Got Duff's book Friday and finished reading it Saturday.

Was a pretty good read, more about his personal journey than a tell all GNR book, though I think Duff said this was going to be the case anyhow.

Re the GNR stuff he went pretty easy on Axl IMO.  Just the late starts and the name issue were probably the only negative light shed on him.

Not surprisingly it was a much better book than Adlers.  Compared to Slash's harder to say.  Again it felt like Duff's was more about his personal story and development whilst Slash seemed a little broader when speaking about the whole GNR thing etc.  Duff tended to focus more on himself and where he was at and his demons without touching too much on everybody elses journey.

Personally I think he went pretty easy on Axl as did Slash in his book. A cynic might say they wish to ensure that any future options are kept open....

That said, the vibe I got from reading Duff's book is that he is actually over most of the shit.  It happened so long ago, and he has moved on and developed personally so much since then that it doesn't really matter anymore.  It's not woth holding on to crap about he said this, or he did that, just move forward. - A good space to be in.

Yeah I really like White Lightning too, that got a lot of play back by me when I bought Adrenalize years ago.

I can still listen to the Hysteria album from start to finish pretty happily, I like the majority of the whole album.  I actually went and bought the remastered cd version with the bonus disc and b-sides as well about 2 months ago.  I don't often buy any music these days unless I really like something, e.g. GNR, Slash etc  So that says something that I actually bought it especially when I already had the original Hysteria CD.

A lot of their lyrics I find quite cheesy but the music itself still manages to get my feet tapping and head nodding.

there are definitely songs I don't like, e.g "Make love like a man"  mmmwwaahahahahaha.  Even though it was a hit at the time "Lets Get Rocked" has the most stupid lyrics too. 

Bascially I liked their stuff up to Hysteria, then with Adrenalize they did exactly as you said and tried to write waaay too many ballads.  They almost seemed to try too hard to write "hit songs".

Sorry to hear that Neemo.

Diabetes and renal failure tend to be quite common in old cats.

We had to take my cat to the vet and have it put down earlier this year as his kidneys had given up.  He was about 16 and had started to go down quite a lot.  Drinking lots of water, losing weight, ratty fur, he smelt (which was due to the build up of toxins in his body) he also appeared to be getting dementia from it.

Diabetes is manageable tho from what I understand - obviously once you know what's wrong with them, which you now do.

They haven't done a remaster of Lies like the AFD and UYI ones. I would just look at getting a US or UK/German pressing. The vinyl quality should be about the same. If you get a whacky zany pressing from somewhere else e.g. South America somewhere sometimes they used thinner poorer quality vinyl to save costs so for audio quality I would steer clear of those just in case.

Try and get the first uncensored cover too where it has the "Wife beating..." and "Ladies welcome t the dark ages" comments on it.  No particular reason other than I think it's visually better than the Lies Lies Lies censored one.  The tits on the girl on the inner sleeve aren't censored then either