Axl is not like RATM or John Lennon. He doesn't sing about big issues, he's all about the personal approach cause that's all he knows, and you ask me he's damn apt at it too.

Anyway, I feel the ball is out of air. For me. They can still continue to do this, and to tour to good amounts of crowd looking for a nostalgia trip or a drunken rock n roll night. It's fun and all, I mean, it's better than nothing. I'm thankful for Axl being out there, entertaining is and doing his stuff. The world would be very empty without him.

But does anyone else have this feeling? This wasn't really what I was signing up for, or supporting or defending. This GNR (or the 2002 version or what ever) should have been a band standing on their own feet with more material. I guess it was naive to think GNR would evolve into something else, almost Aerosmith-ish with new material. That's what I was hoping for anyway.

I'll be more active once there's talk, REAL talk of new material written, Axl working with DJ making new music. You can tour Chinese Democracy THIS much, and then it's fine. Another tour is the wrong step, at least for me. For the thousands going to shows I am pleased, I would have been there too.

But it wasn't truly what I signed up to support.

I was kinda thinking something similar DCK.  I get the feeling this tour is going to go on and on and on again without any new material or progression.

It's fun and all and I would go see them again for sure, but it really is time to take another step forward with some new music.  Sadly though once the touring stops I fear Axl could go into hibernation again.

Hope all the recent positives mean that's not the case and this time it's different.

I've always had the feeling there was a reason for touring like this, not because of any grand plan or scheme, but there's a serious financial reason for it. And I still believe future recording depends on this band funding it themselves. This might be the crux of the problem with the label.

But I am hopeful with all the stuff happening recently that something good is on the horizon.

Yeah reading between the lines it definitely sounds like they need to pull in some touring dollars.  Particularly after having to tour for nothing as part of the Azoff thing.

That may mean a lot more touring before something else happens.  Particularly as you say if Axl is going to fund an album himself.

Guns N' Roses have announced a short UK tour to follow their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Axl Rose's troupe of hard rockers will return to England and Scotland for the first time since their disastrous Reading and Leeds festival gigs in 2010.

The band will play seven shows, beginning at the Nottingham Arena on 19 May and finishing at London's O2 on 31 May. Dates are also scheduled in Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham and Manchester.

Guns N' Roses' British concerts will come about a month after the group is due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Rumours abound about the possibility of a reunion: "all the original band" will appear at the ceremony on 14 April in Cleveland, Ohio, according to keyboardist Dizzy Reed. But there's no word whether Rose will reunite and perform with some of his estranged former bandmates, including Slash. "I have no idea what's going on," the guitarist admitted in a recent interview. Slash last played with the band in 1993.

Although it has been almost a year and a half since Guns N' Roses were bottled off stage in Dublin and their sets were cut short at Reading and Leeds, the band seem up to the same old tricks. At Thursday night's concert in Silver Spring, Maryland, they didn't step on stage until after midnight. "Where did these guys even find the gall to call themselves Guns N' Roses?" asked the Washington Post. "For three torturous hours, the guys sucked the life force from some of the most anthemic rock songs ever written ... It wasn't a rock concert. It was a hostage situation."

Tickets for the band's UK tour go on sale on Friday 2 March at 9am.