Author Topic: Best Epic (Read 3154 times)

Face · « **on:** June 11, 2005, 10:25:46 AM »

From Rose's above songs, what's his best?

Half-Man Half-Beas · « **Reply #1 on:** June 11, 2005, 11:49:55 AM »

i'd say estranged

Olorin · « **Reply #2 on:** June 11, 2005, 12:06:46 PM »

Wasnt coma a Rose/Slash creation?

Kilamite · « **Reply #3 on:** June 11, 2005, 12:39:27 PM »

Coma;

So much in that song. And I mean a lot.

The mood varies so much it's great.

Nik_IT · « **Reply #4 on:** June 11, 2005, 01:13:14 PM »

hard choice...

I voted Coma, but I love others too

Debs · « **Reply #5 on:** June 11, 2005, 01:27:20 PM »

Can't I vote for all four? :-/ ......OK then Coma

Face · « **Reply #6 on:** June 11, 2005, 03:39:10 PM »

Quote from: "Olorin"

Wasnt coma a Rose/Slash creation?

Oh... yeah. Slash indeed helped with the music. But Axl made a complete song out of it with incredible lyrics. The endresult was a whirling, slashing adventure which by the way truly happened. It's one of the most powerfull songs ever made.

I think Coma is my favorite to. But... then again, November Rain rules also...

Can't choise :P. But I think that's why I started this poll in the first place

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Debs · « **Reply #7 on:** June 11, 2005, 03:44:54 PM »

Quote from: "Face"

Wasnt coma a Rose/Slash creation?

Oh... yeah. Slash indeed helped with the music. But Axl made a complete song out of it with incredible lyrics. The endresult was a whirling, slashing adventure which by the way truly happened. It's one of the most powerfull songs ever made.

I think Coma is my favorite to. But... then again, November Rain rules also...

Can't choise :P. But I think that's why I started this poll in the first place .

Whose alleged drugs overdose was it? I can't remember

magnificent_me33 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 11, 2005, 04:23:36 PM »

in an interview i heard axl say he got into an arguement and downed a bottle of pills, and he was writing about that or something, and they were trying to put a positive spin on it so parents wouldn't hate it. its in theinterview in his backyard by the pool, and he and the interviewer had to sit on lawn chairs. i think its "famous last words" or someting like that.

Anonymous · « **Reply #9 on:** June 11, 2005, 05:25:16 PM »

depending on my mood, estranged, breakdown and coma.
i couldnt give a damn about november bore.

Rock Diva · « **Reply #10 on:** June 11, 2005, 08:00:23 PM »

I voted Breakdown because it's the only one of those that doesn't annoy the fuck outta me.

Nik_IT · « **Reply #11 on:** June 11, 2005, 08:12:30 PM »

gnr-metallica0055 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 11, 2005, 08:34:00 PM »

I like them all, they all ROCK and everyone means something to me

2NaFish · « **Reply #13 on:** June 11, 2005, 09:22:10 PM »

Quote from: "Debs"

Wasnt coma a Rose/Slash creation?

Oh... yeah. Slash indeed helped with the music. But Axl made a complete song out of it with incredible lyrics. The endresult was a whirling, slashing adventure which by the way truly happened. It's one of the most powerfull songs ever made.

I think Coma is my favorite to. But... then again, November Rain rules also...

Can't choise :P. But I think that's why I started this poll in the first place .

Whose alleged drugs overdose was it? I can't remember

from www.gnrinfo.tk (such a great site. i can spend hours at a time there.

Written by: "Coma" was written by Axl and Slash. Axl wrote the lyrics, while Slash wrote the music, probably with some influence from Axl.
Written in: "Coma" was written in or before 1990.

Performed live: "Coma" was played live at least 4 times between 1991 and 1993. It was performed live for the first time in Richfield, OH, June 4, 1991.

Addiional Information: "Coma" was originally called "Girth"

In Their Own Words:

Slash: I wrote some really cool shit when I was high. There's a song called "Coma", a long song, really heavy, and I wrote that loaded.

Duff: We have actually got this song calld "Girth"... Well, it's not going to be called "Girth" on the album, it'll get changed, but it's such a heavy song we call it "Girth" for now. It's named after this guy West [Arkeen], who writes with us sometimes. He's a real little fucker, right? but his dick, it's only about this long but it's like this wide, man! so he got the girth, right? so we call this song "girth"...'

Axl: It's like 11 minutes and 45 seconds long, with no chorus. And I think there was only like one verse that somewhat repeats itself. It's Slash's baby - it's his monster. The song used to be called Girth.

Izzy: It's fuckin' 15 minutes long. And I still don't know it, man. I have to take a special chord chart with me whenever we play it. There's like 50 chords at the end of it and I just can't follow them.

Axl: Writing "Coma" on "Use Your Illusion I" was so heavy I'd start to write and I'd just pass out. I tried to write that song for a year, and couldn't. I went to write it at the studio and passed out. I woke up two hours later and sat down and wrote the whole end of the song, like, just off the top of my head. It was like, don't even know what's coming out, man, but it's coming. I think one of the best things that I've ever written was maybe the end segment of the song "Coma". It just poured out. I thanked Slash for that, because I used to curse him, going, "Man, that son of a bitch has written this thing and I've got to write to it and don't know what to write." It was so hard; it made me feel like, "I don't know how to write, I should just quit." But I finally did write it, and I ended up feeling a lot better about a lot of situations that I expressed in that song.

Slash: I like "Coma" a lot. It's got a defibrillator in it - you know, the instrument that starts your heart when it's stopped. And there's some EKG beeps too. We were just fucking around, but the song is heavy, and Axl's vocals are gorgeous - I mean really amazing.

Axl: I started writing about when I OD'ed 4 years ago. And the reason I OD'ed was cos of stress - I couldn't take it. And
I just grabbed this bottle of pills, in an argument, and just gulped them down. And I ended up in the hospital. But I liked that I wasn't in the fight anymore. And I was fully concious that I was leaving. I liked that. But then I go - all of the sudden my first real thoughts were that 'ok, you havn't toured enough, the records not gonna last, it's gonna be forgotten, listen man, you have work to do. Get out of this!' And I went 'no', and I woke up, and pulled myself out of it.
But in the describing of that, some people could take it wrong, and think this means 'go put yourself into a coma'. And, so, it's really tricky, and I'm still playing with the words, to figure like, how to show some hope in there.

Duff: "Coma" is monstrous!

Slash: Mike put something on the little rhythm part between the chords. I don't know what he used. I was going for a certain kind of a sound. Since I don't use effects, I don't know anything about them, except for echoes. I told him what I wanted, and he managed to pull it out of his rack somehow.

Gilby: "Coma" [gave me most trouble] without doubt. I still don't know it. It's like this 15- or 20-minute song with no
repeats. Oddly enough, I really love playing "Coma" because it's different every time. I also like "Pretty Tied Up" and "Locomotive." I like playing the fast, hard ones.

NESFantasy · « **Reply #14 on:** June 11, 2005, 11:50:20 PM »

Each of the songs is awesome in it's own way. "Breakdown" doesn't get enough recognition for being such a great tune. "Coma" is just a challenging and yet grand piece. "November Rain" is overplayed but still great. But I picked "Estranged" because it has a lot of cool vocal sections and very moody guitar sections. Such a nice package.

Debs · « **Reply #15 on:** June 12, 2005, 05:08:07 AM »

Thanks for that 2Nafish that's where I'd read about it before, many moons ago. =)

svdv22 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 12, 2005, 07:06:48 AM »

gnrinfo.tk isn't always right

GNRbadboy · « **Reply #17 on:** June 14, 2005, 12:03:29 PM »

Estranged is just plain great. It passes greatness. That song shows you the talent of GNR.

patience26 · « **Reply #18 on:** June 14, 2005, 02:11:31 PM »

Estranged

Rock on

87-93 · « **Reply #19 on:** June 17, 2005, 10:38:46 AM »

Estranged

Soooooooooooooo good

mad at gas prices. · « **Reply #20 on:** June 17, 2005, 04:23:27 PM »

man... estranged is owning..

i dont know how many people saw this, but estranged was like number 24 on VH1's "40 worst metal songs" list. TOTAL BULLSHHIT!!!! :livid:

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