Watched this the other day, and Axl definitely seemed to have to adjust to Pang's way of operating an interview. He seemed very crass at times, not tactful, but at other times Pang seemed genuinely engaged and honest. Pang was more all over the place than Axl himself. The fans in attendence asked VERY good questions for fans, and frankly put the big three forums to fucking shame over their childish, ignorant, and lame questions from several years ago.

Axl didn't seem all that interested in a GN'R album, despite others saying otherwise. Axl seemed more interested in an AC/DC album or possible instrumental work, which kinda shocked me.

Another one of the highlights is his highlighting of the 2009-14 band, basically confirming what DJ said was true. Axl adored the 2009-14 lineup, and was really happy with that lineup, and that the dismantling of it basically came as a shock. Axl's description of it seems to quasi-confirm that Axl did at one point consider a Slash/DJ combo in regards to the reunion.

Loved Axl's response about the Axl book. Confirmed alot of what I suspected being able to study his face. Axl seemed heartfelt and genuinely hurt by what Slash wrote in his book. Axl seemed to let down his guard here and give a natural reaction to how he felt about Slash at the time, and that was Axl felt Slash not only didn't state facts, but made up entire parts of his book.

A conspiracy-minded person could correlate Weiland's comments about the reunion in 2006 connect here somewhat. The heat was cooling between the two then, but with the book release in 2007, Axl being hurt badly then by what he saw as personal lies, and the reverse course of "he's a cancer" in 2009... all is starting to look clearer.

Sad that Slash feeling the need to portray Axl as an evil villain, to help Slash not look stupid... sad we all lost out on 20 years of great rock music over something so petty.

Axl giving props to Slash was a bit of a shock as well... Slash going out of his way to re-record Chinese songs for the tour as well as work with the vault... me thinks this is Slash's way of apologizing to Axl about the way things went down over the last 20 years. Kudos to Axl for thanking him.

I also noticed Axl touched on the vocal issues at one point, referring to his Chinese-era voice as "clean vocal". Axl claimed he intentionally sang that way in order to change his vocal and challenge himself. He also admitted it wasn't as warmly received as he thought it'd be, people obviously missing his old voice.

His reasoning imo though is bullshit. I don't think the rasp has always been there, he just chooses not to use it. I think Axl gets vocally lazy, and even in the interview he admitted he has a vocal coach on tour with him with AC/DC for the first time in 20 years. I think Axl's quitting of chain smoking had a HUGE affect on the decline of his rasp since 1993. imho

Agreed. I was shocked more Bon-era songs weren't busted out, but then again most of their hit singles came with Brian I believe. Even though the lyrics are cheesy, i'd like to hear Axl do Big Gun at least once, just as an in-joke to GN'R.

However, no matter to who thinks i'm a dick on this, if Axl fails to release any original material during this final run at that the top, he is a failure imo as a musician. Not that it takes away from what he's done, but he'll have a Brian Bosworth-type legacy, but for rock music. Big ego, big start when he was young, supposed to set the world on fire, and then.... faded away into irrelevance. Then to get a 2nd chance in 2006, and now a 3rd chance in 2016, and to squander it by not releases more material to a starved fanbase... inexcusable.

When I saw the China Exchange interview, he didn't strike me as a man in a hurry to put out new GN'R music. He seemed way more interested in new AC/DC music.

I don't know if he'll ever get to do a film score, but he could go the John Carpenter-route. Carpenter is done as a director, he knows it, so instead after influencing a generation of synth music fans, Carpenter just records music albums now as a mock film score. And he's put out two records in two years, plus an EP of re-records. He seems to be re-energized at 68, and recently agreed to return to the "Halloween" franchise to produce & score the next sequel, ala Halloween II & III.

Axl in my mind could go this route after this next run. Put out a GN'R-Telephantasm this year. Put out a new GN'R album next year. An AC/DC record the year after that. Tour, and maybe wrap up with at least one more GN'R, and possibly an additional AC/DC work of some sort.

Then just straight up become an instrumental artist. Record albums in the style of film scores, piano/synth, whatever floats his boat. Release them, and just tour the avant-garde film score scene, whether he's recording Carpenter tracks, Beltrami tracks, John Williams tracks, Hans Zimmer tracks... whatever he wants to do.

Axl could do all that, and still have 20-30 years to be Ennio Morricone is that's his life's dream. Morricone just got done with that Hateful Eight score, and Morricone is like 84 years old.

Apparently it's exclusive to you. I can't find it anywhere online.

It's still a mindfuck for me to see all this stuff. Axl at rehearsal? Axl & Slash together again? Axl happy?

I gotta be honest, I haven't see Axl this thrilled to be alive and in the business since the 1988 videos when they were all hungry and all hitting and Axl looked thrilled to be alive.

Then the fall by 1989, and he never really recovered. I haven't seen him in this good of spirits since the AFD days.

Why doesn't Bromero post as much anymore?

Used to love that dude.