Well the reason I loved it so much, is because it was time I ever saw Guns N' Roses.

That video made me discover them.

Ehh, I disagree. Reading Slash's book, by that 1994-96 period, Slash seemed to be at that stage where you could tell that there was no love lost between the two, and was bordering on hatred, mainly because of career decisions Slash was making outside of Guns, without Axl's consent (not that it was any of his fucking business).

Slash in his book also conveniently skirted all of the VERY negative interviews he was doing at the time in relation to GN'R, which was in turn directly related to Axl. At that point, GN'R had both had Izzy & Steven both publically slamming them, and now Slash was turning, whom Axl considered a brother. Even if Axl was the bad guy in it, Slash's behavior didn't help anything, and just drove them further apart.

Slash left those parts out of his book.

Especially if Axl felt that bringing his good friend Paul in (as a favor) for replacing Gilby, whom he could write with, and Axl had previously brought in Paul songs and thought it was okay. Axl might've looked at it as he had the best intentions, and because Gilby was shown the door without Slash's consent, Slash decided to show his ass, and publicly denounce Paul, which then put Axl into a very compromising situation.

I still think this "personal" beef that Steven Tyler spoke is rooting somewhere in the Slash/Paul dynamic from that mid-90's period.

This.

I think the reason Axl's so venomous and personal attack back towards Slash was there (and vice versa), but especially Axl was because Axl loved Slash so much that he felt Slash quitting was a huge betrayal. A band is like a marriage, and from Axl's perspective by leaving the partnership in 1995, taking the name with him, but offering Slash & Duff a full partnership in his new arrangement, was Axl going out of his way to throw a bone to two junkies ('cause they were trainwrecks during that period) and keeping the light of GN'R on.

When Slash balked and made everything difficult with IFOCS, the 1995 GN'R album, and the new Uzi Suicide deal, Axl probably saw it as going out of his way to coddle Slash, only to have Slash to spit in his face, THEN have Slash go play the media game against Axl for the next 7-10 years.

If that was his perspective, I don't blame him. I would've hated Slash's fucking guts too.

Here's to hoping it's all behind them and that 2016 will be the resurrection of their friendship... at least on stage and in-studio that is.

We obviously all knew this was coming, but I don't get all the secrecy with these guys at all. Why is it such a huge secret for Fortus & Reed to be apart of a reunited GN'R?

You would think if camp GN'R would've made everything so super-secret, they would've announced Axl, Richard, Dizzy & Chris, and then went dark, and let speculation mount about Slash, Duff, and Steven/Matt.

You loved Hateful Eight for it's Sergio Leone-esque style, but yet haven't finished Django Unchained? Haha.

Django is a fucking masterpiece. That whole bit with Leo, Jamie & Samuel L. Jackson, when Django comes up there and the black plantation hand tells Jamie, "Nigga get off that horse!", and Leo tells Samuel, "No no, you can't say that to him... he's a free-man!", and Jackson looks at him and looks back at Django, "Nigga get off that horse", Leo, "no no, you can't say that he's a freeman"

Puts me in stitches every time. The Don Johnson bit with all the Klan members trying to posse up to run up Django, but none of their sheets are right and they want to be home for dinner, and all that shit is a riot too.

I really thought Tarentino was VERY overrated over the years. Never got the hype. Django Unchained was the first flick of his I saw, that was just blown away by. VERY VERY good. With Kurt Russell, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins all in Hateful 8, I have no doubt it's great. I'd watch those three read a phonebook.

Yeah I was exhausted when I posted that.

Billboard, sorry.