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  1. Yeah, but on the other hand it was more than what we expected and were promised.
  2. I wouldn't rule it out completely, but I think such a mistake is unlikely. These databases have mistakes sometimes, but they're mostly about who are listed as writers and who are the publishers. But having two songs in one registration by mistake is not common (I don't think).
  3. That would be the best case scenario. I hope you're right, because I don't want to wait a year or more for an official release of Monsters
  4. Two shows back to back must be too much for Axl these days. I guess they played KOHD after Rocket Queen and then T.V. Eye after that so that he could rest his voice.
  5. Another possibility is that they originally intended to release them together (probably with Monsters as a hidden track) and that's why they were registered together, but then they found out that the quality on the 7'' was very low, so they sent it again for pressing without Monsters.
  6. To me the fact that they have been registered together logically means that they are being released together - not as one song, but as part 1 and part 2 on the same release. Unless the registration was a mistake.
  7. I think they played KOHD early at one of the European shows, too.
  8. Maybe they'll play it in Mexico where Axl will be "free" to blow his voice since it's the last show (No, highly doubtful)
  9. Yes, that's how I reckon they could be released, as separate songs but consisting a Pt. 1 and Pt. 2, so they would have to be released together as a pair and not, for example, as b-sides on two different singles.
  10. I don't think they would leave Pitman on the track. I agree about Hard Skool. It doesn't make much sense that it would be Melissa and not Dizzy, but maybe she did something else on it (the bell, as someone said ) https://www.mygnrforum.com/topic/226314-monsterssoul-monster-new-information-from-marco-beltrami-leaves-no-room-for-doubt/?do=findComment&comment=5046542
  11. Thanks! Do you remember by any chance if what you heard was only Monsters or it was both The General and Monsters?
  12. I guess if someone had it they would also have to wonder why it didn't sound like the phone recording at all.
  13. Yeah, okay. But that doesn't change when it leaked for the majority of fans and, most importantly, about the fanbase being in the dark regarding which song it was.
  14. I have a file with all the leaks from 2003 to 2018 and the date each one leaked, and the date for the leak of the cell phone recording is June 26, 2018.
  15. The Evader version of "The General" that we know (with the reconstructed Axl vocals and speculated lyrics) is certainly from 2018 or a bit later. Maybe there was an earlier instrumental version based on the orchestral intros (even that though, if it existed, couldn't have been earlier than 2010).
  16. I think Evader's version circulated in 2019 (at least that was when there was a thread about it on here), but maybe it had been out there since 2018 - definitely not earlier though, since the phone clip surfaced in 2018.
  17. I guess @Mindray11 , who recorded it, can answer that. I'm sure he has explained it before.
  18. It's very funny how this confusion about the orchestral intro led to a chain of misconceptions, which in turn led the fanbase to years long "certainties" and "facts" that ended up being proven wrong: - The General gained mythical status after Bach's comments and Axl's vague statement ("you may have heard parts of it somewhere") intrigued fans even more. Fake snippets and lyrics started circulating. - Then came the hint in the GN'R tweet about the orchestral intro. The date of the tweet was Dec. 11, 2010, four days after the show in Adelaide where The orchestral piece from what we now know is Monsters/Soul Monster was used as intro seemingly for the first time during that year - before that, the orchestral intro that was played at shows was only from what we now know is The General. But the slight similarity of the two different pieces/intros, and maybe the timing of the tweet, led the fanbase to believe that both were part of The General. - In 2018, the cell phone recording from the Vienna party in 2010 surfaced. Fans with good ears recognized the orchestral part from Monsters, which they then thought was from The General, and Evader used it for his own reconstruction of the phone clip. So it was case closed that the barely heard song in that recording was The General and fans could get an idea of what it sounded like through Evader's version. - So, since we "knew" what The General sounded like, Soul Monster, the other "big gun", would have to be looked for elsewhere. And a year later, among the loads of leaks of rough mixes from Zutaut's storage locker, there was an instrumental titled "Me and My Elvis". The word "Elvis" in the title combined with the Sabbath-y vibe of it were enough for the majority of the fanbase to connect the dots with Axl's description of the song Soul Monster and jump to the conclusion that it was the same song, even though the earliest confirmed title of Soul Monster ("Leave Me Alone") left room for doubt. Many fans even renamed their downloaded track of "Me and My Elvis" into "Soul Monster", and the track started being shared with that title and not with the title it had in the Village discs. So it ended up being known as Soul Monster and some fans are still confused even now. And, once again, "insiders" didn't know any of this and had it all as wrong as the rest of the fanbase.
  19. It's apparently a band (unrelated to GN'R) that performs dressed as Transformers : http://www.thecybertronicspree.com/
  20. On Absurd I suppose she replaced whatever Ptiman played originally, maybe the bridge? I would think that Dizzy plays the main keyboard parts, since he co-wrote the song. Hard Skool, I have no idea. I didn't even notice there was a keyboard, then people pointed out that there is a keyboard low in the mix, but wouldn't it make more sense if it was Dizzy? I don't know about the drums on SOYL. I'm not good at noticing differences. But just going by what has been said (Steven said he didn't recognize his drumming on it and Frank, when asked if he was on it, avoided answering and just said "that's a question for management"), I'd say that it could be Frank.
  21. I think he wanted to talk about the present in the "I don't believe you" line, but then he would have to say "Perhaps I am wrong" in the previous line and maybe that didn't sound good. As you say, he could have also said "but I don't believe you", though then he would have to replace "but" in the line that follows ("but how would I know...") with another word, because if there were two "but" starting two lines in a row it wouldn't sound good either. I have also noticed that although he says "But how would I know how it feels or what it is to be you", in the official lyrics in the description of the auto-generated video on youtube it says "... or what it takes to be you", which would have been better.
  22. Absurd: There were no specific credits except for Brain on drums. But we know that Slash (of course), Duff and Fortus are on it and Melissa says on her website that she's on it, too. Hard Skool: No credits, but we know for sure that Slash, Duff, and Fortus are on it. The drums have been a matter for debate. Most people thought it was Frank, but according to Melissa's website it's Brain and she's on it, too. Perhaps: We have detailed official credits. Slash, Duff, Fortus, Brain, Axl on piano, Dizzy on keyboards.
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