Which begs the almighty question - will we see an Axl/Dc album before another GNR album?

It would be funny, but given the way Axl appeared on Baz's record pre-chinese-release it's not exactly impossible either.

Mind you Angus tends to do things 5 years apart so a new record isn't really due for a bit.

Indeed he is.

He also seemed to make a few little flubs during the gig which while seemed odd, he's always been prone to the occasional mistake but generally he's been very impressive on stage these past years.

The question to me though is even if the band has chosen to speed up the songs, it's curious that they don't seem to be in proper time with each other at various places.

They don't have the cohesive feel on a single unit that VR had and GNR has had at times.

That said, the gigs are great, hopefully things will improve as they tour together more. It was just surprising.

In the long run I think it has to. Maybe not this election, but some time.

Thing as they currently are, are not sustainable in the long term future.

One way or another there is going to have to be some change and a reestablishment of the middle-class or some other type of redistribution of wealth more broadly or things will eventually entirely collapse into chaos.

I agree...but then you'd expect an Axl/Slash/Duff line up to be significantly better at replicating the classic GNR sound than DJ or Robin, after-all it was their sound in the first place.

I will state for the record that I'm loving these shows, and I'm nerding out for stuff like the cochella jungle proshot - so I can understand why some feel it's nitpicking.

That said, I won't lie, despite my enjoyment I can hear what Smoking Guns is talking about.

Normally when you see Slash and Duff together you are instantly overwhelmed at the chemistry. Look at the performance at the Rock Hall of Fame. Look at VR when they play brownstone.

There's something about the chemistry of the current line up that isn't normal - it's like they don't quite have their shit together - which is HIGHLY ODD considering the normal professionalism of guys like Frank and Richard, and how with the exception of NR and Estranged and the CD tracks, Slash has been heavily playing GNR tracks live and nailing the hell out of them the past 6 years. You would expect them to come out and devastate - as that's what they normally do - but somehow you can kind of still see the pencil lines under the ink this time - it's great don't get me wrong - but there's def something not quite right about it too.

I'm a matt fan so obviously I wonder if it's that, but then I also worry maybe Slash is losing sobriety or something, or is there some sort of dynamic going on - like there's disagreement how the songs are to go and people are passively-agresively playing them different live to rehersal. It can't just be lack of rehersal - these guys have put together amazing gigs in a matter of days before. Maybe Slash or Frank had the flu?

Something doesn't add up. We have proshots of frank playing all these songs in time a couple of years back. We have proshots of Slash playing them all perfectly a couple of years back.

Why has it changed is the question.

Don't think it was the VMA's but Axl was on TV in 1990 explaining why steven had to go. There's a clip of it in this doco: