I was listening on the radio the other day, and ANOTHER DJ played this whole thing up about how "some member of GN'R said they wished GN'R would never record another album", and that Axl was all pissed and gonna kick him out of the band.

Like completely made up out of thin air.

Either way, I stand by my statements. Axl will never admit to this, but he wants to record again, but with the old guys. Slash & Izzy inspired him, but with the drama and all that shit, and Slash's continuing "just record and release it" attitude, and it not being Axl's way, Axl's not gonna do it.

At the same time, Axl doesn't come across as all that inspired by what he's got now. It's obvious. The man has made no move AT ALL to do ANYTHING musically. I think he was also hurt that his ballads were not better received, but the thing is -- they were. They were the most postively reviewed thing on CD, by critics and fans alike, with critics admitting they wanted to hate them, but adored them.

What else does Axl want? MTV? Top-10 radio? It's not 1991 anymore. This I Love was the NR or CD, and TWAT was the Estranged of CD, and neither had the capability of going #1 in the rock landscape of today, even with promo. People don't want to hear it outside of classic rock fans.

I still think Axl's best option on the entire planet is a Black Ice situation mixed with CD ballads. Reunite, get the band back together, and just do a throwback GN'R album with AFD rockers, and UYI ballads.

I have no doubt with all of the complete and total suck ass out there it'll probably be the biggest rock smash in years in the scene, even if only went 4x platinum. Rock has practically been dead since the whole Linkin Park & Creed thing wore off years ago. What was the last really successful rock album? That Nickelback album?

They've got the means, and they're still plenty young enough, even if just for a few years.

Axl has no heat left, and he knows that. He's not even burped DJ's name in terms of music, and frankly I doubt believe DJ to tell me a weather report anymore.

The only card to play is a reunion, period. What I think is sad is I always saw Axl as an artist, someone truely in it for the expression, no different than his Seattle contemporaries at the time.

BOY, was I wrong.

In fairness to Dizzy, people don't really come out in force IN ROCK BANDS to hear keyboardists play songs. To the general public, Axl is seen as the pianist in GN'R, no different than Freddie in Queen.

Teddy Zig Zag oozed classic rock, and I highly doubt anybody is going to Teddy shows. Even avante keyboardists like Pitman usually have to get bands together to do something.

I'm thinking of guys like Jan Hammer who made their entire career on keyboards and short of the Miami Vice theme, he was having to get guys like Neal Schon in his bands to get people out to shows.

I just don't think keyboardists hold that kind of appeal outside of a few hundred people sipping mocha latte's and sniffing their own farts.

I wouldn't disagree with that, that Han should be given the most comic relief. He was the "funny" one.

I still think Hamill's serious performance was a bit over the top in an Adam West-Batman sort of way, if you want to term that 'serious'.

I just think if Hamill goes into Star Wars VII and plays like he did picking up after Jedi, it's gonna be ridiculous in the modern day. But if he goes in there and plays it too serious, like some sort of nihilistic, ready to die Connor MacLeod in Highlander: Endgame "Life and death" sort of deal... it's gonna be just as ridiculous for the exact opposite reason.

I'd be willing to deal with Yoda-Luke, but that's a weird vibe thinking of old Luke, plus I question whether Hamill has the chops to pull it off. Hamill, other than The Joker, never wowed me outside of the original trilogy, and even then I thought Ford was the real star. If Hamill plays Luke like the new Yoda, he's gonna have to bring his A game, because automatically by default it will make him the heart and soul of the new franchise, and he's gonna have to lead it.

Kind of like anytime you see J.R. Ewing on screen in the new Dallas. He's not the star, but he kinda sorta is. His lead, even as a supporting player is everything to the series (which I have no clue how they'll handle now without him, his final scenes aired Monday). Hamill as Luke will have to have that sort of prescence--AT LEAST--if not more so, regardless of whatever young buck they get to be the new star.

I'd have to be a resurrection-career move on the part of Hamill at his age. Kind of like how Donald Pleasence became the heart and soul of the Halloween franchise, despite not being on-screen in his later years. Pleasence was a helluva an actor though.

I just am having a hard time wrapping my mind around an older Hamill kinda bringing a tour-de-force acting job to the role when he's frankly been DOA as a live actor for decades since Jedi, and when he was on Jedi, he was basically playing "a kid who now has the force".

It was a tough choice between Jungle Live Era, or Jungle 88 VMA's, but ultimately I went with the 88 VMA's because it's an honest GN'R band presentation, and the best one-off performance of that song EVER!