I just don't get folks lining up to have a pissing competition on behalf of each man. Both occupy a place in rock legend, both men are still in huge demand and are still doing nicely from their unique contribution to rock music history and culture twenty years ago.  Both men reek of wasted opportunities when stacked against peers like Bono & the Edge, Page & Plant etc..

I don't think Slash wants to play with Axl in the way that some of you Axl blow-hards are insinuating. I doubt Slash lies awake at night wishing Axl would call. That'™s Stephen and Matt'™s job. Duff and Slash have left the door open but on very strict terms (some of them even for our benefit). Like any ordinary human being, the thoughts of getting up to $20MIL for just standing on stage with your old sparring partner, cranking out the hits to a delirious crowd for a few hours a year must be a VERY attractive offer. Hell, I'™m a married man and I'™d lick the sweat off Axl'™s balls for $20M, never mind stand on one side of a stage and play my guitar with him!!

It must not be forgotten that Weiland alluded to both sides being at some stage willing to get back out there for big bucks; so both men must have '˜wanted'™ a reunion on some level, even if it was only for the green. I would think Weiland was better placed than any of us to speak about the realities that have gone on behind the scenes and away from the terribly sketchy and often contradictory recollections of Slash or the hopelessly skewed version of the truth offered in the Del interviews.

While we have all sat around here playing the puritant fan, Slash has re-invented himself. Sure, I think the top hat and leather gloves look silly now, but he is a visual as well as an audio brand now. He is no different than Laura Croft to some of the kids out there. Instead of swinging on vines in shorts on their computer screens, he slays them in guitar duels and is known as the cat in the top hat and shades. He has become the cartoon character Axl branded him as originally but you know what? It pays the fucking bills, and then some.

Find me one other guitar player from the eighties who has done so well without his original iconic front man for 15 years. With no Guns N Roses name and no singing voice to communicate with, I think the fact that he is still so well respected and well known is a fucking triumph.

Stack him against Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and CC DeVille and and any other 80's/90's guitar god and you get a fairer picture of the man.He's the last hero left.

Stack Axl against Bono, Springsteen, and any other vocalist of his stature back in the day and sadly the man comes up short.

blowing up abortion clinics while curling a bar bell in one arm and stuffing his face with a huge burger in the other then vomiting it all up while shooting steroids..
its just one fucking thing after the other..

This album is a grower.
Creeper hit of the summer I reckon..

actually, would you believe that oral contracts can be as binding as written contracts. But without a written record, it can difficult to prove what you have agreed to.

If either party had witness to the 'gentleman's agreement' and are willing to testify in a court of law about what was agreed then the money could be up for grabs....

Az is no fool. He went into this ith his eyes fully open. I suspect Axl may have to put that Bugatti Veyron off his shopping list..