Blackstar

Yeah, I don't think it means "the end" or anything like that. But it probably means a long break (longer than a year).

Axl: [During band introductions] ...And in absentia, having another bout with her pneumonia is Ms. Melissa Reese. Let me hear a bit for Melissa. Come on... [crowd cheering] We wish her a speedy recovery. This the last show of our tour of the year. I want to thank you for coming out and celebrating it with us. I want to thank our crew for everything they've done to make all of this happen... over the last seven years. I want to thank the band, I want to thank all of our team.

Yes, it's thankfully not another SMKC album (for the time being).

Slash said about a year ago that they had "one last tour" (meaning the 2023 one) and that would "free" them to work on new material. So I think there won't be any more extensive touring for at least two years unless they have new music to tour in support of.

I don't think there are any rumours. It just makes sense that they're taking a long break, because Slash has a tour, and then a solo album and another tour. Plus the supposed plan to work on new GN'R music.

Axl just thanked the crew for the last 7 years. I don't know if this means anything.

I think they were experiencing technical issues.

It was probably Melissa's tech. He filled in at the last show she was absent. He's on there only for some songs. Yes, exactly.

There seem to be some technical issues. It probably wasn't their fault that they were late.

Lol no, they haven't played it much this tour - I guess they did only when Axl wanted to take a break or whatever.

They haven't played it at most shows.

I don't think he would release anything recorded during the CD sessions as solo stuff, because he sees it as GN'R, unless maybe piano instrumentals he wrote by himself. I was thinking more of other kinds of stuff, like covers or instrumentals since he likes movie soundtracks.

It aligns with what I posted earlier about Eddie Trunk saying that he talked to Slash off the record and Slash told him that this last leg was his favourite since 2016.

I think Axl just liked the idea of having two drummers. The first time there was an attempt for that was in 1997 when both Chris Vrenna and Dave Abbruzzese were rehearsing with GN'R. It also seems that there was a similar idea for the 2016 April shows with Adler playing some AFD stuff and Frank playing the rest.

(same IG source)

It's in the old thread:

Some more: https://www.instagram.com/lias1229/

Yes, unless the next releases are disconnected from the touring or there will be some sort of live release, it's going to be a long uneventful period. Slash's solo album and the Schenker album both Axl and Slash recorded on are the only things to look forward to.

We haven't assumed it just because of that, but mostly because it has orchestral work from Marco Beltrami, and Beltrami himself heard the leak and recognized the work he did for one of the four non-CD songs in 2002 (although he didn't remember the title it had then). We already knew from a Beltrami interview at the time that one of the four songs was "Leave Me Alone" which, according to Axl, later became Soul Monster (and fits Axl's description of the song, too). This is corroboration. It would be good to get official confirmation from the band, of course, but it's really pretty obvious. And certainly way more obvious than the (wrong, as turned out to be) assumption that Me and My Elvis was Soul Monster.

It may be the band My Dying Bride (which would be the only band I've heard of) Edit: I've heard of Front Line Assembly and Accused, too.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CzPP3ARuRrM/

But there's also Slash's solo album with guest singers coming after that and I assume he will want to promote it and probably do even a limited scale tour in support of it.

They're still having that fake "Atlas" cover art in the video thumbnail. The Atlas/Monsters rumour started by "insider" information that claimed that The General was originally a very long song Monsters was a part of (and so Monsters wasn't Soul Monster) but was split in two so there could be two b-sides. That "insider" info has been proven wrong already regarding Soul Monster, apparently because the source of it is unreliable. I'm not saying that it's unlikely that Monsters ends up being released with Atlas. But I think if that happens it will be for reasons unrelated to all this "information" and not because it was originally planned that way.

It's just a theory about the case Monsters doesn't end up being on the 7-inch. Like I said, I think that the two songs are or were meant to be released together (based on the registration, Fernando's inside joke and the fact that they leaked together). So maybe Monsters is still on the 7'', but if it's not, it's a logical theory about the reason why.

He may be a good guy (I don't know him). But the source of the information is unreliable.