you make it sound like every highly regarded guitar player gets so much for their later projects outside of the bands they once ruled the earth with..
Gnr he was great, he did really good with snakepit, and I think he did good with vr so far, but as time went on from gnr-snakepit then to vr his role as an individual compared to a band changed.. Maybe you don't understand.. You make an album in a year you aren't going to keep remaking amazing guitar solos... If slash and the gand were into doing that they would have taken 3-4 years and wrote 1-2 minute solos and had all this fancy shit into the songs..
What about drug abuse../... ? I always laugh when anyone has anything to say about drug use when gnr were all adicts when they started and just about all of our favorite rockers were on soemthing one point or another..
FInally are you following me