dave-gnfnr wrote:

THat is why CD would have been much better stripped down.

Yeah, it's an interesting idea, I mean i really like the full version too, as it's kind of unusual for albums to have so many layers, it makes it quite a journey when you listen from start to finish. I know a lot of people hate it but I think it has it's own place.

But a stripped down version would be interesting. I'd love to hear what the songs would be like with a smaller band...like just frank, richard, tommy, axl and bumble.

quite frankly, the forum territorial shit is disturbing. If I was Axl, I would stay away as far as I could. Dylan doesn't do that shit.....Jagger? No. It is the lunatic fringe.

We hava a nice, tight little community...differing opinions, but in the end, mostly respectful of each other. The bigger the forum, the more crap that is spewed. It's the Law of Averages.

ppp wrote:

If Axl was willing to support a site with money, he'd have done this for HTGTH a long time ago. Or he'd have his own board on his own site. I really don't think he has as much interest in controlling a board as people think.

How do we know that he is not already footing the bill for HTGTH, he may have been doing that for a long time for all we know?  I mean does Jarmo even have a job, if he does it must be pretty flexible since he seems to have the time to do the majority of the moderating over there plus take weeks off at a time to go on some of the GNR tours?

Maybe they just decided to take the next step and put their finger in the pie of the biggest GNR forum (by member numbers).

Or maybe they just responded to Eric and said they would be nicer to him going forward and communicate more etc.  So he does his backflip and says some donor saved the day yet in reality Eric is just going to continue meeting the costs himself?

Either scenario is plausible.