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If they only use half a dozen Chinese era tunes they would still have enough material for another record of CD era stuff, so if that is the case, they are saving more Chinese tunes to fluff additional new albums. In other words, if the NITL can manage to crank out a dozen new songs, they have 2-3 albums of material including the Chinese tracks.

So people think they will drop a song at midnight, as in in 6 hours or so?

That's all I'd need! (With all of Bucket's parts intact)

He says the first record only had 11 songs, AFD had 12, CD had 14, so maybe he really was referring to AFD. Hard to believe that many songs exist from that time though, and have not been released.

Do you think the initial CD lineup re-recording AFD may have somehow prompted his comment or confusion?

Someone ask him if Buckethead is expected to be on any of the new material. Maybe he was thinking of the DJ Ashba demos that were submitted to Axl that were more AFD sounding.

I had to Google him to know who he is. I hope at the very least it's another pair of singles, though Hard Skool and Absurd did have a gap between them. Perhaps would be cool, but it's something we already have heard, and probably even a supervisor version of it. (Same with Atlas) Hopefully the first will be The General, Seven, Soul Monster, etc.

I'm in the US, and I'm getting Guns N' Roses showing up under Artists when I search "atlas shrugged" Nothing else comes up. This was not the case a week or two ago. Last year just about everything would come up. Who knows.

The inclusion of "1999 DEMOS" is a little suspicious. I assume each mix would have been given a date, like with the Village CDs, and they had specific dates on most of those, not just a year. 1999 is vague as a reference to a particular mix. Some of the Village CDs were dated themselves, but they were full dates, not just a year.

I didn't realize a photo of the 99 tape surfaced. Would be curious to see that, assuming it is allowed. If IRS and TWAT came from that source, why do those leaks sound a lot higher in quality than the '99 Catcher? The tape itself has value, but the content not much anymore, as the 2000 mixes of those songs are probably very close. Years ago, I was told the entire Beavan album almost leaked, but apparently hoarders took action to prevent it.

It is possible an eventual new album of 12+ tracks (or whatever) could be comprised of 4-6 Slash/Duff songs, and the remaining tracks could be untouched from the CD era (2008-2014, or whatever) though I'd imagine they would need to remix them regardless if they are going for the awful loudness and bad mixing and mastering Absurd and Hard Skool had if they want the entire new record to be consistent in that regard. (I'd rather have them mix and master them properly, closer to how the 2008 album was vs the EP) As for your last claim, that is simply not true, though neither of us can provide proof of our points, reasonably.

"In This Grave" was posted by the same guy who posted lyrics presumed to be from Soul Monster. "And they say the stars don't look the same, I may have changed yet I have my soul to claim" (Something like that, don't have my laptop here to listen word-for-word) The same poster claimed CD2, as it existed in 2013 or so was Bucket and Robin stuff, with the lineup at the time playing over some of it (Bumble and Frank), much like the 2008 album, and no DJ contributions. Axl played Cuban Skies and other songs from CD to a fan in 2003 in Florida from his Ferrari, after he impressed Axl by asking him about The Blues at a club or something. Axl told him it was about cigars. I think later that poster said what he heard didn't have lyrics, but I have not confirmed that. It may have been intentional to drum up interest. GN'R does things like that as a tease/spoiler.

Several, as far as the instrumentals go. Do you only think the ones on the 2008 album were the ones they completed? Even if you don't believe Axl and Tommy, there are members here who have heard additional songs, with vocals. A lot can be done with mixing, I wasn't implying they need to go back in the studio to re-butcher these songs.

Yes, the 2001-2003 (or whatever) stuff was in stock until about that time, at least until 2008-2009 as I bought a lot of it when I was in high school. I think they had a lot left over from the first CD tours because they were cut short.

The 2008 album was certainly not the best of the collection between the 2-3 albums worth of material. Axl himself said the follow-up was planned the following year (2009). Why would they put all their best eggs in one basket? The answer is they didn't. The Village leaks support this as well. Hardschool and Perhaps (and Atlas, arguably) are better than a number of songs from the 2008 album, IMO, and that's not counting the amazing instrumentals that were eventually completed with vocals by the time the 2008 album was out. The 2008 album was described (accurately, in my opinion) as a sampler of what type of and level of quality of material that wasn't on the first new GN'R album. Furthermore, Baz said Axl said The General fits a subsequent album lyrically, back when he planned on releasing three albums, the third one in 2012. (Wouldn't that have been nice) Hopefully the NITL lineup doesn't take the A list songs we have yet to hear (officially) and make them into B list songs or worse. Hopefully they figured it out after their butcher job on Hard Skool, and IMO to a lesser extent, Absurd. Aside from the poor mix, I think Absurd was pretty good, given it's Silkworms. I wish they kept HS closer to the Village mix. My naïve self assumed they would keep the instrumentals close to how they were pre-NITL, and have Slash record a solo here and there, keeping the best of Robin and Bucket, and other leads, instead of re-working the songs significantly or completely.

The 2002-2006 merch is by far my favorite. I have a lot of shirts from that era, but not the Robin one.

I believe so! I think it was where he recorded his parts for Angel Down.

He has heard stuff there, and also at a recording studio in NY, I believe.

Both Atlas and Catcher were on a list from January 2008 from an email titled "CD2" and it included Perhaps (with a question mark after) JChan (Hardschool) Soul M, The General, Soul M, Tonto, Thyme, Cuban Skies, and many others. A few or more songs were moved between the first two records. Catcher was one of them, and Atlas was too according to what Bumblefoot said in an interview, and almost made it except the CD couldn't fit it. CD2 coming out sometime between 2009 and 2014 would have been a great way to wrap up that era, if that happened, they still would of had enough to work with post 2014 for the NITL eventual album.

If all of the CD era songs were released, and have Bumblefoot, the Buckethead mixes would be sought after. If all of the Bucket mixes were released/obtained, well, that's it for me! Peace. Just kidding, I'd talk about it until I was in heaven, and even then, complain I can't have my music there.

That would explain a few or more disappearances of known hoarders from 10+ years ago. If one makes good with their escape perhaps they will share their tunes. TB can’t hold us all!

Oh it did! I was thinking about if they will leave Buckethead material on subsequent songs as I was picking berries yesterday 😆

Axl is probably the last person to take seriously from a political standpoint, he more or less revealed he's a living example of why there's an electoral college in the US on Jimmy Kimmel. At least he wasn't the Biden equivalent.

That's rough, to put it mildly.

I start by recgonizing all 6 of their studio albums.