It so personal because Todd (Crew, bass) died and was fired from the band due to substance abuse, mainly alcohol... When Todd joined Jetboy, he wasn't that much of a partier. It got to the point where we went to Guns N' Roses and said "Todd is going to die. He's bad off, you need to something." They were like "Todd's fine. We all party. You guys are tripping." We didn't know what to do. We were meeting with labels, our producer was making comments that he was cheating the band�we were a team. It was a hard decision - and to this day I don't know if it was the right decision - but from that day on, the two of us - Jetboy and Guns N' Roses - were at war. Six months later, Todd was dead. Todd's family went after Slash. They hired a private investigator and all this stuff. Guns N' Roses started badmouthing us all the way to the top. They became the biggest band in the world. A year later, they fired Steven Adler for the same reason. Is it the pot calling the kettle black? I say yes all the way around. It's very personal. I think they have guilt. They know we went to them. He was only 20 years old. He was doing too much and he died. It's a shame. When I read the book�there's a lot of stuff that isn't true. It bothers me. Slash wants the last laugh.

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They write: "As you may have seen in our most recent concerts, we've changed the staging and visuals. We were using Where The Wild Things Are and, unintentionally, infringed on the rights of Maurice Sendak, the author of this timeless classic.

Sleaze Roxx: Regarding what you guys have been up to lately, why has there been so much going on and how do you keep such a schedule?

Geoff Tate Geoff Tate: We signed with a new record company, Rhino/Warner Brothers, and work with some wonderful people who are very interested in putting out releases. It's a good team of people. We like to work and we like to put things out. It's a team of people who like to do that, who are very creative and motivated. I think we might have found a really good match. It's difficult because you would think that record companies would be interested in working, but a lot of times they can't get themselves together, as in the case of our last record company, Sanctuary. So I think that's why we've been so prolific lately is that they're very motivated to work.

Recorded in 2007 in London, Ontario, Canada during Meat Loaf's 3 Bats tour, 3 Bats Live, in breathtaking 5.1 Surround Sound and filmed in high definition, features Meat Loaf's all-out, high-energy performance of the classics "Bat Out Of Hell," "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)," "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad," "Objects In The Rear View Mirror" and "Paradise By The Dashboard Light" as well as the 2006 U.K. Top 10 "It's All Coming Back To Me Now."

The Walkmen will be starting and ending the tour in Pennsylvania as well as heading to Florida for the Langerado Festival in early March.

Speaking to Qconfidential from a beachside bar in Maui where he ordered a cocktail during the interview, Duff said he and Slash had discussed a possible Guns 'N' Roses show.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in the group's hometown of Detroit, seeks unspecified damages.

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