doesn't look like a lot of the US dates this time around are selling out. hell, i still haven't bought my tickets for the detroit show.

if the band wants to come back around a 3rd time, they will need to bring something with them -- either izzy & adler, or some new fuckin' songs.

my fear is that things go back to usual after this massive tour finally ends. slash & myles back in the studio and axl back in his mansion, ordering pizza while lurking message boards (or whatever he spends his night doing...).

are we in a timeline where dj ashba gets a call back in a few years for another round of touring, or has axl finally made enough money to never have the need to tour again?

no doubt. throw some bucket in there for the hell of it. between his pikes, album cuts, praxis and c2b3... he's got enough jams to fill up an entire month.

as seemingly destroyed as the axl/bucket relationship is, when slash got back with axl, i realized anything was possible, and that bucket coming back at some point could actually happen. i guess when slash's contract is up that could be an option, but at that point, axl will have made more money than he'll ever know what to do with... so who knows?

in any case, it will always blow my mind that axl had bucket & brain in his band and only squeezed a few songs out of them. with that talent involved, how the fuck do you not at least base an entire album around them?

each CD lineup should have had its own record -- the beaven album in '99, a bucket/brain album, even a dj/fortus/bumblefoot album.... that's better than stitching together a bunch of fragments and pretending everything was organic.

it goes without saying, but an album right now would set the world on fire. all it takes is a single, video & promotion.

listening to all the old songs just makes me wish we had something new. it's embarrassing to even refer to CD songs as "new" at this point.

in my search for a news article about this mysterious break-in, i found this gem:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/tv/24 … -overdose/

once the tour wraps up... where do they go from there?

is there any chance that in 2019 we see dj ashba back in the band with stinson on bass? or is this gnr's farewell tour? axl half-assing his vocals most of the time would suggest he's saving his voice. but for what -- a record, or so he can keep touring?

with all the money he's raked in this tour.... i really don't think he'd see a need to wheel a cover band back out there again, but who even knows at this point.

i do agree that this tour has been slightly underwhelming. it seems like axl & slash both get a huge sedative injection right before hitting the stage; the energy just isn't there most of the time. they sound great, but it's lacking something. there's no edge, no mystery.

part of me wonders if they had a huge promotional campaign ready to go, but tucked it away after they tested the waters and realized this thing could self itself on its own.

the cancellation from axl on kimmel would support this, but it's pure speculation.