Drumming - On the new GnR songs

[The Bedouin]

I think Brain is the best drummer Axl has ever played with !
Matt Sourum soundes so flat and boring and Steven Adler couldnt play after a while due to his drug habbit.
Conclusion: Brain is good

Axl (November 1993) :
"We're into the idea of letting Matt go more off on his own in the drumming department of GN'R, because on the "UYI" he was playing what we wanted to hear. On the record, he's one of the most amazing drummers I've ever heard, but he's better than that. When Matt goes off on his own creative scent, it's even more extreme than what was on the "UYI" albums. I want to facilitate that getting out and Matt just exploding."

[D]

I think Brain is the best drummer Axl has ever played with !
Matt Sourum soundes so flat and boring and Steven Adler couldnt play after a while due to his drug habbit.
Conclusion: Brain is good

I disagree, As much as i dislike and utterly hate Steven Adler, I must give the man his props, Popcorn is probably next to Tommy Lee, the greatest drummer of my generation.

Proof is in the proverbial Appetite For Destruction pudding.

As much as I hate Adler, his drum shit on Appetite is some of the most brilliant drumming Ive ever heard.

He has drum beats that u can fuckin sing a long to.

that is very rare.

[oneway23]

I believe Izzy called it the proverbial "push-pull" dynamic.  Say what you will about Popcorn, but the man had swing.  Sorum is more of a dry, technical player, while Brain is a groove guy through and through...Should be interesting to see how he accents the new songs.

[Chinese Democracy]

I really believe that Brain's drumming on the finished album will sound amazing. The guy is
awesome!

[dave-gnfnr2k]

Listen to the drums on the garden demo than on UYI I, its much differnt.

[awolgnr]

I really hope that everyone is right about the drum machine.  That's been my biggest disappointment so far with the new demos.  Makes me wonder what Josh Freese was doing for two years though.  That guy cranks out songs with ease for so many bands...  So did Axl delete his stuff and replace him with a drum machine?  Except for Better, these are all older songs that Freese should have been around to play on.

And am I the only one who can't hear any bass from Tommy?  I hope he's up in the mix in the final product.