My God! What is this? I never stated Soul Asylum were more influential. Hell read my original post. I actually said it was the Replacements and  Husker Du who influenced Soul Asylum. I never once tried to pass SA off as a huge influential 80's band. I'm not a fucking idiot. This isn't a Soul Asylum vs the Mats / Replacements thing for me. Why make it that? I like both bands but YES in my opinion David Pirner is a   better singer / song writer than Westerberg. Do I need publications and critical acclaim to share my opinion for it to be a valid one? No I don't.  I'm also not gonna bother searching for that source about my comment that Rolling Stone had Soul Asylum as thier best live band in America for 8 years running back in the day. I read it, I know it, end of story as far as I'm concerend. Why would I make something like that up? Especially outta the blue.  It wasn't ment to be a "Well Soul Asylum are much better than the Replacements and here's why and they sold more albums and blah blah blah. " I dont' give a  shit about that stuff and only a  loser would come in here and make up some random bullshit coment. What would I have to gain by it?  You can choose to believe that I read what I say I read or not. That's up to you. It was you who came in here and turned this into a Vs thing. "Soul Asylum a poor Man's Replacements and Mats had much more swagger and blah blah blah". Why even turn the conversation into that?

Sorry  Neemo.   I'm done with the Soul Asylum vs Replacements thing. Not that I even wanted to get into that to begin with at all.  But Tommy did play for both bands so isnt' the conversation relevant?

No actually if I were Axl I'd probably be like "Well now he sees what I saw" if that's in fact what's going on. Again being fat nd bald have nothing to do with it and those commenst were irelevat to begin with so why are they relevant now?  They were made by a guy who felt threatend and was trying to defend himself and his bandmates. Poorly done yes, but completely irrelevant to what's  being said now.  As for guys saying "I can see why Slash left". I dont' need that to convince myself that Axl's a pain in the ass to work with. Too many guys have come and gone. that in itself says enough for me to believe Axl was the main ingrediant for Gn'R breaking up. The overwhelming ingrediant for it.

It just seems funny to me that Slash and Duff say the  things  about Scott and everyone buys it no questions asked, yet when they said things about Axl everyone is like "Oh no it can't be, Axl is the man he's not the reason there's gotta be more to it" haha Scott is the only reason yet Axl gets  a pass cause people like his voice.

he doesn't look stupid at all. Back then he was new to VR, new to the cricus of Gn'R and he was simply sticking up for his bandmates. He looked stupid for commenting about Axl the way he did back then but none of that has anything to do with his comments now. they dont' even remotely go hand in hand. Back then he didn't know. Now he has an inside view of what it may  have been for Axl with Gn'R because he more than anyone has experienced what it was like to work with "Gn'R" as a lead singer. I dont' see how anything said before by Scott and anything said by him now even relates. It'd be like me bitching about college my first year and then having different view 4 years in.  Things change, people learn, people experience things and opinions changed.

Exactly my point. You're a Wings fan, but for the rest of hockey fans who were hoping for and expecting a great series it was a huge dissapointment and not because of a lack of effort or skill or talent on Colorado's part. They just got hit insanely hard with injuries at the worst posible time. I honestly feel a healthy Avalanche team beats a healthy Red Wings team and I'm not the only one who thought this going in. Far from it.  We'll never know though so it's a non issue now.

Ummm.. yeah CC they should. If you can say Philly deserevs to be up 3-0 or have already won the sereis but got hosed by horrible reffing(please explain that one to me) I can say if it weren't for Biron Montreal would be up 3-1 in the series. Anyone can see that Montreal has outplayed Philly. For the most part in the games Montreal skates circels around them. It's clear Philly will get crushed by the Penguins where as Montreal would excell in that style of series(maybe not win though). Montreal didn't deserve to beat Boston but they've definately been the better team against Philly. Philly ahs managed to pick tehir spots and Biron has been the difference, plain and simple. Oh, him and the posts. Montreal has hit 8 posts this series. Bounces have been huge. Like I said in games 2 and 3 Philly was lucky the games weren't over after the first as Montreal hit 3 posts in the first period in each of those games.