co if they think it helps the band

[killingvector]

well tommy also thinks its a good thing that BH left.? I just think the guy is a dick.? He probably caused tension in the band and held shit up.? Brain is still there.? Fuck him.? I just hope they rercord his parts.? I love his playing but Axl deserves someone who will be happy that they are in Guns n Roses and be dedicated.

Maybe buckethead was just bored, it's not a hard thing to believe when you're in guns n roses....Look at how long everything takes..Recording had been going on for a few years before the vmas so it can't all be buckethead's fault..

Maybe the man just saw the writing on the wall and kn ew that being in this band would just be a waiting game and the fact he wasn't the full lead guitarist is also a joke.. Imagine being buckethead and being a artist that makes a living on solos to have to share the lead with finck...?

Buckethead gave the new gnr a gimmik, some type of attraction, notice how many poeople got into buckethead during the tour.. I think it's a loss, and tommy said the parts weren't going to be recorded over.. If it's being mastered or whatever it's obvious it isn't getting done over, shit teh album should be waiting for the plastic to wrap it with the price tag..

I agree with you. I think he was bored with the whole process; perhaps became more interested in getting things done with his solo and collaborative works and neglected any responsibiliites he had in gnr. I do the same thing when I have a professor who is lax with accepting assignments; if there are no firm deadlines then the process gets dragged out forever.

[Crashdiet]

Axl needs to leave bh's work on the album.

And put in the liner notes

"special and sincere thanks to buckethead for all his contributions to this album"

Fuck rerecording all the stuff... i mean by the time everything was rererecored robin or richard, or brain will leave....

At some point it just has to been done

[Buddha_Master]

Axl needs to leave bh's work on the album.

And put in the liner notes

"special and sincere thanks to buckethead for all his contributions to this album"

Man, Axl putting that in the "we'd like to thank" section would be as cool as it would be classy. I am going to go with my gut that in the end, Axl really is a class act. Keeping B's work in, and writing something like what you wrote here, would go a long way to prove how cool and classy Axl is. I think he is and hope I won't be proven wrong. We will have to find out if I am eventually.

[Danny]

The opportunity to come up with a whole slew of new, pathetic excuses as to why he can't release an album.

[mikegiuliana]

I can't understand some of you people . When Buckethead was in the band everyone was going on and on about him being the best thing that could happen to GN'R. Now he's gone you are all happy that he's gone? That's it's for the best?

How the fuck can it be good. All it means is that CD will take longer to release now cos of Buckethead's departure. The only plus i see is that without BH the band will look less like a joke. But without his skill the album may suffer.

Everyone loved buckethead and said he was amazing, now alot of people are so happy that he's gone.. AMAZING! 

[Buddha_Master]

Man, I don't see how anyone could be happy if he is out of the GNR fold.

Look at it this way man. GNR, if we are all being honest and shit, are pretty easy targets for shit talking. Bucket gave GNR the only thing they have seemed to lack in critics eyes for years. Credibility.

Part of still thinks B is still going to be involved in GNR in some form. Maybe I am an optimist, and feel that his contributions to Chinese Democracy will be heard whenever this album drops. It will give the album immediate credibility, and the biggest haters won't be able to touch this. He silenced an aweful lot of the haters in 2002, and made it a lot easier to back GNR because of him. To me, he gave GNR an opportunity.

But, I am an Axl fan, and will take him at his word. In the end it can only come down to the music. I can't see how B's departure could help the music, but right now, I don't have to.


I just hope after the album hits the streets, and the innitial high wears off, that I won't have a thought pop into my head about how much better the music would have been.

[ppbebe]

I can't understand some of you people . When Buckethead was in the band everyone was going on and on about him being the best thing that could happen to GN'R. Now he's gone you are all happy that he's gone? That's it's for the best?

Everyone loved buckethead and said he was amazing, now alot of people are so happy that he's gone.. AMAZING!?

I missed such a time Everyone loved buckethead and said he was amazing. I thought he?d been ill-treated by haters along with other new members.
Now who?s all happy other than die hard bucket haters??
I know many people sorely miss him and make bluffs, like someone did.