I'd be tempted to use one, though not sure exactly what I would write in it. Updates about sites Im working on (this one included) and some banter about songwriters etc.

I say make the section and see how it goes. If no-one ever posts in it we can delete the section and deny all knowledge of it ever existing

I've just finished reading Slashs book and I'm still in two minds about it.

It was a good read, filled with plenty of interesting stories about his days in GNR, but the timeline of the book confused me a little too much. For example, Slash talks about the release day of Use Your Illusion albums but then a few pages later he suddenly jumps back to talking about the mixing/mastering process even though that subject had already been covered in detail previously.

Whilst I don't care for Velvet Revolver I felt that Slash had rushed through this entire section, granting it nowhere near the same amount of detail he did for other chapters in his life. He mentions Scott Weiland liking there material but being in two minds about joining the band. On the next page Slash wrote about Scott being late to a corporate showcasing gig. At this point I was still under the impression Scott hadn't joined the band though so found it all pretty confusing.

The author Anthony Gazza seems to have a love affair with the words "we'll get to that in just a little while". I counted that sentence, or some variation of it no less than 6 times in the first 70 pages. Whilst I'm not trying to bash the book it pissed me off to the point where I considered just closing it. The sentence kept popping up throughout the book and to me it came across as an unprofessional writing. Maybe thats just me though.

Fortunately the book is filled with as many good points as there are bad. I was pleased to see Axl represented in a fair light, and being an Izzy fan I enjoyed all of the little annecdotes involving him, including how they originally met.

Something that jumped off the page for me was the following photo:

Caption: Duff, Izzy, Slash and Matt at Mates rehearsal studio, jamming pre-Velvet Revolver. They may or may not have been working on a song called 'Snafu'

"Snafu" is a Stradlin song that was released on "Like A Dog". Whilst I need to work out the exact dates to confirm if this can be true, my mate Ed has already contacted Izzys engineer/bassist from "Like A Dog" era ; here's what he said:

"Izzy just brought some basic (acoustic) ideas on tape and the songs really took form and were arranged in the studio with Rick and Taz. If they were Project songs he probably would've mentioned it at some point.

Not 100% sure, but it's very unlikely that they stem from the Project."

If this were true it could explain Izzys reasons for not releasing the Dog album straight away. Izzy had it mixed/mastered in April/May 2003 but it didn't see a release until mid-2005, whilst Contraband was released between the two in June '04.

Izzy jammed with the guys a lot during the years prior to VR so its possible Snafu was originally worked on with Slash etc, just not in the timescale represented in the photo posted above.

It's all food for thought anyway, especially to Izzy fans