Sugar & Salt hell, the Rx Drugs are killing us no different than Coke/Heroin and Scott. The media always villianizes Prescription Painkillers, but that is a drop in an ocean compared to the amount of people poisoning themselves and destroying their brains perminately who take Rx anti-depressants daily.

The numbers are... scary to say the least. NO drug is good for you. ANY of them. They are all a form of poison and body altering. It always amazes me when the evangelical-types who are terrified of using any form of body-altering surgery as some sort of Luciferian 666-tracking agenda, yet they take pills, which perminately alter & damage their bodies, daily, without even blinking.

Same thing. That's why I don't consider illicit drug use to be anything other than a legal term. For every Scott on Cocaine, there's somebody in the country dying younger than 48 from Liver Cancer using basic prescribed doses of Acetaminophen for 15-20 years or so.

tejastech08 wrote:

Monkey, you said Axl has only released 1 album in 30 years. Might want to check your math on that one. 30 years ago was 1986, not 1996.

Oppps...sorry typo....should be 20 years!

Anyway, I don't mean to be negative to Axl...I just love his songs so much that it intrigues me - I feel it's really notable how many products came out back in the 'heyday' compared to now.

I wonder what changed? Did Axl run out of ideas? (The talk of his friends suggests not), Does the business side overwhelm him? (Sounds like the label issues/fights cause a lot of problems), Does he just not want to?

I just think it's a shame, obviously Axl has enough money that he can do whatever he likes in life, but when someone is so good at something...and when you think one day there will be no more chances....it makes me kinda wistful of what could be.

It's like how Duff gave an interview after the bomb of libertad saying he felt VR hadn't yet written their best album. That's not going to happen now.

When people talk of the CD saga they talk of blame and what people should do. It's not even about that to me. It's just a shame things have worked out how they have: Classic GNR is one of the best bands of all time, and I'll confess I'm a huge fan of Chinese Democracy too whether or not "it is GNR" and all that. In some other universe there's more classic GNR or the follow ups to CD actually happened.

Hopefully this reunion sparks the release of some vintage material at least.

I guess if I was Axl i'd feel all that as pressure, but hey, it's hard as a fan - how can you not want more of what you like?

You guys sure make it sound great. When I think of Vegas the only things that come to my mind are casinos, drugs, and escorts.