5-12-06 - GN'R Behind the Music on VH1 (In case you missed it)

[A Private Eye]

gnr behind the music sucks dick. all it is is a anti-axl add to promote velvet revolver.

I didn't see it like that at all. It's a fairly non-biased view of the story of GN'R.

Honestly, how do you figure?

I mean...how can you have an unbiased view of the story of GnR without 1/2 the story?

Now, I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say BTM sucked dick.? It was certainly informative and interesting.? And it was interesting to some of the other perspectives, for sure.

But I left feeling like 1/2 the pieces to the puzzle were missing....'cause without Axl's version of events, without that whole side of the story, we're missing a great deal of information.

Certainly was only 1/2 a story without Axl, however if BTM tried to get Axl on the show and he refused then there's not a lot BTM could do but make a show with what they had, which was unfortunately 2 ex bitter drummers and Slash so the overall portrayal of Axl in that programme wasn't that flattering and perhaps not even fair, but we may never know that.

I didn't think it was such a bad programme tbh offered a couple of interesting insights and all the basic info on GNR but nothing really new, however without Axl there wasn't ever really going to be.

[pilferk]

Certainly was only 1/2 a story without Axl, however if BTM tried to get Axl on the show and he refused then there's not a lot BTM could do but make a show with what they had, which was unfortunately 2 ex bitter drummers and Slash so the overall portrayal of Axl in that programme wasn't that flattering and perhaps not even fair, but we may never know that.

I didn't think it was such a bad programme tbh offered a couple of interesting insights and all the basic info on GNR but nothing really new, however without Axl there wasn't ever really going to be.

Oh, I, for sure, agree with all that. It's not BTM's fault that Axl didn't participate.  And I don't fault them for doing what they did with what they had.  I'm just saying that, to say it was unbiased, or remotely a complete picture...well, I don't get that.

I didn't think it was bad, either.  Just incomplete.  As I said, there was some interesting stuff in there, to be sure. 

[chineseblues]

gnr behind the music sucks dick. all it is is a anti-axl add to promote velvet revolver.

I didn't see it like that at all. It's a fairly non-biased view of the story of GN'R.

Honestly, how do you figure?

I mean...how can you have an unbiased view of the story of GnR without 1/2 the story?

Now, I certainly wouldn't go so far as to say BTM sucked dick.  It was certainly informative and interesting.  And it was interesting to some of the other perspectives, for sure.

But I left feeling like 1/2 the pieces to the puzzle were missing....'cause without Axl's version of events, without that whole side of the story, we're missing a great deal of information.

Certainly was only 1/2 a story without Axl, however if BTM tried to get Axl on the show and he refused then there's not a lot BTM could do but make a show with what they had, which was unfortunately 2 ex bitter drummers and Slash so the overall portrayal of Axl in that programme wasn't that flattering and perhaps not even fair, but we may never know that.

I didn't think it was such a bad programme tbh offered a couple of interesting insights and all the basic info on GNR but nothing really new, however without Axl there wasn't ever really going to be.

Im pretty sure Axl said he would do it once the record came out. Which really would have been a much better time to do a BTM on the band.

[pilferk]

Im pretty sure Axl said he would do it once the record came out. Which really would have been a much better time to do a BTM on the band.

Correct, he did say that.

But better for who?  Axl?  Sure.  VR? No.  VH1? Who's to say.

VH1, I'm sure, thought it would be better to do the show then.  Better for them, at least.

As of now...what..well over a year later....still no album.  So VH1 would still be waiting.....and the BTM franchise has dwindled, a bit, since then.

[C0ma]

Im pretty sure Axl said he would do it once the record came out. Which really would have been a much better time to do a BTM on the band.

They launched the BTM to coincide with all of the pub that VR was getting at the time (not to mention the VR special that played on VH1).

Not to keep going back to the "name doesn't make the band" discussion........ but more members of the "band" that they did the BTM on were active at that time with VR. So it made more sense for VH1 to release it based on the success of VR. A network like that can't just sit on a project and wait for things to happen at Axl's glaicier like speed.

[Lord Kayoss]

gnr behind the music sucks dick. all it is is a anti-axl add to promote velvet revolver.

Yep.  Totally agree.