Yea mrID's correct here. The casuals & anyone with a passing interest & blog all connected with DJ. My friends met him walking thru Belfast & were really impressed by him, but one of them is a motley crue fan so I've never been convinced by her judgement on anything..

But to us, the people who care, who give a flying fuck, we all saw it the first moment we googled DJ after it was announced he was in the band. & then we had to endure hearing it, which was somehow even worse.

On monkeys point - this idea of if he'd just acted & dressed normal well.. He kinda did, which was the problem! There wasn't anything different or exceptional about him. He just looked like an emo mall rat or one of those phony generic dickhead twats who hang around city centre on a Saturday like a bad smell. I dunno anything about his life but anyone who tries that hard on their image obviously has too much time on their hands & is desperate for some kind of acceptance. For me GnR were always the antithesis of that attitude; not invited to your party? Fine, we'll throw our own! - tho Axl is probably as guilty of betraying that notion as anyone, given his history of reconstructive surgery, but that's a different debate.. My original point in relation to Monkey was, us GnR fans should embrace those people who aren't normal! For all the fucked up children of the world - that's us mate. Or at least I once thought it was.. I'm beginning to re-evaluate a few things.. We don't need normal. We accepted a guy with a freakin mask, a kfc bucket on his head who'd throw-in a nunchuck routine & a robot break-dance into his guitar solo, because we could somehow relate to him, & he had a fucking soul. These other pretenders well.. That's what they are, pretenders. They don't know, & you can tell straight away. At least I can.. Not too sure abut the rest of you guys anymore..

Tho monkey does make a good point about the 01-02 lineup. If Finck hadn't been there it would've been a whole lot cooler. Also, I thought robins look on stage was more headscratching than buckets. At least bucket you knew what was up with the guy, or at least there was something up with him. Finck tho just looked, again, like a try hard, looking like some tranny robot. Bucket was mysterious on stage back then, Finck just looked like a nob.

What in holy good fuck. What happened to you man? Have you stopped the medication?!

love this post. Manages to sum up & crap on both DJ & Finck perfectly.

^ reported for racism.

Loses a bit when written down. A bit like:

A man walks into a bar with a giraffe which slumps to the floor as the man orders a beer. The bartender says "ok but you can't leave that lying there." The man says, "it's not a lion, it's a giraffe."