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I can't say whether the IG account you're referring to is legit or not (even more so if there's any truth to what he says), however, regarding Beta, I have noticed that she has been sharing quite a few of his posts for at least two years now, so I don't think it's a case of her "falling for it".

That was the worst GN'R documentary ever. Just Eddie Trunk, a couple of other journos and Stump from the St. Louis riot saying the same old shit (and not even accurately). It didn't even have any re-enactments except a couple of scenes.

Yeah, the post I linked to was a comment in the thread about that Rolling Stone interview. We had discussed then about why that would be wrong.

1983 is most likely correct, because she graduated from high school in 2001 (evidence here). Moreover, her professional and romantic relationship with Brain started around 2006, and she would have been too young for that had she been born in 1990.

They have all travelled together (on their leased plane) since 2016 when they've toured outside North America. In North America Axl usually travels by tour bus.

Yeah, it's been there for a long time, but the performer tag on ASCAP doesn't mean anything.

Well, hopefully this mythologized song gets released sooner than later so that everybody who has been waiting for it for so long gets closure Meanwhile, Perhaps soundcheck has already been picked up by music outlets https://consequence.net/2023/06/guns-n-roses-perhaps-soundcheck-tel-aviv/

No. That was another soundcheck.

I'm curious about whether Axl wrote a new second verse in the meantime or it's the same, repeated verse as in the version from 2000.

The Axl camp seems cool with Tommy now, though. He's the only ex-member that Beta still follows on IG, likes his posts, etc.

Perhaps sounds really good on these clips, I must say. There's also that "mysterious song" that they soundchecked in South America last year. I still believe it was a song and not a random jam.

They generally didn't mention any credits (writing or performing) at all upon the release of Hard Skool (unlike what they did with Absurd) and we had to wait about a year for the writing credits to appear on ASCAP and the other databases. Moreover, regarding the drums, maybe they didn't mention anything because the Brain track is so processed/ProTool-ed that is completely altered.

He doesn't say that Slash wrote it, though.

Duff talking about the Jackie Chan song in 1996 - didn't say anything about Slash though (scroll down for the quote): https://www.a-4-d.com/t4135-hard-skool Axl confirming which rumoured song titles were real: https://www.a-4-d.com/t5903-2008-12-13-chinesedemocracy-com-axl-talks-to-fans

By "currently" it means 2022, because that was when her website was last updated. No, Frank didn't get any credits.

Yeah, maybe. It's been a long time since I last listened to it.

He almost clearly said that he didn't help write HS, however he said that the song goes way back and it's much older than the other songs he re-recorded. So the most likely scenario is that the core of the song comes from the Axl/Tobias sessions in the mid-90s and maybe Duff had had a hand then, as well, but Slash wasn't involved.

Btw, according to Melissa's website, she "contributed musically" to both (re-recorded versions of) Hard Skool and Absurd. So I guess she re-recorded Pitman's parts on Absurd, but I can't imagine what she did on Hard Skool. https://www.melissareesemusic.com/about It also says that Brain is on drums on both songs. So it's Brain on HS, too (and not Frank as we had speculated) and the drum track is probably from around 2003-2004 but heavily processed to fit with the new version.

But he he has also said that HS was a "completed song" when he was first introduced to it. All the quotes here: https://www.a-4-d.com/t4135-hard-skool I believe that it was originally written circa 1996, but Slash didn't have anything to do with writing (Duff likely had, though), as he was practically out of the band for most of 1995-96.

It looks like "Prostitute or Madagascar" is in parentheses after Street of Dreams, so all three are for the same spot.

https://www.a-4-d.com/t7812-2023-06-01-etihad-arena-abu-dhabi-united-arab-emirates#30613

Maybe TIL will be replaced by Perhaps along the way.