Originally Posted by Lionel Ritchie
not sure we're comparing like with like here College. First off I'm neither a GNR fan nor a simply red (spits) fan ...but my understanding is that Hucknall was always "legally" Simply Red and just prefered to have a moniker on his interchangable band of chicken-necking session musicians rather than be billed as a solo (podgy, ginger, squinty eyed, elavator music squawking little cnut) artist.
In GunsNRoses I believe you'd a situation where it was the rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin was writing much of the stuff and, as with all hard rock bands -there's an obsession (perhaps born out of insecurity about or fear of sexual disfunction) with the lead guitarists. In that scenario Slash* is at least as important a character as Axl rose.
(*does Slash have a surname? ...has anyone told him what a Slash is round these parts?)
For a hard rock comparison with Simply Red - a more suitable candidate would be the equally fcuking hideous Bon Jovi -who are essentially a gathering of session musicians around Jon Bon Jovis erm ...persona.:rolleyes: