I totally agree with that, Dirt and Jug Of Bugs are masterpieces, but I would have rather seen two balanced albums than one that kicks your ass and one that's mellow all the way through.

To me, the problem lies in that Bach hasn't come to grips with where he is in his career.  I doubt his album sold any less than the last Warrant, Slaughter, LA Guns, Firehouse, etc albums did. 

Actually it probably sold quite a bit more based on Axl being on it if nothing else. 

He sees himself as above his peers, but fact of the matter is, he's not looked at as anything other than a guy from a second or third tier 80's band by most of the public. 

Bitching about/to the people who are interested isn't going to keep or raise their interest.

I've said since day one that I thought this was going to be very similair to the Santana solo record from a few years back.  That Santan album wasn't horrible or anything, it just isn't what I would rather see out of Slash.

That said, for his entire career, even when Slash was "heavy" it's not like there wasn't a mainstream undercurrent anyway. 

In the end Slash is a blues-rock player and it's going to be a poppy version of that with the guests leaning a bit toward what those guests do on their own, and I would assume songs were written catered toward what those singers do anyway.  By that I mean I assume he had people in mind for the songs they came in to do because they would work well for it.

Just heard a guy say on sports radio.

This is great football is about to start.  Now instead of listening to Terrell Owens talk about scoring touchdowns, we'll get to watch him drop passes in the endzone.

I got a kick out of that.