If Izzy's not there I would suspect it's because he wants to avoid being associated with all the drama that is starting to sound inevitable.

Can't say I blame him really.

Ahh Adler you knob jockey.  Go and get Dr Drew to explain to you what self sabotaging bahaviour is! 

You Clown! 

Thought I would add this in here since he does talk about new music in the interview.  It's an interview with Ron done by GNR Paraguay.

Bumblefoot, your debut with GNR was the May 12, 2006, how you felt as a musician debut with one of the biggest bands in the world?

In a old interview you mentioned that your favorite song is Don't Cry, You learned that song before enter In GN’R or later?

As a guitarist, who’s your greatest influence and what are your favorite bands?

How did you feel when you play here in Paraguay? What’s your feeling of play in new countrys, not only in “the big ones”? GN’R maked History here in Paraguay!

You always followed the GNR even before entering the world of music?

What's your opinion about Axl and GN'R? Do you feel comfortable about playing songs that you didn't compose?

It's amazing the status, recognition, and sales that have reached the current band. You are in a group which, fortunately, does not sound commercial singles in the FM's, and adapts to any type. Your success are achieving on your own right. How is the level of happiness that has the band to see how this massive success and recognition? How do you feel you individually, and feels the group in general?

The Band played Estranged, Civil War, Mama Kin, Death Flowers, did they played that songs for fan's preassure?

Chinese Democracy is the disc of a new band, with new persons. Why the band's playing covers having such a great album? When we're gonna hear There was a Time ,Prostitute or a new song?

I wake up this morning and I see that Slash is no longer the villian since he came out and flat out said what most of us had already deduced - he wants to play.  But Izzy is still potentially fucking up the night and unless he makes an unequivocal statment that he wants to play, even if he turns up, then he could still be held to blame for no performance.  lol

My view is obviously well known, I believe Axl is potentially the stumbling block to a one off HOF perrformance.  Do I know this 100% - No.  But, here is how I form my views, both here and in real life.  I use known factual information where it's available.  I then add to that my own experience learned from past situations and other logic to come up with my view of the world. 

Same thing applies to this HOF thing.  I look at past facts - Axl still seems to hate Slash going by his continual negative comments over time about the man, too numerous to list.  The other guys if they haven't flat out said they want to play like Adler, have either played with Axl (i.e. their actions) or appear to be cool with him and where they are currently at now - e.g. Sorum. Past experience tells me Axl hates Slash having anything to do with the GN'R name too.

From there I form my opinion that if things don't go ahead it will be due to Axl not wanting to play with them.  Or the others being too frightended to even make contact about it with him, lest they get told to fuck off by the housekeeper or if they are really lucky Axl himself, thereby jeopardising any future reconciliation etc.

Is this positon I hold all based on 100% facts - No!  But if I tried to go through life like that I would never leave my fucking house.  Shit I might be hit by a car when I walk out the door, I don't know 100% so should I just wait inside until somehow I do know 100%?  Of course not, I make an informed judgement about the liklihood of the situation and walk out the door.

Forming opinions like this has served me pretty well.  Most of the time they are pretty accurate, sometimes they are wrong.  So far on the HOF thing I have been proven correct with Duff saying it would be cool to play and now Slash coming out and saying he would like to play.

So I say weigh up the known facts and past experience then tell me with a straight face who is likely to be the fly in the ointment for a HOF performance?  Im not having a go at Axl about this either, he has been very strong on his postion regarding playing with the old guys collectively, I'm just using that position with other information to suggest then that he is the roadblock to a performance.

There rant over, I'm done with this discussion it's doing my head in that some people can't accept what appears to me to be as plain as day.

Aussie