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Because it’s not gonna be released at all imo

Fuck this band and their shitty management.

Surprised it hasn’t leaked yet. Didn’t perhaps only leak a day or two before

So, we know nothing thats the gist?

Has it leaked yet? It must be close

The version with Shaq on it

My favourite part of The General is when Fernando raps over it and does a diss track against the fans while Beta makes sexual moaning sounds.

Yes. And Axl will also start wearing his bicycle shorts.

Cool… another fantasy thread. We don’t see those much

I have the lyrics to the general. it’s the tequila song but instead of tequila the shout “the general”

I won’t believe it until it’s playing on my speakers. It’s sad that being a guns fan is like this. once it’s been delivered to the record pressing plant I’ll assume it’s a safe bet. I only say this because years ago it was mentioned that they pulled a song from CD and switched it out at the final hour and literally changed it out at the Compact disc factory lol Axl must seriously overthink things sometimes hey

That couldn’t possibly be accurate, even if they were re-recorded the music,the Axl vocals would be owned by the label. I’d suggest that the band purchased it all back from universal, they’ve certainly made enough $ from touring… that may also explain the endless tour and lack of new material.

Calm down lol Same here… that solo on the cell phone clip sounds killer… it would be a damn shame to have slash replace it with some uninspired garbage like perhaps imo

That’s why I think it may be an untouched CD era song. If it was already complete with Bucket,Robin etc isn’t it possible that they’re just throwing it in as a b side? on the flip side, when they released sympathy for the devil as a single, the b side was an instrumental that wasn’t even a GnR song. So maybe it’s just the instrumental from those live shows?

It could well be. I still don’t understand (and correct me if I’m wrong) why people claim the clip from that fashion show is the general.

Surely we would have gotten a snippet over the years, how long was that snippet of hardschool floating around? those hoarders all love sharing a tiny piece to stroke their ego so if someone had it and it was a decent song, I reckon we would have something by now

Seems strange to me, no doubt someone will rip it to mp3 or throw it up on YouTube or whatever but will it not be a true representation of the song quality wise?

So it’s only being released on the 7” ?

I may have got confused, there’s a quote from an interview that slash did at one point where he says he had been in contact with GnR management checking that the UYI footage was intact and the possibility of releasing it. this may have been the initial catalyst that started it all.

Wouldn’t make a difference, it’s the top hatted one and Axl that people associate with GnR. Not to mention if they did some sort of AFD reunion, Axl would really need to pull his shit together vocal wise. personally I’d love to see it. Maybe like a 30 date run accross the USA. Do a Blu ray of it with a lot of behind the scenes stuff, then bundle it with the perfect crime doco. slash said that the main reason he made contact with Axl pre reunion was to do with all the UYI footage, which should have been released with the box set IMO, so odds are that stuff is buried forever, I can’t imagine looking at that footage 30 years later would be easy for any of them.

I just googled it. At first TB blamed Lars then retracted it saying they were just joking and that the video would be released “soon”

The band introductions were so cheesy. I seem to remember GnR blaming Lars Ulrich for it not being released? Something like that

I didn’t “claim” anything, calm down.

You don’t know that. Nobody does

I have a feeling that “the general” will be released without slash or Duff on it. if it was this huge masterpiece, with awesome guitars (cell phone clip) maybe Axl didn’t want it messed with and re-recorded. Possibly why it’s only a b-side. To keep the focus on the reunion. he didn’t have a problem keeping brains drumming on the singles so far