Some points to consider here dudes...

Hacked Twitter issues or not, we have a global brand once again failing miserably to manage something as minor as a rogue sentence on cyberspace. Seriously, what can this team do well?

Nobody in the band could comment / refute the Tweet because they are employees not partners and probably didn'™t know.

Everybody knows that Axl is more than capable of instigating such a reactionary, ill judged, cataclysmic move like this, so this kind of announcement from him could not be called '˜out of character'™

Axl has employed mostly hangers on and wholly unqualified staff to manage much of his life. Where were they when this first went down? Asleep on the job!

Do the rest of the band/Beta follow Axl on Twitter? If they do, they would have had the message as quickly as the rest of the world and could have warned Axl and had it quashed in no time. The protracted delay in a reply from any of the entourage probably means that they thought the Tweet was real.

Who else would be in a helicopter after midnight landing behind the stage? Have we established if Axl was there with the band at 11pm or was he on the chopper?

His first gig in the US in 4 years, bet he was nervous which has previously lead to wacky behaviour like walking off or not going on until waaaay late, when he is ready.

If Axl was held back from performing until so late, why didn'™t he explain that to the crowd? If it wasn'™t his fault why take the shit from the crowd for it?

maybe Slash does know more than you think. Maybe him and Irv are still mates and talk? Maybe big evil Slash was the puppet master devising a diabolical plot with Irv to force Axl back into his clutches..
Come on people, some of you are waaaaaay too sensitive to Axl's needs and over the top about Slash's motives.

Think about it, Irv resigns on the 'eve of the tour'. That means for the previous year he was probably working on getting those dates organised. It is possible he is seeking monies to pay for that years work he completed. That is what Slash appears to be saying to me. Nothing more. He finishes his statement distancing himself from the whole thing.

Bizarrely, some of you feel that even something this harmless gives Axl a free pass to call Slash a cancer even as his mother lay dying from the disease. Fuck me.

just like that I find songs sticking in my head.
its a bit of a no brainer album but fuck it I like it.
Its honest to God meat and potatoes rock and its a great summer album so fuck the haters!!

Unless its out the gate witha STUNNING opening single I'm predicting this will got the same way of Libertad.
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