Not at all thankfully.

Neither walker, nor the other person who is pulling stuff, has any official mandate or authority to impersonate the band's management or get anything taken down.

Yeah totally....I remember watching Rock in Rio 3 with friends who are casuals. They were interested to watch the video cos they'd been fans of the UYI era a decade earlier, but the whole thing just didn't seem like it was GNR to them.

Another big part of it was Axl's voice that night.

I have a soft spot for the RIR3 show for the atmosphere and the premiere of the new songs....BUT....if you last saw Axl in UYI tour form and you're a casual....the voice change was offputting to say the least...you could maybe recover from that by looking at the familiar faces....but no...they're swapped out for the circus....and then you're shaking your head going thinking WTF about that...when pitman's synth is cranked to insane levels and overrides even the guitars....then most people check out.

Like I say...I kinda like the show anyway....but show a casual YCBM or something from that show and they will tell you about how it isn't GNR.

It's curious that we could see this but no one near Axl dared tell him.

I think the solo projects kinda prove the point....

2012 GNR were reduced to playing theatres in the USA and doing retirement style Vegas residencies. Duff cameoed a few times with the slashless lineups and outside of a bit of "wow it was duff" music press it didn't do anything for the overall success. Add Slash back and it's an international event that runs for multiple years playing stadiums.

Axl was one of the greatest singers of all time, which bought him a lot of credit with the public, in fact it bought him so much credit that was able to actively sabotage his own career and survive. He seems to see himself as the victim of the media - but if you think about it - he was given a lot of leeway by his fans: He spent more than a decade in total isolation, he's been mostly a recluse since 1993 or so, he actively refuses to participate in most media, he took control of the band and drove out or fired the entire rest of the famous line up, has released only something like 15 songs in 30 years or whatever it is now, changed his image and that of the band to something wildly different from what made him famous, publicly bashed the old sound and old lineups, cancelled tours, actively pursued fundamentally changing the musical directon of the act and sang in a different voices from what he was famous for.

Who else could get away with that for as long? But the public gave him 30 years of "maybe this will come good" and was only getting tired of it around 2014....then as soon as he is back with Slash...all is forgiven....because what they wanted all along is that Axl/Slash combo.

Likewise it's no surprise that Slash's most successful non-GNR project was VR - where he was pitted with another well known temperamental front man in Scott. It didn't play out that well as although fun they didn't have the chemistry of a Slash/Axl combo. Slash is also able to do well with Myles who is capable of covering the GNR stuff....but again....they play smaller venues....and no one cared that slash had been doing nightrain nightly with myles for 6 years....as soon as he did it again with Axl it's mainstream news.

The band is all about Axl and Slash. The others played a roll in writing and the sound and us hardcores appreciate that - but the general public only cares about Axl and Slash. I honestly think you could put Axl and Slash in with 3 or 4 of us and the press would accept it as GNR.

I mean in a way they kinda have...who is melissa? A random session musician with a jpop image and background in non-traditional GNR sounds like computers and remixing - and with absolutely no historical connection to GNR and no performance on any released GNR track...yet she's up there as a valid part of the NITL line up and tour and accepted by the press as part of GNR and part of the GNR reunion....cos Axl and Slash said she was. That's all it took.

So much nonsense with this band.

Besides we've established you can't post links to people on this forum anymore after the saskatoon gig was requested then the link provided was reported by the user here who requested it and nothing was done about it.