I’ve got a cool Guns N’ Roses book to give away over at The Rock Dose. I was sent this book (Reckless Road: Guns N’ Roses and The Making Of Appetite For Destruction) earlier this year to review. I like the Guns N’ Roses of yester-decade and I really like this book but I made a promise at The Rock Dose awhile back that if Chinese Democracy was released this year that I would give it away. Unlike Dr. Pepper, I didn’t do this as a promotional stunt and I plan on making good on my promise. Unfortunately I …read more

No doubt that at least some of you have read about the blogger over at Antiquiet.com that was arrested by the FBI for leaking some Chinese Democracy songs on the Internet. Well the L.A. Times interviewed Saul “Slash” Hudson, former Guns N Roses guitar player (as if you didn’t know) and he had this to say:
“I hope he rots in jail,” Slash told the Los Angeles Times.”It’s going to affect the sales of the record, and it’s not fair. The Internet is what it is, and you have to deal with it accordingly, but I think if someone goes and …read more

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With all the trash talking back and forth with this Velvet Revolver break-up it makes you wander how they made it together this long. Scott Wieland was not the best choice in the first place in my opinion. Honestly that is the soul reason I never liked this band. Axl Rosenberg over at Metalsuck.net said it best:

The month of March was quite interesting. A lot of great things happened for me and a few great CD’s came out this month. I gave away some cool prizes and the first batch of the MetalMartyr.Com Compilations went out as well. Below is a list of links to some of this months posts that I think are worth a re-run.
The RIAA is still relentless about screwing artist out of money they get from settlements from illegal, Read about it here
I gave a list of My top 10 songs and cds this year. Some are new and some are old …read more

Hell no!There is no doubt that DragonForce’s Through The Fire And Flames is a song of insanely complicated guitar work and in the early 80’s every new kid playing guitar was out to learn Eddie Van Halen’s Eruption note for note. However Through The Fire And Flames to me may be a bit too long and overly noodled. I can’t play Eruption or TTFAF and I wouldn’t give either a try. If anything I consider myself a rhythm guitarist and the most complex licks I have probably ever made an effort to learn are the intro to Crazy Train, …read more

If your tired of waiting for Chinese Democracy to be released and you need something Guns N’ Roses in the meantime then check out The Reckless Road:
Reckless Road: Guns N’ Roses and the Making of Appetite for Destruction is the only authorized Guns N’ Roses book, documenting the beginning of an era and the creation of the seminal groundbreaking album, Appetite for Destruction.

Calling all master shredders! Think you can impress Slash enough to win his Gibson Les Paul and Marshal Stack? Then enter Ultimate Guitars Slash’s Ultimate Guitar Showdown contest. The rules are stated and simple…upload your best guitar solo and be chosen as the winner. Click the link above to enter the contest…if you think your good enough. (I’m not!)
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