That was the thread that pissed me off to the point where I had to delete my account. I would consider myself pro-Axl/GNR, but reading that thread I was cringing because Jarmo just humiliated himself. I've met Jarmo and he seemed like a cool guy, and I have the utmost respect for the amount of time he has put into making HTGTH, but that thread was embarrasing to read imo.

His argument about the unofficial Izzy book was actually quite funny to read. The two books are completely different. Slashs biography is an officially authorised book apparently written, or at least co-authored by Slash himself. The Izzy book was a scam, that was why we had to warn fans not to purchase it. It's difficult to point out errors in a book when only 12~15 of the people who ordered it actually received it.

Fair enough, one of our moderators did receive the book and she pointed out the errors but they were slightly more significant errors compared to Slashs book ~ noticeably the guy spelt Izzys real name incorrectly (numerous times). He also stole interviews from the Izzy communities. We have proof of this because the original interviews were in Japanese and the mod could only transcribe them using Babelfish. The interviews don't even read coherently, our original spelling mistakes were present in the book, and for some unknown reason the author jumps between interviews from 1988 to 2000 making it impossible to follow etc. The whole thing was a scam right from the offset, and please note that Izzy did everything possible to prevent this book from ever being released at all. When our mod posted her review of the book online the author came to our community and called us "fucking trekkies" and threatened to sue us for hosting the bad review (I must be a magnet for phoney lawsuits)

Jimmy Ashhurst (Ju Ju Hounds bassist/songwriter) who was interviewed for the book actually had to buy his own copy because the author didn't send the promo copy promised. Jimmy ordered the book, which never arrived from Amazon due to this being a scam, so he had to track down a copy from a fan who had actually received it. When he finished reading the book he posted a public apology to all of Izzys/Ju Ju Hounds fans saying that had he known it would turn out so poorly he would never have accepted the interview offer in the first place.

Whilst Slashs biography does contain errors they are NOT similiar to the errors in the book about Izzy. If you can track down a copy of the Izzy book, good luck considering only ~15 people own it, you will agree with my opinion I guarantee you.

edit: sorry elmir, that rant wasn't aimed at you if thats how it came across (due to me quoting you). That whole Izzy scam really pissed me off, it obviously still does

I've found the issue now so I'll revert back to the old URL's whilst I fix this Many thanks for pointing out the error CC

Brixton Academy Now theres an excellent venue, saw NIN there late in '06 and had a blast.

I may just have to get tickets for this one, especially if VR are running out of steam

I'd love to see that. Can someone post it up here or in a new topic for all to read?

If not, please PM it to me