I thought this could play out as a bit of a clusterfuck - but shit even my imagination couldn't have expected such "monumental non-promotion".

Once again it's always somebody elses fault.

Axl is a fantastic artist but fuck me please get someone else to run the ship. Yes that may mean you will have to do shit that you don't like from time to time, but it's a small price to pay.

The curious thing to me is he has Azoff onboard, so if he is not happy with CD's delivery then either Best Buy and co breached their contract/agreement with how this thing was to be released or Azoff has screwed Axl.

I have been curious as to why Azoff appears to have got off scott free with no abuse from Axl.  He is the bands manager, surely he knew what was agreed and what wasn't.  What the role out plan was to be etc etc.  I expect Axl would have poured over the release details and agreements etc before signing off on them.  So what went wrong???

Either Best Buy or the record company hasn't held up their end of the bargain which I thought would leave Axl with some sort of recourse.  If they have held up their end of the deal then Axl and/or Azoff appear to have agreed to a shit house deal that allowed the current circumstances to eventuate??

That's a really good analogy.

What we are seeing now is that some of the "recruits" are tired of not seeing any premiership success and so they are transferring to other teams.  Others are leaving because they are not getting enough gametime to showcase their skills.

There also seems to have been a deliberate recruiting policy to ensure that the star striker is never overshadowed by another star player.  Therefor every player seems to be replaceable (3 guitarists, 2 or 3 drummers, 2 keyboardists etc etc) and they know it.  No player is guaranteed to be in the starting lineup, all could be "benched" at any time for any reason.

I dare say that the guy that's running this club never wants to be in the position again where one renegade star player (like Slash) can devestate the team if he quits.  No player will ever be allowed to be as iconic/identifiable with the team name except of course for the current player/owner.

Yeah that really surprised me, I mean nobody knew much about the Robert John shit, so why throw that out into the open???

He said Merck took forever to pay him and so he sued Axl even though Axl didn't know anything about it.  Surely RJ being mates with Axl from way back would have tried to contact him to talk about it before it apparently blew up and got so outta hand???  Maybe he couldn't get through to talk to Axl:

Why wouldn't Axl have seen him to form this opinion himself, since I thought they were really good friends?  It sounds like he was on the outer and that their relationship fractured before the suing incident took place

^ Once upon a time that was definitely the case.  Unfortunately I think that as every day passes less and less people (outside of the hardcore fanbase) care about Axl and his music/CD/New GNR.  I also detect that the care factor amongst the hardcore fanbase is also seriously nosediving.

The only thing that is always guaranteed to spark an interest is the original GNR.  Whether it's talk of a reunion or the airing of dirty laundry, that's a guarantee of magazine sales / internet website hits.

Exactly, I don't want to hear from beggars and hangars on from either camp, it's equally as bad!!! Leave it to the actual people involved to comment if they so chose.  Personally if I was Slash I wouldn't respond at all.