Buckethead left because........

[Iconic Shawn]

The truth!!!

Lies. Like I said above, until Guns rise up to where they were with Slash or make any tunes as memorable or ground breaking as when they had the gent, they will NEVER FILL HIS TOP HAT.

That my friend, is the truth.

~S~

[bucketsixx]

Izzy was the real guitar god/music writer in Guns. Him and Axl wrote all the best shit......

Slash's talent can be seen for what it is in VR.

Id still welcome a reunion though of course.

[Iconic Shawn]

Yeah okay Bucket.

Dudes.. nothing you guys can say or any way you spin the shit it wont take away the props Slash gets for his HUGE part in what made this band big.

Sure.. we all know Izzy wrote a lot of those riffs but it was Slash's feel and his little bends, slides and holding that note forever which helped accent those songs.

And yes, you CAN hear a lot of that good shit in VR's releases. Contraband especially.

By that front though.. is it fair to say you can see Axl's talent for what it is on CD? And thats it?

These two gents were dynamic together. Apart, they don't seem to be able to get the job  or sound just right.

~S~

[polar]

not a lot of slash bashing in this thread that i could see.  one annoying thing about nu-gnr fans tho is that they think velvet revolver sucked.  if you consider that slash and duff tried to make a sound apart from gnr, then you see the music in a different light.  also on the flip side, axl DID try to make a "guns" record.  now using that insight, who sucks again?

[Faxl]

Contravand ruled....


...cause Izzy wrote lost of it.

[UcudBmine]

not a lot of slash bashing in this thread that i could see.  one annoying thing about nu-gnr fans tho is that they think velvet revolver sucked.  if you consider that slash and duff tried to make a sound apart from gnr, then you see the music in a different light.  also on the flip side, axl DID try to make a "guns" record.  now using that insight, who sucks again?

scott weiland, that guy is just a trainwreck live

and, slash wrote a lot of songs for guns which never got used. so some he used for snakepit, and some for velvet revolver.

so it's actually gn'r material, axl just didn't care to use it 

[goold.godson]

scott weiland, that guy is just a trainwreck live

and, slash wrote a lot of songs for guns which never got used. so some he used for snakepit, and some for velvet revolver.

so it's actually gn'r material, axl just didn't care to use it 

well i just did my homework about this subject and from what i can see Fall To Pieces was the only VR song that  was supposedly written while Slash was in GNR (and it sounds like a GNR song minus Axl) but according to Axl he did care for it, just a little too late

Which led to the trial period where Slash played the key bits of 'Fall to Pieces' but once I showed some interest that was over."

. as for the Snakepit record; that was pretty much the same. Axl didn't care for it right away and once he did Slash had already released it.

[Chase the Ace]

Snakepit probably would've been GNR's best album...Also Ashba, Bumblefoot, and Fortus are the best guitarists the band could have right now. All can play well and all have great performance on stage.

[AxlRoseCalifornia]

Contraband ruled....


...cause Izzy wrote lost of it.

Im actually a Libertad fan. Thought it was more related to GNR.. to me Contraband was closer to what STP used to be.

[Robbie]

Im actually a Libertad fan. Thought it was more related to GNR.. to me Contraband was closer to what STP used to be.

i thought the complete opposite actually

[Killa Blues]

All the guitarists in Guns have been great. But, Buckethead leads that pack IMO. He's just too amazing

He prob. left because of a lot of things, not just that Chinese was taking too long. Hell, maybe there was no reason and he just left because he wanted to? I don't think we'll ever know exactly