Pretty cool they thought Axl came off well. Alot of people did. It was a very publicized, well executed interview.

I went through a pretty bad breakup with a VERY old friend earlier this Fall/late Summer. Well the thing is, it just kinda imploded. Not exploded. He kinda forced me to blow off being the best man at his wedding, which villianized me, but he forced my hand. So i'm the bad guy. He asked me if he had done anything wrong, and I didn't say anything, I just diverted the subject and we got off the phone.

I haven't heard from him since. 20 years, over. There's tons of tension, and the more time goes by the tension has already got to earth-shaterring records. Ala Axl & Slash.

My friend is kinda like Slash, really easy-going. Kinda doesn't see himself as a bad guy, and is constantly reinforced as a righteous dude. But he is not. Me on the other hand, its easy to paint as a bad guy. But i'm not. I deal with principle and emotional. Right and wrong.

My friend asked me he had done anything wrong.... and there was a moment of silence. Only seconds, but it might as well of been hours. Like Axl, if I had laid into my friend, I would've been on that phone FOR FUCKING DAYS just giving him hell. He wouldn't not even knew how to respond, and he WOULD NOT of seen himself in the wrong, ala Slash.

I think Axl is the same way. The more time that goes on, like myself, it just makes it ten times worse. If Slash were to crack the door and basically ask Axl want the problem is, Axl doesn't want the bait, but IF he took it and laid into Slash... Axl would be just going off on him for years and years, before he let up and Slash would just be decimated.

I'm in the same spot with my friend. It seems like an IMPOSSIBLE task for us to really talk about the problem and it just gets worse and worse as time goes on. Although I was friend's with this guy for most of my life, I discovered I don't really like him. I kinda HATE him in fact. I hate everything about him. I hate the way he talks. I hate the way he thinks. I hate the way he treats people. I hate his likes, his dislikes. We have literally ZERO in common, because our commonality (the hometown we grew up in) we've both moved away from. So that's gone. Axl & Slash's commonality was Guns N' Roses. That's it. But at the core, I think they are literally nothing alike and cannot stand to be around each other and that is a major hurdle and has been since about 1986.