do any of them really think that?

if they are, they're p stupid.

i don't feel sorry for them. it seems to me they all know the score & are happy to have the paycheck. when it actually arrives of course. they've got some form of financial security w/o having to work a proper job, or even create anything for that matter. feel sorry for them? i envy them ffs! they're lucky fuckers. the only problems are they sometimes have to live on axl time & maybe have to pass team brasil in the hallway backstage & exchange awkward stop & chats or not even depending on how pissy beta is feeling or how cunty fernando is being. they've got it p sweet.

the batmobile becoming a weaponised tank?
the arsenal that bane & his goon squad bust into wayne enterprises for?

whatever happened to a batman of a sleek car & cool gadgets? he got replaced by an advertisement for the US military.

i remember dancing to Miss You, slipping, falling on my arse & getting absolutely clobbered in mud. but i got up & danced on. one of the few memories i have of the 2nd time i seen them. i remember Honky Tonk Woman that day too. that's about it.

from the first time i remember whiteying in the bogs & coming back out running into one of the guys from The Thrills, the shitty Irish band who'd opened for them. he looked even more stoned & shitfaced than me which i thought was a good achievement. i went back into the arena just as Street Fighting Man started, a proper wake-me-up. don't remember much else except the journey down.

it's kinda a shame spending so much money on tickets then having so few concrete memories.
good times.
best times. it's happiest place on earth a rolling stones gig.

Before They Make Me Run is prob the 2nd best Keef song after All About You. fwiw.

exactly ^
a song which contradicts axlins idea of going back to 1989 (tho i know lies was a yr earlier).
y'don't make business decisions on the basis of music. if the music's good enough people will get it, rather than trying to get people by making music they want.

if you're treating it as a business you don't record & release OIAM.
that IS GnR. doing what you want in spite of the better judgement of others' wishes & fuck the consequences.
that's what he needs to get back to. instead of playing the suit & this bizness shit which so fascinates axlin & others. that shit is meaningless, OIAM is forever.

no mate, it's not a business.

some people want to make money off of it, that doesn't legitimize it as a business. some of you forget that it's NOT a business.

it's far too important, too big for that kinda talk.

& people might love & love to hate axl. but the point remains they'd care an awful lot more about his songs & records if slash was on there.
no matter how great the material may be, the exposure & interest that slash would generate would have much more reach to a popular audience.