Choose your words better, fanboy, otherwise it'd look like an insult.

Both of them mean nothing for me. Nothing. They're replacable sidemen who are playing with two of my biggest heroes. I couldn't care less about them, that's it. None of them wrote any song that I would like. I'm a Guns N' Roses fan and Tommy Stinson didn't add more to my fanboyism than Todd Kerns.

I don't care about industry reputation, I'm glad you do. I do think though that noone in the industry got ecsatitc when heard that 'Tommy Stinson played guitar on the street'. News of the year. For you maybe, but if you left your Stinsonite rock for a few hours, you'd get a better picture of the world. You come and tell others to shut up, cause Tommy played on the streets of London. Like the world would have stopped. I sincerely wished you fun with it, but I dared to express that it wasn't ground-breaking or earth-shattering news. Had Izzy or Axl done that, I'd have been interested. Tommy? No, thanks.

I think that neglecting the HOF which a LOT OF FANS thought to be 'their honour' (even Axl managed to get this), because it's 'too corporate' and 'you'd be a sell-out doing this' is ridiculous, when you make guest appearances for serious money at the 'same' band's shows. This argument doesn't hold water.

I'm not mad at Izzy, just wish his blind worshipping would end. Cause there is nothing suggests that he'd be too cool when it comes to making money with minimal efforts. He didn't go to the HOF, cause Axl said no. Simple as that. He didn't have any financial reason to do the HOF, cause nobody's buying his records, anyway. Maybe he was negotiating a contract with the Axl camp about the UK tour back then, who knows. I don't give a damn. He can 'take Axl's side', whatever it means. I don't think that he'd have done it in the past months, his actions and non-actions don't prove that. I also don't think that 'taking Axl's side' would mean he finally agrees with taking the name, turning the band into a dictatorship, turning friendships into business, then making it this pseudo band, that supposed to be the same that wrote AFD. It's not hard to imagine that contrary all of this, Izzy is still friends with Axl at some capacity, and even more if he gets money to live his recluse, yet gypsy lifestlye.

I only have enough of the 'Izzy's the man' shit. No, he's not. Not more than any other of the classic band, minus Steven.

Agree. For most softcore rock fans (and last time I saw them in 2006 there were a lot teenage girls) it's the band that had SCOM, NR, Don't Cry, Paradise City and a couple of other huuuuge hits. Plus, it has the NAME. Even half of Queen is doing quite well with the name and a Freddie impersonator. Some people are willing to buy the illusion, if they can't buy the real deal for some reasons. Better than nothing and it still can be a really good night.

Review: Slash – Apocalyptic Love

Written by: Sion Smith
http://the-void.co.uk/music/album/revie … -love-343/

Man, I really don’t like that album title. It’s got a real early nineties feel to it and that’s too long ago to be hip and cool like it needed to be. Good thing that we can all see past a measly gripe like that then huh?

This is one stinking great rock n roll album. I’m having some problems separating Myles Kennedy from his own band but I’m trying very hard. I wonder why that is though. I was OK – positively over the moon – with the Velvet Revolver set-up, never thought twice about it. Maybe it’s because Scott has a huge identity and Myles still has his id pegged up with Alter Bridge. I don’t know… I’m walking away from this train of thought. It’s too inconsequential to be hammering to death…

Let’s move along. So what are you looking for in a Slash album? Hair bludgeoning riffs that sound like Slash is on fire and still hungry? Check. A shit-ton neutron bomb of great rock n roll songs because he’s just about the only guy left standing who can pull it off and have us all hanging on every move? Check.

If I were to say that every song on here is a viable single/radio release, no lies would be spilling from my mouth. What can I tell you. Slash is on top of his game, the album is damn near perfect and (bar the album title) I wouldn’t change a thing about it even if I was in charge of his career.

So why do I sound slightly less than enthusiastic. The album alone is as I said above. Put that to one side and what now?

Well, I don’t want to hear maybe VR will be back together in the future. Don’t need to hear GnR mentioned ever again in relation to him. I really dig his work with guest singers dropping by. I love Snakepit. I love this. Yep – I pretty much dig everything Slash has laid his hands on, but shadows keeps cropping up and throwing dark patches over his legacy. This album and line-up is quite capable of being bigger than that shadow and I think it needs to be a band effort/situation to get the full lemon in the eye out of it.

I’m obviously having some trouble accepting that a guitarist can lead a band into the arena and make it authentic. Still, all that is just me waxing lyrical in the absence of me telling you just how great a rock n roll album this album is yet again.

It’s Slash. What the hell did you expect?