Wednesday, March 31, 2004

USE YOUR ILLUSION: You might expect a guy who wears a chicken tub on his head to score somewhere in the does not work and play well with others section of the Myers Briggs test. You might expect him to have a little trouble being in a certain place at a certain time, you know? A discriminating HR Director might note, during the interview, that his fashion choices are subtly signalling that he has some issues with imposed structures and even casual social conventions.

You'd expect, at the very least, to be dealing with a strong independent streak. Whatever. More than the irony of Axl complaining about work habits and being all corporate and sanctimonious, what I like is that he's claiming to have been used:

"According to those who have actually spoken with Buckethead it appears his plans were to secure a recording contract with Sanctuary Records which I encouraged my management to make available to him, quit GN'R and to use his involvement in the upcoming Guns release to immediately promote his individual efforts...Nice guy!"

If that's all G'nR is good for these days. . . Well, at least they're good for something.

Lots of people out there need to know Buckethead, and his sound is not necessarily the sort of thing that would be enhanced by the earnest hormonal yowling most often associated with Axl Rose. If you haven't heard him, and you have the metal gene (it doesn't work without the metal gene) check out Bucketheadland for some downloads.

This one here's not bad, and representative of the Big Robot / non-Laswell (or less Laswell) work that I've heard. That's probably more than I can really say about it. This one's good too. Little louder.

It was a weird mix anyway. I was interested to hear how it came out but couldn't really picture the new G'nR sounding more interesting than Gary Cherone's wanksterous Extreme if the project took Axl as its creative center.

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