Holy shit, Airbourne will be opening for Motley Crue along with Joe Perry Project. So... why the hell didn't Guns get them instead of Danko Jones? Maybe they wanted Canadian flavor. That's kind of weird considering a few people here picked Airbourne as a band they'd love to open for GNR.

This thread is fucking insane even by GNR fan standards.

I'm not sure I get all the negative comments either. It's not that they're unwarranted and certainly not because they're wrong. But to get defensive and state everything that's wrong with GNR to any member of this forum is pretty much a moot issue. Nothing anyone can say to the next guy will be anything he would even dispute. I don't mind negativity towards the band for what they don't do, Lord knows the operation is non-conventional, but I don't see how anyone can talk shit about them touring now. If the argument was all about how they should have been on tour a year ago, I could see it. But for how the ball bounced, we never expected a tour at all. So, when we finally get one, I just don't see how people wouldn't want to try to be positive about what we will see on this tour. If you put the band in a lose-lose situation, you won't ever see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Most of the negative comments stem from late shows, a repeat act of last year, potential cancellations, riots and Axl freaking out because coins hit him... well, no one here is ever going to dispute any of those things. So why bother bringing them up? Shows selling like shit? So did the last tour! This is all to be expected. No one would ever think about arguing it, so what are you trying to say besides taking out your own personal aggressions towards the band out on everyone else?

All I know is I was, am and always will be an Axl Rose fan. And when he makes his cold January stop in Regina Saskatchewan, the last thing I'm going to do is complain that he played 7 songs from arguably the greatest hard rock album of all time. I would be disappointed if I never got to hear Welcome to the Jungle, Paradise City, Sweet Child, Mr. Brownstone, Nightrain and It's So Easy and I'm sure most people in attendance would agree. And hell, if I didn't want to hear those tunes, what the fuck am I doing at a GNR gig? I think to be fair to the material that Rocket Queen or something of the like probably could be traded for an Estranged and My Michelle probably could be swapped for Civil War, but at the end of the day, Rocket Queen and My Michelle are pretty fucking good songs. I mean, I can pick any band I like and could alter their set list to my own personal taste. Doesn't mean what's played isn't quality through and through.

Slash's solo album will be the only new album I'm going to want to purchase for a long while. I think it has tremendous potential to be as good as Chinese Democracy.