I could be wrong but he made a reference to another guy talking about being sexually approached in Eton, that kind of weird shit is rife in boarding schools. I got the impression that he was saying that at seven he was sent to a world where that shit went on i.e. he was abused himself...I could well be putting a huge set of legs on this though and have nothing to back up such an opinion.

Ultimately you are absolutely correct though..being raped by a parent is up there with the most heinous and traumatic of events and he should not have dismissed it as he did.
My feeling is that  this is coming from a place of frustratuion with Axl and how he may have used that event as a reason to explain his more unpalatable ways (Niven referred to Axl's obsession with control, his constant complaning and getting his own way and his drive to outdo his heroes).
Weirdly, I remember a documentary about Michael Jackson (another super talented, super famous childhood abuse victim) and Clive Davis was talking about Micahel's demands and constant complaining and obsession with outdoing all of his idols. Both Axl & Michael seemed to behave the same way once they were in the eye of the storm of their success.

Well he decided to split UYI into two albums to maximise the return to the band so he knew where the money was BUT I agree that his taste in music wrt GNR was firmly on Izzy's Stonesy side which was a blindside & ultimately a shortcoming for him.

For me, those three interviewers missed a very important point, most of us are fans of GNR because of the crazy metamorphosis the band under went. It was never seen quite like this before. Some of it was amazing, some of it was “too much, too young” egomania but it was a hell of a show. I’m glad they went ape-shit on the UYI’s.

Personally, I would have loved them to stay together and come out in 1994 with a Contraband style album, heavier with Axl going bananas all over it. That would have stuck it to all the hipsters. Then I would have let Axl go off on his own to make his Elton John meets NIN album as a solo project.

Axl needs a barring order slapped on him wrt  to accessing that part of his brain that just obsesses over Slash.

Trying to make Slash out to be some arch villian for actually being a musician who wanted to do his job and go out and tour a Number 1 double album??? That's fucking saaad.
And by the way, Axl old chum, we have hours of footage of you on the UYI stage looking like you were having a pretty good fucking time.
Why won't ANYBODY in Axl's life call him out on this kind of stuff?

Its infantile, purile and makes him look like a whiney little bitch.

And yes, his answers are the same old weave...why are you late on stage?....fifteen lines later we still haven't got a straight answer. Why doesn't he just say "cause I don't want to go on early" and be done with it. We all know that its really that simple. He doesn't want to.

And I'm fucking tired of the same answer to the album question. It seems the more Axl gets asked about something happening, the more he backs away from doing it.

What guitar work on CD is so unique? Its mostly average to my ears with some shred stuck in. I don't get the love for the Maddy solo, a load of half arsed bends and nothing more.
Where is the magic?

How you can say that the guy who wrote & played the guitar on "Estranged", "The Garden", "Don't Damn me" or the end of "November Rain" would be somehow unable to deliver anything worthwhile on wide open spaces like TWAT or Maddy is frankly beyond me. Those songs are really not that revolutionary compared to Axl's old stuff.

Slash becaome a global guitar icon for his work on AFD and UYI albums, the guitar work on CD hardly raised an eyebrow. I think youre putting too much of a personal look at this.

The fact that the rumor mill suggests that Axl wanted Slash on CD tells me that even Axl believed that Slash was best placed to deliver his vision.

Great musicians can generally apply themselves to all styles of music, its what makes them great. I don't see how Slash would be any different.

Only one thing is missing for Slash now and that's Axl's muse, but his standard of delivery is  better than ever.

Great read, very impressed with Axl on this one.
Thanks for making the right decision and causing us all to be here arguing!!:haha: