Exactly, I love when you see celebrities taking the high moral ground about buying a hybrid car or not supporting a particular company because of their work practices or environmental impact etc etc. 

Your alternative is to then buy something more expensive.  Easy for them to say and do, not so much for the Average Joe to do.

Agree with Axlin, finally a decent looking hybrid car that I would consider driving if price wasn't an issue.  Better than the Toyota Prius
hybrid we have here in Oz

Yeah how stupid is that,not enough tape when Axl wants to keep on talking

"It's 05:30 am on Sunday, October 30, 2011 and I'm sitting in a locker room in Miami, Florida, generally reserved for the Miami Heat NBA basketball team. I'm almost 24 hours without sleep when I am awakened from my semi-stupor by the sound of the producer of VH1 telling me, 'He's coming! He's coming! '
A minute later, I am face to face with one of the more reclusive rock stars of all time: W. Axl Rose. How did that happen?

I have an interesting story when it comes to Axl Rose. One of the first leaks of Chinese Democracy Guns N 'Roses came on my radio show in 2005 when the star of "American" baseball fanatic and Guns, Mike Piazza played the track' IRS 'in my program. That night we were not sure if we had passed was not even legitimate. Until the day after a warrant had been issued and delivered to me.

A year later, I was presenting the same program in New York City and was in the studio full of guests, including Sebastian Bach. Throughout the evening, Sebastian began receiving text messages from Axl Rose. By that time 13 years had passed since the last time the two had spoken, then the excitement was genuine Bach. One thing led to another and Axl joined us in the studio and ran until about 03:30 am. That night was news around the world and ended up being the last interview with Axl Rose for a long time.

Going back to October of that year, I get a call from the chief of VH1's musical talent, Rick Krim, who explains that the new owner of Rose, Peter Kats, had come in contact to see if we could help promote the shows of Guns N 'Roses in the U.S. in November and December. Rick offered them a segment with an interview with Axl, and told me that if it did, it would be in the style 'face-to-face' in the spirit of 'That Metal Show' in front of an audience with my collaborators comedians, Jim Florentine and Don Jamieson. I was not optimistic that actually happen.

Still, the talks continued between Kats and Krim. I was quite shocked when I was informed that tickets for Miami were being booked.

Guns N 'Roses began his tour in Orlando on October 28. We were scheduled to - if everything worked - talk to Axl at American Airlines Arena the next night. Our scenario was built on one of the team's locker room and it was around 8 pm I saw Axl enter the building and he waved briefly as he walked to his dressing room. I was encouraged by the fact that he was in the room early, by his standards. Maybe this stuff rolled off at 08:30, we would watch the Guns at about 109 hours, then it was back to the hotel. Yeah, right.

The new hours have proved a daunting process, filled with conflicting information. At one point, we were told that Axl would come to us before going on stage.

At midnight, the lights of the arena went out and took the stage with Guns "track" Chinese Democracy. In my mind, there was no chance that Axl leave the stage at 3 am and wanted to sit down for a television interview. I was ready to return to my hotel after a few songs, but my producer, Jeff Baumgardner, the bone would not let go. Kats had told him that Axl most likely to join us after the show. And Axl's closest aide, a woman named Beta Lebeis, told me during the show that she would help bring Axl to see me.

At 3 am, the last notes of 'Paradise City' rang from the stage, and the next phase of our waiting game began. Some of the band members and crew began to tell us that he was not aware of any interview and that very possibly he did it. But Kats insisted that Axl would come before leaving the house, then continue to wait.
The stage was dismantled and Sunday morning has dawned. But Axl was still as far as anyone knew, in her dressing room. Lebeis Fernando, son of Beta, and now 'tour manager' GN'R, Axl has assured us that was under way. We returned to our makeshift studio. Then, around 05:30 am, Axl arrived with Beta, and guitarist DJ Ashba Kats in tow.

After almost 15 hours in the arena, we had an interview with Axl Rose.

Axl seemed refreshed and ready to start, without showing any exhaustion by the time early / late. Ashba was the request of Axl. The only thing that was asked to address was NOT a reunion tour. After all, the interview was to help promote the current tour. All set, Axl himself during the interview, he mentioned many former members of GN'R.

We talked for about 90 minutes. He seemed to be on the defensive in the beginning. He knew me, but not Jim or Don, and on several occasions he said he was unaware that we were all waiting for dawn to do the interview. Once he got comfortable, he quickly became the same guy with whom I had talked five years ago, telling stories, laughing, sometimes disparaging and being a new guy. Once he got into the spirit of the thing, he seemed willing to continue as long as we wanted. We ended the interview because we were running out of tape after recording several people all day.

When the interview aired, one of the best and most flattering comments I heard were about how he had been nice to see Axl being a normal guy. This almost mythical aura that surrounds, not to mention the endless rumors and stories, all kind of faded away in 40 minutes he was on TV.

Much has been speculated about the time it took Axl to appear for the interview, and the idea that he made us wait on purpose. I do not really believe it was the case. We were without the promise of an interview, much less the time it would happen.

I can honestly say that Axl thought a good guy who really loves music and also has great faith in the band that he is leading. I'm happy by the time we had with him, and people can able to see a side of Axl Rose that many did not know he had. "

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Cool, welcome to the board

Whilst Azoff might have tried to screw Axl by making CD a relative commercial failure in order to force his hand into a reunion, I don't think the Best Buy deal in isolation was necessarily a bad one - well for Axl at least, though it was a terrible deal for Best Buy.

Basically the Best Buy deal meant all the debts to Universal for the album were wiped, Axl got paid $1M and Azoff got paid $2M.  I don't know exactly what the Uni outstanding amount was but I believe it was in the vicinity of approx $10M.

Azoff helped Axl massively by securing that deal and clearing that debt, even getting some dollars for Ax from the whole thing.  I doubt any other manager could have secured such a deal. 

Now if instead they hadn't made it an exclusive to BB for 2 years, I don't believe they would ever have shipped enough units to clear a debt of around $10M plus.  BB paid the bill irrespective of whether the CD's sold, they were then left holding the baby in a massive way with a mountain of stock they couldn't move, hence the $1.99 price at the end.