You don't care about a new album? Or are you just thinking short term? That's really the only thing I hope to get from him at some point.

Lol, no offense to you but that mindset from the festival guys is so stereotypical backwards eastern european country. That cheap, trying to sell you some fake crap you always get in the gullible rich westerner tourist areas.

That depends. Axl is still in GN'R, he is not. And we can be pretty sure he wanted/wants to.

But as far as the media goes, you're totally right. He's played that far, far better than Axl. I think it's becoming a little more apparent why he hates him so much. Axl is an exceptionally unpopular figure among the general public, and a large part of that has been facilitated by Slash. CD is not perfect, but it's also ridiculously underrated because of this situation.

Also, with Axl being mostly absent Slash pretty much had free reign with regards to the rest of the band. Perhaps that goes to explaining part of why there appears to be 4 against 1 in a lot of perceptions.

That being said, Axl revels in being the faultless victim. I'm 28 and I think that's a pretty immature position for somebody at my age, not to mention somebody in their 50s.

Okay, fair enough. Bad analogy.

There's still a difference though. Like, they're not saying Axl held a gun to their head. I'll just take your examples at the top of my head:

1. If you're referring to the release dates I don't think those can be considered lies, or at least, can't be proven as such. There are a multitude of events that could change plans, and from what we hear from different people this is not at all an unreasonable assumption in this case. It's also a very stupid lie, cause you're 100% going to get caught.

2. Don't really know about this one.

3. According to you they're all liars, so why not? Not like they don't have reason to gang up on him. But this is a good case of where the stories can be attributed to what I talked about. I just don't see the damning evidence.

4. This could surely be due to lack of memory and filling in the blanks. The guy doesn't even remember he was in Chechoslovakia.

I'm with you that they skew and omit facts to paint things in a certain light. If you want to call that pure lies I don't have a real problem with it, but the point I'm trying to make is that after reading a whole lot of interviews and Duff and Slash books one of them comes off a lot worse than the others and that's Slash.

- he brags about driving piss drunk and deliberately hitting another car
- a lot of unanswered questions when one of his friends OD'd and died with him
- cheats on his wives and girlfriends, doesn't seem to think it's particularly wrong
- never takes responsibility
- afraid of confrontation preferring to talk behind the back and let problems grow and grow without ever dealing with them
- leaves the band as an ultimatum (leaving the rest of them, not just Axl, in the mud on the eve of a major follow up album),
- DIES in the middle of a tour,
- tries to weasel himself back into the band while still in VR, then lies to his new band and the press about what happened,
- stars in every commercial venture that's offered to him (bad rap, bad pop, tv commercials, mtv shows with fucking jamie foxx - playing GN'R songs no mind).
- and if you ask me, have done fuck all to evolve as a musician or even record decent material.

Loving his work is totally fair, I do to and I'd still love for him and Axl to record something again, but the way Axl is portrayed as this massive bad guy, ten inches above all the rest just doesn't fly. At the very least they're fipping a coin on the asshole factor.