still sucks that some people will read shit like that and pass it off as fact.   from the video footage it looks like Slash was behind Axl 100% in leaving the gig.

and i do know most of the people who don't think stuff like that is a big deal, "its just slash's recollection, not meant to be a history of GnR or anything"... if that account of the event had been written in a book written by someone other than Slash, they would be agreeing too.

I thought his reasoning for writing the book was "setting the record straight"  .. its impossible to take seriously, IMO.

I just can't take it seriously when there is completely innaccurate shit in it like this (thanks to jarmo for transcribing)

"When he jumped down, it was great, we kept playing that suspenseful riff that starts off "Rocket Queen," and I thought the whole moment was killer. When Axl got back onstage, everything felt triumphant for a second... then he grabbed the mike, said something like, "Because of the bullshit security, we're going home," slammed the mike down, and walked offstage.

The band kept going. We'd gotten good at improvising to fill dead space - drum solos, guitar solos jams - we had a bag of tricks to keep things moving whenever Axl made a sudden exit. We kept jamming, and I went over to the side of the stage.

"Where is he? I asked Doug.

He looked at me with a pained expression. "He's not coming back."

"What do you mean he's not coming back?" I shouted, still playing the riff.

"There is no way he is coming back," Doug said. "There is nothing I can do."

We were about ninety minutes into our set, which was our minimum contractually, but the plan was to play a two-hour ser and the crowd wasn't close to satisfied. They knew there was a lot more left. I would have done anything to get Axl back onstage at that point.

"Ask him again!" I yelled. "Find out if he's really not going to." I should have known by Doug's expression that there was no use.

Once it was final, we had no choice: the band put down our gear, and it was like pulling the plug on the stereo - the song just ended on a question mark. That entire arena sat there expecting something to happen, but instead we walked offstage without a word."

Anyone could watch the footage and see that this is nonsense:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkec02UjybE

yet people will read this and take it as the "truth"

Ever seen Sebastian live?  I'd much rather go to one of his shows and watch him do his thing than see some 60 year old farts have a heart attack on stage.

I hope I can at least see the band sometime in the next year.   The album would be nice, but I'm jus chillin on that idea until theres actually a release date.

as far as editing posts?  I've never seen anything like that.    They delete  posts, but I think they are just trying to keep a little bit of order.    I've never been upset at the few topics Jarmo chooses to not have discussed on that board.