unlistenable fags. axl would have gone MIA for three hours past their start time and izzy would be too scared of coke to leave his dad's place in IN. the only band supposedly not just raped off stage by a lies-era guns was metallica during their black album tour.
not my favorite band, but slash seems to have an immense respect for him, the guy from megadeath and ONLY FOR JOE PERRY BECAUSE PERRY'S AGENT BOUGHT HIM HIS FIRST NEW SUITCASE. some kids from the hill school's dad figured we'd be sufficiently insulated at his suite so yeah, i caught them at the peak of ego.
BUT most of what you'd actually remember and listen to today and not laugh was basically from 88-9 when they still could find axl on a given week, adler understood those pedals near his feet did a noise thing at that stage and slash, dizzy and izzy were banging a good amount of horse.
shit like 14 years and civil war were all shot out of a motivated axl over a narrow window and their rythm and lead guitarists essentially may have been as solid as any two as a sum of parts. axl'd write lyrics and they were in sync with each other they'd hammer something out.
no, there wasn't a real page-talent there but slash and keith are very good and probably simply enjoy playing more than the freaks because they both can still sound better maybe than anyone but that guy years ago....
play like pantera and you're lame-fast and clean behind some screaming's not very difficult for WHITE MEN to do if they picked up an instrument early.
stray from what you're supposed to do-play dirty, sleazy but noticably talented blues-based riffs because every solid lead either did or does.
actually, leonard glass is technically more badass than sabbath or kiss because he's smart, unable to sustain interpersonal relations but tags a talented 50=max actress now and when oliver stone and trent reznor needed to make the greatest single compilation ever, he's featured heavily. can't remember much but ugly poor people screaming and bleading, but breaking snoop, sweet jane, southwestern tribal chanting over sadly the guy who could do it in reznor's studio skill at the time, some l7, and bob dylan signed on too and just buy the fucking thing, i just needed to remind you it's still that fucking good. like, ten-fifteen years later the names reznor and stone pulled then got exclusive tracks that were anything but mailed in, even from dylan isn't shabby.
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"She has no waist, no arse...an interesting face...but all we are really worshipping is two bags of silicone"
Martin Amis "honoring" katie price with a character bearing some of her traits