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5 hours ago, Tom2112 said:

He did a few interviews where he discussed his role in the the current touring band and basically aired some of his grievances... and as you probably know anyone who does that in GNR is usually excommunicated. He basically said he was done playing with them unless he go to play more songs and Izzy was there too. 

I think things are cool though, Slash met with Steven recently at a gig and everyone (not Axl) wished him a happy birthday on social media.

 

Oh, ok. Thanks for  clearing that up. 

5 minutes ago, wasted said:

I think they definitely over played their hand, so to speak. We really got a glimpse behind the curtain, where at a certain point Izzy was writing with them around 2004. We know they were also planning a GH, the label were. I wonder if before they got Scott there was a hope maybe Axl will show up?

From what I have read in Duff and Slash's books, I don't think that anyone was expecting for Axl to show up. I could be mistaken though. They had been auditioning a bunch of lead singers, none of whom they really felt fit. Then when STP broke up, they gave Scott a call like the day afterwards. 

4 hours ago, RONIN said:

I mean we have to take what we can get -- a few songs from Izzy is better than nothing I suppose.

But really, Izzy has to be on rhythm for the sound to be right. That dueling riffage of Appetite is what made Izzy and Slash a legendary pair and it's largely missing on Illusions which many (if not most) feel held those albums back. 

I have nothing against Fortus, he's a skilled player but he doesn't have the songwriting skills to be in Guns N' Roses. Neither did Gilby or Paul Tobias really. And the irony here is, Gilby and Paul Tobias have much stronger songwriting talent than Fortus. 

 

Izzy missing on the Illusions records?? He has tweleve writing credits on the Illusions albums. From reading Duff's book, we know that he was very sepperated from the band during the writing process (sending riffs/song ideas in) but Izzy was deffinitely involved heavily in the writing process of both Illusion albums.

On 4/10/2017 at 8:36 PM, AxlRoseCDII said:

Sadly I can't see it happening. Axl seems very firm on Fortus on rythym and Frank on drums and I can't see him replacing them even for a gig. Best case scenario is you'll have AFD for a few songs with Frank and Fortus still on stage. Plus, Izzy and now Steven's relationships with the band are strayed.

Stevens relashionship now too? What happned? I have not been too up to date on GNR recently. I just made an acc here to stay more on top of things. 

I went to this show and was pretty close to the front. Got stuck in the traffic on the way there so we got out of the cab and ran around a mile and a half to the venue. We got there in time to buy some shirts even though most stuff was gone. I was pretty close to the front. They put on an excellent show. When the show was done, thins went to shit. Cars were backed up everywhere. Lots of people, including my group, walked to the outlet mall a little ways from the venue. Once there we waited hours before a taxi was able to reach us due to insane levels of traffic. Did not get home until 4:30am and I think some people had it even worse.  Great show, terrible corrdination by the venue. I am tempted to make an autisim joke, but I'll refrain for the time being.