They only made the right decision if they knew they weren't going to do a damn thing to promote it. 

Thank you, I was hoping someone would finally lead it down this road.  They had no intention of ever promoting this album.  None.  Axl is covering his ass legally by saying they planned this and planned that but it didn't work out.  There was never any intention of promoting it, it was rushed strictly for financial reasons before anybody could back out of it.  That's why the booklet is fucked up, the LP is fucked up, the mixing is fucked up, etc.  The record company really must have had Axl by the balls to force them down this road with what he intended to be his masterpiece.  So now he has to talk about the next album...

It's ok that he chose the money over the art.  I really don't have a problem with that unless he's going to complain about how it was received, promoted, etc.  It's totally ok that he took the money, but don't try to pretend otherwise when things don't go as well as they could have.

Then you'd go to BB to get it.  It's really that simple.

Yes, it would have sold more at WalMart.  But Axl chose to go with BB, Axl chose not to promote it, and Axl chose to have the band be what it is.  Axl made all these choices.  Nobody forced it on him.  So no matter what you want to blame for the lack of sales whether it's best buy, the quality of the music, the lack of promotion, the band members, the manager, the record company, etc, it all goes back to Axl making those decisions.

I agree with this.  I haven't gone out defending Slash against anything Axl says and I'm one of the biggest Slash supporters out there.  I don't think Axl said anything wrong or offensive.  He said how he feels.  There's no Slash bashing in any of the posts any more than there's Axl bashing in Slash's book. 

They obviously still have some respect for each other from a musical standpoint and love and appreciation for the music they were able to create together.  Beyond that, there are a lot of negative feelings on both sides about things that may or may not have happened that are keeping the sides apart.  That's ok.  If Axl doesn't ever want to work with Slash because of what happened or what he perceives happened, who am I to tell him otherwise?  Any negative comments that I read about Slash were directed at things more than they were at Slash himself.  The people around him that tried to manipulate him, the lawyers, etc.  He takes very few direct jabs at Slash other than how he markets himself, which is really none of Axl's business. 

Axl seems to believe that Slash uses Axl to promote himself.  I don't know that I agree, but that's what he believes.  If Axl were fielding questions from the media the way Slash does, he may feel differently since he'd be asked about Slash all the time.  It goes with the territory.  McCartney probably still fields questions about John.  But Axl sees it as using him or the GnR legacy (which Slash helped create) to promote himself.  One could argue Axl is doing the same thing, but whatever.