LEAST LIKELY SCENARIO
Beta mediates between Axl & Slash to end the feud.
Beta master minds the reunion.
Slash spends 8 months with Axl, Izzy & Duff going through each others vaults.

They find a quiet country mansion and set up a studio.
They complete an album in two weeks.
Its a global smash.
They go out on tour for two years.
Everybody is happy.
The End.

Man oh man Axlin, you sound beaten down brother.
Watching a parent go through an evil illness when they have done nothing to deserve such pain is a bastard, I've been there with my own mother but she got through.

My father had an accident two years ago and his short term memory is now gone. He can't drive without my mother to guide him as he gets lost in the town he grew up in (he's 73).

This is a man that can tell you where he was on 5th December 1951 but couldn't remember being at his brothers funeral the week before.

He's frightened, and to hide that fear he's grumpy, putting people down and getting very edgy. The man I worshipped is gone forever and I just have to accept that.

If we were to be brutally honest, nature wants us making babies at 12 and get off the stage at about 40. That was good enough for thousands of years.
We live so well compared to our ancestors we are literally defying nature. If this was 1813, my Dad would be dead about 20 years at this stage and I'd have about 8 years of natural life left.

I am seriously thinking of just reading some of the Dali Lama's books as apparently they help you come to peaceful terms with this kind of shit.

Any body up to speed on his work?

I think people forget that Slash is just a guitar player. He's not Jimi Hendrix who explored the lead vocalist role. His voice is limited to his instrument and his abilities around that.

Every guitar player I can think of has a sound and a style that, no matter how hard they try, they actually become more like themselves as the years go by, right form the blues guys..Joe Perry & Slash to the metal guys..Dimebag & the boys in Slayer, Kirk & James..to the avand guard..Vai & Satriani....and even guys like the Edge.
No matter how much experimentation they did, it came back to their style.

Slash is a global icon in 2012, despite having left his band that defined him in 1995..that is an incredible achievement.

I also have issues with aspects of his work to date but if I'm to be honest, I'm just heaping too much expectation upon him because Axl isn't there to enjoy also.

Steak is great but Surf & Turf is even better and that's what the two boys were.

These guys have twice the balls that the likes of Izzy ever had in interviews.

DJ admits he once hated parts of Axl's opus to Steph.
Bumble admits he hates the late starts and the solos.

Fair deuce to them, it also goes to show that a level of comfort has settled into this band and that these guys don't come across as measured gagged and controlled as they used to.

My only gripe is the comment about the old members bagging on Axl in the press...I ask it all of the time....WHERE?...PLEASE SHOW ME...

Where the FUCK was this interview 4 years ago?

I am a shameless GNR reunionist but these guys have earned their right to be called GNR band members and I hope they get to do at least an album with the band before they die of old age.