Guns n Roses: Critical Rehab

Because it was the lyrics that held it back.

Heard Axl recorded the vocals one syllable at a time.

I;n sure Axl thinks they rushed Chinese Democracy out and it's not really finished

still waiting for Izzy's memoir.

He actually spent a lot of time recording one syllable per private press LP, then had DJ Shadow sample it. Then in the end it wasn't what he wanted, so he just used ProTools.

Schedule was so behind that the "Chinese Democracy" released were just the demos. You should have heard what Axl wanted it to sound like, had the label just shown a little ... patience.

yeah can we please have an Izzy bio. Pleeeeease.

I ordered Ju Ju Hounds album, should be showing up tonight :D
It's only available as an import, apparently. Not v expensive. I guess it went OOP in the US?

I saw a review on Amazon calling that album the 90s "Exile on Mainstreet"

I listened to it for the first time the other day and I was shocked by how good it is (upthread I think?). I'd heard it was good, and it has a lot of good/glowing reviews but I was still kinda skeptical. But yeah, it's the real deal. Verrrrrrrrry stones. ie my wheelhouse, lol

"Shuffle It All" got a lil MTV rotation, i asked for (and received) the CD for Christmas 1992.

Wow, just came across this interesting audio-- Izzy's isolated track from "Welcome to the Jungle"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUSFOxhxtLI&feature=related

Izzy album, the first one, iirc, is no better or worse than the first couple of Black Crowes albums.

What I love about the guitars on "Appetite" is that they are so, so far from the virtuoso precision of the day. They're sloppy but awesome.

don't know the albums but BC were a pretty killer singles act in that run

They sort of approach as Izzy, actually. Stones-y riffs, vibe over precision, etc.

Same sort, that is.

The first couple of Black Crowes records are good. No problem with that comparison, though there's more early Aerosmith sound in the Ju Ju Hounds.

Stones/solo Keef by way of Black Crowes, yeah I'll buy that.

So... I have a lingering question from my youth... When Axl enjoins us to feel his serpentine, is he like talking about his dick and stuff

didn't you read the interview, he has a zoo.

hm... so the jungle is literal. huh.

exactly.

I write him a note every so often reminding him that serpentine is an adjective and that verbs traditionally want a noun, so probably "serpent" is the better call if he ever gets around to a rewrite, or perhaps "serpentine penis" if he wants to draw out the line a little

those 'motivational poster' memes that use adjectives and nouns interchangeably are just further proof that axl was a prophet

http://thumbs4.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mBfIQBzimbjXlnhBp6RwvlQ.jpg

Now a race of snake people in LEGO Ninjago.

serpentine: a mineral or rock consisting essentially of a hydrous magnesium silicate usually having a dull green color and often a mottled appearance

serpentine: a mineral or rock consisting essentially of a hydrous magnesium silicate usually having a dull green color and often a mottled appearance, usu. found in the jungle

serpentine: a mineral or rock consisting essentially of a hydrous magnesium silicate usually having a dull green color and often a mottled appearance, usu. found in the jungle

Appetite for Destruction was the first album I ever bought. When I was a kid, I thought "You're Crazy" was about someone endearingly wild and free-spirited. I now realize that I was probably wrong.

lol well axl is endearingly wild and free-spirited

Seems appropriate: Axl suspended above the audience playing grand piano, equally isolated from band and audience:

http://instagram.com/p/RlgYAuNDua/

Izzy joins GnR on stage in Vegas: http://www.spin.com/articles/guns-n-roses-end-las-vegas-residency-izzy-stradlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quHICrZTzrk

Vegas would seem like a perfect place for Axl, in a compound with 20-ft-high walls next to Penn's.

Good old Izzy.

Love Axl wandering around in the distant background and then trotting back to the front whenever there's a chorus. It's like he's doing a tribute to the Mah Na Mah Na sketch from the Muppets.

that's...just how "14 Years" goes though?

axl sounds pretty good in that clip with izzy!

like izzy's threads too, he looks slick

izzy still sounds p good - seems healthy no? and yeah axl sounds good with him

love 14 years

lol speaking of muppets izzy's hat/glasses combo kinda reminds me of Zoot the sax player from Dr Teeth's Band

in a good way

izzy's got one of those voices where he sounded like a 50 year old at 30, so yeah good on you for sounding the same when it's age appropriate haha

lol

izzy's still one cool motherfucker

14 years, huh. this song could actually be about the making of Chinese Democracy.

we need to get word to izzy to stage a coup, oust axl and all those plastic-faced weirdos and bring back slash and duff

14 years, huh. this song could actually be about the making of Chinese Democracy.

― charlie h, Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:16 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it is pretty funny: a song izzy wrote about 14 years of friendship when they were 28, and there were 14 years between GNR's last official release and Chinese Democracy. And the lyrics are pretty apt.

we need to get word to izzy to stage a coup, oust axl and all those plastic-faced weirdos and bring back slash and duff

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:19 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Axl-Izzy sideproject would be the best imo

yeah that's true

songwriting-wise, definitely

they recorded one Izzy song for CD, probably the unreleased song I most want to hear

really? i didn't know that

I'm glad he's still on ok terms with axl - I dunno why but it gives me hope, lol