I would have used Robin as the Rhythm player and let him play an occasional lead - such his stuff on Better, SOD etc.

Sort of like Brad Whitford - he isn't joe perry but yet plays quite a few of the more memorable leads.

I think Robin's CD solos were pretty good, but he simply wasn't good at emulating slash's parts. I'm not sure if it was by design or simply that he didnt have the chops...but it was a major problem considering something like 90% of the set was Slash parts.

They could have left the Slash leads to someone more suited to the style, then let Robin do his lead licks on the 'new' songs.

I think this would have got the band over a lot better with the general public...a huge amount of the "Axl and the guys who aint slash" reviews were simply because the guitar parts often sounded worse than local cover bands.

Yeah at the time Slash was selling it to the media as a project he did to fill in time before they all regrouped for GNR.

In retrospect I guess it does look like why not just make a GNR album then, but I agree at the time it was very much treated as a side project because Slash is a workaholic rather than the end of GNR.

I also didn't really like the question about 5'oclock where he said Axl and Duff rejected the material and does slash now agree with them. Slash kinda avoided it by saying they were just things he worked on rather than ever officially GNR. Aside from the fact that that is not the way it's presented in either his own book or duffs - or Axl's chats - I really didn't like the question - it kinda suggested that 5'oclock is somehow an inferior album out of Slash's solo stuff.

If anything I think time has shown those songs should have been GNR songs...

Myself I think it's one of his best albums, and I absolutely think those riffs if they'd been able to co-operate with Axl to alter the songs would have made a killer AFD-style record. Axl says slash insisted he sing them as is and was given no chance to work on them, Slash says Axl wasn't interested in them and he didn't want to waste another few years tinkering. Probably both true in some way. But in any event...the guitar playing on that album is very GNR.

Not really...by many accounts there's only a few songs in the vault that had finished vocals....those would be good...but I wouldn't be surprised if Axl is unable to perform live at all in a few more years.

Just like Ac/Dc I think they have literally one more 3-5 year cycle in them and that's it.

This is probably one of my favourite shows ever. Great story great actors.

I always felt though that it kinda lost its way a little bit by the end - although the writing overall is some of the best ever on TV - I felt it got a bit patchy here and there.

Like Tony's gambling problem felt like it came out of nowhere, its realistic he may have had an issue with gambling, but it seemed to suddenly develop with no clue in previous seasons. The artsy dream sequences were kinda a cool twist to get in tony's head but I felt it went a bit far when whole episodes devoted to surrealism. There's also a couple of smaller side story threads that seem to start then don't develop into anything which is kinda weird.

Love the show though.

I'm excited for it.

Love the whole franchise.

Sort of glad to see it go back to it's roots too - like the Zombie ones were fun in their own way for something different but I much prefer this to a 3rd zombie version.