hollywood_democracy

Well it almost made it onto Chinese Democracy allegedly, and was in the leaked CD that were the top candidates for release back in 2000, so I'm assuming this is one that Axl wants to get out.

I don't think they ever said The General would be exclusively on vinyl. I think that was just cuckoo forum members' assumption. But I stopped spending money on them long ago. I paid for the digital version of the AFD anniversary, but that's it. Never went to any NITL tour. I'll buy a new album if it comes out, but that's about it. I gave away all of my Gn'R merch in the past couple years.

Isn't it a Tour-de-force of an evil passion?

I don't understand the alarmism... There's no way it'll be a vinyl-only release. I'm sure it'll be released digitally before the vinyl comes out. The vinyl is for collectors, but they also want to reach other fans. It would be a very stupid move for it to be vinyl-only and reach a few thousand die-hard fans as opposed to millions via online views/listens/downloads like they ddi with Perhaps.

Axl is just playing it safe and releasing songs that were leaked... He has plenty of other stuff that we haven't heard that he may just be too afraid to release at this point, or figures business-wise, let's officially get out what's already out unofficially. Those leaks are from 1999, and we know he recorded vocals for at least Shackler's, Scraped and Sorry since those—so I think it's pretty naive to assume there's no other stuff out there. It may never see the light of day, or it may not be great, or a number of other things, but trust me, there's not just 3-4 more songs with vocals left.

No explanation is needed. Everyone knows Axl is too insecure and/or indecisive to put new music out. The middling and underwhelming reception of Chinese Democracy probably didn't help the matter either, unfortunately. And this doesn't come from a hater. I wish we had more music—I'm a fan of Chinese Democracy and the leaked demos. But here we are...