thats so wrong that people would get her pregnant just to get her $

"Take a look at what everyone is doing now. Duff and Matt and I are part of a really successful band. Izzy's content doing his thing; Steven too. And Axl is touring with the "new Guns." No one is making phone calls to see when we can get the band together again.'" - Slash

Now I love Slash but i sort of feel like this comment is a bit of spin.

VR is a very successful band true, but it's one with 3 members of the UYI tour line up. Add axl and that band would be called GNR. (no disrespect to izy/gilby). Obviously they have moved on, but still - its not like GNR is all that far away - especially if scott was to go AWOL for good. 

Steven's set list is always 95% GNR, and often with an actual GNR cover band on stage with him.

Axl's new guns, even if we ignore the lineup changes, have been unable or unwilling to release an album for over a decade and in the rare times they get out of the paralisis mode and do something, like tour, they play 95% old GNR with slash material and hardly any of the 'new direction' stuff.

The only one who really does seem content and removed from GNR is Izzy, and even he seems to show up now and again on the GNR radar.

I think the real reason is basicly the first half of his comment: " if they knew the real story, they'd already know the answer." What it comes down to is that no one makes the call because of pride and stuborness. Slash won't come back to GNR without an appology from Axl and or a guarentee that what he perceives as the Axl Bullshit (Cancelling Shows, the drama etc) will stop and things will be democratic. Likewise Axl won't call slash without an appology from Slash and or a guarentee that what he percieves as the slash bullshit will stop (Drug use, insensivitity, maybe Not wanting to incorporate synth and other ideas, whatever Axl was pissed at).

So that's what it comes down to to me. Neither of these men will back down, and I suspect neither has any desire to at this stage. And the sad bit for fans of the old GNR is that we have to live our days watching all the members - in seperate bands, still performing the old songs and all screaming loudly in the press about how far they've moved on from the old band, convincing no one but themselves I think.

That said, I have the uttermost respect for Axl and Slash and their music. Its just a shame it had to work out like this, as it's insane to think that ANY of the old band could ever top what they have done before at this stage with a new lineup.

yeah...i'd say that will happen fast...and probably other stuff like transformers would be out soon you'd expect just cos they must already have HD masters around to make them from.

I'm unsure about indy. One one hand I totally see your point...the new movie comming out = golden chance to re-release the old films in HD, tie them in with the HD release of the next movie I guess at the end of the year. Then again lucasfilm seem to be VERY slow on the release of this kind of stuff.

I'm not sure about in the states...but in Australia we waited years for the indy set to come on DVD...was years and years after DVD was released. I hope they don't do that again. Someone told me once they do it to make sure enough consumers have the technology before they release the biggest sellers (like starwars etc) to prevent them being older discount bin titles by the time the formats are in every home. Not sure if thats true or not.

The other thing I dream of is an Alien Quadrology box set in HD!!! Should come eventually!

Well its officially over folks.

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market.

More info: http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/2008_02/pr1903.htm