WYB is good but more than a little fanciful, even w/the colourful world of GnR. prob the best GnR book i've read.
W.A.R. is total trash.. horrible..
RR is BRILLIANT but it really only covers AFD. marc canters archives really are swell.

yea, axl certainly behaves erratically enough without needing anyone else to make him look silly & unreliable.

but for a long time slash was happy to play up that negative side of axl. it's only in the past few years, where perhaps he's maybe sobered up & accepted he can't get back what GnR was, that slash has been more positive.
altho this positive period also coincides with axl breaking his silence so perhaps that reaction from slash is just more PR spin.. which i think it probably is.

but yea slash has talked a lot of shit, but even if he hadda been bending over backwards 4 axl in the press axl had already damaged his own profile all on his lonesome.
there's a lot of axl's actions that were (are??) indefensible, so you can't really blame slash for calling an asshole an asshole sometimes?

yea tesla are pretty great

don't think they ever wrote a song as good as patience tho..

don't think it's that rare, syd barrett immediately springs to mind.
IF axl was insecure enough i can easily see him retreating into his own little world completely, maybe still recording music but keeping it safely in the vault until he kicks the ultimate bucket..

for many years i really thought that was the direction we were headed. thought there was a chance we wouldn't see CD til he died in 30/40 years time.
& once this world tour does wind up (& who knows yet under what circumstances the tour will finish) we're faced with more uncertainty.

as far as i'm concerned, i'm not looking beyond the australia dates at the end of this year - at least until U.S. dates get confirmed.
there is so much unresolved BS with this band. there was a chance post-CD the clusterfuck would get cleaned up & the slate wiped fresh but here we stand with a touring band, a couple of long time full band members & axl. axl who has so many problems they just multiply like bacteria infecting & corrupting everything in GnR. there is no reason, outside of axl, why the band couldn't have been touring & writing & recording strong GnR-worthy material - Tommy's recent tune is evidence of that, a song as strong as any of the 'filler' on CD or Illusions.
my point is, axl & gnr have the tools at their disposal to be a fully functioning & successful, be it touring or releasing albums/songs. except for some heavy hang-ups by the captain of the ship. so until he gets his shit together again, or is forced to (but that's another old debate - how much he gave into pressure in getting CD finally released) we're not going to see any more new (or new old) material in public.

wish gunsnrosesnews would stop blogging..