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Re: Rolling Stone The 11 Greatest Rock Feuds Of All Time
Fully agree Monkey. If anything, Slash spent most of his UYI years fielding inflammatory questions from interviewers about Axl and quietly and politely defending his bandmate.
I think its rich that a couple of forum hacks think they know more about things than Slash himself does.
I am not interested in the 'he said she said' stuff, I just look at the amount of people that have gone through the 'Axl Grinder' versus the 'Slash Grinder' and one Q far outsizes the other.
Numbers don't lie.
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Re: Rolling Stone The 11 Greatest Rock Feuds Of All Time
how is Slash ruthless?
Snakepit 1 was a gathering of busy musicians working in other bands who all went back to their day jobs. Slash always said the band was just for fun and to get out on the road where he was happiest.
Snakepit 2 was a commercial flop with a junkie singer. Why the fuck would anyone keep putting their energy into that?
Scott Weiland was fired by the entire band. Slash was the spokesman.
I think you're grasping at straws here...
Re: Rolling Stone The 11 Greatest Rock Feuds Of All Time
Bono wrote:Robin and Buckethead must've felt the same way I guess but that's pure speculation.
They left because of Axl's laziness and inactivity. They don't need to work, they WANT to work. They probably got tired of being contract players for Axl, and not the independent musicians they are.
And Slash and Duff left because??????
Slash has never really said anything other than the band stopped understanding where Axl was coming from and he was becoming a pain to work with/for. Shocking.
Re: Rolling Stone The 11 Greatest Rock Feuds Of All Time
how is Slash ruthless?
Snakepit 1 was a gathering of busy musicians working in other bands who all went back to their day jobs. Slash always said the band was just for fun and to get out on the road where he was happiest.Snakepit 2 was a commercial flop with a junkie singer. Why the fuck would anyone keep putting their energy into that?
Scott Weiland was fired by the entire band. Slash was the spokesman.
I think you're grasping at straws here...
Slash is ruthless because he seems to turn on his lead singers like a rabid dog when things go awry.
Considering how many years Axl put up with Slash being a junkie, VR seemed to make Scott Weiland a scapegoat awfully quick, when they teamed up for him BECAUSE of their mutual past history.
Suddenly Scott was dirt. And I guarantee you in a few years Slash will be talking about how much of a genius Scott is and how much he loves him and hopes they can get together again one day.
That's what I meant by Slash is ruthless. If Axl has a hangup on the egotistical nature of guitarists, Slash & Izzy are just as hung up on singers.
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Re: Rolling Stone The 11 Greatest Rock Feuds Of All Time
Nah man...VR had like a whole year or two of disfunctional shit going on..like scott missing gigs and stuff.
Plus if you're a guy like duff, you just can't be rolling with junkies anymore, it's too dangerous. As an addict he's like 1 beer away from a relapse, and to him that's death!
- Mikkamakka
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Re: Rolling Stone The 11 Greatest Rock Feuds Of All Time
Still ruthless. He also fired his best friend from a band for doing the exact same thing he was doing at the exact same time and continued to do years later.
Felt the Adler thing is also worth mentioning.
Just to clear things. Steven was fired because he couldn't deliver anymore. He couldn't even play. Slash did play well despite his addiction. That was the difference. Had Steven been able to do CW for 5 tries, he wouldn't have been fired.
If there is any real cause to blame the other for firing Steven (although it's Steven who is responsible for it), it'd be their dealing with the Axl Rose factor. The whole band got frustrated of the never-ending process of the new album (compare it to CD 
), but they couldn't do or didn't dare to do anything with Axl's disruptive mentality. So when the frustration was high, but something was finally happening, and Steven fucked up everything, they fired him. They projected all their Axl anger against the disfunctional druggie.
