Quite painful reading 20 year old EDM music fans yammer on and lay down opinions on guitar based rock. The only people I hear bashing Chinese Democracy have little understanding of musicianship, songwriting or rock n' roll in general.
That album is in the direction Axl wanted to go since the Illusion material was being demoed. He shot for grandiose arrangements and huge production, he got absolute monster players in Robin Finck and Buckethead on that album, every single solo on that album is astounding. Anyone calling that album horrible is just silly.
Great post by Ernie, he's one of the small group of guys in the music threads who knows what he's talking about.
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