Dean

One of my favourite songs. I’m all for as many new GNR songs being released as possible.

2000 it was, yeah. I suppose the uncertainty of what happened to the track after that date and the exclusion of anything that resembled what we can sort of make out on the phone recording from Vienna of The General on the Village leaks perhaps solidified good ol' Pele in his belief that SOG and The General are the same song. I never understood how he reached that conclusion based on what is audible from that party clip, but he did mention here that he was told they were the same song by an alleged insider. I'm still of the verdict that they are entirely two different songs.

Really? First I'd ever heard of it was the Village leaks so that totally flew under my radar. Who mentioned it?

Aren't you in for a treat! @Bansidhe

It's there, I ordered two! https://uk.gnrmerch.com/products/perhaps-7-vinyl

They've outdone themselves with this! Tremendous.

Holy fuck!

Amazing. Love the subtle differences in vocal takes. Drums are great. Axl sounds fucking phenomenal. I hope with any promotion that some of the stations may be doing that it pushes this release as high as possible.

£/$20 to the bar staff for 4 minutes to occupy the jukebox!

Brian May played on 3 songs when he worked with Axl at the tail end of ‘99/early 2000. Catcher in the Rye and Atlas Shrugged. We only found out the third song in the last year or two when Tommy confirmed he played on Riad. The solo on the Perhaps from the Village Sessions is definitely Robin Finck.

You can't go wrong with a bit of Lou Gramm!

CMFTR!

I'll second that hope, though it seems as if it's an Axl call going down that route as the audio from Appetite for Democracy is exactly the same. A massive contrast to what they did going against the norm in the midst of the loudness war regarding how Chinese was mixed and mastered. More of that caliber would be very much welcomed, as often the case, great mastering can elevate a good song into a great song.

Love the sig! Kudos for throwing in the saltire!!

He was asked a question, he answered it from his own perspective. I'm surprised it has rattled as many cages as it has. It's music at the end of the day, enjoy it or don't, the choice is y/ours!

There was a medium on eBay for about 2.5 years at $25. It'll rear it's head eventually, keep an eye out!

Marty Jannetty episode of Dark Side of the Ring is bizarre viewing. What a fall from grace.

GNR should’ve hit the studio to record Wichita Lineman back in 2017 to test the waters, especially with how highly Axl thought of the bands rendition of it and that it reminded him of old Guns. That said, curious to hear this whatever it is and to hear where Axl’s studio vocal chops are currently. Mitch Lafon claimed a few year back that Axl had done a cover of Children of the Revolution for a T. Rex tribute album. Obviously nothing came of it, but one of the fellas behind the tribute album had heard rumours of Axl doing something for another project.

Finish what was initially intended with Chinese Democracy. The songs that didn't end up on the album that we got in 2008 were never leftovers, they were intended for future releases that for whatever reason never came to fruition. Axl to my ears was at the very top of his game vocally and creatively during the initial Chinese sessions. It's a travesty that the material has been sat on for this length of time, finish what he started and get them out for the public to hear. There should be plenty of time down the road for them to create a new album from scratch, but whether or not it actually happens...time will tell.

I was hoping Big Dunc would have done well at Forest Green but can't imagine another opportunity to be his own man will appear any time soon, at least at that level. An interesting weekend up in Scotland.

It was The Blues for 7 years before the album dropped. Axl introduced it as that when they first played it. It's not a big deal, each to their own!

A tribute to the Persian Popinjay?!

I do hope that is the case, I hope to be proved wrong!

I’d be surprised if the solo is different to what Slash was doing at the rehearsals but time will tell.