Thanks for typing that up, it was a great read, and I'll be buying Slash's book soon myself too.

Toe'n The Line is my favourite Zakk solo song. I'd love him to record some more stuff like that again.

Um no, actually they didn't.

The only people who talked up Metallica returning to the sound of the 80's on St Anger were the ones hopeful of it actually happening.

As a pretty big fan myself, I can assure you the band never said they were going back to their old style. I read that they claimed St Anger to be an ugly, in-yer-face, punk metal album with some of the speed of their earlier material, which was their own response to the polished-production of their previous 3 studio albums. Which it pretty much was.

So the fact that they are actually saying their new stuff does reflect their 80's albums this time, maybe it will.

I admit I didn't own any STP albums until Scott joined VR, but since then I went back and bought all the albums and I'd say I'm a big fan of Scott for his work in STP rather than VR. Their last album is my favourite. The band really found their groove and there's a great mix of trippy rockers and ballads.

But after the recent VR Aussie tour cancellation my patience for Scott Weiland is wearing thin.
It's hard to support a guy who doesn't seem to care too much about himself or his fans.

I suppose if there's any good news to cheer me up a little from the "Scott-just-fucked-over-the-Aussie-VR-fans", then STP getting back together might be it.