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Sure, I didn't mean to say it was mainly Geffen stopping the funding that resulted in the release. But maybe it, together with other factors, sped things up a bit. I mean, Axl always wanted to get the album out, with no funding he had a strong economical incentive to speed things up.

Yes, Geffen actually sent out a press release in early 2004 stating they had stopped funding it and that Axl would have to pay to get it finished himself. There are indications that with no one funding it anymore, the pace was kicked up a bit. Two years later the album was completed, more or less.

I was laughing at the irony of making all that effort to collect interviews and make them readily available and still people forget about it Not at you, no, no.

Seriously? Here it is at A4D with transcripts by @Blackstar (10) 1994.06.19 - "Guns N' Roses: The Photographic History" documentary (a-4-d.com) And here's my writeup of the book release: (10) 16. JANUARY-JULY 1993: THE SKIN N' BONES TOUR; END OF AN ERA (a-4-d.com)

You know, John and Axl had a fall-out in the 2000s and it is possible they never made up: (10) 24. NOVEMBER 2002-APRIL 2004: THE TOUR BREAKS DOWN, THE END OF GUNS N' ROSES? (a-4-d.com)

We actually have a new pet, a crested gecko. And my youngest daughter has started riding, and wants her own horse now.

The only thing you need to know is that you can't trust anything MSL said and hence you can disregard any argument that is based on anything coming from him. He was a known and self-professed scammer and liar.

Hey, congratulations! Brave, sure, you are are kind of great so I am sure you won't regret it.

What!?! What are you going to do? Why did you quit?

This is definitely one of the worst travel experiences I have had, and it is ongoing. Started with having to check out from the hotel at 1am and then deal with taxi scoundrels, then the Israeli interrogation, then a cancelled flight and 7 hour waiting, then lost luggage, and now further delays. Thanks to @Muddyfor at least engaging me in an interesting discussion.

Was picked out for an interrogation just now at the airport in Tel Aviv. Never experienced anything similar. Basically had to tell my whole life story and was asked again and again about details about my company. It probably went on for 40 minutes. It didn't help it was a 2 in the morning. I wonder why on earth I was picked. I usually float through security as if it was nothing. Then Israel is a weird place. It has to be. Only a few weeks ago the iron dome had to shoot down missiles sent from Gaza towards Tel Aviv. Crazy.

Well, they have released new merch and two old singles in these 7 years I doubt they will release videos from the NuGnR era when Slash and Duff are in the band, and they can't release photos from a studio where they aren't.

I don't think most people who we think of as "perfectionist" consider absolutely every thing in their life equally important and will fuss over every single aspect of their life and spend an inordinate time on absolutely everything. And that's obviously also the case with Axl. I believe that one of the main motifs for Axl's behaviour, and how his choices must be understood, is his ideas of how he wants to be remembered as an a composer and performer. He has a very particular vision of how he wants his legacy to be. This means that certain songs, those that will form the core of his songwriting corpus, becomes extremely important to him. It is those songs that he hoped will elevate him to a similar, or at least approaching, status in the history of rock or music to Elton John and Freddie Mercury. Don't get me wrong, Axl doesn't harbour any illusions that his discography is any close to these artists in size, and he is too self-deprecating to consider his songs equally great (at least publicly). But he is willing to work a lot, and allow himself to be paralyzed in the process, on these songs to get them "right", or "perfect". At the same time, he accepts that he cannot take this approach to all the songs he work on, nor does he have to if these songs are not intended to be part of his main legacy. Similarly to Elton John and Freddie Mercury, and almost every other artist, who of course have released songs not intended to be taken that seriously and in a sense was also not intended to be their great works of art. Additionally, what is "right" or "perfect" for these songs aren't necessarily obvious to us, it is not necessarily about objective quality of his singing or composing structure, but more esoteric things like how he sings certain parts, how the drums come in, etc. It causes weird decisions that doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense to us (or me, at least), but very important to him, because, again, he has this strong idea in his mind of how these important songs should come out. Similarly, to him albums are the currency of musicians. Albums are more than just a collection of songs. It is the main criteria product of a musician. He grew up in a time when a song would always be understood in the context of where it was on an album and how that album physically looked. You didn't rate a song entirely independent of the cover art, the notes, the quality of the artwork, how the songs flowed when played, what came on one side of the vinyl and the opposite side, etc. He wanted his albums to rival the best albums of his idols. So he was (and is?) extremely fuzzy about this. The songs on an album doesn't need to all be fantastic, it rarely is for any great artist, but every album should have some killer songs, a meaningful collection of songs that work together, and be packaged into a physical product that is in itself great and resonated with the songs. Does all this make Axl a perfectionist? Well, it depends on how you define that. But I don't think there is any question about whether Axl will spend a stupendous amount of time tinkering with certain things. And does this explain why Hard Skool and Absurd might seem sloppy or not that important to him? I think so too, these aren't his next November Rains, and also they aren't part of album so it matters somewhat less. It is also possible that these songs meant more to him at some point, but that he has had to adjust his ambitions for them as newGN'R failed. Hence, these songs means less to him now. We'll see.

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He did look like a younger, fresher Slash. A torch bearer of sorts.

You know, not to take anything away from your expectation of new material this year, but I simply don't think the vast majority of those who attend GN'R shows care much about setlists except that they will be disappointed if they don't hear the classics. GN'R has become one of those bands that you go to if you want to go to a rock show as part of a night out, to have something to discuss around the water cooler the next day, it is cultural capital, now you can wear the t shirt, it does't matter that much what is played as long as you hear Paradise City, November Rain, etc.

He wasn't that bad. He genuinely did his very best while in the band, was very enthusiastic, made lots of efforts to get the band making new music, was very nice to fans. He was a fan who suddenly got promoted to star. There was something sympathetic about all that. But then he looked like a tool and was a bit silly when he acted all rock star, probably because he tried a bit too hard, and he couldn't really nail all the guitar parts (he is not a bad guitar player, but next to Bumblefoot and Richard he came across as one). Giving someone shit because they aren't the best on guitar seems a bit petty to me. He also gradually realized that lots of fans despised him and that hit him hard and eventually made him throw in his hat when a reunion was forming, and he will always have my respect for that. After leaving he was always gracious towards the band and his time in GN'R.

He said as much himself when he said, "at that point, its best I go do what I'm really good at doing": Absolutely. In fact, Axl wanted me to be a part of it. I couldn’t be more happy for it happening. I was stoked to find out about it, people have got to remember, If I wasn’t a fan of the band, I wouldn’t have joined the band. I have great admiration for Axl, Slash and Duff and, Steven, Izzy and everybodys put into that thing. I have even more respect now after playing in the band for so many years. I couldn’t be more happy, I’m just a biggest fan as I’ve always been, I’m so happy for the fans that they get to go out there and see at least half of the band reunited, its a big deal. This is what the fans have been wanting, me included in that. I just didnt feel like it was my place. If Slash has come back, I couldnt be more happy, this is great. At that point, its best I go do what I’m really good at doing. Its kind of the best of both worlds, I get to have my favorite band back and I get to go play in my favorite band again. Its a win win.

What? I didn't say anything about lying

Oh, this is going to grow old quickly.

Has anyone here said they expect them to record a new album? We are waiting for more singles to be released, old songs with Slash and Duff on them. Btw, I like the thought that you either read your post somewhere else or wrote it somewhere else, and thought it was such a great post that you should paste it in here, too

Because they have a good time?

Yes! That's true genius!

Fantastic musician I'm a huge fan of Kyuss and Qotsa. Actually more than GN'R

Just throwing it out there, but could it be that Josh Homme is not actually Axl Rose? That's not making an excuse for Axl's lack of interest in releasing music, just pointing out that argument that if something is easy for someone it has to be easy for others, is flawed. Pointing out that other people find it easy to run, isn't helping a man without feet, and I think at this stage we can accept that Axl got some severe mental handicap when it comes to releasing music.