They'd need to bury the hatchet first, and go through months of psychological treatment to sort out the shit. A disastrous reunion would be a nightmare.

Replace SCOM with Rocket Queen, and there goes my list.

Sorry, but I don't believe that even the long time dead John  Lennon can be more productive in the 2000s than Axl. If he wanted to release music, he could have done it.

1, I'm not sure about Uni forcing the reunion so badly that they wouldn't release something _already recorded_ that would still sell relatively well (compared to other artists). No further invest, big income = ideal deal for them.

2, Axl could play a shitload of unheard songs live. Would it spread through the Internet? Yes, it would. But only those would listen, who actually care and would buy the album anyway.

3, Axl could release any shit he wants under his name. He wouldn't need to promote it, wouldn't need to tour behind it (he could go on with his nostalgia cash grab).

4, Axl could release it through the Internet, or like some fake "leak".

An artist wants to create and does create. An artist, if not a crazy recluse would release it in some form. Axl was anything but a recluse in the past years with his tribute world tours. An artist, especially with the amount of money Axl has, wouldn't be so worried about the financial aspect. He would care about the artistic aspect though. Axl seems to care too much about the financial issues (making, relasing new music is expensive and risky, while nostalgia tours make a lot of money). The nostalgia tours of the past years are more of a prostituation of himself than any real reunion could be.

Face the facts.

1, Axl has been touring the old hits for years.

2, Axl hasn't put soul, work, anything into it. It's the same shit every night with a new 40-year old cover popping up every second year.

3, The bandmembers look like cheap copies of the old band. Even the shows are promoted with nostalgia artwork. They hire strippers, for God's sake. They "revisit" The Ritz.

4, No work on new material since 2006. Officially.

1+2+3+4= he has no motivation to do anything new and artistic in the foreseeable future.

Also, monkey, take into consideration that as Axl's mind and music taste changed in the past, it could have changed again. Maybe he doesn't care anymore about that industrial stuff they recorded more than a decade ago. Maybe he's more interested in revisiting his youth and wants to make a classic rock album with DJ and Fortus.

Exactly. Some fans have this habit connecting everything Slash does or would do to financial issues. C'mon, we are talking about a guy, who has just established himself as one of the strongest and most successful touring acts in the rock business, almost from scratch. (If anyone says that he was in a good position after the Libertad fail, then I will give negative karma for utter stupidity.) Since he has a proper band around him and he's happy with them, he has radically lowered his guest appearances. I guess some hasn't realized this.

So back to Slash's motivations for a reunion.

First, Slash had some of his best and _happiest_ years of his career in GN'R. I think he would like to revisit that experience (except the junk, be it drugs or drama).

Second, he's a musician and knows that his best work was GN'R. Any musician with ambition would like to recreate (try to recreate) that wonder.

Third, he's a human being. The on-going feud surely hurts him on an emotional level. Not on a daily basis, I'm sure, but he'd much happier with closing those times, those lost friendships in a cilized way. And their common language was music.

Fourth, financial issues.