I think Ron is getting unfairly lumped with DJ there.

DJ has that motley crue, sixx am style.

Funny thing though is for me - I also hated it in 1987 - I had no time for any band that wasn't GNR originally, but over the years I've grown to love Crue. DJ would have been a great Mick Mars replacement when Mick is eventually forced to retire playing from illness. Dj's style and sound and dress sense re kind of heavily crue derivative. As a slash replacement he didn't quite fit in but in motley I think it would have.

But Ron isn't that type of player. Ron is a much better player than he had a chance to show in GNR. When he came in he was allocated bucket's parts and the songs were already divided up and everything and so he seemed like a bucket-emulation as that was what he was hired to do, however it would have been interesting to see his take if he had joined before bucket.

As for the "GNR is Axl's Band" thing....you have to wonder...would Axl and Izzy have made it if Slash had never joined? Izzy wrote a lot of songs, and no one disputes Axl is one of the top front men of all time, but they would have needed someone else with some serious guitar firepower early on...the importance of those guitar parts and solos in winning fans in the 1980s is massive.

Generally the setlist is pretty good - but all they'd have to do is use some of the alternate tracks on their own list to spice up the show.

Especially when doing 2 nights in the same town. Why not crack out a perfect crime or a twat or a slither? Maybe in place of the The Seeker if time is an issue.

In terms of "How quickly we get complacent" that's what you get when you delay your reunion until the singer has vocal problems and don't bother with a reunion album.

The label no doubt bears some responsibility. As does the fact that many business types in music are full of shit.

However we also have to consider the Lebeis family approach of hiding information that might upset Axl from Axl, and we have to consider Axl's mental heath tendency towards victimhood, secrecy and paranoia. Basically becoming famous was probably not very good for someone with his existing issues.

The label thing only goes so far. It's not like Axl plays new songs live every tour like he could if it was just release issues.

I can live with it, but it is sort of odd to have her so prominent (relative to Dizzy) both on stage and in the picture. She's the intern not the Steve Jobs of this operation to most of us.

But then again...there's definitely been worse problems over the years

The $1,000,000 question for the band really is will they release a new album or is this just a victory lap?

What's odd to me as an Australian is the quality of these candidates.

Like surely out of everyone on the left Hillary isn't the best candidate, and surely there's better right wing guys than Trump?

I'm trying to picture this Trump presidency Randall mentions.

To my reasoning I can see some might thinkhe's "fun" because he doesn't seem like a crafted political candidate, but as a dude whose Dad gave him $100m in his 20s...(along the lines of Billions in todays dollars) he's not exactly a self-made man either - he's still old money from the usual circles who control everything (and who seem to control both sides).

But what worries me is the skill set. Seems like his qualifications are that he's rich and he's sick of the globalist agenda. Fair enough but doesn't he need a little more than that to be top dog in your country?

I'm trying to picture him negotiating a dispute with China or Russia, or some complex international issue that might arise.

Politics and rhetoric aside I just can't picture him having the diplomacy to handle stuff like that without wars starting. He doesn't seem like the guy for it.

Admittedly, I'm left leaning in my politics these days, but surely there's better right wing candidates in terms of previous qualifications, IQ, speaking skill, leadership and all the other metrics you'd want in a president than what Trump seems to display. The whole left or right thing aside he just doesn't seem like a presidential person.