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The next conference/hearing (which will be the compliance conference about the progress/status of the case) is set for Sept. 24, 2024, and the NOI due date (= the date that a form affirming that the depositions phase is completed and the case is ready for trial) has been moved from Feb. 22, 2025 to Oct. 21, 2024. So I guess there are no service issues, and the case is proceeding with discovery (witness depositions etc.) which should be completed by September.

No, he lipsync'd/mimed the lyric "Like boom" very convincingly into the microphone during their first song "Artillery", but nothing was heard. It was very blatant.

I doubt Slash is going to be pissed off about shit that went down more than 20 years ago. Anyways... I know this is stupid, but I hope the launch of his personal website has to do with music. There are probably songs in the vault he really wants to release at some point, but that just don't fit with the current incarnation of Guns N Roses. Maybe he finally came to terms with it, and is going to release the more experimental stuff under his own name. And maybe, just maybe, release a classic GNR rock album with Slash and Duff. This might make too much sense to happen Another crazy idea: maybe his high pitched voice is actually done for and he'll reinvent himself and release solo stuff with his lower register. As a perfectionist he probably doesn't want to do that with GNR, so it's more ideal to do that as a solo artist. In which case we might get more piano driven songs. Anyways... with Axl and Duff doing their own solo stuff, it makes sense if Axl would do the same. However big or small that may be. It could just be a intimate piano tour... whatever. It can be anything. But it makes sense that he'll do something. Every year counts at his age and doing nothing is going to end in retirement at some point.

I don't think we'll see Bucket back ever. *If* (big if) Axl would release solo stuff, we might see Richard Fortus on it though. Or - and people are gonna hate this - DJ Ashba

Ah yes, Gnr fans

LMAO! 🤣

He must be grieving something every night he performs.

What generally keeps GNR at UMG? If there are any obligations and circumstances that prevent the release of the album, then why not change the label?

To be fair, Axl was GRIEVING when he performed November Rain at Lisa Marie Presley's Funeral. Understandably he didn't sound his best. 💡

totally realistic

Well, half of Guns N'Roses is Axl's own name, so ...😉

She's a NUT! 🥶

I remember that, i think she also stalked Justin Timberlake years later as well.

In a slightly related thing, P. Diddy is also being accused of sexual assault too. I personally remember thinking after R. Kelly's sexual assault Convictions and Sentencing I thought something like, "P. Diddy is lucky he hasn't been accused of sexual assault!" And cut to current times and P. Diddy is being accused of sexual assault too. 💡

I thought Best Buy already paid off the debt back in 2008 when they purchased the US exclusivity for the album? So every copy sold of Chinese Democracy would have been profitable for UMG.

Hey, I'm not a creepy Guns N'Roses Fan! 😐

No, he mentioned that at least as early as March 2009. You can check it out yourself here: (35) Chinese Democracy (a-4-d.com)

I found one potential method that may help determine if a song is in a database or not, but not yet released. (Shazam has its own database. I think it's connected to Apple Music since the app is owned by Apple, but I'm not entirely sure on what music goes in the Shazam database.) Not a completely certain method though, since there hasn't been a wide range of songs to test it on. So on a phone, there's an app called Shazam, that identifies music based on audio. I tried it on Taylor Swift's album that has now released, but had some leaks earlier.You can tell the app could identify the leaked songs, but refused to name them, because it returned the "No result" page a lot quicker. Usually, if the app truly can't identify a certain song, it goes through several steps. The text on the screen goes "searching", then "Expanding search", then "This is Tough, last try", then No Result. But when I tried it on the leaked Taylor Swift songs, several tries in several different spots of the song bring up the No Result page after "Searching" or "Expanding Search", but it doesn't hang long enough to go to "This is Tough, last try". The main exception of the leaked Taylor tracks that doesn't end early is one of the vinyl only exclusive tracks. That one has the song identifier hang until "This is Tough" before bringing up "No Result", possibly because Swift's team hasn't entered the audio of the vinyl exclusive tracks into whatever database Shazam gets its music from yet. It works best on the vocal sections. (Sometimes you have to give it several tries on different sections of the song, since it might misidentify a song, or some sections of a song work better than others.) https://www.shazam.com/privacy Please note that use of the app means, according to its privacy page: Information about your activity in Shazam to improve the app, such as the pages you view and buttons you select, device information such as make and model, operating system version, and IP address. We may also use this information to detect fraud or misuse of the service and may approximate your location to offer Shazam charts of trending songs. In order to comply with laws or valid legal requests for information such as a subpoena or search warrant. So only use this method if you're willing to rat yourself out to Apple that you've come across leaked music somewhere. Also if someone steals an unreleased song and posts it in a database/platform like Apple Music under their name, then the song identifying app brings up that person. edit: she just dropped the second half of what turned out to be a surprise double album, and it turns out one of the vinyl exclusive songs was on it. not sure why the app couldn't detect it earlier (or any of the other second half songs that were surprise dropped). maybe the database is slow, because even after the songs for the first half officially released, the app wouldn't name the songs it could identify, until a few hours later.

I agree. but I'd love to hear his side of the Cobain thing and what was going through his mind when he found out Kurt died. which is also around the same time Duffs pancreas exploded....

Lets be honest. This is Axl. this is probably a website they were going to launch in 2006, and just got around to doing it now. I'm willing to bet 1 or less updates in the next 3 years before the website is removed forever.

This is an interesting observation. He has a pending civil suit in New York and the last think his lawyers would want is him publishing a self evaluation of his, possibly ill-advised, behavior from the early years.

I associate Axl with some of the most interesting quotes ever. I've read this back to front 30 times since yesterday and I cannot make any sense of it. It feels satirical because it makes no apparent sense but the way it's displayed on that website makes it look like it's some legendary, celebrated remark. Latest thing in the litany of bizarre things these musicians have done in the last 25 years.

It all depends on whether sales of Chinese Democracy repaid the money owed to UMG. And what kind of album commitments had (or still has) with UMG. If Axl repaid his debts and isn't contractually to deliver additional albums, he likely retained rights to unreleased material without payment. If I had to bet, all of this was renegotiated at some point since the reunion. It's just a matter of whether any recording during the CD sessions remains the property of UMG if Axl repaid UMG of all recording costs.

This thread is the definition of irony.

Didn’t he talk about Slash’s book at the 2016 China Exchange? Maybe I’m remembering incorrectly bc it’s been years but I thought he kinda alluded that he still thought it was B.S. Aside from talking about the band breakup, I’d love to read about the following: - 2002 tour - buckethead leaving - why the album took so long, why it wasn’t really promoted, etc… I feel like the 2000-2010 decade was one of the most interesting chapters of GNR from a business standpoint