My take on Mr Rose is that he’s an artist and you take what you get. Some are prolific and some are not. It also comes with a certain temperament and always has. Artists don’t owe you art, they make whatever amount of it they make and you appreciate it or you don’t. There’s a lot of way more prolific artists than Axl out there to be explored. What he has created holds up against anything else in its realm.
Because it accomodates the hangers-on who've surrounded for over thirty years and done nothing to fix it. At least if he's lazy, they can shrug and enjoy the high life he pays to keep them around.
Hell, maybe they want to keep him unproductive, it's not like he can do anything to stop them. That would require making decisions and taking action with concrete results.
As far as Robin goes I have to say I completely disagree. His solo on This I Love is a masterpiece. But the rest of his work unmemerable? Street of Dreams, ChiDem, There Was a Time, Better ... Man those solos are so amazing and melodic. His impression is all over that album, just as much as Bucket's.
I just remembered that last night I had an inception-style dream (where I went two levels down) and in my dream within a dream I heard loud thunder and I still don’t know if it was from the real world or if it was all in my head lol