Would not surprise me if they did a very abbreviated original 5 reunion at a standard NITL show. Probably just Jungle and that’s it. I can’t see them playing AFD front to back, especially considering we haven’t heard Think About You since 2002 and Anything Goes basically ever.

I personally think it’s Axl’s performance that makes the song. Slash is good too obviously but I don’t think there are many singers who can replicate what Axl does on the track.

I saw a couple of songs last night in Boston (had to leave early). The first thing you notice when he gets onstage is he is enormous, but has this massive presence. Like Andre the Giant.

Guns N’ Roses could have succeeded with Bucket as THE singular lead guitarist. Put him, Axl, and Tommy to the foreground and let the rest fuck around in the shadows. No 3 guitar clusterfuck.

I disagree with this. Go listen to Breakin’ Down off of Subhuman Race. It’s the quintessential alternative 90s song but did nothing.

I don’t want to harp on the Skid thing too much but there are solid comparisons to be made. In a lot of ways I consider Slave to the Grind to be the AFD2 we all talk about...they released videos for virtually every song and it never made the splash it should have.