they would have been successful regardless cuz theyre "the guys from guns n roses" half the videos on youtube people don't even know who scott is, slash could healine shows by himself if he wanted to and duff and loaded are also doing fine, theyre successful regardless but now if they get a different guy i highly doubt people would care and at the same time i still think they could some how score again, and if guns n roses got back together god we wouldn't hear the end of it, there would be promos everywhere and non stop radio and tv talk about it.