I hope so. However I think THE MUSIC will determinate almost everything. People might forgive Axl for the Slash thing if the music is really awesome. But don't forget what i said, The new band will start from scratch.
Not really, as I said, they have the name, previous material to use etc. It's a little different to say Velvet Revolver. But anyway, let's agree to disagree.
I was thinking and this is probably really way off the mark. But to me, Axl's voice in the Live Era tracks, (we all know it was altered/engineered), was altered to sound a little like the new voice as heard in Oh My God for example. I've thought before that perhaps this was done on purpose to get the fans kind of used to the new voice so it doesn't sound as different when new material is released. Just a thought. To me some parts of his altered voice in those tracks sounds a lot like the Oh My God voice.
I think it was redone in the studio because his live singing on UYI was terrible for the most part and wouldnt have been up to the standard required for a quality release (see Tokyo vids)