Duff or Slash would never openly say something like that.
To verify the original "getting pissed" theory, which was what I was looking for, proof would have to come in a quote from Slash or Duff voicing their displeasure, (not some random Axl rambling) otherwise it's just speculation.? As for Slash or Duff "never openly saying something like that", why wouldn't they?? I can think of other specific instances with other bands and their members voicing their displeasure with the attention their front person was getting (No Doubt is a prime example), so a quote from Slash or Duff voicing their jealousy isn't too much to ask.
You first asked for a specific instance that would verify that notion. It was provided.
See above.
You dont have to believe it but that is an example.
Again, see above.
and here is a quote saying different (although it is from a different time period to what we were talking about)
An extract from an article by Mick Wall Dec 00. "On the few occasions i happened to share a drink with him (Axl) i usually found him, ironically, to be quite mellow. I remember him standing outside the Cat Club with him one night while he showed off the enormous new ghetto-blaster he'd just fitted to his car, blaring out Metallica's "Eye of the beholder" at knee-trembling volume. He was intense but talkative, maybe even a little shy.
Which is why, i assumed he'd grown the big red beard he sported throughout 1989. What with the horn- rimmed glasses, and the old baseball cap turned backwards, it made him virtually unrecognisable from the back- combed sex-bomb then seen on MTV every day. A perfect disguise, in fact, which allowed him to roam the streets of LA, free from the kind of hassle the more instantly recognisable Slash and Duff were then really starting to suffer from.
"I leave all that shit to them" Axl told me "Slash and Duff are like the cartoon figures of the band" he added.
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