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Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
I had honestly never heard of the replacements until tommy joined gnr...i still havent listened to an album by them
tbh i thought the replacements were the dude who did the theme song for freinds 
anyway its my understanding that aside from the midwest USA punk scene that they didnt have much of a following
Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
I think it's absolutely hilarious, and shows how hypocritcal some of these Slashites are, to coin Tommy's career as ZERO before GN'R (late 90's), when in fact GNR's former members were about 5 years off the freakin' radar too. Slash, Duff & Izzy were has beens, and to call them 'active' musicians, Tommy would be one too. Axl was the only guy even getting the occasional article, and that's only because the brand name Guns N' Roses still meant 'music headlines' back then.
Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
has nothing to do with being a slashite....i honestly didnt know who the fuck they are...and part of the draw to them i thought was that they never went mainstream ... you cant rave on them being underground then bitch that nobody knows who they are 
Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
I can't wait until madagas reaches into this thread...
Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
I had honestly never heard of the replacements until tommy joined gnr...i still havent listened to an album by them
tbh i thought the replacements were the dude who did the theme song for freinds
I lived in the Midwest and never heard of them. I don't think they had much of a following, period. It's all good that they influenced some bands, but to me, that's like honoring whoever influenced disco. I would think that whoever influenced whatever modern rock is should be shot, not honored*.
*the above is only my opinion and does not reflect the views and thoughts of GNR Evolution or it's management.
Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
I think it's absolutely hilarious, and shows how hypocritcal some of these Slashites are, to coin Tommy's career as ZERO before GN'R (late 90's), when in fact GNR's former members were about 5 years off the freakin' radar too. Slash, Duff & Izzy were has beens, and to call them 'active' musicians, Tommy would be one too. Axl was the only guy even getting the occasional article, and that's only because the brand name Guns N' Roses still meant 'music headlines' back then.
Look up Slash articles. I bet you find quite a few of them from 1995 - 2003. In fact, I'm willing to bet there were far more Slash articles than there were Axl articles over that time period.
Remember, Slash is a media whore - he didn't disappear and suddenly emerge as one. Axl said he's been spewing the same crap to the media for over 10 years, and we all know Axl wouldn't lie. It is what it is. If you think Slash disappeared during that timeframe, you obviously weren't looking very closely.
- Intercourse
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Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
I think it's absolutely hilarious,..... to coin Tommy's career as ZERO before GN'R (late 90's), when in fact GNR's former members were about 5 years off the freakin' radar too.
None of the GNR guys were working in telesales, Tommy was. What isn't zero about that from a musical perspective when compared to Izzy, Duff and Slash? I've worked in telesales, I'm not taking the piss here but Alice Cooper, Camp Freddy and Ron Wood were not calling Tommy up to come out and play. Tommy's profile was essentially ZERO. Fact.
Axl was the only guy even getting the occasional article, and that's only because the brand name Guns N' Roses still meant 'music headlines' back then.
I think you'll find that the rest of the old band usually got mentioned in those articles too along with taunts about album delays and massive costs etc...
Regarding my position as a 'Slashite' or whatever that is 
I am a fan of the old line up including Axl. I remain a fan of each guy today including Axl.
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Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
In 2000 Slash was doing a world stadium tour with AC/DC... Yep small bars. Not to mention that he has been a successful, highly sort after sessions guitarist since the early 90's, and artists were putting him in their videos because they like having has beens in their videos.
Duff and Izzy at the time had no desire to do anything big, but were working.
Buckethead was only releasing what seemed like 50 albums a month.
But they were all just playing small bars.
What happened when Slash and Duff did decide they wanted to do something big? They released 2 multiplatinum albums.
While the industry was totally a buzz over VR, Axl and his Guns N' Posers band were a joke of mythic proportions, he and the band were a fucking punchline, because the year before his tour was canceled, and he caused <GASP> yet another riot because he no showed a gig.
It's funny, Axl fans like to moan and piss about how everyone takes up for Slash, be it fans or the media, and then in the same breath they say Slash was a has been and no one cared about him or his career... THAT is the true hypocrisy.
Re: Slash Basically Blaming Axl
Then you apparently didn't read my post, that called Axl out too. They were ALL has beens.
I'm just saying that if Tommy is a nobody, and Axl is a has been, then Slash, Duff & Izzy were too. I see nothing in their discography and career history, to grant them some sort of immunity.
And Intercourse, Tommy working in telesales... whatever. That doesn't mean people don't know or remember him. Gary Cherone became a building contractor, and I hear that cat's name ALL the time.
And as for the industry being totally abuzz over VR, that was mainly due to the fact every other fuckin' interview was being done by all of them, to remind us all 900 fuckin' times they're starting a band. Well ding ding for them.
Chinese Democracy up until 2002 was a highly anticipated album. After that tour disaster, I will agree, they became a legendary joke, and that album will remain one despite being superior.
