madtired

I'm gonna be a smartass, but its an AUTObiography, not a biography. I wouldn't have wanted to read it either if it wasn't. Don't know what's not interesting about a drug-addicted alcoholic somehow-still-alive rock-star's take on a career that took a nose-dive and then resurfaced 15 years later, but to each his own.
There's at least a chapter about the recording of the Use your Illusion albums, maybe more.. but essentially this and the time before it is what caused the band's demise. Axl basically turned GnR into his band (made the other members sign a contract saying he owned the name and they were just hired hands). Instead of having the entire band record the album together, or at least all be in the studio together, Axl basically pieced the whole thing together on his own without any input at all from the band.. Slash would lay down a guitar part (Axl absent), then Axl would send a messenger to Slash's hotel telling him what to change, and he would go back and re-record a part, again, Axl absent. It wasn't a band, it was a dictatorship.
Not that Axl being like that is news, and the book goes into much more detail, but I just felt like I was listening to a puzzle instead of an actual band after knowing that.
Sometimes knowing how a track or an album was recorded can enhance the way you hear it, think about it, etc. (i.e. John Bonham recording the drums in the bottom of a stairwell on When the Levee Breaks), or in this case, it detracted from my opinion. YMMV.

I'm gonna be a smartass, but its an AUTObiography, not a biography. I wouldn't have wanted to read it either if it wasn't. Don't know what's not interesting about a drug-addicted alcoholic somehow-still-alive rock-star's take on a career that took a nose-dive and then resurfaced 15 years later, but to each his own.
There's at least a chapter about the recording of the Use your Illusion albums, maybe more.. but essentially this and the time before it is what caused the band's demise. Axl basically turned GnR into his band (made the other members sign a contract saying he owned the name and they were just hired hands). Instead of having the entire band record the album together, or at least all be in the studio together, Axl basically pieced the whole thing together on his own without any input at all from the band.. Slash would lay down a guitar part (Axl absent), then Axl would send a messenger to Slash's hotel telling him what to change, and he would go back and re-record a part, again, Axl absent. It wasn't a band, it was a dictatorship.
Not that Axl being like that is news, and the book goes into much more detail, but I just felt like I was listening to a puzzle instead of an actual band after knowing that.
Sometimes knowing how a track or an album was recorded can enhance the way you hear it, think about it, etc. (i.e. John Bonham recording the drums in the bottom of a stairwell on When the Levee Breaks), or in this case, it detracted from my opinion. YMMV.

I sold him a Day To Remember record and he cried about one of the corners getting dinged.

So be good, for goodness sake! Whooahh somebody's coming... Somebody's coming!

-I used to like 311 ALOT
-I still kind of like 311