[Patience 4 Axl]

Since you own the name, does it bother you at all when you see or hear things like "Slash of Guns N' Roses" and that he's still well recognized as one of the faces of the band?

[LiquidAK]

Does Geffen or Universal have any rights over the name, or is it soley yours? For example they released the Greatest Hits under the GN'R name, so I was a bit confused over exactly how much the name belongs to the label, if at all.

[Righter]

The worst story I think I've heard regarding the ownership 'battle' was that you got some of the other members to sign off on it by refusing to get on stage to perform during a concert - and 'forced' them to sign off right then and there. Is there any truth to this story? And could you clarify the circumstances?

[CryptElf]

Chimp, on Dec 14 2008, 11:29 AM, said:

Hey Axl ( Craig McLennan , Glasgow )

My question is , Why in the hell was Crash Diet never released officialy. It is still one of my favourite GNR songs of all time is it legal or personal reasons that stop that great song from making it onto one of the albums.

( Oh and i saw you at Dublin 06 and Glasgow 06 they were both amazing and you were bang on time for the Dublin show lol and a little late for the Glasgow show cough midnight cough )

LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND I DONT CARE THAT IM MALE I STILL LOVE YOU

SHUT THE FUCK UP.

[Gryfon]

Not off topic but related to the GN'R^TM , i've always wondered...

How do/did you feel about Velvet Revolver playing GN'R songs live? Did you worry about them mucking up the songs or decreasing their value by playing them. Are you glad the former members still play those songs so regularly on stage?

I seen Slashes Snakepit live in July 95 and they started playing instrumental Paradise city for the first 2 minutes before Slash stopped it by jokingly saying something like” We better stop so we don’t get sued!”

[carsonskitz]

was there ever a point after traaci guns left, that you thought you'd take the "guns" out of gnr?

[Colon Blow]

Do you think they keep suing you over it time and again because as well as Steven they think you and the name GnR hold the keys to their happiness or is it just about $ ?

[germanrose]

Even if it personally doesn`t matter to me if this is Gnr or Axl ".." whatever (cause in the end, it is about great music), my question would be:

Have you haver questioned yourself if this is wrong what you are doing with the band name?? I don`t know, but maybe sometimes you watched an old live concert or something like that, and you have the feeling, that you can understand people for attacking you on this, because what you (might) see and remember, is what made people fall in love with this (old) band?

[killingvector]

Axl, a few years ago, Slash and Duff sued you in an attempt to stop your publication deal by asserting that you did not have ownership of the old GnR name. Can you tell us the circumstances under which you acquired the name? Was there a deal in place in which if they left the band you became the sole owner of the name? Did you buy out their shares of the name?

[Neemo]

my post keeps getting deleted for some reason so i'll reword it i guess

The ownership of guns n roses doesnt really bother me all that much, I'm just curious how it all went down, i'd like to read your side of the story one day

[highvoltage]

Unfortunately, it seems like people have struggled to grasp the concept of this topic.

Fortunately, there have been some excellent questions asked that have been retained. Plenty here now, so i'm going to lock this, and if Axl feels like answering a couple, then i'm sure he will post up a thread with responses in due course.

Thanks to those who listened and "got" it.