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#1 Guns N' Roses » Does anyone else get the impression that Axl is trying to re-build ... » 816 weeks ago

-Rob-
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If we're being honest here, every single replacement since 1990 has been a degradation to the musician that they have replaced. Judging by the majority of posts that I read on this forum, it seems to be the consensus that the 2002 lineup was far better than (what we know to be) the line-up that we have today. Josh Freese was/is a pretty in-demand studio drummer and he knew that he had better things to do with his career than to wait on Axl to dig up the courage to release an album. Bucket - while I personally don't think the dude had any business being in GNR, he is a pretty badass guitar player. He too knew that he did not need Axl Rose to be a successful. Finck - while I don't personally see anything special about his guitar playing, some did. And he had Trent and NIN to fall back on.

Look at our lineup today. Do any of you see Fortus, Ferrar, Pittman, Ashba, or Bumble walking out on Axl? I sure as hell don't. What better do they have to do? What more are they capable of? They're all 40 something average musicians who are barely recognizable (if at all) to the general public. If these guys were to leave it would likely be because Axl chose to fire them.

Do you guys think this is what Axl was aiming for? Surely it has to get old replacing guitar players and drummers every tour simply because they get sick and tired of wasting their lives doing nothing. But if Axl is able to keep a bunch of over the hill, nowhere else to go, average at best, studio musicians on the payroll, this is one concern that he will no longer have.

Does anybody else get the impression that this is what Axl is hoping for? Or is it just a coincidence that this has been the case thus far?

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