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19, but I guessed at cochella. The birth name one I just plain didn't know for some utterly bizarre reason.

Jeez, this is some creepy stalker-type shit. If I was in LA I'd definitely head down there!

Some of these insider-confirmed scenarios are very hard to believe.

Ron played in guns for years and years with minimal artistic contribution, and then left on the stroke of the last bankable paycheck nuguns would ever generate. There's absolutely no integrity in his actions - just good business sense.

DJ would've been ditched the second a reunion was inked, whether he 'stepped aside' or not. He was likely given the option to publicly stand down by Axl/TB, and was probably given a time frame in which to do it. I'll say again what I said back then - who the hell in their right mind voluntarily quits guns n roses for Sixx:am?

The fact that he's implying that he 'let' the reunion happen just reinforces what a deluded weasel he is.

I think we can agree that pitman is in the lineup in order to validate Axl's 'vision' in some way. And if the 'partnership & employees' story for cochella is to be believed, pitman would be a VERY inexpensive crutch for Axl's ego by any standard. Pay the guy 3000 bucks a show to twiddle on some unplugged synths, and then go collect an 8 million dollar payday. It's just good business sense to include him if it ensures Axl is cool to sing.

Yeah because there's only so much good will to go around!

What the fuck is everyone's problem and all this shit about promotion and whatnot?

First off, nothing else has been announced in terms of dates and everything. Coachella is going to sell out regardless and it's going to get a lot more coverage whenever the shows come around.

If/when am actual tour is announced, I'm fairly certain there will be plenty of promotion for the band and tour, and by then we'll likely know who is touring for sure (even though Slash and Duff should be enough for people to not complain, but oh well).

Nothing has been handled poorly. Coachella announced their stuff last night and GnR, Slash and Duff all posted the corresponding pictures to go along with it and it's been made more than obvious who the main members in the band are - the ones people have been clamoring to have back for years.

But it seems the only people not clamouring are Axl, Slash & Duff. One grudging tweet from the first, and not a word from the others. Imagine - just imagine - if Axl were to say something like "I'm thrilled to have slash back in gnr, he was integral to the band's sound". Or if slash said "Amazing to be back in guns with one of the best frontmen of all time".

Reposting the cochella line-up like it's no big deal is about as understated as it gets.

@Gunsfanoldie, lots of people still care about the Crue. Their shows always do well. I went to a show of theirs a couple years back and it was loaded with some of the hottest ass I have ever seen. Crue plays pussy music. There will ALWAYS be people that care about that my friend. Crue is one of the best at that genre.

Why are you talking like Austin powers?

We have known if Coachella for a couple weeks. When is the real info coming?

This roll out has been a fucking joke. A shared Coachella pic? Give me a fucking break. Should have hired Gibbo27 to make a badass trailer announcing the reunion. Would be much better than this horse shit.

Agree. There's a real reticence to the announcement and to the way Axl's approaching it that says one thing - money. I seriously doubt if fences have really been mended in any lasting way. At this stage the reunion certainly doesn't feel as though it's built to last.

Cool offer, but who's in the band right now?

These are the fans that guns n roses made.

The way in which the news broke was a mess for sure. The news itself is fantastic tho.

My biggest concern is that it looks like slash and duff will have to kowtow to the management decisions made by beta and Fernando, and so by implication can be held to ransom by Axl's mood swings. It's like 1992 all over again.

The buzz is muted because they managed to fuck up the announcement. Unbelievable I know, given their professional track record.

If Axl had gone on to Kimmel, things would have occurred with much more fanfare. Instead, the biggest and potentially most lucrative rock n roll reunion of the last 20 years was broken in the middle of the night on a ghost-town forum by the lead-singer's housekeeper's son. I shit you not.

For the first time in my 3 decades of support for Axl and GNR, I can whole heartedly say:

Meh..

Yeah I get that too. It's because they managed to break the news in the most anticlimactic way possible. 4 hrs ago we thought Axl and slash were gonna appear together on kimmel and maybe even play a song.

GG - is the confirmation implied by the Facebook reposts, or have you heard it elsewhere too?

This it shaping up to be the most colossal goat-fuck in the history of Team Brazil. And that shit takes real dedication.

If they do bring down a shitstorm on themselves, it'll be difficult to argue that it isn't deserved.

It's looking ominous. Jarmo's position sounds a lot like the old status quo.

If Axl has pulled out at the 11th hour, it will pitched as our fault for thinking that he owed us something. This isn't Burger King, this isn't 'have it your way'.

The chances of all management involved agreeing that an amateur like Fernando should quarterback the reunion announcement on a dead forum are pretty much zero.

Spectacular disappointment beckons.

Unbelievable. The cynics win again.

When it comes to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, there are few people with this much raw talent.

Better than the other one.

Reckless Road, ha ha just kidding

No you ain't Marco, and it's the least they could do. The book would go gangbusters. But it may do anyway!

She sounds a little bitter. I wonder why.

So will Axl turn up on time?

Hey we don't talk about that man.

One subsidiary benefit of a reunion would be that we get to see so many asslickers who ran down the classic band finally eat shit. Many of them will be eating it backstage at the reunion gigs tho. But fuck it, they'll still be eating shit!