Seriously, it'd be properly awesome if Pittman learned how to play that thing - he could rock out at the front of the stage with the rest of the band.

Well, I spoke to Bumble a while back, and he said he's having killswitches put in all his guitars so he can play the Buckethead solos more accurately.

Mick Jagger doesn't shriek his lungs out on every song, though.

Indeed.

I'll pay up to see the new band; I like what they do, they're good musicians and put on a damn good show. Indeed, I actually prefer their take on the old GN'R material (and I'm a little bummed that Robin's out of the band).

Having said that, if Axl and Slash were playing a gig together, I would move heaven and Earth to be there. I missed out during the 80s and 90s, never got to see them live.

I think they both bear some responsibility for how things turned out - Axl shouldn't have dumped Gilby for Huge without consulting the other guys, and certainly shouldn't have added Huge's licks to Slash's Sympathy solo... but conversely, Slash clearly has a bit of an ego thing going on.

It isn't just the Slash & Friends gig - at every Camp Freddy show he turns up for, he unceremoniously boots Navarro into the background so he can do his Big Solo. From GN'R through to Velvet Revolver, he doesn't let his second guitarist hog the limelight for a second - the only solo spots I can recall are Izzy's Nightrain solo and Kushner's trading licks with Slash on the live outro to Set Me Free (which, incidentally, makes a mockery of Slash's claim that the Sympathy call-and-response licks were "cheesy").