Get Over It
This is going to rock.
Also Axl doen't cause these days that was almost 30 years ago. Guns N Roses never broke up I suggest reading this threadhttp://gnrtruth.proboards.com/thread/4929/axl-finally-vindicated.
And for the weight voice comments jezee give me a break.
Credit to MSL the admin.
What ripped GNR apart was the battle over creative control that erupted when it came time to make an album after the Use Your Illusion tour. Gilby was brought in on short notice to fulfill Izzy's touring responsibilities, but Izzy's far more important role was as Axl's primary songwriting partner.
From Axl's perspective, with he and Izzy being responsible for the vast majority of GNR's songwriting, he shouldn't have been expected to suddenly recreate the magic he had with his childhood friend with some random dude brought in as a touring replacement on short notice.
So, Axl wanted to bring in another childhood friend, who he had already written GNR songs with previously, Paul Tobias, to fill that void (Paul wrote the first song the Appetite lineup ever rehearsed). From Axl's perspective, with he and whoever he wrote with being responsible for the bulk of the songwriting, he should have been able to pick whoever he was comfortable with.
From Slash's perspective, with Izzy gone, it was now Slash's "turn" to write the next album. One problem, while Slash had made many key songwriting contributions, he rarely was the one to start songs from scratch and had never been relied upon heavily previously to carry the songwriting load. That was Axl and Izzy's job.
You're dealing with a lot of egos, you're dealing with two millionaires, one of the most recognizable singers and one of the most recognizable guitarists on the planet.
They both had points of view that some would understand. Axl feeling he should be able to pick the person to fill the songwriting void left by the departure of his childhood friend. Slash feeling there was no way some "new guy" should waltz in and write the album instead of him.
Slash presented an album's worth of songs for Axl to sing on for the next GNR album. Axl felt most of them weren't good enough. Duff agreed with Axl. Axl wanted to work on a few of them and scrap the rest. Slash wanted all of them to be used or else he was threatening to go solo.
For the next year or two, Slash quit and unquit many times. Most of which never went public. He never actually wanted to quit. It was a power play. Trying to force Axl's hand and make him agree to Slash taking over the creative direction of GNR.
Axl eventually called his bluff and moved on without him. Something Slash never thought he'd do in a million years.
I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong. I can see both sides. Not to mention the egos, money and substance abuse involved.
But what in theory was a complicated situation ultimately was rather simple. Axl and Slash couldn't agree on a creative direction, so they divorced. Except Slash never wanted a divorce, he just thought threatening divorce would get him his way. Instead he got the divorce he asked for, but never really wanted.