You know, I'm sick of the "he was sick" excuse. When I was a kid, every day I didn't do my homework and was anxious, I got ill in 5 minutes. Really ill. My best cure for Axl would be rehearsal.

On the other hand he could have skipped the "difficult" songs. He was only bad on SCOM and Patience. That was acceptable. But his awful WTTJ performance even made the music sites here. One of the titles was "You haven't heard a shittier Welcome to the Jungle". Sad but true. And it wouldn't have happened with a bit more self-criticm at least.

Nobody said it, but some insinuated. I can only wonder that some people need to see a benefit show to realize that other people are facing enormous and sometimes unbearable problems.

Anyway, back to the debate about the magical performance.  
Beside Axl's utter shit singin', the players sounded good. Especially Bumble did a great job. I liked this version of Better instrumentally and Jungle had great musical moments, too. They could be an interesting band under different circumstances.

It's not true. They don't sing and run for 2 and a half hours every day in their living room, right, but they do practice. Most of them have a teacher a few times a week and they practice on their own the other days.

As far as I know they did play it during the Guitar Center Session. But the first time played for a crowd, for sure.

Sounds great, thanks!

Billboard is not that read, but it has the power to make the interview worldwide.
Spinner... I wouldn't call that an interview. Del James is not a journalist, he's Axl's publicist and tour manager. That was more like an official GN'R press release in an "interview" format.