When Axl found BH, I have to say that I also doubted the decision whether it was good or not....but it turned out pretty damn awesome....same with Finck, Fortus and BBF....I hated Tobias because of the whole Slash saga, but now I firmly believe that he was as important as some say that he was....

I like Finck...he is good....very good...I think he brought something to the table which only he could have done, and for that he should be commended...

On a side note, my favorite AFD song with the new band behind the helm is Brownstone, and I am pleased to have a Finck "biased" mix of it from one of the European shows in 2006....you can clearly hear him louder than the others, that's because the guy recording it had him on a more prominent setting....

Anyway, here it is, if you want, have a listen to it, I really think its great.

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php? … acb5714b46

yup, I remember that too....

good thread....good point, good argument.....

I am now almost convinced that we will see an original lineup reunion eventually, that much i think is clear....these new management guys know that will make them rich....however....I doubt Axl would want to do it until he gets this beast out in the open, and closes this chapter in its entirety....so Azoff has to get smart and hurry up with this, if he is to get Salsh and Axl on stage again for Hall of Fame, and then a world tour after that...

So, this could easily be stage 1 of the plan, to get BH back, and one way to get him back is to leak/release heavily influenced BH tracks, give him some royalties off this new video game, make him realise how important he really was....get him back, tour the world, release this fucker....and then say goodbye and do the Stage 2 of the plan, which is a full reunion....

Azoff scores either way....he manages to release the un-releasable, and manages to reunite the un-reunitable...ace job....$$$$$$$$$$$

As far as Bucket not wanting to waste time with them and all the stuff which was mentioned above....fair enough, but....

Everyone has their price, and so does Bucket

.....he is first and foremost an artist, and to see and hear how the world is salivating over these shitty leaks must be making him feel pretty good, because there must be even better shit behind the scenes which we don't know about....

he might just be tempted to do this again....

he didn't silence the "where's Slash" screams, but he made people not say them as often as they would have...the important thing about BH is that he wasn't seen as Slash's replacement, but rather as an entity of his own, which further gave weight to the "New Gnr" being different from the old one....Axl's vision of a new band almost looked interesting enough to accept, even for us...

That's what BH's presence did....