After that, I got a barrage of guitar songs that I was supposed to put words to
.

See, now passive agressive shit like this annoys me.

AFD
The band wrote together, fine.

UYIs
Slash detailed how he pulled every tune the band had together and was on the phone to Axl each night to discuss how things sounded. Many of those songs were old and Axl had written lyrics to them. Axl fucking raved about Coma in an MTV interview before the release of UYIs and he thanks Slash for his stellar guitar work on the albums.

Post UYI
Every ex band member said they hated that Axl would only come in at 4am when they were going home. What choice had they got except to write music and hand it in for Axl?

CD Sessions
Again references to Axl calling from his house angry about bad drum sounds etc
Loads of references about Tommy trying to pull the tunes together to send up to Axls house.

Slash's Writing method
His new band have done everything in studio together. Slash has always lamented the fact that GNR would not get in a room. He talked about the disaster that were the Chicago sessions for UYI becuase Axl & Izzy would barely show up.

By all means hammer Slash for things he did wrong but he's a fucking guitar player for God's sake and a good one at that, if his singer won't be in a room with him what other choice does he have except to record with the band minus the vocalist?

Maybe now after a quarter of a century it has dawned on Axl that Slash's position that the band should record as a group together was the right one all along.

Mark Canter recently alluded to the fact that Slash reached out to Axl before the RNRHOF but because he won't apologise for things he doesn't agree he did wrong, no move forward came.

I just don't get the hate for Slash at this stage. If any of us were in his position back in the day: 26 years old,  in the biggest RNR band in the world, with the entire plant waiting for your follow up album and  your vocalist just won't fucking sing because he's obsessed with Nirvana or Pearl Jam or NIN or U2 and "doesn't know what to say"...
I mean, how mad would you get?

I really wish Axl would explore that side of things before insisting he didn't "start this war".