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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.

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

There is a Fan of Axl's that is so obsessed with him, he literally impersonated Axl! 🥶😵‍💫😳😱 A MYGNR Poster posted the creepy Axl Fan and Posters replied something like, "Nice picture of Axl!" 😁 The Poster responded,"This ISN'T Axl, it's a creepy and obsessed Fan Fan of Axl who impersonated him!" The other Posters responded something like,"What the fuck, that's some serious messed up shit! 😱😳😵‍💫🥶 And I thought the Fan who got all of Axl's Tattoos was creepy, the Axl Imposter is much worse! 😱😳😵‍💫🥶

No, it's been known for a while that Josh wrote at least the first version of it.

He wouldn't have to address everything. An autobiography doesn't have to be a tell-all.

he did call the UYI videos cheesy or something to that effect in the Trunk interview back in 06. So by then he’d soured on that era and its trappings presumably. my question is, now that slash and duff are back, how honest would he be about the breakup? would he be blunt and tell it how it went down as he saw it or whitewash it cause he doesn’t wanna piss off Slash?

Personally if I was Axl I would be mortified at writing my own biography. He would have to address so much pompous bullshit he did in the 90s. it would be embarrassing.

Well they don't have to do anything really, but if they hypothetically release a song and it somehow (despite all their worst efforts) got popular there would be an expectation of hearing it live. If gnr had retired as an active touring entity and were just making music like Queen did then fire ahead...just no facking AI, unless it's absolutely the only way of very NG things done. I'll contact my bank manager

Maybe it’s to launch another $200,000 watch or a pizza restaurant chain

It has been a joke used by lots of forum members for almost 2 decades. I got another one though.....Axls_dick_in your mouth rules.

Well, no. It’s technically an “allusion.”

Can I dream of an Axl + Bucket "WAR" solo album? While Slash and Diff other thang...?

The thing about Josh claiming to creat the music on CD song is pretty recent, right? I always had in mind this was a Tommy song.

Thanks for the information! 😀 Mannheim is a city in Germany which I JUST found out literally about a minute ago after reading your post. 😀 Okay, so they locked the WHOLE band in. I honestly thought ONLY AXL was locked in! 🤣🤔

Who's to say that GNR has to perform new songs in a live setting, though?! Don't Damn Me is one of the best songs ever from GNR and it has never been performed live by GNR. There's no rule stating that songs have to be performed at a concert.

Yes, it's usually a first meeting of the parties (lawyers and the judge/s) to structure everything, timetable etc.

It was a conference between the attorneys and a judge to determine if Axl is declared served or not. The result of the conference hasn't been filed yet. They wanted the issue resolved before Axl's depo which I assume will still take place( unless something comes up to change it) Friday of next week.