The way it's written doesn't exactly give that much credit to Axl.
in all fairness it's for a guitar magazine
.... but agreed, slash is obviously trying to name axl as little as possible, but if the same interview were given to axl i'm sure he'd name the other guys as little as he could as well.
as polluxlm stated axl gets a big cut cuz the songs are structured around axls vocals and he wrote the majority of they lyrics...so with melody and lyric content alone he was given a big cut...regardless this album would not be great if it wasnt those exact 5 guys at that exact time period...can we all agree to that at least? and without slash's killer guitar solo's and duff's bass lines and izzy's song writing and steven's drums axl wouldnt be where he is today either IMHO