TiedHands

I'm confused. If he auditioned in early '06, that would have been Bucket's spot that Ron got. Robin was already filling the lead guitar spot, not to mention Richard there as well. So he wouldn't have been auditioning for "Slash's spot".

It seemed to me that they were just having technical issues at the time and he was pissed because of it. These conspiracy theories on here are just dumb lol

People are STILL holding out hope about this? Good Lord.

Even the scratch demo of Nothing is much better than the finished version of The General, easily.

All of those theories about how they were one long song or a song split in two or a hidden track or whatever, is easily some of the dumbest stuff that's been discussed in forever in GNR fandom lol

I fucking LOVE the song lol. Its right up my alley. I love hearing Axl sing different shit, it sounds like the last thing you'd ever hear GNR do but it's pretty fantastic.

I simply refuse to believe that anyone could seriously think the released version of Hard Skool is in any way better than the demo lol

Further proof that backs up my opinion that TB is a cancer to Axl and GNR.

Still can't believe people think "Monsters" is about child abuse lol. It's clearly about a break up. Those aren't lyrics that an adult male is singing to his father that abused him as a child. I would argue that the bridge *could be* but it would make no sense for that to be the only part of the song that is.

Also, I firmly believe the bridge from Monsters originally belonged to The General but got turned into a different song at some point. Lyrically, it fits in much more with The General than Monsters. Monsters is clearly about a scorned lover, while The General is clearly about child abuse. The lyrics from the bridge fit much better with the abuse theme than a song about a woman that broke his heart.

Oh man, I'd kill to hear whatever that version of the song was. I REALLY love "Monsters" but it's clearly changed a lot over the years. I want THAT song. I'm pretty fascinated by the fact that maybe what we heard in the cell phone clip was at one point The General? Or maybe the clip was just labeled wrong all of these years. The cell phone clip always sounded more like what I thought The General would actually sound like, based on the comments through the years.

They've played it twice and people *still* have conspiracy theories about how it's not the final song, its not the full song, its part of a bigger song, etc.?? What?? Lol

Who actually is that on the keys? The camera showed him a few times during Absurd lol. A tech or something filling in?

While I do enjoy the live version because I really don't like the vocal effects on the leak, all I can think about is how we fucking missed out by Axl not performing these songs in '06-'11. I can't imagine how Axl would have sounded on this song around '10 or '11 especially. Holy shit.

Bootsy Collins and Bucket did a song called "Shackler", and if you listen to it, it's clear where the inspiration came from lol