Blame it on the Bucket

[gkg]

I WONDERED!  i was stuck in the freaking office yesterday and never got there!

  :\'(

ah well, such is life.

[Beatnik]

I have read through all the posts here and I guess I am the only geek who actually tuned into the MTV Video Awards in 2003. Axl "performed" if you could call it that. I recall my husband and I sitting back on the sofa and musing on the fact that5 Axl has gotten so fat and lazy that he was SO totally out of breath runing around the stage, that he couldn\'t sing the lyrics!!!!

I say take a listen at Velvet Revolver\'s new cd! It is easy to see where the REAL talent in GnR was.  

Maybe Axl had a voice that got everyone\'s attention when they were new, but I never thought of it as much more that screaching (with a few exceptions).

Is anybody really crying over not seeing Axl perform?? Has ANYBODY been screaming for his "come back"? \'Cause if they have been I have not heard about it. My personal beleif is that Axl was not getting the response he thought he should get, or was just plain lazy, and used Bucket as an excuse to cancel. That was exactly what went through my head when I originally heard about this  "announcement".

Besides, Bucket is WAY too talented to back up the hack that Axl has become.

Beatnik  

[Chris DiCicco]

 
Beatnik I saw the MTV 2003 awards and went out bought tix and then went back and returned tix YOU\'RE NOT GEEKY what I did was TOTAL GEEK MAXIMUSE GUL- GEEK- E- US thinking at the time great Some dude with a bucket on his head and Guns N Roses ohmygod (bing) geddem seem good... But NO!

Chris

[Caligula13]

this MTV Video Award was an exception. Axl sounded very good on the tour after that small gig. And BH and the new band played the shit out of the old songs.

the new GNR with BH had really great potential....

[gkg]

fear of not living up to great potential can make people do all sorts of stupid things.  most frequently, sabotage themselves to save themselves from actual failure... which of course short circuits what could have turned out to be the most wonderful thing in their lives.  many people with depressive disorders do this...  me included.  it\'s really hard to accept when brought to your attention, that you did it to yourself, so you can spend much time searching for another thing/person to blame.  after all, why on earth would someone sabotage themselves?

[size=24][glb][glb]FEAR[/glb][/glb][/size]

it\'s a killer part of depression - it makes love to [glb]PAIN [/glb]and they feed off each other in an endless cycle - until something calls a halt to it.  intervention, medication, self awareness, healing, or death.

[Caligula13]

Some Bumblefoot fans here?
He wrote on his homepage that he was contacted by GNR to join the band. He sounded positive that it could happen.

funny how things go....

[spencer]

did anyone hear Stinson badmouth Bucket too?  In an interview someone mentioned he was a great guitarist, and Stinson said something along the lines of "too bad he\'s not a great person."

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[Ocean]

I agree Beatnik. V.Revolver is an amazing dynamic of talent.  

I love the Tower Records pic. BTW.  

Quote: [glb]" (sic)...Stinson said something along the lines of "too bad he\'s not a great person." [/glb] Ouch!

What does it say about Stinson\'s character to say something like that in a public forum, where the fan\'s only know BH through the medium of media /publicity and his music!?
How would we ever know what he\'s like on the "person" (personal)? We can presume, but he\'s a public figure, and all that that means to us as fans.

As mentioned, publicity machines, marketing, etc... tell us who any celebrity/entertainer is relative to us as a consumer. And that\'s not personal,  it\'s  business.

[gkg]

that\'s the sort of thing that needs a good dose of salt.  i don\'t know that Tommy Stinson actually knows BH at all well as a person.  he\'s working for Axl now, so he may just be repeating the company line for all i know.

what i do know is that often you can tell something about a person\'s quality by the quality of the company they keep.  Buckethead has worked for a long time with Travis, and from the interactions i have had with Travis, and have seen on the board et cetera, i would say that if BH were an ass, Travis wouldn\'t still be tight with him.  the fact that he is not only still recording with him but that other friends of Travis\' are as well, would tend to mean that Buckethead has made an equally good impression on those folks as well.  also, throughout whatever has come from the GNR press mill, Buckethead has been wise enough not to rise to the rancid bait, and that speaks volumes as well.

nb: i\'m sure i could have stuck another "as well" in there somewhere if i\'d tried harder!!

[gkg]

looks like maybe Bumblefoot got the wrong impression, or Axl is having "committment issues" of his own...

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