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Re: Duff's 1999 Thoughts on the GNR breakup
Duff : Everything started when Slash turned his back and said, "This is shit" [referring to their musical differences]. He and Axl didn'™t talk to each other anymore. It had become quite irrational.
HF : The communication between them?
Duff : Yes. I was always in the middle, the one both came to see, and I got the impression I arbitrated little kids'™ quarrels. Matt was never a full member of the band, he was on an ejector seat and Axl said, "I'™m gonna fire him." I answered that this decision required more than one person to be taken since we were a band, that he alone didn'™t own the majority. All of this because Matt told him he was wrong. The truth is, Matt was right, and Axl wrong indeed.
HF : Wrong about what?
Duff: About schedules and the way Axl was late for the next album. Susan, my girlfriend, was pregnant. We were going to have a baby, but this band was becoming a dictatorship, everything had to get done in Axl'™s way or it wouldn'™t get done at all. It wasn'™t like that when we started out. At one point, we were offered a huge sum of money to play a concert in Germany. I thought, "I never played for money and I'™m not gonna start now!" I'™ve got a house, I'™m secure financially. Post-Neurotic was the worst moment of my career in Guns. I went out for dinner with Axl and I told him, "Enough is enough. This band is a dictatorship and I don'™t see myself playing in those conditions. Find someone else."
HF : Why did Axl become so egomaniac and arrogant?
Duff : Because many people around him maintain him in that state of mind. They kept telling him he was right. Some of them feared him cause they were scared they were gonna lose their job. It'™s as simple as that. I don'™t want to do anything that goes against what I am now. I'™m honest with myself and with the people surrounding me. Had I stayed with Axl, I would have acted against my personality. And nothing worse could ever happen to me. In this story, the real losers are Guns N'™ Roses fans, unfortunately.
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Re: Duff's 1999 Thoughts on the GNR breakup
I don't mean to bitch, but shouldn't this be in There Was a Time? I like a good ol' break-up discussion as much as the next guy, but it's long past time we let it go into the less relevant section.
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Re: Duff's 1999 Thoughts on the GNR breakup
What I find interesting is that Duff stuck it out after Slash left and was the most level headed of the bunch, and even he takes Slash's side for the most part, as well as Sorum's.
Re: Duff's 1999 Thoughts on the GNR breakup
Why is that interesting? Axl is a dick and we've known that for years.
They moved on, we should too. Accept everything as it is.
No GNR reunion is ever coming. We'll continue to get average stuff from all of them until they decide to call it quits.
Re: Duff's 1999 Thoughts on the GNR breakup
Why is that interesting? Axl is a dick and we've known that for years.
They moved on, we should too. Accept everything as it is.
No GNR reunion is ever coming. We'll continue to get average stuff from all of them until they decide to call it quits.
That's the short version of it, but I'd say he *can* be a dick and they *can* produce better songs than average, as different songs have proven.
Re: Duff's 1999 Thoughts on the GNR breakup
Why is that interesting? Axl is a dick and we've known that for years.
They moved on, we should too. Accept everything as it is.
No GNR reunion is ever coming. We'll continue to get average stuff from all of them until they decide to call it quits.
That's the short version of it, but I'd say he *can* be a dick and they *can* produce better songs than average, as different songs have proven.
Yes and yes, but for every great song there is a shitty one.
