That's how media works. They wanna attention, they wanna sell, so they'll use anything they can find about the celebs (cause that's what most people wanna read about). Whe it comes to a recluse, it's harder to write anything, so they won't miss a chance like this.

On the other hand... if the media neglected the whole Dexter thing, people would be all over saying how much the media hates Axl, he speaks, but they don't wanna hear him.

I don't think it would have been that bad. It's not great, but an enjoyable album with its ups and downs. I've never understood those who wrote off VR, since they were good enough to worth buying their records. We're all have 'GN'R-ears' and it was close to that, although not the same experience. Same goes for CD. I cannot get the 'real deal', so it's good enough for me, better than nothing, and better than 97% of the music out there.

My bad, I got confused

I've never heard Slash playing that song, as far as I know he totally changed the solo, cause he 'wanted to do his own thing', with other words, he's not into tapping and cannot play Eddie's solo. I don't know if it was that horrible, but a stupid move by Slash, without a doubt, cause you just don't replace one of the most famous guitar solos of all time with another try. Slash should practice the word 'no', when it comes to guest appearances.

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