Slash may not shit roses, but he's not crazy. Axl is. No matter how many people want to throw shit in Slash's face, Axl Rose is the major reason behind Guns N' Roses falling apart. The proof is in the pudding that we're still eating today.

The "people were curious about VR" excuse never flew with me, ever. The music was good, the people enjoyed it and they bought it. It's that simple. If there were 3 million curious people for VR, Chinese Democracy wouldn't have sold 38 copies. Libertad didn't sell because the songs weren't nearly as good. The first single was fine, but after that everything was pretty bad as far as the mainstream audience requires.

I've been wanting to see Fitzcarraldo for a long time now. There's a story that there was people in a hut and they were making noise on set and Klaus fired a shot blindly into it.

Klaus was quite the artist, I'll give him that.

Like I said, it's bullshit that things get thrown. Like I said, most of the "psych" stuff is bullshit. Case in point, the psych major saying people should beat the guy who threw the coin 'til he's dead. Reading the books and applying the knowledge are two different things. I wonder how that'd fly in the ol' doctor's office. I don't care if he's "bipolar" or "antisocial", the dude's not all there and it really doesn't matter past that what label he has. I'm not interested in the psych terms that, a lot of the time, people use as excuses to make themselves feel better and doctors throw out there to get people in the examination chairs and money in their pockets. And if he's mentally stable and is doing this shit, he's simply a dick. Beating the fuck out of the idiot who threw the coin isn't going to make anyone happier about the situation and doesn't redeem shit. And his bullshit with showing up late is insulting to everyone from the management down to the band to the crew to the fans. If there's a time on the ticket, the band should start around that time. Everyone else in the band wanted to. But, they allowed Axl to become even more empowered and spoiled and that's what it amounted to. When people buy a ticket, it's your job to do shit right.

Axl fucked around probably 95% of people who were in his life. The fact that he's released one album in 15 years and can't keep a band together or tour is just more evidence that he's either not there or he's a huge asshole. And his "psychiatrists" obviously aren't helping him any. The only thing Axl has going right now is hindsight, because we know now no one died at any of those shows.

It doesn't matter which way you go about it, the end result is still the same.

This is why I never had the huge hard-on for the Axl forum posts like others did (at least no when unaccompanied by a real media campaign). Axl has the power to select which questions he answered and how he'd answer them. It pretty much nixed the possibility of follow-up "hard" questions and basically was a scapegoat to let him off the hook. I still appreciate the fact that he came on, but a lot of it was a lot of talk without giving us what we're interested in most. Answering questions online allowed Axl to tip-toe.