I don't disagree, but when all members universally deny it, and you know how often Axl & Slash & Duff & Izzy are all pals these days (*cue audience laughter*), that we just have to take them at their word. No real other choice.

But I do agree something happened. I always assumed it was one of two things. The old guys wanted a full commitment and Axl just wanted a couple sshows (kind of like Pink Floyd, Genesis & Led Zeppelin have done in the past), OR... Axl wanted what he wanted in 1995, them all to be contract players in his personal company which had the Guns N' Roses brand name with it, and they balked, wanted equal shares of everything due to the fact they are just as much Guns N' Roses as himself.

Reunion rumors can be tedious. Scratch that. They'™re a bitch. Jimmy Page wants more. John Paul Jones isn'™t averse. Robert Plant would rather chop-stick his eyes out, and probably will if people keep asking. And that'™s the key, isn'™t it? Keep asking.

The Police caved. Pixies caved. Pavement caved. Two versions of Black Sabbath have roamed the past decade. No Doubt, Simon & Garfunkel . . . the list is long and accordingly undistinguished. You set '˜em up, the public checks them off.

According to Kretz, he welcomed the time apart. Couldn'™t have come at a better time. 'That'™s when I started building my recording studio,'  he says from Los Angeles. 'Pretty much right away. It'™s something I'™d always wanted to do. Just found a building to do it in. Here'™s the opportunity, just jump in there to work on different bands and different projects. One of the things I was doing was music supervising for '˜The Henry Rollins Show,'™ which was great. We had Damian Marley, Slayer, Thom Yorke, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Ryan Adams, Iggy Pop '” so many great bands came through my studio and it was fun being on the creative side of a TV show.'

But it'™s a funny thing about people: They'™re the worst. It wasn'™t long before Kretz was seeing through peoples'™ phony smiles to read them mouthing, 'So, when'™s STP getting back together?'

Shooter Jennings once described Stargunn's sound as "Lynyrd Skynyrd mutating into Guns N' Roses."

No albums are available for download, nor will they ever be released according to Jennings. "That stuff is so badass that the public isn't ready for that shit! Maybe one day when the world catches up to where we were in our teens, then we will bestow upon them the magic that was Stargunn." Jennings also claims that all Stargunn material was written by an unknown source. "We just got this box on our front door step in Nashville that had all the songs we ever cut over the next 7 years in it. There are all kinds of [lyrics] backwards on those records. We had a strong message subliminally." Some people surmise that Waylon Jennings Sr. himself wrote the lyrics while extremely intoxicated, thus the seemingly backward sounding subliminal messages. It's been deduced that Waylon Jennings was more interested in the occult than previously thought.