The thing is I don't think it would happen that way though.

If you look at the old rocker songs, you see the kickass riffs of Slash/Izzy - and the kickass vocals of Axl - and the sum of the parts elevates it to another level.

When you take Slash or Izzy alone...well personally I still enjoy the shit out of it - I love Snakepit and the Solo album - but I will admit while I feel the riffs and the guitar is just as good as AFD, it looses something having a different lyric writer/vocalist etc.

So my point is..you guys are making the wrong comparision.

Sixx:Am shows what DJ is capiable of *without* Axl's influence. Just as Snakepit/VR and the solo project show what Slash is like without Axl.

Add Axl's song ideas/melodies/pressence and style to the Snakepit1 riffs and you would have had an AFD not Axl singing snakepit songs.

Likewise..it's not like you would get Six:Am performed by Axl...you would get the riffs and cool shit of Sixx:Am but with the added depth of writing Axl brings to stuff.

I don't think Axl's ever going to make a straight ahead radio rock album. But CD does show his songwriting abilities on ballads, and we know he can write rockers when put with a riff master like slash...so that DJ when working alone can produce an album with good riffs and stuff like SixxAm - shows that with Axl's influence it could be pretty cool..

I'm going to go out on a limb. But I was messing around on my pc looking at old boots and shit like 5 minutes ago. And I came across that video make of the new band playing an accoustic set somewhere - like a party or something. And they do catcher - in kind of a stripped down acoustic way.
And i've always enjoyed catcher  and i'm not even saying it needed to be stripped down on the album...but just listening to that now...the lyrics....they're just so good. Its big words but I think that song is a work of genius. The words are just amazing, the melodies great. There's something about it. It may not be the best song ever written or anything, but it's the sort of song I hear and I realise that Axl writes things other people just can't. I hear a lot of local bands and all kinds of stuff day to day. And while I hear good shit, it's not every day you hear something like fucking Catcher.

So, don't want to speak for him, but i think what John is getting at is that no one wants to see Axl dilute that Axlness, that magic but turning it into a radio-ready album.

Of course i'm not sure that would happen - I think for the songs to get to a point where Axl would like them there would be his touch on it. So I can see a DJ/Axl colaboration with the best of both worlds - DJs way of making riffs/solos/Drums/instrumentation that are catchy as fuck and sound killer without needing to go the full CD route of 1000 billion tracks per song...and Axl's genius lyrics, melody and personal essance that he seems to put into a song.

So maybe we'd get the good parts of a sixAM album without the limitations of it, and the best sides of Axl's writing without some of the side effects that happened in the CD process.

Axl had his experimental jack off album - it was Chinese Democracy.
Now it's time to go back to cock rock, like what made GN'R the legendary band it became.
Sixx:AM is not original, it is straight-forward, radio-ready pop rock.
Which is EXACTLY where Axl needs to be

Oh come on. You cannot compare Sixx AM and Grinderman under the same genre they may be both considered "Rock" but they are completely different.

I love Nick Cave, but I'm not let down when Bon Jovi's latest album isn't written in the same way.

How could you EVER have expected a Sixx AM album to sound like this ???

Sure they all play the same instruments but it's not the same music

This is the equivalent of me saying  "This I Love is shit because it doesn't sound Like this":

Or saying that your bicycle is shit because it doesn't look like this:

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9 … PYavYB&t=1

These things are in the same broad category but WORLDS apart.

The best way to analyze it is by whether or not it achieved it's aims.