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I know squat all about the lineup, but I can tell you this much as I've heard from someone I know who works for Kimmel's show (well, technically, production company, Jackhole productions). Axl will be there on the show on Tuesday and he's "sure as hell not there to discuss Halloween trees" In fact, the quote I got was "We're prepped for some social media spikes for Tuesday night" - that's it.. that's all I've heard. I could be being totally fucked with - or we could simply follow Occam's Razor on this one and realize that pretty much all signs, thus far, point to this actually occurring.

Regardless, I bet any / all news about his appearance to leak as soon as Kimmel begins taping which is at 4:30 PM Pacific time. I'm sure someone there will tweet / facebook / etc what's going down almost in real time - it happens pretty much every time there's a potential 'big' event like this.

i thought the show is live? someone else said that a while back and also isn't the show called "jimmy kimmel live?"

Pretty much all the American late night talk shows are taped about 3 - 6 hours before airing. They all occasionally do truly 'live' shows as well - but those are usually heavily hyped before hand and either directly before or after some huge event. (like a Super Bowl or some crazy movie premiere, etc) You don't see a lot of true 'live' late night talk any more.

Axl's full interview with tour dates and his thoughts on the reunion will be up soon on the revamped Guns N Roses Friendster page with an alert sent out via AOL Instant Messenger.

And here I thought only those of us on ICQ were going to get the 'true scoop'

Kimmel is usually taped about an hour before airing, so it's not truly live, but it's closer to it than the rest.

Who are they more likely to pair him with?

Maher is a fan and had the best line about Chinese Democracy a week before it was released. "...and finally...I never thought it could happen, you never thought it could happen (shows picture of Obama since he had just been elected) but in November of 2008, in the United States of America...(picture switches to Chinese Democracy cover) Guns N' Roses finally released Chinese Democracy!"

Dessert chapel, huh? Is it made out of chocolate? If there's one thing Slash could do to entice Axl to do a reunion, it's probably a candy house.

No it wasn't on the radio a lot, the band sent out a bunch of cease and desists after Eddie Trunk played it once.

Coma gets gassed by hardcore fans but in the grand scheme its probably the most underrated. people don't even know what song im talking about when i mention it as my favorite GNR song and wont even listen to it when i tell them its 10 minutes haha

It was a great ending to the album. The exact opposite of My World. Coma was like the resolution to the whole ride since Appetite. Damaged but hopeful for a future.

Some of us were so excited by the demos leaking after so long that we thought the songs were a lot better. I bet some people stick by it to this day and you get the hardcores. Some combination of being blinded by the leaks and the layers of overproduction have revealed them to be mediocre at best for anyone with any sense.

Whoops.

Don't mean to say i despise him or anything, Appetite is fantastic, Lies, particularly the second side (showing my age ) is fucking fantastic, like really really brilliant. After that he just appears to be trying to be more clever than he is.

I think it's a case of him being great at puerile, as you put it. Pretty Tied Up is a fantastic song. Funny and clever and hilarious in retrospect since he completely nails the coming demise of the band itself. He tries too hard to be serious, but when he's singing songs about Cool Ranch Dressing, he stumbles into brilliance.

We need P!nk to drunkenly Tweet about it and ruin the surprise again.

Isn't it kind of sad that they have to ask us to name a line from Chinese Democracy? Is this some kind of inside joke?

I don't mind it. I first saw Guns in Pittsburgh in 2002. The buzz and edge the crowd was on was insane, if he wouldn't have finally shown up after Mix Master Mike doubled his set and damn near every girl in the arena flashed the camera, there would've definitely been a riot, and it added to the atmosphere. I also saw a Hammerstein show and the waiting wasn't nearly as bad but it was still kind of a fun feeling wondering if he'd show up. I took a Greyhound to New York for the show and made sure to book a late one home just in case there was a time overrun.

Would anyone be kind enough to give a brief summary of where we are at this time in regards to a reunion? What's known, credible tumors of any, is everything all circumstantial? I work with UPS so this time of year I can't really keep track as much as I'd like.

Well it's my birthday and I'm really drunk but we're pretty close to the same boat. I've been following this with detached amusement. But it sounds like Friday could be the day the reunion is announced...in some kind of shape or form, of which we have no clue until it happens...I'd say it's at about 52/48 right now.

Here's my question:

Fernando was here a few months ago and was saying big news was coming. 3 months or something. Is this what he was talking about?

I doubt it. But then was he just lying out of his ass? Cause thats hysterical cause we had to treat the guy like a king even though he probably didn't know anything or have anything to say. We just had to take him at his word cause he's Fernando.

I guess if this reunion does happen, people can say "Oh Fernando called it first", but I think that'd just be dumb luck. I guess I'm wondering if he was lying and knew nothing, or this all just happened since then and no one could have predicted that. Either way, we never got news in 3 months, so the guy was a rotten liar.

Haha. It reminds me of the insiders that were "right" in 2008. Blind squirrels...

That would be interesting

Are there any comments at all from Axl on songs from CD?

CD- Axl said was inspired from a movie he was watching. He gives more detail at the HOB 2001 show.

Shacklers- about a school shooting either at columbine or Virginia tech.

Better- I don't think he said anything but kinda explains itself.

SOD- was about sunset Blvd I believe and the ups and downs of doing what you love

If the world- I think Axl said it was their Jamed Bond song but not much else

TWAT- Stephenie Seymour song....kinda personal

Catcher- John Lennon's death

Scraped- idk much about

Riad- Erin's family or brother in law

Sorry- I thought Axl said it was about one of their managers from the old days. He specifically said its not about Slash

IRS- being cheated on or lied to

Madagascar- I don't think it's been said but Axl said it was in line with a book he was reading but many think it's about Axl being abandoned by the old band and being separated or free'd depending on how you look at it. Since Madagascar is a piece of land that separated from the continent of Africa

This I Love- an old song probably written about Erin

Prostitute- I don't think he said anything here but it's kinda self explanatory

Just off the top of my head so add some real quotes if you wish.

I think Shacklers is about Chicago shooting in someway Brownstone was implicated. But Axl is saying there is no reason for it, its just a crazy person. Axl plays the role of the crazy shooter in the verses.

Brownstone was implicated in the actions of the Virginia Tech shooter. He wrote poems about the song and said it inspired him.

Ok I found it in the old chats where Axl mentions Shacklers

Monkeychow: Axl - could you pklease talk at all about what inspired the lyrics to Shackler's Revenge and/or Catcher? Or the meaning behind Riad? thanks.

Axl: Shackler's was inspired by the insanity of senseless school shootings and also the media trying desperately to make more out of one shooter's preference for the Guns song Brownstone to no avail.

That said, listening for my own enjoyment or if we were to make a video or performing it I lean more to the entertainment of a horror flick or something like Dexter, something with an interesting menacing character as opposed to real life.

Yeah, and if you don't remember, it was the Virginia Tech shooter that was obsessed with Mr. Brownstone.

Didn't know shacklers was about a school shooting... Had to have been older though because isn't that Buckethead playing the solo?

The music was done before. Axl didn't write the lyrics then sing them until 2007, because they're about a shooting that happened in 2007.

That would be interesting

Are there any comments at all from Axl on songs from CD?

Shacklers- about a school shooting either at columbine or Virginia tech.

Yes, it was Virginia Tech. Probably the last song written before the album came out since that happened in 2007 and at least half of the other songs had vocal tracks from the late '90s/early 2000s.

I agree with the people who say none at all...unless they could somehow attempt Catcher In The Rye, in the style of the Brian May demo, which was absolutely beautiful, and not the noodly garbage that ended up on the album. I bet Slash could make it sound comparable to that version.

None of these guys give straightforward answers in English. Of course when it's translated and distorted it's even less straightforward, haha.

You know what I just realized? Its the Van Halen "reunion" from 2007 all over again.

There are also similarities with current Sabbath, minus Ward. Were these two 'hybrid' reunions unanimously praised?

Van Halen was. Wolfgang is a footnote for most reviewers, and considering how much money they've made since, it hasn't negatively effected them.

It's not narrowed down to one artist because some of them have valid reasons for reissues, but Bruce Willis having 4 "collections" is kind of ridiculous. Labels do it to bring some money in.

I like it when the artist does the song selection but then it's not a hits collection anymore, it's more "songbook". If GNR handpicked songs for a collection, they might not put all the hits on there, but it would be interesting to see what Axl, Slash and Duff would pick and the reasons behind it, wouldn't it?

KISS - way too many greatest hits (WTF with Strutter 78 on Double Platinum and Eric Carr singing Beth). The Doors, Queen and Hendrix...just way too much.

Elvis' estate went into greatest hits overkill instead of doing 50s,60s,70s singles collections and a big box set with singles and b-sides, and just reissued the albums.

Re-recorded greatest hits, esp. the ones where an oldies band re-recorded them for bargain bin collections. They sound awful, sometimes with a fucking drum machine, so it has that karaoke quality to it.

When they tack on live versions, unless it's something like "Freebird", "Midnight Rambler" or "Rock and Roll All Night" where the live version is stronger than the album. Van Halen's 2 disc collection - they had the Roth versions in the vault but they decided to put Hagar's versions of Jump and the other 2 at the end. Even Greatest Hits 1 with the reunion songs, they're just not that good to have on a hits album, when they had plenty of other songs to go on there.

I can't think of which ones right now, but there were also a few "remix" compilations that were pretty bad.

Van Halen's mishandling of this is a great example. Calling the first one "Best Of Volume 1" implies that a volume 2 was coming, and they had more than enough songs to do it...but instead they released "Best Of Both Worlds", which was mostly THE SAME SONGS FROM VOLUME 1, along with a bunch of new Hagar crap. "Me Wise Magic" was a number one hit so technically it did belong on the first one, haha.

Reading comments on the articles popping up on Facebook there's a lot of negative people out there who have no interest in seeing them reunite.

Crazy people. I was 3 when they played their last show. I'd kill just to experience those guys on the same stage. Hell, I'd be happy seeing Axl Slash and Duff and whoever the fuck else.

Facebook cupcakes would be negative about a video of Christ's return. It means nothing.

19 pages in haven't seen it asked so I'm gonna do it... Has anyone even thought about HOW the reunion will be announced?!?!

(A) A press conference with the boys? Including axl and slash hugging it out?

(B) another one of these "sources" making the announcement with a 100 page thread debating on if it's even real or not?

© more gnr Twitter cryptic tweets

Personally I would assume Choice A would be it but who knows but.. Maybe I'm forgetting an option?

How the hell does this get announced and who announces it?

Best Buy starts putting up weird Guns N Roses albums in their system, then two weeks later we get the reunion announcement, sponsored by Best Buy, capped off by their CEO hugging Axl and laughing.

IMO the sheer and utter silence from everyone in both the current camp and the old lineup should be all the assurance we need that this is actually going to happen. Nobody has flat out denied any of the "speculation" or "rumors" that are pretty much flooding the news now on a daily basis. You would think if it weren't true someone would have said something by now.

I find it funny that it is considered a good thing in a band world when they're completely silent. Only in GNR land. I can't think of a single band that acts this way and then acts like the fans are to blame for the backlash.

Van Halen acts the same way. They got back together, followed by a tour, followed by years of silence while everyone had to speculate on if they were even still together, followed by an album, followed by an aborted tour where Eddie got sick, followed by years of mud-slinging towards each other in the press, followed by the tour they're on now. Every time one member is interviewed they blame the others for the lack of another album.

June, 2017 in Los Angeles. Especially the part where Slash completely re-invents Better and the stadium explodes.