Which is just bizzare, I guess it is very old-school style riffing in the style of Aerosmith and AFD...so if Axl was obsessed with doing something new at the time then it would have seemed limiting creatively speaking.

Guitar wise...I think Snakepit 1 is better all of VR and actually even a lot of GNR songs. Like in terms of Slash's parts...way more complex in Snakepit...just amazing....

I used to have a great interview on VHS where axl is talkintg about the delays associated with UYI, and its really uncanny how much of what he said about it could latter be applied to CD.

I think has a point in this part. I don't really think he has ever done anything that suggests he doesn't have integrity. Using the name when it wasn't only his talent that made the band famous is not so much a lack of integrity as it is either misguided and arrogant or perhaps just desperate that he wants to carry on and can't get on with the old guys. It's also wrong to think the new guys are stopping the old guys from being in the band. If the new guys were gone we'd most likely have nothing at all

There seems very little evidence to substiantiate this claim. I know axl is saying the guys are very different behind closed doors - so we should give him some benifit I guess. But when you look at it - most of the show cancellations etc back in the day were caused by Axl's emotional problems at the time, and these days well...ok..izzy seems content to be small time, but addler is constantly complaining how he was kicked out and wants to be back at that level, Gilby tried to get big again with Rockstar, and Slash Duff and Matt have formed VR which is a grammy award winning successful band. VR and Slash are often critized for over promotion and 'selling out' which would surely be indicators that they want to do just the oppoisite of what Axl is claiming here.

I guess its because he was upset and this stuff is personal to him. But this really makes no sence. How has a fan been manipulated so Slash can jam with snoop dog? And how is it at Axl's expense? The only way this makes any sence would be if Axl thinks that the old guys trade on their fame and don't deserve their fame except using Axl's talents...which is misguided. Slash has a trademark guitar sound and tone, Izzy is a known songwriter etc....i'm not denying that Axl is a one of a kind genius...but the reason GNR was so good was because there were several people in the band with amazing talents....

I'm sure there would have been some friction in the band about the different styles at times. I mean you listen to Jungle, then you listen Estranged and its very different styles of music. I mean Axl brings the queen, Slash brings the Aerosmith, Izzy the Stones, Duff the punk etc....that's what made the band awesome.

I'd love to know more context about this story cos Patience's guitar is very much a Slash's style - that country arpegiated riffing he does a lot in snakepit and vr. So its unlikely he hated the song in general. Maybe it was the placing it on lies. But i guess Axl was there and we wernt. But my real issue with this statement is the implication that cos the guys were hard to get involved in certain songs that they didnt then contribute to them properly. Even if it was like getting blood from a stone - you can't top that tone of Slash's on Estranged, and one of the reasons November Rain was a critical and commercial success is those guitar solos. Its just a fact.

I mean its well known the creative process was painful for everyone in the band. The music on UYI is said to have been finished years before the vocals, but no one says that cos it was hard to get Axl to finish the record that the record somehow isnt good, or that he doesn't deserve his credit.

Bottom line, i can accept it if they never get back together, and people shouldn't blame axl alone. However people should also remember that it wasn't only Axl who made gnr the awesome band they were.

Damn...i can't remember where I got it from...might be my ass!! I think i remember him saying something in that recent radio interview with BBF and Eddie Trunk. I thought he said something like he said to axl that Axl should write a book once and axl said something like "I am, its up to 10,000 pages" or soemthing wierd. But you know what i was insanely tired when i listened to that broadcast...so maybe i made it up - or maybe he was talking about some other band not axl or something!