or no clear reason, I've written more about this one band than every other band on earth put together. I'm not a huge GnR fan, I was not a big STP fan, and I don't have any plans to buy their album. And yet I can't seem to pass up any articles about them. It's part nostalgia, part curiosity, part desire for a real rock and roll band to exist once again, and part amusement at the beefy laughing stock Axl has become.  The tragedy of the potentially best rock band of the 90s turning into nothing factors in there somewhere as well.

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May 17, 2003

This article cracked me up. Scott Weiland, late of STP and the Betty Ford Clinic, has officially joined Guns 'n Roses.  Well, not exactly, that band name is owned by the artist formerly known as Axl Rose.  Scott is in a band called Reloaded.  Who dat?

Featuring Slash on guitar, Duff McKagen on bass and Matt Sorum on drums, the heavy metal sort-of supergroup is called Reloaded. While not an official member, former GNR guitarist Izzy Stradlin has chipped in writing songs in the studio.

So how is Axl's Band going?

At this rate, the Reloaded disc will beat Chinese Democracy to the retail racks. The latter is Axl Rose's forever-in-the-works album by his reconstituted Guns N' Roses. Rose, whose infamous temper and lack of patience led most of the original members to leave Guns N' Roses in the early '90s, has been trying to revive the band (he controls the name) with his own backing players for several years.

Axl and his sidemen (dubbed Guns N' Poses by disillusioned fans) embarked on an ill-fated tour last summer. The trek was eventually scrapped thanks to Rose's chronically tardy behavior, which sparked several fan revolts in cities where they played.

The GNR Website hasn't been updated since last fall and there's no word on when, or if, Chinese Democracy will be out. The album has been so delayed that the Offspring took the title for its latest disc.

Quite a proud legacy for a band that, for a few years in the late 80's/early 90's, was shaping up to be the greatest rock and roll band of all time.  Good job, Axl.

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