Apex-twin how is Axl the last remaining partnership member.

I thought the original partnership still existed today, but theoretically it would only have Slash and Duff left in it because Axl left that partnership around 1996.  He left with the name and set up a new GNR partnership/dictatorship.  He then offered Slash and Duff to join as contract employees with Slash telling him to shove it and Duff signing on for a while before leaving   

Is the above correct or am I mixing up the publishing agreement with the GNR name/band agreement?

^ Axl thinks that people see Slash (in a video game) and lump old Guns and New Guns together. 

^ Is this the first time Slash has actually articulated what Axl alledgedly said regarding the name ultimatum "give me the name or we're not going to finish the tour"?

I know for years there was the myth about not going on stage one night unless the name was signed over.  I never was able to find the quotes of where that was first started.  It also means that Axl was telling the truth in his forum chats when he said

Although if did say what Slash claims above about not touring, then whilst Axl was telling the truth in the forum chats he didn't quite disclose all the facts, it comes down to semantics.

I have suspected for a long time that Axl actually threatened not to do the UYI tour and this got bastardised into "Axl wouldn't go on stage one night unless the name was sigend over".  Slash's statement above seems to support that.

Not that it matters, it's been and gone years ago but I have always found the circumstances around it interesting.

I agree monkeychow. We may think axl is being a little bitch for allegedly making all these slash related stipulations in order for Activision to use jungle. The fact is if they agreed to them and then did what they did then you would assume he has a case and the right to go after them.

I think the derision for him and the case comes from the slash obsessed requests he made in the first instance coupled with the fact that his "team" seemed to have yet again fucked up the business side of things.

I love Gnr's music and Axl as a frontman, that has never changed. But honestly they couldn't even organize a pissup in a brewery. The way GNR operates is laughable.

Unfortunately whether Axl is right or wrong he will be made out by the media to look like an ass clown for this.

Quoting the lawsuit again:

Umm lawsuits like this tend to suggest that the rift focused on by the media is no myth and in fact it is ongoing.  It's things like this lawsuit that simply provide further tabloid fodder.