They had to try; no one knew whether people would go see a film in cinemas until someone took the plunge. And there was almost certainly pressure from the director, who's very big on the "cinema experience, shoot on film instead of digital" thing. I went to see it at an IMAX and, while it was fun, and I did enjoy having the cinema experience again, the whole audience felt a bit on edge. I don't see cinemas or other venues getting back to anything approaching normal until there's a vaccine.

Some sort of new content to promote the tour. Either a best-of with a couple of new tracks, or an EP, or a new album. Ideally a new album. Drop it out of nowhere on streaming services one day, like Beyoncé or Eminem do, it'd generate crazy press.

Get serious about releasing old gigs on YouTube. None of this pissing around releasing three or four songs from NITL shows and worrying that putting out official footage of Matt Sorum or Izzy will delegitimize the current band. Do what Metallica does. A release every week for a few months. Treat it as a journey through an exciting archive; have Axl or Slash or Duff or whoever record little intros setting the scene, like Lars does.

Once there's a new album out, feel free to draw on every era of the band, it won't affect the current band one iota. Ritz 88, overblown UYI gigs, Skin N' Bones tour, House of Blues with Bucket... fan-cam releases with remastered soundboard audio - fuck it, put everything out there. You're not going to make money off DVD releases anymore, the content is just mouldering in the vault at this point.

They have to own their past and stop running from it. Yeah, a biopic would probably focus on the AFD/UYI years and chart the break-up of the band. So fucking what? Bohemian Rhapsody ended with the death of the lead singer and it's revitalised Queen for the younger generation.

At some point down the line, do those UYI and Chinese Democracy box sets just to shut the fans up.

I wouldn't go so far as to do a residency with the AFD line-up - that really would delegitimize the current band. But an AFD/UYI themed residency where they bring on Gilby or Izzy or Adler or Matt (hell, why not Tracey and Roberta too?) for the odd guest spot might not be a bad idea.

I'm inclined to agree. Frank is professional, he gets the job done, he seems like a nice guy. I can think of others I'd like to see drumming for GN'R – Brain, for one – but I don't get the hate-on people have for Frank. I don't think either of the previous GN'R drummers is a realistic prospect; Adler is seen as too flaky to carry a major tour, and Matt's well and truly burned his bridges with that book. So even in the unlikely event that GN'R were to boot Frank (and remember, Axl values loyalty), you're never going to get that mythical AFD/UYI line-up tour.

Axl literally said it's not about Slash.