Blackstar

The whole story with the hoarders is one of the things that this fanbase has mythologized. They've been made out to be these villains who have everything the rest of the fans don't have and won't share with them. Of course there were and are hoarders, as history has shown. But the fact that some people happened to have or managed to obtain songs doesn't mean that every unreleased song is hoarded.

Slimming down has nothing to do with his performance. He's currently as fit as he's ever been since 2006.

Footage from The Hollywood Bowl (Fernando appears briefly in it) https://www.facebook.com/gunsnroses/videos/1027008765272848/ https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz6uv08Ia8d/

They're still there in one of them.

Maybe they can still be found in alt-right equivalents of yt.

Yeah, I didn't realize that it was in the OP of the thread, lol.

Article on The Spaghetti Incident (Classic Rock). A couple of new quotes from Duff and interviews with some of the original artists: https://www.a-4-d.com/t8099-2023-12-dd-classic-rock-the-italian-job-the-spaghetti-incident-duff

Considering the meltdown when the delay was announced (at the last minute), it's good that these leaked. I can't imagine (or rather I can) what this forum would be like now (a wasteland apart from a big amount of shitposting) if they hadn't leaked.

I believe it's a famous chef https://www.reviewjournal.com/entertainment/food/after-a-decade-on-the-strip-whats-next-for-the-king-of-wagyu-2931333/

Also if hoarders had them it would have been known that the cell phone clip was not The General.

It's from 2009, but still a good read.

How about these?

He's doing another one this Sunday (same price): https://intro.live/desktop-artist-main-profile/robin-finck

I'm sure Axl would backtrack, because he was specifically referring to Jon Bon Jovi https://gnrmerch.com/collections/accessories/products/use-your-illusion-ii-puzzle

In a few of the videos I've seen it's not clear what Axl says there, because he sings that line in his thin falsetto voice and the backing vocals are turned up, so he's barely audible.

Yes. She goes with Axl to whatever events he goes. Beta doesn't anymore, at least not too often.

I guess Melissa wasn't comfortable singing that line. She doesn't do backing vocals on It's So Easy, so there isn't a problem with that.

Jokes aside, they have actually changed something in the lyrics (I'm surprised that no one has noticed/brought up yet). Melissa and Duff didn't sing "that bitch is just insane" but something else, probably "that girl is just insane". Axl sometimes said "bitch", but it wasn't too audible (in the videos, at least) because the backing vocals were turned up in the live mix.

Yes, nothing has been heard of a CD video. But there was a registration in the ISRC database, which means that a video for it was likely filmed.

I did this small research about the use of the phrase/word "hard school"/"hardschool" (in the US) when the song first leaked:

Niven has alluded to them (GN'R/management/label) not reaching out to him for stuff he may have and could be included in the box sets. So I reckon that they (Axl) just didn't want to ask him.

It's on the video itself where it's from.

This video is from a couple of months ago after the show in Biloxi.