Me too.

Interesting thing to me is it seems like a "no brainer" in terms of the ease of creation - There's already full Axl vocal tracks lying around (possibly even revised versions in the case of "This I love") and Slash could record his parts in a matter of a week or so given how fast he works.

It would be very simple to whip up an EP or maybe use 3 or 4 re-done songs as part of a larger box set or collection or something.

Great stuff thankyou!!!!

I  agree completely with most of what you said.

However, although they were both the "replacements" for the UYI tour, I don't see Gilby and Matt as comparable.

1. Gilby was removed from the band when Axl disliked his musical stuff. Matt was quit/fired for the band for standing up to the slash bashing. There was never a musical doubt about matt and the slash hate is over.

2. Matt got the nod for VR when Gilby didn't. Again to me this shows that Slash/Duff like Axl before them seemed to think Matt has more of the "The Right Stuff" than Gilby.

3. Gilby doesn't play on anything except TSI, and Matt as I ranted about in the other thread plays on the UYI records as well, and is far more important to the sound.

So although they joined at the same time, Sorum outranks Gilby by quite a bit IMO.

However, I guess from Slash's solo band example, it might be easier to use employees and not have to spend the $ that an equal would bring. It's a shame though as I would like to see GNR be more of an old school band and less of side project.

Maybe. Although I don't think there's the bad blood people think there is. I'd say Frank got the nod because he was already in the band when Slash and Duff came back and there was no reason to get rid of him. But next time the position comes up naturally - like if Frank gets sick of touring or is injured or anything, I'd say Matt is a significant chance to get the call over an unknown.