It’s like anything else Guns and Chinese related. Riddles, mysteries, and enigmas.

I can see Axl’s point. Slash was running his mouth ‘95 onwards. In the words of the great Jules, “Well, allow me to retort”. But such a precisely felt emotion would be saved for the critical moment, when it could be maximally useful and also clearly expressed.

This is our new band. Beat. These are our new songs. Beat. The record is coming out on X. Beat. The past is the past. Beat. X and Y happened. Beat.

It’s a turn of the century marketing mix. Slow fade-up. Solid enough ideas. But we interpret it through Axl’s now past actions which color the kool-aid.

And I can totally see no one caring, no one wanting to resolve the red tape with the GNR logo, etc. An easy sell for me there.

The counter argument is Axl being one for ideas but not for execution. And him being quite sensitive and his handlers exacerbating problems of many a stripe and color.

But his head was in the game in a lot of this stuff. Just lacked the time, discipline, resources to pull it off. It was decadence on the front half and pinching pennies on the back nine.

And depression seems to loom large over a lot of this, too.

Yeah I’ve been wondering the same thing

I find it odd he had a trainer/nutritionist in 2016 in that gap between Guns and DC but not much came out of it. And then there’s the Mickey Rourke IG post that came out of nowhere and again nothing came from that either. Speaking of gear, he’s on it for sure.

Axl’s a rockstar but with the depression history, the last thing he should be doing is touching the sauce.

He’d look pretty damn good with better wardrobe, dropping 30, and hitting the weights.

He could do this behind the scenes and come out looking like a demon with an new album come summer.

It’s nice to dream.