If we are so full of bullshit, could you please explain your opinion with some speaking points? I would really like to know how all this shit got in here...
You, my enemy, are the one who is full of ______ (I'll let you insert your own colorful adjective here...you seem to be such a scholar). You and your sidekick above must be the world's last eternal optimists.
How can you honestly believe that Axl is miraculously going to right the ship after all this bullshit? Face it...BH was the only new member that the general fanbase was excited about...now he's gone and so is everything that was "cool" about the new lineup. Brain will leave soon...Axl is too big an asshole to not bash BH...his pride won't let it die.
There is no more Guns N' Roses...there will never be a Chinese Democracy album. Geffen will more than likely drop Axl after the Greatest Hits lawsuit...they will probably just make enough off of the collection to pay for all the damn studio time he's cost them. After that, no major will touch him...he's too big a risk.
Axl has to have the biggest fucking ego on the planet...who else would still call themselves "Guns N' Roses" with only one original member? Who else would spend YEARS making an album and act like the world owes him more time? Who else would let ultra-talented musicians come and go (BH, Josh Freese, etc.) who might actually help make the album even better?
His behavior was OK when GNR were still kicking ass...now all we have is a lame MTV appearance in which he confirmed the music world's assumptions...he's lost it, and a handful of live appearances over the course of four years during which the setlist hardly changed at all. In FOUR YEARS Axl can't introduce a new song into the set?
You guys have fun waiting on nothing together...I'm sure Axl's "masterpiece" will be worth the wait...
You have obviously become too attached to this band. Basically no one knows anything and no one will know anything until Axl speaks! Axl is Axl, in all honesty he doesnt owe anybody anything, he is making the album that he wants to make. I respect the guy, he has to be the last remaining musician on the planet who has been able to do what he wants to do on his own schedule, sticking two fingers up at the record industry in the process. We are fans we dont need to be giving Axl anymore shit than he has to deal with. The guy is getting sued left right and center by numerous people and regardless of how good this album is he is going to get loads more shit from the press.
The world doesnt owe Axl anything!
If you believe the current rumours then the final preparations for the albums release are being made, not by Geffen, not by Interscope who own Geffen, but by Universal who through UMG own Geffen and numerous other record labels. In other words screw Geffen! In the grand scheme of things they dont deal with anything.
As for your point about letting "great" musicians come and go, in all honesty who cares Axl doesnt need these people to stay in the band.... Brain May, Josh Freese, Zakk Wylde etc are very very talented players and what Axl has done is he has bought in all of these musicians, switched on the mic and recorded everything they played. Then once they are out he has gone through the recordings and taken out the best bits that they played. In other words he is going to have an album of riffs, licks, and rythem parts etc that come from some of the most talented musicians in the world. Buckethead was meerly a guitar player who happened to be good enough to play all of the stuff that had come from various sources!
Just my opinion on things.
Jonx
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