As Ron has pointed out, it's like you're skipping from, say, Meet the Beatles to The White Album without hearing the intervening years of musical development; all that stuff is locked down in Axl's vaults. It's a crying shame that we'll never get to hear that material; I'd love to hear the sessions that gave us the so-called 1999 versions of TWAT and IRS...

He hasn't managed to get the lyrics to Civil War right *once*. He also has a tendency to fuck up the old VR tracks - where Scott would deliberately tweak a line so it reads differently in the second chorus than in the first, Myles just sings the original version twice. If that makes any sense.

I dunno, it just feels lazy to me. There's a reason those lyrics were written like that, and it feels like Myles is just singing them from memory, like he's doing karaoke or something.

And yeah, he doesn't have the stage presence of Axl or Scott. It's like he's seen rockstars doing this shit on TV and he knows you're meant to flail around with the mic stand or whatever, but it always seems a bit forced.

I mean, I'm sure he's a nice guy and all, Slash picked him and he's a better singer than I'll ever be, so who am I to criticise? It's just... well, I can see why Duff nixed the idea of him fronting VR.

That said, I'd imagine the two singers in the running are Myles and Franky Perez. Corey Taylor would be a good pick, though I still maintain that the best person for the gig would be Chester Bennington, not that he'll do it...

I hope to Christ the prospective singer isn't Myles Kennedy. Can't be bothered to learn the lyrics to the old songs, has the weirdest singing voice I've ever heard, no stage presence, and he looks like Jim Carrey.

In a right and just world, Chester Bennington would get the gig; he's got a similar stage presence to Scott, but he's got Axl's pipes.

Ashba really does overdo it with the doodles on his guitars, doesn't he? It's like a 14-year-old scribbling skulls on his schoolbooks...

I honestly think this is the most important thing the band could do at the moment. Everything comes down to controlling the message; if you don't take control of that, anyone can fill the void with whatever bullshit they like.

If GN'R had a competent PR team... well, there would've been a press release up within hours of the event, in which GN'R were painted as the heroes for returning to the stage and finishing the show in the face of a few asshole fans throwing bottles. The papers would take their line from that, because entertainment reporters are overworked and basically just rewrite press releases anyway. And that message - Axl is the Good Guy here - would percolate out through the media and into peoples' heads.

Instead... the venue got its press release out early, with a few barbs at the "recurring tardiness" of the band, and essentially painted Axl as the villain. They're covering their backs - of course they are - but overworked journos looking for a press release on the event found that, and took their cues from it. And that message - Axl the unstable, late-showing rockstar - is the one that filters out into the mainstream consciousness. And that makes audiences ill-disposed towards him from the outset, and more likely to... well, to do horrible shit like bottling the band.

For God's sake, Axl, get yourself a decent PR team. Unilaterally posting the odd rant on Twitter is not a joined-up PR strategy; if anything, it reinforces the notion of you as a loose cannon. It's all very well privately stropping about people twisting your words and journos making shit up - but the way to solve that is not to retreat into a private shell, it's to go and engage the services of a reputable PR firm, and DO WHAT THEY TELL YOU TO in order to take control of your public image.