I don't understand how any gnr fan wouldn't be psyched to hear the original band was going to reunite, but there are people that feel that way.  I don't care about Axl on Bach's album, it is meaningless.  The possible bad things to come out of this far outweigh the good.  One negative review by RS or Blender and we're back to the dead period for 4 more years of perfecting the vocals on CD.  How ANY gnr fan is excited by that prospect is beyond me.  Look a little further ahead than your nose.

I don't blame Bach for a second.  Think about that though.  Your solo album as a singer is supposed to be the best of the 21st century, but you have a more famous guy sing one of the songs and add vocals to 2 other songs?  Something about that doesn't seem right.  If it was me and I felt my material was that good, I sure wouldn't bring someone more famous to sing on it unless either the material isn't really that good or it is a cash grab.  Either way, this isn't a good thing.

When is the last time a singer did a solo album that had a guest singer do 3 songs on the same album and sing lead on one of them?  Doesn't this raise red flags for anybody?

There's no chance that this album lives up to this review.  None.  There's no chance that an 80s singer that couldn't write lyrics comes back and has some fantastic album 20 years later.  Axl on there is a publicity stunt and should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of the material.

The questions will never go away, not that I blame people for asking.  If Axl ever did interviews, he'd get asked about Slash all the time, which is probably one of the reasons he doesn't do interviews.  Whether either of them likes it or not, they will forever be intertwined no matter what they do or don't accomplish the rest of their lives.