If Slash is a cancer, Axl is an extreme case of rectal polyps. Like HUGE. The kind you can see through clothing.

One guy?

Axl was the only person with unique talent in Guns n' Roses. The others were just generic rock star types. That became evident when they split off and made generic rock type music while Axl's music is much more interesting.

7of7: Axl was the only person with unique talent in Guns n' Roses. The others were just generic rock star types. That became evident when they split off and made generic rock type music while Axl's music is much more interesting.

Really? Slash's sound is the one type of guitar music that I can actually tell who is playing. If you were to rate the top five guitar players of all time you will see Slash up there.

Well that is my opinion

Fark-the-Fnord: 7of7: Axl was the only person with unique talent in Guns n' Roses. The others were just generic rock star types. That became evident when they split off and made generic rock type music while Axl's music is much more interesting.

Really? Slash's sound is the one type of guitar music that I can actually tell who is playing. If you were to rate the top five guitar players of all time you will see Slash up there.

Well that is my opinion

I wouldn't say all that... Slash is good.... Axl was a good front man, too.

7of7: Axl was the only person with unique talent in Guns n' Roses. The others were just generic rock star types. That became evident when they split off and made generic rock type music while Axl's music is much more interesting.

interesting like the sound of pots and pans being banged together while a class full of 4th graders play the recorder and a middle aged man with braids talks in a really deep voice and then occasionally screams.

Fark-the-Fnord: 7of7: Axl was the only person with unique talent in Guns n' Roses. The others were just generic rock star types. That became evident when they split off and made generic rock type music while Axl's music is much more interesting.

Really? Slash's sound is the one type of guitar music that I can actually tell who is playing. If you were to rate the top five guitar players of all time you will see Slash up there.

Well that is my opinion

I was never a huge fan of GNR, but I've always been a fan of Slash's guitar playing. You are correct, you can identify his playing which is what makes him unique.

Axl Rose calls Slash a "cancer", effectively ending any hopes of delaying a Guns n' Roses reunion until they need the money a little more.

FTFY, subby.

Fark-the-Fnord: Well that is my opinion

That's the important part of all these music/art discussions. Maybe Slash is unique but not in a terribly impressive way. There are (probably, I'm too lazy to look) teenage Korean kids on Youtube who can play just like Slash but you'd be hard pressed to find one who can play with the same nuances as David Gilmour.

WaltzingMathilda: interesting like the sound of pots and pans being banged together while a class full of 4th graders play the recorder and a middle aged man with braids talks in a really deep voice and then occasionally screams.

actually...they both suck.

-lowest common denominator music, ftw!

the eighties called...they want their suck back.

submitter: guy with a mullet in New Jersey

You'll have to be more specific than this.

Bauer: the eighties called...they want their suck back.

They also want their joke back.

Bauer: actually...they both suck.

-lowest common denominator music, ftw!

the eighties called...they want their suck back.

Is someone still butt hurt that the Back Street Boys broke up?

Fark-the-Fnord: Is someone still butt hurt that the Back Street Boys broke up?

shows how little you know. BSB are back and in full effect - with a new album set to drop in '09. let real music once again reign supreme!

thomps: BSB are back

Alright?

And that guy is me.

/hands off my mullet

sage

So wait, there's still no cure for Slash?

I know the Kirk/Spock stuff is overdone, but I wouldn't condemn the entire genre.

I sing Sweet Child of Mine to my daughter after bedtime reading.

/not really
//don't even have a daughter
///stolen

Slash is just a really good guitar player without Axl... which is good, but isn't the same as being GnR. Axl is nothing without Slash.

Both of them are kinda screwed. Too bad Axl is such an ass.

Bauer: the eighties called...they want their suck back.


The 80s didn't suck, pal.

Also:

-1 for Subby. A mullet/New Jersey reference should be reserved for Bon Jovi.

We're still reading about this asshole?
Why?

What a waste of time.

/comment away Axl lovers, I don't respond to dumbass, so you can have the last word. God knows you need it.

Had Slash been born a day earlier, he would have been a Cancer.

tuna fingers: I sing Sweet Child of Mine to my daughter after bedtime reading.

/not really
//don't even have a daughter
///stolen


I sing "Welcome to the Jungle" when I moon people with my hairy posterior.

G'N'R should title their next album "Can't Keep An Appointment"... and it should be a live album.

/just sayin'...
//Stole that from good friend Jerry "Wild Weasel" Schmidt in Topeka, KS

ptomblin: I know the Kirk/Spock stuff is overdone, but I wouldn't condemn the entire genre.

Thread over

fark you subby.

We get enough flack for Springsteen and Bon Jovi, you're not pushing Guns n' Roses on us too.

sweet lord Axl never stops being the biggest twat in the music biz.

stupid little hayseed got lucky and now his trailer trash self is just a turd in a tuxedo

GnR is still one of my fave bands.

And Slash is one of the top 25 guitar players of all time. Easilly.

All I could think of was:
pot, this is kettle
kettle, meet pot . . .

real shaman

I wouldn't say all that... Slash is good.... Axl was a good front man, too.


How so? He's been known to throw temper tantrums, assault fans and storm off stage. Also notorious for short performances. Saw them in their heyday and was not impressed.

David Lee Roth he is not.

I would love to take a dump on Axl Rose, thank you for asking.

KG4GKE: G'N'R should title their next album "Can't Keep An Appointment"... and it should be a live album.

/just sayin'...
//Stole that from good friend Jerry "Wild Weasel" Schmidt in Topeka, KS

I played youth basketball with a Jerry Schmidt for years. He was the coach's son. Did he happen to grow up around Denver?

Both of them are a waste of time, space, and money that could better have been spent on people with talent, but, alas, popular culture would not let it be.

bearded clamorer: Had Slash been born a day earlier, he would have been a Cancer.

/Real threadwinner.

Slash? On guitar? That's cute.

This reminded me of Dennis Miller's comments on Izzy getting kicked out of GnR:

NSFW language (pops) Link

New from GnR: Better

Sure, that rocks

They're both mediocre at best.

So much for chinese democracy.

When I saw Axl Rose interrupt a 2006 performance of "Sweet Child Of Mine" to taunt a 14-year-old in the audience, I knew that it was all over. Also, for those of you keeping up on the accuracy of Axl's judgement about people, he recently called the book "Catcher in the Rye" garbage that should be banned from schools.

I agree with all the Slash-y goodness. I'm not even a fan of GNR. I've always thought Axl as more of a douche with a worse off voice than Brian Johnson (AC/DC) and David Draiman. (Disturbed)

Not saying that Brian Johnson is a terrible vocalist (Draiman is, in my opinion for a vocalist), but his voice is not one for singing. Though, it is strangely unique.

I'd put Slash for my top ten "professional" guitar players. Unique if not talented.

Some of the others being John Petrucci, David Gilmour, Michael Romeo, Joe "The Satch" Satriani, Steve Vai, ... maybe Yngwie Malmstein, but he's a bit of a Swedish douche.

Herman Li is up there with unique. Though I wish Dragonforce could write worth a damn.

Izzy Stradlin was my favorite.

The_Sponge: tuna fingers: I sing Sweet Child of Mine to my daughter after bedtime reading.

/not really
//don't even have a daughter
///stolen


I sing "Welcome to the Jungle" when I moon people with my hairy posterior.

You are a sick, sick farker....that which has been described cannot be undescribed....but that which has been eaten can be uneaten...sort of

When the rest of the band don't want to hang, who's got the problem

Chinese Democracy is much better than anything Slash has done since they split ways. It may have bombed commercially, but that does not equate to quality. Otherwise Hanna Montana, Creed and Coldplay is better than any band any of you like.

Why do lead singers always have problems with their guitarists?

The Beatles
Pantera
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rage against the Machine
The Clashiat's crap like that which makes certain band reunions a pipe dream at best.

A wildly over-rated guitarist AND a cancer too, now?

Utter and abject fail.

LegacyDL: Why do lead singers always have problems with their guitarists?

The Beatles
Pantera
The Smashing Pumpkins
Rage against the Machine
The Clashiat's crap like that which makes certain band reunions a pipe dream at best.

I'm glad you didn't put Van Halen on that list because in that case, the overrated drummer and guitarist are definitely the douches.

I can see David Lee Roth being hard to work for, but Hagar? Come one.