Ok. I am not a hater, right? so please be patient with my letter before calling me "Axl hater" or "not a real fan".
I've been supporting this band through the years. The first album I bought was "Apetite" in year 1988 (one year later, I know
). I am 34 years old and I can say its been the band of my life an Axl a true and important inspiration in my life.
I have bought all the records, several times in several formats. I know how to play with my guitar all the songs, that by the way is an Epiphone Les Paul. I can sing by memory every single lyric from all commercially or not relesed songs GNR has delivered through time. I Have t-shirts, posters, books, awfull records recorded by others to try to gain some money throgh the gnr name... I've seen thme live 3 times. Sevilla 1992, Madrid 1993, Madrid (2006).
But...
I am tired... and I think Axl is.
Obviously Axl has grown up trough the years, and he is not that young badass destroyer that ate the scenary every single night, but when I saw him live in year 2006... he was bored (his gestures, his way of acting...). The concert was great, the band was incredible, even better than the band I saw in 1992... but Axl seemed to me autocomplacent (does this word even exists?...sorry for my bad English) ... and bored. Like an old rockstar that makes all of this only for the "party" and "the chicks" after the concert but not for the concert itself... like... "I am bored...let's go on tour"....
or maybe like
"Oh my god... getting this fuckin' record done is the fucking hardest thing I have done in my whole fuckin life!.. I am tired of it."
Other thinks that concerns me is the "illness" of Bucket in the past and "Tommy" right now. It is too much casualty to be true. Sorry to feel this way, but its just the way I feel. Maybe they are lying to us because (assuming they are) the true is to hard to be told like "the Chiefs has listened to the final Mix of the record" and they did not liked a goddam thing. Because to be true to my feelings "Better", "TWAT" and maybe "The Blues" are good songs that, but the rest of the leaks I have listened are IN MY OPINION very low quality compared to what this band has done in the past.
I think the problem is not in tommys wrist (ok, I know I am speculating) the problem is somehow in the record, or in the company... GOD, they replaced Izzy in the past, they replaced, Brain, they replaced Steven...and they did go on... Why not now? Does not sound coherent to me.
Something fishy is going on...or maybe is just me... that's why I wanted to know..
Does anybody feel this way?
(And please, if you dont Agree with me, we can always talk about it, but I am not trying to flame here... I only want to know if there is anybody out there who feels like me... no punch intended, really).