That's something i'm starting to see as well and personally do wonder if Axl holds back to protect himself for whatever reason. The fanboy in me thinks "the reunion". 'Cause it makes sense from a fanboy perspective. Axl knows that's a rainy day option and if he goes for the blow out retirement gig, he could easily go 1991 all over again and just make it a mammoth comeback. I mean, why waste your voice on Indian weddings, when you could be THE MAN again with Slash one day?

I don't buy it as a self-protect for studio work. Because Axl could easily just do take after take and piece together a lazy raspy song, and boom it's done.

I do think he just is lazy and gives when he wants to give because there's no real reason to wreck himself on what they're doing right now. jmho

It was apart of Season 9, the final season.

The final episode was just double-length, and aired as a Fox Sunday Movie of the Week event. So on the DVD's, it plays like a TV movie, whereas in syndication it was split into a 2-part episode.

Once you get to the end is when you'll want to watch it, or it'll give too much away. "The Truth" is FAR BETTER than "I Want To Believe" as a film.

Goggins deserves a damn Emmy. Not only was he fantastic on The Shield, but Justified would've been cancelled by now without Boyd imo.

Boyd was a total badass in that scene of "i'm the outlaw", then Raylan turns around and takes a few lines and steals the show when he looks at that hitman and goes "maybe I misheard, but did you just give me an order?" and just blows him the fuck away.

Olyphant, does a great job basically just playing Clint fuckin' Eastwood. HE is THE BADASS on that show when he wants to be. Even Boyd is scared of him.

I wish Dallas had a couple of southern, tons of charisma characters like Raylan and Boyd, now that 'ol JR is gone.

I still continue to say DJ is a performer in the most traditional sense of 80's LA sleaze rock. DJ does exactly what DJ does, which is why I respect him. But DJ is like having a less capable, less talented CC DeVille in the band, but at the same time he's true to what he does.

I like his feel better than Ron's. Ron is just a shredder, no offense to the coolness that is Bumble. Ron is NOT Bucket. His gimmick is shredding, so in some ways I like DJ's feel ALOT more because at least he has some.

But Richard is really the only talent in that guitar roster imo. In terms of, "hey, let's go do a record". I gave him HELL for years for the same reasons Lofton did, because we listened to a damn decade of "he's the secret weapon", and yet NEVER saw that. But when Axl decided to do this throwback tribute band, suddenly he let Rich go and it did come out.

I don't think he's Slash, but he's the real emotive player in the band. Ron is the soloist. DJ is the entertainer, who treats GN'R like it's Ratt or Poison and he's there for the fans. I'm fine with that too, but those are the roles in my eyes of all these guys and they all stay right there and i'm fine with that.