Thal says it is impossible to compare the process of putting out his own solo record and the logistics behind Axl Rose releasing a new GNR album and he insists it's not easy for the much maligned mainman.

Thal tells Legendary Rock Interviews: "I don't even know how to begin to compare the two. For one thing, in my own situation, in Bumblefoot world, I have all the keys to the whole project. I know I have to write an album, record it and release it.

"In the GNR world, Axl holds the key, and when he decides to do something is when he decides to do it, and it's definitely at a different pace than say when I do things.

"Axl and I are two different people with two different lives and two totally different sets of hurdles to jump over, which totally affects our ability to release what we create.

"It's very hard to bust out anything when life becomes more complicated or you have more people trying to pull you in a million different directions or distract you. The bigger a band gets, the more that happens - so at Axl's level, it's definitely not easy and there's a million fires to put out where at my level there is maybe 10 fires."