smoking guns Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Am I the only one that hears some influence/inspiration? I think Ronnie and Axl have some similarities and could probably both kick ass (in a fight) in their prime. Both bands were huge and wanted to just rock and record. Both bands had a ton of hits in a very short period of time. Both bands had keyboard/piano players and back up singers. Both bands loved Les Pauls and guitar solos. Both bands wrote long guitar anthem songs... I don't know, I kind of hear some LS in GNR. Just seeing if anyone else ever heard it or ever heard Slash or Axl mention them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Axl supposedly listened to Skynyrd to get the inspiration to write the lyrics for SCOM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bran Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 no you can definitely hear the influence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Civil War you can hear it big time... I think Break Down too...Yesterdays maybe? Outro to Paradise City and November Rain kind of like Free Bird outro.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I think Ronnie and Axl have some similarities and could probably both kick ass (in a fight) in their prime.What was Axl in his prime, maybe 5-foot-9 and 145 pounds? Why do you think he could kick ass in a fight? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Well, Ronnie was notorious for being basically a redneck that wasn't scared of anything. I kind of got that vibe with Axl. Axl is small and shouldn't win, but since he had the "I don't give a fuck, I have nothing to lose" attitude, that made him dangerous. Dangerous people, that have no fear, can usually throw down pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxpax Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 civil war, knocking on heavens door and pc are very lynyrd skynyrd like....actually i think gnr was best when they were in southern rock mode..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico_france Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 There are some inspirations in particular for SCOM. If I remember well, Axl said at the time something like that for him, growing in Indiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd was a band that he was not so interested in because it was like the band loved by the common man... But he listened some lynyrd songs to be in the mood before singing SCOM, because it was so heartful.Another song with Lynyrd inspiration is Paradise City... For the intro, and some melodic guitar lines (the line after the main clean intro that you can also hear during the chorus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 One thing is that on those songs we mentioned like PC and KOHD is some big guitar solos in Gmajor, that is a big country/southern rock thing.... Playing lead in the major scale that is.. The PC intro is very country/southern rockish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 the demo of 14 Years has a very Free Bird-esque outro 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orsys Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 There was a pic, I can't find it right now, where I thought Axl was setting it up like a LS pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Bird Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 the demo of 14 Years has a very Free Bird-esque outroI always wonder why they cut it out for the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixes Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 the demo of 14 Years has a very Free Bird-esque outroI always wonder why they cut it out for the album.I as well. I prefer the demo version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padme Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I think Izzy is the one who has Lynnyrd Skynnyr influence. When Izzy joined GN´R in Vegas 2012 Axl told a story about how Izzy would steal LS music during the UYI recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Broue Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) "I was fucking around with this stupid little riff," says Slash. 'Axl said, Hold the fucking phones! That's amazing!"Within five minutes, the band had worked Slash's cyclical riff into the bare bones of a song. Fleshing it out wasn't so easy."Writing and rehearsing it to make it a complete song was like pulling teeth," says Slash. "For me, at the time, it was a very sappy ballad."Axl Rose felt differently. He supplied uncharacteristically intimate lyrics based on a poem he had written for his then girlfriend, Erin Everly, daughter of '60s pop icon Don Everly. To get the right sound, he went back to an unlikely source: unfashionable '70s longhairs Lynyrd Skynyrd, the hard-drinking Southern redneck rockers decimated by a plane crash in 1977 that killed singer Ronnie Van Zant and two other band members."I'm from Indiana, where Lynyrd Skynyrd are considered God to the point that you ended up saying, I hate this fucking band!" said Rose in 1987. "And yet for Sweet Child... I went out and got some old Skynyrd tapes to make sure that we'd got that heartfelt feeling."While Rose was adamant about the song's potential, his bandmates were less convinced."It was like a joke," says bassist Duff McKagan. "We thought, What is this song? Its gonna be nothing."http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/articles/showarticle.php?articleid=149This plus Axl's 1990's tour dressing (jackets with USA flag, cowboy boots, hats, "Jesus image") shows a lot similarity to SkynyrdGuns were like the Stones meets Aerosmith meets Led Zeppelin meets Skynyrd meets Queen for me Edited December 31, 2014 by Motivation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 I love it! I still remember watching the footage of when Skynyrd blew the Stones of the stage back in England back in the 70's. fucking Brits with the rebel flag waving. Hell of a sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostie Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 This too, regarding Civil War.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKGYMA8Fnxs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Axl made it sound like the spirit of songs like "Tuesday's Gone" was what factored into SCOM. Do I think Billy Powell is why Dizzy Reed exists in GNR? Maybe. 3 guitar lineup? Maybe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smoking guns Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 And a song like "That Smell" was kind of GNR esque, even in the solo you can hear some of the Same runs Slash plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlskAmpf Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) I dunno, maybe some, but I'd go with Joey Ramone as a bigger influence than LS. I say this as Joey would obsess over a melody line for days and weeks until it was right, and he wrote some amazing melodies, like Axl. We also know he was a big Ramones fan. I mean you take an F Bm Am progression and come up with the end of "Street of Dreams", from "what it means to me" to the end, it's just a fucking amazing melody line. THIS is why Axl is Axl, plus the soaring vocal abilities, boatload of attitude and stick to it convictions, I mean if he were ever voted into the RRHOF I wouldn't be surprised if he declined induction. Edited December 31, 2014 by axlskAmpf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxpax Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 (edited) Axl made it sound like the spirit of songs like "Tuesday's Gone" was what factored into SCOM. Do I think Billy Powell is why Dizzy Reed exists in GNR? Maybe. 3 guitar lineup? Maybe. Tuesdays gone sounds totally like 'crazy 'by aerosmith.This too, regarding Civil War.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKGYMA8Fnxsintro sounds familiar to civil war, the solo at the end = slash's scom solo. nice find. Edited January 1, 2015 by maxpax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 pretty sure I read where Slash said "Paradise City" was influenced by Skynyrd but don't have time to search for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axlskAmpf Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 pretty sure I read where Slash said "Paradise City" was influenced by Skynyrd but don't have time to search for it.I gotta go with...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YiVVpughTM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rovim Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 I dunno, maybe some, but I'd go with Joey Ramone as a bigger influence than LS. I say this as Joey would obsess over a melody line for days and weeks until it was right, and he wrote some amazing melodies, like Axl. We also know he was a big Ramones fan. I mean you take an F Bm Am progression and come up with the end of "Street of Dreams", from "what it means to me" to the end, it's just a fucking amazing melody line. THIS is why Axl is Axl, plus the soaring vocal abilities, boatload of attitude and stick to it convictions, I mean if he were ever voted into the RRHOF I wouldn't be surprised if he declined induction. Yeah, Axl always knew how to come up with great melodies. The end of Street Of Dreams is packed with emotion, and it's not like Axl can only do it with ballads. I really like how he sang over Robin's simple Better riff in the verses. It's amazing how he came up with a perfect vocal line that fits like a glove to the chord progression. Good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 GNR's always thrown a bunch of things into the music blender but the core of the music still goes back to 70s rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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