While the lead singer (can't remember his name - funny looking bloke, always wore a curtain on his head) is touring with a reconstituted GnR featuring himself and assorted hired hands, the other founder members are relaxing by their swimming pools and chilling. Also: Izzy has just released a fifth solo album called 'On Down The Road' - in Japan. Duff plays on it, but it isn't apparantly the project mooted at the start of the year involving Duff, Slash and Izzy. Slash lives, gigs and does sessions in LA and his wife is expecting their first child imminantly - aaah. Duff, who I always thought looked a bit too wet to be a rocker, has been playing with the Neurotic Outsiders (incl. Matt Sorum) and a band called Loaded, which was scheduled to play in Europe this summer but cancelled. Matt joined a reformed Cult - yuck! Finally, and bizarrely, Slash, Duff and Matt all appear in the new Strokes video.