also found this
"Shari reported that Steve Ludwin, frontman for Little Hell was flown to LA to work with The Project. Steve says they worked on 7 songs, but he was not asked to join them permanently. If you'd like to check that out, Shari saw this in Kerrang!, issue 951, dated April 19. Thanks for the UK update, Shari! "
www.snakepit.org/0403news.htmlso maybe the bbc report meant VR, not GnR? *shrugs*