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It got better on other tours for sure, Rio just seemed a bit rusty and unrehearsed. Listen to the full show.

I never liked Brains drumming at this show.

I never understood the love this song got/gets. I like it ok but whatever. Better is the most radio friendly track on the album and hasn't done that well, I can not see this doing anywhere near CD or Better. If I am wrong then that will be a good thing.

You seem to only focus on the negative aspects of Slash, but you should never forget that you only wrote three songs on AFD. Who wrote the rest of the music ?

I still think after reading your explanation that keeping the name is a rip-off both towards your former bandmates and the fans.

As Izzy said it:

How do you feel though knowing it's being said as a Guns N' Roses album?

Izzy: "Well, it's obviously not Guns N' Roses. I think all the fans know that. It's not even right that he uses the name, because he's the only guy left. I think ultimately it's gonna work against him because people are gonna say fuck you, wanker - that's what they'll call him here, right? 'You fucking wanker, that's not Guns N' Roses!' Hopefully, the maniac's good, cos if the music isn't good then he's gonna get the double-whammy..."

"In Guns N' Roses, I would come up with an idea for a song and the first thing that would always happen was Slash getting hold of it and going chunka-chunka-chunka!" He hacks out a blur of agressive riffs. "I'd be going, OK, it's already changed a little bit. Then Axl would come in and go, 'We've gotta do more lyrics, we've gotta have more vocals, more back-ups, let's layer this'. So by the time it was finished it was like, holy shit! What a monster!"

http://www.chopaway.com/articles/classicrock2001.php

Guns N'Roses was the sum of you, Slash, Izzy, Steven and Duff. That's something you will never be able to change in most of GNR fans' hearts.

That's a great Izzy interview. I'd be more inclined to believe Izzy over anyone else in the band.

Do you read this forum?

Well he did say 'single' with the inverted commas.

This is from chud.com

BODY OF LIES IS GOING TO OST LIKE ITS 1994

* By Russ Fischer

* Published 10/9/2008

It's a slow-as-balls news day, so in between putting edits on reviews for City of Ember and Body of Lies I've been scanning music news. That reminded me about a story I'd meant to post a few days ago about the Body of Lies end credit scroll. (That's how slow today is -- end credit music news.)

The first is old news: 'If the World', the second new Guns N' Roses track to debut this year, and a component of the forthcoming Chinese Democracy, an album I want to hear just for the hell of it. Actually, after hearing this and 'Shackler's Revenge' (the first 'single', which bowed in Rock Band 2) I don't want to hear the thing at all. When the Body of Lies screening ended, it took about 30 seconds of the track playing before I remembered that it was supposed to be Guns N' Roses, and that I should probably stick around to hear it. Bad decision. In part.

Because following that is a new song from Mike Patton, Serj Tankian and film composer Marc Streitenfeld. I didn't even recognize Patton at first, and tried to leave post GnR, but my friend made us wait once he realized that the silken voice surrounding us was actually his. 'Bird's Eye' is the name of the track, and while it's more in the mode of latter Patton stuff like Peeping Tom, which doesn't do much for me, it's a step up from the new Axl material.