Axl and Duff SHOULD have worked on this song

Smoking Guns

Cause I think its beautiful and don't tell me with Axl's voice on it, it couldn't have kicked major ass..

Slash can write..

Axlin16

I got really bored about 2 minutes in. I think instrumentally there's a "good" song in there. But if that was "take it or leave it", I don't blame Axl & Duff at all on passing on it.

I would've passed too.

Smoking Guns

yes, listen to the guitars...

monkeychow

Instrumentally I believe this song is pure GNR.

polluxlm

That seems to be what Slash wanted GN'R to be. Throw together an album in 2 weeks, go on tour and party. No thanks.

That record needed a lot of work.

Communist China

I don't see why you couldn't alternate doing an album Slash's way (quick and standard) and doing one Axl's way (long term projects, perfectionist). They seemed to try to space out their releases to keep them on the scene will working on bigger stuff anyway - with the EP Lies and Spaghetti Incident.

Especially baffling has always been Axl's response to Kurt Loder in one of the first post-Slash interviews where Axl identifies Slash as they reason they couldn't just do a quick AFD-type record. Seems like Axl is the guy that keeps that from happening.

But really if Axl had put his vocals on Snakepit or the VR stuff while working on ChiDem it could've made some great excuses for that group to tour and stay in the public eye. At the end of the day I think it was probably Slash's drug problems that ultimately made Axl have to choose a different route.

polluxlm

Because that Snakepit record could have burried the band as a GN'R album. Let's be fair, it sucks. Good riffs and solos yeah, but there are hardly any songs on there. The two guys in the band who were sober didn't want to do it.

The Loder comments are talking about the fact Slash is no longer there, he left. Axl says he wanted to do an album with that sound and style, but realized there were no other guitarists out there whom could make it credible.

Putting out all those mediocre Slash efforts as GN'R albums could quickly have relegated the band to Motley Crue and Whitesnake status. The guy simply lacks musical ambition.

Slash_McKagan

that album doesn't suck, better than some of the god awful shit that came out around the same time.

polluxlm

Compared to AFD, Lies, UYI I&II it's a very weak effort. I'd even take Spagetthi over it.

misterID

Those Snakepit songs posted above would've killed GN'R. It really struck me as a hard hitting Great White or Poison album. The one SG posted was definitely the better of them, but still, I can't see Axl on it. It was just one of those late 80's, Sunset Strip, hard rock songs that GN'R was light years beyond.

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