Nice one, he comes across really classy in that interview. Shame that people onl;y want to talk Gnr in interviews but then I think it just reflects what most readers are interested in.

Hi Duffyroze/Beth, and welcome!

Well an alternate way to look at this would be, musicians have massive, MASSIVE egos, so if Axl brought in a superstar shithot guitarist and immediately started to plan tours, releases etc and had their work all over his new album, they've got him over a barrel and he'd have to concede to every demand they made, or they'd threaten to walk out and leave him back where he started.

I think they guy likes to have creative control a lot and it seems like he faced a situation like the one I outlined above with the old band, maybe he just wants to avoid getting involved with it again?

Any guitarist who's really a-list in that world is gonna be someone who has their own strong ideas, and instead of contributing them evenly like it seems the current lineup do, they could be on an ego-trip to make GnR theirs, to stamp their personality all over it.

I can get why that's not so appealing, he's been through a lot to retain control of GnR (rightly or wrongly, whatever) and probably doesn't fancy inviting in someone so distinguished and indispensible that he faces losing all that control yet again unless he gives them free rein.

Finally I saw the new band in 2006 and believe me there was NOTHING in my opinion second-rate about them., Fortus was actually one of the best performers I've ever seen and I mean EVER,he really rocked out and pissed all over Slash's "standing still with fag and hat" schtick...:cool:

Lily Allen raked in the applause for being one of the first artists to go mainstream after being a success on MySpace, now she's griping that people didn't all go offline when it suited her and buy-buy-buy. Well tough luck, you can't just expect the internet to work for you and never against you.

I don't like her, I admit (though LDN was a catchy tune) - she's a fake cockney who was sent to one of the poshest school in the Uk, and I can't get behind any artists who tries to claim cred by being what they're not.

Spaniels can be snappy, I'd vote for a lab-cross of some kind. Any dog that was bred to hunt or work in some way is going to need a lot of attention, crossbreeds do have less genetic issues which will count down the line when the dog (who you'll all be in love with by then, believe me) starts to get old.

male dogs in my experience are no more difficult than females, and neutered males can be even more affectionate - don't forget dogs live in a brutal world (hence the saying "dog eat dog" lol) so the females aren't passive or recognisably feminine by human standards. hope that's not offensive, but a family friend helps out at a rehoming kennel and the male dogs get passed over a lot because of that misconception about them.