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It was a guy called " IWasThereForYou". Which is underappreciated, how hilarious is that name for a leaker? He really was there for all of us, in a time of complete dispair. If you're reading this, kudos for you that name is comedy gold. This thread was a complete shitshow on the 27th October until you showed up and saved us lol

I never knew the cellphone clip only surfaced so recently, I thought it was from around the time it was recorded, and also assumed evaders version was thus also that old, like 2013 lol. When did it come out?

Not sure how you put Shadow Life instead of The Unholy which is even on the same album That one is not far off from The General in terms of disturbingness music and lyric wise. It blows my mind that that one came out almost 10 years ago, yet The General predates it by nearly 12 years. And it's only coming out 9 years after. Lmao GNR timeline

It just confirms he had written lyrics for Cuban Skies, not that he had recorded them. I've no doubt he spent days or nights writing lyrics for it, but actually going into the studio and recording vocals is a different thing. I'd love for this unheard stuff to come out, but we have no real proof of it.

LOL

If you think Slash isn't on these songs, as I said, you don't know what you're talking about. End of. As someone who has picked up guitar because of Slash and studied his playing all his life, you are simply not educated enough to say this isn't him, and that makes all further discussion unnecessary. I can tell by the exact time second of Monsters when Slash stops playing and Fortus takes over, it isn't up for debate. There is no way they recorded a demo of The General, a song from 2003, that also somehow ended up leaking. Completely delusional

So this means you think Slash and Duff recorded "demos" that leaked? Somehow demos recorded in the last 4 years, got into our hands? Of 20 year old songs? Anyone who doesn't think Slash is on those recordings doesn't know what he's fucking talking about. For real, people who play guitar and know Slashs style inside out KNOW he's on these recordings. And this in turn means, that if you think what we have are "demos", what the hell would be the point in recording demos in songs that have been around for 20 years? Slash and Duff added their parts, and that's what's coming out. The fact what we have sounds like demos and crappy is because it was ripped from a vinyl, that was already so shit it was rejected because of bad quality. Ripping audio from a vinyl is already not great, but one that was so bad it was rejected by the artist, of course it's gonna sound shit.

So you believe Slash and Duff recorded a DEMO of a song from 2003? And that this version, as impossible as it seems, somehow leaked and got into our hands? Clearly they reworked it and someone took home a vinyl of that and riped it. The delay was only announced on THE DAY it was supposed to ship, so they must have had thousands of copies printed and ready already, you don't have like 10 vinyls ready on the day you're supposed to release. Not a stretch to assume atleast 1000 have been made by the time they announced this isn't shipping on the 27th.

I'm not talking about people who ordered it, but people who were involved in the production of the vinyl

I don't believe how these versions could not be finished, they clearly have Slash on them, and he and Duff surely didn't record demos of 20 year old songs that somehow now leaked. This is from someone who had access to the vinyl that was rejected now due to bad sound quality, there must be dozens of people involved in the vinyl production process that had access to this.

Plus, didn't someone say Cuban Skies was about Cigars? How would that song have been about cigars if it didn't have vocals?

WTF, you are correct the exact same vocal appears on 0:38-0:39 but I don't hear "oh daddy don't", the person just says it in under half a second, it really doesn't sound like Axl, it sounds like a soundbite taken from somewhere else like a movie or something.

+ Tonto

Ok am I tripping or is there a background voice at 1:57 in The General that says "fuck that" ? It doesn't sound like Axl, sounds more like a female voice

MacDaddy don't

Isn't it hilarious the SOG conspiracy wasn't true, but that ANOTHER song ended up being The General? We thought SOG was The General, meanwhile Soul Monster was The General the entire time.

Of course, the surprise was only meant for the people who actually ordered the vinyl. With the leak, the only surprise was the leak itself, not the way it was intended to have to listen to The General all the way through to find out there's actually a 2nd song, and it being the actual song you wanted the entire time. We knew right away 2 songs leaked so the surprise was ruined pretty much.

Well it happened, but in a much less cool way. Imagine putting on your vinyl and being disappointed with The General, and you're like where's the fucking section from the cell phone leak? And then after a few seconds of silence another song starts, and you're like what? And then THERE IT IS. I'm sure Axl was aware that many people thought that part of Soul Monster was The General the entire time, so the way it was to be revealed that way with the second hidden song coming in, you gotta give it to GNR and TB that's fucking masterful planning. If that really was the idea all along, then that's fucking cool and finally something awesome the band did for fans.

I'm thinking somehow they do belong together in some way though, Monsters has part of The Generals 2006 orchestra show intro in it, and is also a continuation of the lyrics in The General, atleast in my opinion. There was clearly some thought put into putting them together like that, even when they're not one song.

Some guy uploaded Monsters to Soundcloud and it was taken down due to copyright with the notice: "the file you've uploaded contains audio of "The General" by Guns N Roses". So they're either fused together, or Monsters is supposed to be a hidden track for the vinyl.

It's both, Slash until exactly 4:03, then Fortus takes over

Yes they will, jesus christ. This has been posted about 18274 times in this thread already.

If I ever feel like I want to abuse drugs, I will contact these people

A man who is enjoying life to the fullest lol

Agreed