Looper - Meh. Plot is pretty ridiculous. Bruce Willis plays himself again.

Triangle - Better twist on the time travel genre.

DKR - Disappointing.

Nixon - Maybe Stone's last truly good movie. Though he only gets 2 scenes Hagman is electrifying.

Total Recall Remake - Joke.

Obviously not. If he wants to slam a fellow musician (while claiming he's not) for recognizing his talent at an early point in his career and giving him a break, sure feel free. Yeah, terrible boss, even throwing him a friendly hello in the hallway. I've had mid level bosses who wouldn't even do that.

It doesn't help that his opinion is total bs either. Axl was a late mofo with unusual antics sure, but him not coming out and putting on a massive show was a rarity. Despite the myths the times he actually caused abrupt cancellations can be counted on a hand or two.

But that's a good, nice story. He could have used that angle here too, but for whatever reason decided to put a malicious spin on it. Like Axl was some kind of detrimental force to the band.

The big difference is it's not a celebration of him, it's of a collective of persons. With many versions in both past and present. Two of which have an ongoing, unprecedented beef. Is it so unfeasible that he didn't want the avoidable tension with one of his (volatile) friends that it would surely lead to? Maybe coupled with the amputated feeling of it all by not having the lead singer there? It's not like this is family or close colleagues he's turning down either, it's a promotional event very much like any other.

And there are not many supporters in this instance. What has this support been? If you're talking about all the people working on the sidelines they get paid to do so, and expect to be. If you're talking about fans they paid for a musical high, and they have it for as long as there's electricity in the stereo. They're not giving him a monthly allowance or anything like that. They're basically expecting a refill.

Would any of them or even any of us be there for him if he didn't have something to offer? The Hall itself is just trying to boost their bottom line by lending the bankability of others to put on a profitable show. They've had nothing to do with Izzy's career and he certainly doesn't owe them anything. Nor the collection of mostly strangers that choose to attend and watch it, for their own purely selfish reasons.

What is it that you want here anyway? Would having Izzy there really have been all that a redeeming factor for missing Axl in the first place? Apart from Steven there's not anything there you can't get on a semi regular basis already. Even if the magical happened and Axl showed up it'd still just be a few okeish performances of songs you've heard a thousands times and you'd be right back with new gnr and Axl hating Slash again. You want them to go up there and lie to us?

In most other cases I'd agree with you. Go up there and just have a good time for yourselves and the fans. But this GN'R thing is extremely particular. We weren't really surprised when this thing turned into a clusterfuck, were we? With all that bad air looming I really don't see why it's so hard to accept that emotionally this might not at all have felt right to Izzy.

And again, with Axl a no show the air is already fizzled out of the balloon so I just don't see what the drama is about. Feels a little like you're just redirecting you disappointment over the whole thing to an available target. If that's the case I just want to say, he's the only guy who could be called at semi member of the band at this point. He's been doing several gigs with Axl and seems to be on good terms with him. A return in some capacity certainly seems a lot more likely than in the past. And I doubt it's the 10k or whatever they slip him that motivates him.

I'm sure he enjoys to perform for the fans. Only without all the drama. Guy doesn't like drama and has decided he can afford not to. Could be as simple as that, and I don't see why we shouldn't respect that.

Thousands of people want Rhianna to take her clothes off (or the few that she had to begin with), that doesn't make her obligated to do it. Nor is the request any less selfish just because it's supported by thousands of others. It's not a democracy.

It might be hard for him to a degree we don't realize, or he may just be a careless prick. We don't know. But I wouldn't label it out of the realm of possibility that his reasons for going had something to do with what he considers GN'R in that particular setting, and he reclined out of principle once he found out everybody wasn't going (and/or possibly friendship to Axl). I don't see anything particular invalid about that position.

But that's just your opinion. Your vision of what it should be about. Going to award shows is not necessarily in the job description of a musician. I as a fellow fan certainly do not consider it to be. I want music, made in the studio, on some sort of storeable medium. Everything else is just a bonus. Both approaches are valid of course, but you shouldn't blame him when something doesn't fit in a world you yourself essentially created (or, along with others, chose to believe in).

Slash, Duff, Matt and Steven have absolutely nothing to lose by attending this. You could include Izzy in that as well, but since he refused he at least appears to have personal reasons. Impossible to say if they knew this beforehand, but what did that performance really gain? The joy of seeing some of the old guys make tribute to the glory days or the realization how hollow it feels without Axl and Izzy and the anger that goes along with that? I don't know, but a lot of fans appear to have mostly negative feelings associated with the HOF.

Maybe Izzy saw that once he knew Axl wouldn't be there. It's possible.

I'm sure he still has to attend to his bills and personal relations. Just because he didn't want to do this totally external event doesn't make him a toddler. It's not like he made a deal with you back when you bought AFD that he would participate in these fan friendly events later. He charged you 10 bucks for the record, and that's that. I mean, by your line of reasoning he should rejoin GN'R and make a badass 80s record because millions of fans surely would want that. Yeah it be nice, but so? Is that reason to cast negative judgement on a man just because he played on a few cassettes you bought 20 years ago?

Playing with GN'R pleases thousands of fans and most importantly, it doesn't hurt anybody. And perhaps you're right, perhaps he doesn't give a fuck about all this "what is GN'R" thing anymore and he's just hanging out for a good time and a paycheck. But then your argument that he didn't go because he couldn't be bothered doesn't fly either, as he obviously intended to go when he waited to see if Axl would be there first.

So if it isn't about flakiness or real gn'r, it might just be about the fact that once Axl is absent that is what people will focus on, and he'd be singled out even more if all 4 of them had attended. It just creates a lot of bullshit and certainly not the celebratory feeling it's supposed to be about. Maybe he just didn't want to be a part of that.

Possibly, but if a project with Slash doesn't take off again he's back to doing nightclubs. The GN'R gig guarantees him income for maybe 30 years (from then). And he'd still be able to do stuff in down times.

He's never said he regretted it so it's only speculation, but he never came off as a guy that cared a whole lot what the music was, and it isn't like CD would be alien to him. That and the whole way things went down smelled of expecting Axl to eventually cave and bring him and Slash back. At least that was Slash' intention. He's the replacement drummer, what's the point of making "a stand"?