Yeah, no Izzy there.

Agreed, the guitar playing on the first Snakepit album is probably Slash's best.
I do think that Eric Dover did a great job, but he's not in Axl Rose's league for sure.

Your description is good, but IMO your assumption is not. The Illusions had basically one guitarist, cause Izzy wasn't around, according to them. It was over in his mind.
I remember an old Slash interview from the GN'R days where he complained that he had to double his guitars to have enough lines and sometimes they used old Izzy recordings from old demos.
You can hear it all over the record, except some songs, that Izzy didn't make two much effort in the collaboration. He wrote some basic tracks the others tried to explore, but the twins suffer of the absence of the great rhythm guitarist Izzy was (is?).

It's not about the mystic. It's about Axl not wanting to do anything the vicious fans or the bad, bad media can turn against him later.

Anyway, Axl never liked the media, he can't tolerate anything else than full zealot support. He lives as a recluse, so it's no wonder he doesn't tweat. What could he say? 'I watched 3 episodes of Dexter today and had a lamb for dinner' or what? Even his people are not allowed to say anything about the band, the music, or whoever had the idea of covering Christina Aguilera's Beautiful. Rant over.

I still say that setlist was posted for marketing reasons only and they didn't plan to play those songs (since it was clear the album wouldn't come out in the near future). Doesn't matter anyway.

Yeah. When they played here in Hungary in 1992, the biggest stadium of the country was almost full. They had a crowd of 60,000 people. That's still one of the best selling shows in my country, I guess it's in the all-time Top 3.

When Axl came back in 2006, they played in an arena and had a crowd of 11,000 people. That was still a good number compared to the US shows of that era.