I watched the MTV Awards a while back, and something has been lingering over me ever since: Are Guns N’Roses coming back?

Is this actually happening? How can people who have heard this man’s voice talk about his "new sound"?

I remember reading, maybe it was a decade ago, about how Axl was pleading with Slash to ‘go grunge’ to keep up with the times. I don’t know if this happened, but it’s funny to think it did. Image being everything, the image is of Axl feeling the need to re-invent himself as a sensitive Seattle gas-station-clerk in calico, more specifically, how he sulks when the opportunity is denied.

Now, at age 40, he’s come up with an album entitled "Chinese Democracy", which was been designed to make you, the non-fan, ask if he’s found a political conscience. Putting guitar riffs aside, the answer can be found here.