I think it's just because now we have the album, the wait is over and in the current absence of a tour, there isn't much for us to obsess over. The nature of what it is to be a fan of this band has shifted....it used to be about a potential album etc etc

When it comes down to it however, this album, these songs, have been incredibily influential in my life, both in the waiting, listening to the gestation over various leaks, and in the final product which personally I really enjoy and means a lot to me.

So i'm looking forward to hear more of the CD songs played live when a tour eventually happens.

And athough I don't anticipate anything happening in the short to medium term, I'm very interested to hear any other new music that may one day be released from Axl, as CD along with his back cataloge demostrate to me he is always going to be an artist who'se works will resonate with me.

Maybe he's just trying to connect with the fans. I mean he clearly reads the forums...he knows a chunk of them have been pissed at him for years. He couldn't really fix that without the album being out because we all know 90% of us were shat off waiting for the album still. So i'd expect that when the album came out he was thinking the fans would be all cool. But then we started complaining about the lack of interviews and stuff. So he came on to chat. To be fair a lot of people asked him shit about the old band and complained we'd never heard his side of the story, and he must have been reading posts about the name dispute for years. I feel like this time we got what we wanted...we wanted the album, we got it, we wanted him to talk, we got that.

I'm not going to bash fernando cos i've never met or spoken to the man, even online. However I will say this strikes me as a strange thing to do, like name Lars as the cause of the delay, then recant his words. Did he not expect that outcome? It's not like people don't know who he is or don't realise he is in a position to have inside information. Surely he should realise if he says something like that it makes a media storm. And then to say it was a joke. Perhaps its some kind of inside joke between Axl and Lars or somethign that makes sence to their friendship - because to an outsider fan like me I don't understand why its funny. But then I didn't really understand Rex's "I hit my woman" joke last week either. So maybe i'm just a humourless fuck! Or maybe it was some kind of "we'll see how fast bullshit spreds" bet or joke in the GNR camp just to have a lend of the media. I dunno.  So i'll I will say is that the whole incident seems very strange. And I'd hope things of this nature don't keep happening too often as in my opinion this kind of confusion doesn't do any good for the band's public image.

Can we all just take a chill pill guys?

I think Neemo was on to something here:

The way i see it was RF was making a rant...in the rant thread...he was sharing his opinion...in a wound up way which is afterall kind of the idea here...Dr Love took offence....as he took RF's comments personally. He was in a bad mood...and reacted badly....james called him on  it.....he was still pissed and took that badly too. RF started trying to annoy him more. Everyone else (including me) chimed in on forum politics. Now it's snowballed out of control.

But the reality is....appart from this instance and it seems this issue...DR love is a good poster here who contributes to a number of threads with interest.
I think he got the message....don't insult people...can't we just give him back his account...and agree that everyone acted a little hot under the collar and move on...if insults and whatever continue then start banning again...but it seems to me that it was a one off disapgreement that's now being dragged on for pages...

Besides...I want to get back to a real topic....like my girlfriend walking out...LMAO.....

I thought axl's remarks on the forums definately suggested that their is potential for Robin to be back. Not that it will definately happen either way - but that the nature of their friendship/work relationship was that they hang out either for specific functions like family dinners, or when there was work to be done. Given robin had already recorded for album 2, him being in NIN wasn't a problem for GNR. At least that's the impression i had from what dexter posted. maybe I missunderstood though.

Anyway...a world tour will be awesome. Hope they come down under!!