Live Like a Suicide

It's not like this is the first time though. We all knew of Hard Skool's imminent release when it went live on Linkfire. So they should have known the potential for this to happen. The only difference here is that it seems they were planning a bigger promotional cycle and more media picked up on it.

I know the timer didn't mean much as it was all in draft, but it was different based on timezones and did fall on or about a midnight (which could correlate to a final midnight release per timezone).

The media tends to have a tough time being accurate with inside sources re GNR. Until we get more info, i'm sticking with an 11th release date given we all saw the background video with that date.

In the article, they say: The track is taken from the band’s ‘Chinese Democracy’ era and is set to be officially released on all streaming platforms this Friday (August 11).

Does anyone know if this is a trustworthy news site? At this point, I don't see the benefit in postponing its release by a week. The song has already had a significant amount of media attention with the 11th as a release date, and they should just drop it then if they can't work out a pre-save campaign.

It is still possible to promote Perhaps with a pre-save campaign even the day before its release. It's also possible they dropped that campaign due to whatever reason and will just drop it as a surprise release on the 11th.

Listening to the full soundcheck video, it seems the 'hey hey' at 15 seconds of the song has been changed to a more upbeat/shorter one (as opposed to the drawn out 'hey hey' in the demo). It is also the only 'hey hey' played in soundcheck as a backing track, so maybe they have shifted that 'hey hey' specifically (or even others) from the primary vocal level to the backing vocals instead.

Of course new music would be great, but I think it is silly for people to complain so much about CD leftovers. Beggars can't be choosers, and i'm still interested in hearing what the CD epics sound like. If people don't like it, just think of them as Axl songs that he brought to the table.

Given August 11 was baked into the graphic itself (unlike the countdown), I am pretty confident of that date.

I get the same results, but they're likely doing work on the page while redirecting the Linkfire to the GNR website in the interim. Clearly the Perhaps announcement page wasn't finished when we picked up on it as the countdown was wrong and the Spotify pre-saves weren't working correctly.

Perhaps he was wrong.

It says 3 days and 8 hours on the countdown for me. Could be that Kiwis and Aussies get it first again!

Has anyone clicked on the pre-save button for Spotify?

Same here! Awesome to see some movement finally.

I think it's more likely they came to the 2 million number by estimating their expected marketing results and gauging the response rate that Hard Skool and Absurd achieved in similar time frames.

I could only find two videos of Perhaps on YT after a cursory search - one heavily edited and another unedited. All the other videos of Perhaps that have been floating around YT for months/weeks that had substantial views are gone under copyright claim by UMG. You can test this by typing in 'Guns N' Roses Perhaps' into Google and clicking on some of the indexed videos which no longer work, lol.

I just noticed that too, lol. I kind of expected it since he titled it 'official 2023' or something like that. Maybe i've gone mad, but i'm pretty sure this is a good sign for a potential release.

I would agree with you if it were more than just Perhaps getting pulled. Some of these copies of Perhaps have been sitting on Youtube for months/weeks (depending on the video), and now they are all gone as rumours are heating up of an imminent release. If it were the usual suspects, they probably would have tried to nuke the whole account and/or all the leaks. That only Perhaps seems to have been impacted tells me it's probably an official move preparing for release. I recall similar things occurring before the release of HardSkool/Absurd.

Most of the videos of Perhaps on YouTube have been pulled. I know because I was listening to one of the videos last night and now it's gone... along with every other video of Perhaps that had substantial views. The kicker is that some of these accounts have uploaded numerous Village Session songs like Atlas, SOG, HS, etc, that have not been pulled alongside Perhaps.

I don't even think Axl looks bad in that photo.

Yeah, doesn't sound like anything discernible to me.

I know it's popular to blame Axl for the lack of movement, but if Universal is in charge of distribution and the band has already done up a few songs (as Slash has indicated), wouldn't it then be up to the label to decide when and how the music is released rather than GNR/Axl?

Just a reminder to everyone that GNR have at least two Linkfire accounts. For example: https://gunsnroses.lnk.to/HardSkool https://gnr.lnk.to/bio

Are there any indications OMG has been seriously considered for release or live performance since the reunion? I find it hard to believe the current band would prefer to re-release it over officially unheard material like Perhaps or The General. Just because Axl continued to play around with it after its release means little in the current context of the band. OMG is best left in the past, and indications for new material relate to Perhaps (and maybe The General). Who knows when we will get a release, but I don't think one setlist or a few shows missing a rehearsal of Perhaps mean anything. Remember, we saw an official video that featured a worker flicking through song cards that included Perhaps and possibly The General not more than a week and a half ago.