Lol I'm not saying it shouldn't be! All the hits are from there and it makes sense with Slash and Duff rejoining. I'm just saying there's two ways they could go about this. One is to take the WWE route and erase chinese from history. Not ever mention it. Or the other is to own it and sort of bundle it in with the slash and duff stuff and just never mention they arn't on it.

I'd prefer the later route as it means we'd see Slash versions of the CD songs live, we could get stuff like special editions of the albums with new mixes, or maybe the new greatest hits will have something different with a bit of everything and so on.

I'm just saying there are 8 photos on that stand not including the logo. GNR has 6 studio records. It stood out to me.

It's notable that there's not even a picture of Chinese Democracy in the background posters on the shelf through. They've even promoted Live Era and TSI above it.....does kinda show this reunion is about a reunion rather than continuing on with Axl's band.

Excellent news. I think the guy deserves his moment in the sun.

I agree the Adler incidents are not well known, in fact, that's the first I'd seen in print about them.

That said i'm not sure they are much much worse. In terms of it happening multiple times Erin alleges Axl used to 'regularly' beat her, as does Stephanie. It's not an isolated dispute over money but a pattern of psychological (denying her house keys, money, removing doors in the home so she can have no privacy, forcing her to sleep outside) and physical (smashing her possessions, smashing up the house mirrors etc, sending her to hospital from beatings, tying her up in a cupboard and leaving her there for hours, brutally anally raping her) abuse.

There's an apologist argument that can be made for both guys: Steven was probably under the influence of drugs and might not be like that if he was sober. Axl suffers from some undiagnosed metal issue (perhaps biploar/borderline personality disorder) and was sexually assaulted as a child himself and so his response to love/sexuality might be affected by his own trauma.

I choose to focus on their art and enjoy the music despite their personal issues and hundreds of great artists over the centuries have done horrible things too. In fact I think it's rare for historically important people to have ethically clean lives - there's often some horrible side issue amongst otherwise great men and women in terms of their achievements.

However if you are going to call them out for it, I don't think it's fair to say Adler shouldn't get to play a show because he is an asshole behind closed doors when it seems there are similar stories about Axl's love life.