I wish that we would've uncovered full Jackie Chan or a confirmation on whatever else was on the Piazza/Trunk disc.

Sigh.

I wish I had a couple mil to flush these guys out of hiding.

The 2002 tour made Axl look like a bad joke. The 2006 tour made him look like a roaring lion. It was an amazing comeback.

The openers at Hammerstein got killer reviews, he was far more public, and the tour culminated with a glowing piece in the LA Times about Axl reclaiming his throne against the odds. The buzz was pretty great all year long but there was zero publicity and promotion which was a terrible decision and tour sales suffered because of it. It was all downhill from there. 

I bet there is so much behind the scenes fuckery it'll make your head spin. It'll never get out though.

And James, that's obviously true in a broad sense but if Slash and Duff get their hands on the material it'll be John Williams instead of Tchaikovsky or be dumbed down bullshit like 2012 GNR's Oh My God. I want the best. Period. I could give a fuck that Slash is back. Slash can be a marketing puppet and play on 2 songs. Go get your fucking shine box.

The point was, it never got off the ground or finished because it kept on changing. Supergroups don't last for a reason. Gimmicky in themselves and too many egos in one room. I'd rather have a rotating door with an end product than an ever-metastasizing operation that never gets anything done. The early record had a different sound than every other version because there were too many cooks in the kitchen.

I miss the possibility of a new album coming out. It was an exciting time to be a fan.

I also liked the community aspect. You'd come and hang out with your GNR friends basically. You'd have the "new kid" come in and post a fake Chinese Democracy album cover or say he had such-and-such a song and everybody would tell him to fuck off or shut the fuck up and then after a couple of weeks he was one of the bros. It's a great thing that's missing from our society, that sort of bonding.

I miss the half-trolls the most. The ones that would make fun of Merck, Del James, and Beta to their face or account suicide to rip Jarmo or Madison a new one. Great times.

I also miss the Wild West aspect of it. The internet was a different place back in the late 90s. It was like you were a prospector digging for gold and not just GNR stuff but anything else too you could find some crazy shit online that you'd never be able to find nowadays.

Not really.

It maybe proves the promoters thought wheeling out fat Axl might be bad for tour profits and/or the marketing team said holy shit no.

New album ready to go before the make-shift tour started? Nonsense.