Personally I like Baz, Axl and VR

I don't think Axl was his back up plan as such, I think its more that Baz is a professional musician at a high level and thus is interested in high level work when it arises. Such as the vacancy in "The Project" or opening for Axl.

He makes the odd anti VR remark now, but no one likes to be rejected so u can expect a bit of that. I notice too that its usually anti scott or anti stp songs and not so much anti the ex-gnr members when he says stuff too.

Actually the droped the mid 2007 only, the tickets to the Australian Show were still sold under the CD banner.

I personally don't think there's any do or die timeline anymore.

Theres only so much bad press that GNR will get. What i mean is - anyone who wants to rag on Axl for taking ages already has enough ammo - as they can just go on about the delay since the mid-ninties. Anyone who wants to get harsher can bring up the 2002 'promices' (or implications) that there'd be an album.

The way i see it - if Axl can resurface in 2000/1/2 with a totally new band after being absent for years on end, have a different voice (at the time), cancel a bunch of shows and then disapear off the earth again for years. He can do that - then reappear in 2006 to rave reviews, general media interest and good publicity and a resiliant fan base.

I'm not saying this shit to rag on axl, i'm saying as a band GNR has already seen some shit, missing a tentative date by a year or 2 at the this point does no further harm.

I feel that people who would loose respect for him cos of a wait would have lost interest long ago. If anything for the general public the wait adds interest - as it makes the record have a lot more mystique and adds a lot of magic and persona to its eventual release.

So from my perspective...theres going to be zero difference in like a 2007, 08 or 09 release. Even if some of the nuts like us that post about this stuff bail and loose interest...i'd say we'd still go get the CD during the meida blitz when it finally comes out just for old times sake!

Well we don't really know. Maybe he thought the previous song was the most heavy, then subsequently heard an even heavier one at a different playing of the records (seems like Axls done it a few times). Or maybe its the same song with different names. Or maybe he fucked up.