I have no sympathy, it's lazy business management again. Axl also wanted VR off the game which was childish and vindictive.
Walk on home boy!

I think this exerpt from an old interview says it all to me. Here Axl is discussing Izzy's departure and his move to being the top dog in the band.

MUSICIAN: Does that take something out of the band? It seems as if Guns N' Roses has gone from being a shared vision to being your vision. Is that fair?

AXL:

"Yeah, it's somewhat fair. That's definitely the case with Izzy. Izzy wanted the financial rewards and the power rewards of my vision. Izzy's vision was much smaller. The other guys in the band just thought I was crazy. In order to make certain things happen, certain people had to think certain ideas were completely their own. I definitely knew what I wanted. I didn't know quite how to get there. And sometimes the only way to have everybody going the same place is to allow them to think that they're the ones who thought of it. It's not so much that way anymore and it's been real difficult to uncover that reality. It's been hard for people to accept. But it has been a basic reality of Guns N' Roses since the beginning. It just wasn't seen. Because I wasn't someone who had all the answers and all the plans, I just had a vision. I wasn't necessarily someone that people wanted to follow blindly and say, "He's got the plan, let's go." I've finally earned respect from Duff and Slash that wasn't necessarily fully there before. And Slash and I, more than anyone else, are very much a team."

The term "the power rewards of my vision" never left me after I read it. Axl saw GNR as the realisation of his vision which he felt gave him the right to all of the power; I bet Doug really talked that shit up too. I think Axl believed that just having the "vision" was enough, he admits himself above that he couldn't plan how to execute the vision. I bet Doug promised him he'd take care of that part,  This tee'd up the exit of Duff and Slash as they (rightly) wanted a say in how the band evolved.

Doug's, creepy crawling letter shows me just what kind of a man he is... He was told by Axl he had replaced Izzy and I bet he figured he'd replace Slash & Duff while he was at it. Axl was so busy with his "art" and his "visions" that he was happy to let this man do the dirty work to enure the "visions" became reality. This would explain Slash's very public loathing of Doug.
Axl bought Doug's BS and ended up with a monster legacy that he couldn't carry alone.

Locomotive and Coma!
If there is a God!

People, there's no point in members going at each other over personal taste...its what makes the world go around.

Plus, every one of our heros in this band (old and new) are old and and loosing pieces of what they were that made us love them, some more than others (I'm looking at you Axl Rose) but still, we don't know what's up there. It could be food adddiction, booze, pills, meds, thyroid failure, diabetes...who the fuck knows....?

To get to some of the many topics in this thread...

Myles is technically brilliant but like many of you I find the nasal quality really annoying. He should do what Mike Patton did between The Real Thing and  Angel Dust, retrain your voice and get rid of that bad timbre.

Each to their own though...he is working at the highest level in the Rock Industry and seems like a nice bloke so hats off to him.

regarding asking Slash back...

1.
After RNRHOF Slash said he was "done" with the whole thing. I don't believe Slash has it in him to tour for 2 years on a knife edge with a lead singer that may or may not show or worse, turn on him half way through the trip. I bet he's making plenty of $$$ without Axl Rose being in his life.

2.
No man from the old GNR will take ANY orders from Team Brazil. After the way they hung Slash out to dry when he showed up at the house looking to meet Axl, I doubt Slash would even entertain a call from those people. Likewise, I would not expect a mature adult and astute businessman like Duff swallow that turd burger either.

3.
Who the fuck wants to work with people in their thirties, forties and fifties who keep lists of their "enemies" or "devils" ?

4.
What record company / promoter would lay down €150M in advance for this tour at this time? Would you if you were asked? Most of those big money talks were years ago at this stage anway.

5.
What would a reunited band bring to the fan? Axl's been on the Greatest Hits tour forever..would the millions of fans turn out around the world for this AGAIN..even with the old guys?

6.
Would Axl do interviews, articles, podcasts, tweets, etc to promote this? Would he and Slash be willing to eat some crow and be gracious and decent about each other?

7.
Who would be the manager, tour manager etc?

You bundle all of that together and I just cannot see why anyone would be bothered trying to gather this thing to together and driving it home.