It is. I'm picky about such things. I want the role to be demanding, but I also have to love the character to start talking about greatest ever. Maybe not fair but that's how I see it. Foster, Streep I never saw what is so impressive. Good, very good, sometimes great but neither of those would make a top ten list with me. There are a lot of good actors in Hollywood.

A role like Ginger is so hard to do without overacting. A lot of girls have done similar roles and very few are memorable. Somebody like Amy Adams can never own a scene like Sharon Stone does in that movie. It's like one of those very good MLB batters, yeah but they ain't Babe Ruth. I'll take somebody like Julia Roberts over Meryl Streep. What movie did she ever do that was so great?

Yes they should. No reason to stray from perfection.

The best solo Buckethead ever did was Madagascar in Rio. The only time he played that solo. I think that is such a waste.

Slash hasn't played a good Nightrain solo since 1993. Is he bored or does he think this is better?

There is so much foreboding in this show. Axl, Slash and Duff out front and center while Izzy retreats to a corner on the stage every time after his backing vocals. I can see why the rest of them wanted him to have a lesser cut because of his stage presence. It looks really odd, like he doesn't want to be there. You can also see the circus show the UYI tour became just waiting to burst out.

This band was too good to continue. They made it so big you just had to ride the dragon. Stevie and Izzy couldn't/wouldn't handle that pressure, while the other 3 took it on like they were born for it. Nothing destroys like success.

Axl sounds rough at times but also really good. You can tell his voice is not in the same shape in 92/93. There is more dynamism, more subtlety here.

I think Izzy's departure is overstated and Steven the opposite.

Izzy was incredibly important in the 80s. His writing is all over Appetite and Lies, including some of their biggest hits. The band isn't completely helpless without him though, composing Jungle, It's So Easy and Rocket Queen. Also Paradise City and SCOM are not mainly Izzy songs.

On UYI he is still very prominent but he's not so much writing the big guns anymore. Don't Cry and YCBM yes, but those were written in the 80s. Clean Izzy brings 14 Years, Dust N Bones, DTJ, Bad Obsession, You Ain't the First, Perfect Crime and Pretty Tied Up to the table. Good songs, a few of them great, but these are Axl and Slash's albums. Most of the big songs are written by them alone or mostly alone.

Adler's drumming was imo more important to the sound of the band than Izzy. His writing also appear to have been of a lesser quality once he got off the drugs.

I think the name was the cause of all the trouble. Axl should never have exercised his legal right to usurp the band. He was secure either way. All it did was leaving Slash resentful and going for a power play that ruined their relationship. Writing wise I think they would have been more than fine to create a kick ass album in the mid 90s. Axl, Slash and Duff have always been the real core of the band, by virtue of being the only ones willing to commit to it.