ShadowOfTheWave

The band certainly has a habit of preferring to release stuff that's already leaked. I think the next 4 singles Slash mentioned are Perhaps, Atlas, OMG 2, and maybe State Of Grace. I don't think Axl will ever release songs like The General or Soul Monster. He loves to hoard.

There goes the "he's adjusting the setlist to fit his current voice" theory...

I agree with Pele about everything (except Soul Monster not having vocals) but the problem was he kept repeating the same shit over and over and it derailed discussion. I think he was even muted for a while but then came back and did the same thing.

I understand the desire to hear Axl sing over FTP since Slash presented it to him and he really wanted to work on it, but Scott's singing style and vocal melodies are just too different from Axl for it to really work imo.

Other users on Gnrevo have speculated that perhaps FlashFlood heard wrong, and that Susan meant "anything goes" in terms of the setlist. Which, while a laughable assertion in itself, wouldn't be the first time it was said.

I actually prefer Anything Goes to the other two Hollywood Rose songs GNR has done. Shadow and Reckless Life are rather bland to me, like AFD outtakes. Anything Goes is a little dumb but it's catchy and groovy.

From FlashFlood on Gnrevo: Can’t make this stuff up: Duff’s wife just said on their SXM show they are going to be playing Anything Goes on the upcoming tour.

Yeah, he said something like "IDK if they'll play on it or if Slash wants to write something...". Poor Slash then starting compiling riffs in a GNR folder on his phone...only to have them placed in storage next to DJ's 12 demos.

At the China Exchange in 2016, he said he showed Slash and Duff CD 2 but he didn't known if soon was the word.

I don't really consider stuff like Nothing and Eye On You actual songs, more like sketch ideas. But that's just my view.

Don't know how, but some of the info he got he was certainly real. He revealed song titles such as Going Down & Tonto which were later revealed to be legit. While I do believe MSL has lied about certain things, such as having all of CD II in his possession, he has been accurate before and therefore while any info he gives should be taken with a grain of salt, it should certainly not be disregarded as obviously fake. My personal belief is that he was trying to sell the documents he obtained from Axl's laptop to the press, but lawyers got involved and he was shut down.

While Pele was incredibly annoying and hyperbolic with his insistence that there was nothing left that we haven't heard from the leaks, I always thought he was closer to the truth than those who believed there were 20+ completed unreleased songs with Axl vocals. The fact that the CD II track list that MSL got from Axl's laptop had so many alternate versions of CD songs seemed to indicate there wasn't enough songs available to even complete a second album, let alone a third.

I was thinking recently, in November 2014 Richard Fortus said Axl was "doing a lot vocally" in the studio and that one of the songs the band was working originated from a Slash riff. People assume this is Hard Skool because of the Jackie Chan thing but there's also a good possibility it isn't. It would be great if a completed song came out of those 1996 riffs Axl called the 1996 version of Aerosmith Rocks. In his Slash's autobiography he mentioned Axl saving the riffs he liked on DATs from those sessions.

Well, I kind of checked out for most of 2017 and wasn't really following the tour. The clips I did happen to see, like Yesterdays from RIR, were unbelievably bad.

I think GNR was always going to fall into being a nostalgic act though, because Axl is simply not a prolific songwriter like Billy. I don't think it's fair to criticize Axl for not writing more music, he has said he suffers from writer's block and there's no point in him trying if the feeling isn't there. Hoarding completed songs for decades is a different matter.

Axl's voice was top notch through most of 2016, but he was awful in 2017. Even in late 2016 on the SA tour Mickey was starting to take over.

The pre-2011 Axl who made CD is very different from the Axl we have now. Whether it's medication, stroke or any number of things that have been speculated, he just doesn't give a shit anymore.

Axl sounded great on PTU in the 2020 Mexico rehearsal, shame it was dropped from the alts. Surprisingly he sounded great on TAY as well.

As disappointing as it will be if that NAMM setlist is legit, Breakdown would be a major win.

I don't think Slash lied. I assume Slash was going off the info that Axl and perpetual liar Fernando gave him.

Axl would have cared. He wanted everyone to feel included. Very loyal in that way.

Contraband sold around 2.9 million copies in the United States, Libertad sold around 200 thousand. That is just an astronomical failure. The consensus seemed to be it wasn't as good as the debut, but there's definitely some good stuff on there. I'll never understand why The Last Fight wasn't a hit, I think it's at as good as Fall To Pieces. Slash's bluesy melancholy playing blends perfectly with Scott's sorrowful lyrics on that one. I'll also never understand why Messages was left off. Great song. Was She Builds Quick Machines just the wrong single to release?