GN'R: Richard Fortus (new guitarist) is amazing!

hello

Do you know this new Guns N' Roses guitarist called Richard Fortus? He is dawn good! He looks like Izzy, but he is even better. He is almost as good as Slash! You can see him play here (1 minute video each):
- http://www.newgnr.com/dloads/shortclips/fortusthinkabout.wmv
- http://www.newgnr.com/dloads/shortclips/fortusrocketq.wmv
- http://www.newgnr.com/dloads/shortclips/fortusnrain.wmv

if you want more, here is a 50Mb video, it's a guitar medley of different solos he plays with GN'R: http://downloads.thenewguns.com/RichardFortus-Guitarmedley-by-nesquick-hostedatthenewgunsdotcom.mpg

He is really good!

AxlUlrich

yes he does look like Izzy..he isnt really that new too..he's been in the band for years now.

Drifting Away

who cares?

when are they gonna release that album they have been promising for what 10 years now?

Cropduster84

How's that album coming along.

Im sure it'll be good...though it isn't GnR...

But will anyone care?

hello

many many people care. When this record is out, it will be an immense success. The buzz around this album is already legendary.
Anyway, please try to avoid the debate "this is gn'r" or "this is not gn"r", this is NOT the subject of this topic. Speak about Richard Fortus.
Thank you.

Oh, Jimmy

It's not G'n'R without Slash and Duff. It must suck for Axl to be the only G'n'R member in the band, when Velvet Revolver has 3. Whether the new Guns album is good or not, it will still suck.

Bradass

Oh, Jimmy wrote:

Whether the new Guns album is good or not, it will still suck.

Yep, no arguing with that logic.

hello

Please stick on topic...or shut the fuck up!
This is NOT a topic to discuss about VR or anything else exept RICHARD FORTUS.

Is it so hard for you to respect that? are you THAT retarded?

DriftingByTheStorm

hello wrote:

many many people care. When this record is out, it will be an immense success. The buzz around this album is already legendary.
Anyway, please try to avoid the debate "this is gn'r" or "this is not gn"r", this is NOT the subject of this topic. Speak about Richard Fortus.
Thank you.

Dick is not Slash.
Fuck Axl!

GnR forever man.
New GnR for never!



hah!

DriftingByTheStorm

Oh, Jimmy wrote:

It's not G'n'R without Slash and Duff. It must suck for Axl to be the only G'n'R member in the band, when Velvet Revolver has 3. Whether the new Guns album is good or not, it will still suck.

hahah.
exactly.

did you know axl rose is an anagram for "douche bag"
?

Slash

Richard is good, but he is not as good as Izzy and is certainly not even close to touching Slash's greatness.

Oh, Jimmy

hello wrote:

Please stick on topic...or shut the fuck up!
This is NOT a topic to discuss about VR or anything else exept RICHARD FORTUS.

Is it so hard for you to respect that? are you THAT retarded?

Man I seen VR and there are one of the top bands around right now. If Axl would get his head out of his ass and release Chinese Democracy, his new band might end up bein pretty good. When it's released, we will see how good they are, til then don't come here and post stupid bullshit post and not expect people to be skeptical. If the Beatles never released and album they wouldnt be the greatest. Let's see how good Axl's new hired guns when they release an album.

Six7Six7

i am not going to compare him to Izzy and Slash

but i will compare him to the other 2 new GnR guitarists. Buckethead and Robin Finck are BOTH better than he is.

(and on that note: Buckethead is better than Slash. He could play circles around him with only 2 fingers)

Bradass

Six7Six7 wrote:

(and on that note: Buckethead is better than Slash. He could play circles around him with only 2 fingers)

EXACTLY.
People just see the bucket and go "retard" but he's a great guitarist.

DriftingByTheStorm

Six7Six7 wrote:

Slash. He could play circles around him with only 2 fingers)

yeah, but at least slash wasn't named fucking "buckethead" ... what the crap.

and while he may be technicaly awesome his solo stuff, at least what i've heard, it so stupid it hurts.

it's like S.O.D on even more crack, or something.

& Robin Fink?
uh. eh.
?

are you saying he's better than the simple chords he used to play with /\/ / \/\ cause that was nothing special.

Bradass

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

yeah, but at least slash wasn't named fucking "buckethead" ... what the crap.

and while he may be technicaly awesome his solo stuff, at least what i've heard, it so stupid it hurts.

it's like S.O.D on even more crack, or something.

& Robin Fink?
uh. eh.
?

are you saying he's better than the simple chords he used to play with /\/ / \/\ cause that was nothing special.

See?
It's usually that people are so far up Slash's ass, in aew of him for some reason.
So fucking what If he names himself "buckethead". you are on a message board for a band named after a euphemism for semen for god's sake.

DriftingByTheStorm

Bradass wrote:

you are on a message board for a band named after a euphemism for semen for god's sake.

we are?

that's news to me.

regarding buckethead vs. slash ...

i still maintain that buckethead's musical taste is so radicaly different from the blues-metal riff-rock flavor that slash had, as to make his membership in GnR detrimental to their sound (at least in terms of what their original fanbase was looking for) ...

if axl releases an entire album that sounds like fucking "My World" or whatever that crap was that was released for the movie a few years back ... ugh ... so help me ...

Slash had a style that hit the heart. It was direct, and it connected ... the feeling he put into it was palpable ...

he may not have been technicaly great ... but he was a damn fine player ... capable of manuevers on a fretboard i'd be proud of ... and yet he kept his solos and riffs accessible ... not losing people in a frenzy of technical stupidity that sounds akin' to satriani on speed or fucking some bad phish solo.

Six7Six7

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

yeah, but at least slash wasn't named fucking "buckethead" ... what the crap.

and while he may be technicaly awesome his solo stuff, at least what i've heard, it so stupid it hurts.

it's like S.O.D on even more crack, or something.

he's definitely on crack. but it doesn't take away from his genius. Check out Colma and Electric Tears. Those are a little more "normal" and focus on beauty rather than craziness

& Robin Fink?
uh. eh.
?

are you saying he's better than the simple chords he used to play with /\/ / \/\ cause that was nothing special.

No i have heard other stuff he did. i don't even remember the fucking name of it. i wish i still had the mp3s actually. he's a fucking guitar prodigy/vurtuoso/whatever.

Six7Six7

DriftingByTheStorm wrote:

we are?

that's news to me.

regarding buckethead vs. slash ...

i still maintain that buckethead's musical taste is so radicaly different from the blues-metal riff-rock flavor that slash had, as to make his membership in GnR detrimental to their sound (at least in terms of what their original fanbase was looking for) ...

if axl releases an entire album that sounds like fucking "My World" or whatever that crap was that was released for the movie a few years back ... ugh ... so help me ...

Slash had a style that hit the heart. It was direct, and it connected ... the feeling he put into it was palpable ...

he may not have been technicaly great ... but he was a damn fine player ... capable of manuevers on a fretboard i'd be proud of ... and yet he kept his solos and riffs accessible ... not losing people in a frenzy of technical stupidity that sounds akin' to satriani on speed or fucking some bad phish solo.

listen to Colma or Electric Tears

those are way accesable and will make you see the light.

hello

Richard Fortus is WAY better than Buckethead. Buckethead is a clown, a stupid shredder who plays without heart and soul. It's just guitar masturbation. Hoppefully, he is gone, he was ridiculous on stage and had zero charisma and zero stage presence.

Fortus blows Buckethead away.

Six7Six7

haha. you know not of what you speak.