To me its obvious. He's raised his game a little bit here and there, but he's kinda punching in a pay stub at this point if things don't change.    There's gotta be something in the cards ---- read the chicago tribune article and it clearly states Axl is not the main link right now for entertainment and its indeed slash and duff taking as much of the weight off of him as possible, whereby if izzy and or adler/sorum were in place, i would gurantee axl would take his performance to the n