Blackstar

Well, that might actually be true for Oklahoma. It may very well be a similar case to Hard Skool: most likely dating from 1996, but without Slash having involvement in writing it, so Axl had it developed later by the NuGnR guys. I think it's likely that even Perhaps originates from Axl/Paul Tobias sessions in the mid-90s.

Perhaps was not mixed by Caram, so it's safe to say that these have not been mixed by him either, so maybe they have actually gotten rid of him.

The "You stole my soul with the devil's romancing" line in Monsters reminded me of this quote about This I Love: Axl: The person I wrote that song [=This I Love] for said, "Thank you for the gift of your soul." Well, it took a while, but I got that fucker back. [Telia Parken, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 27, 2017]

True, he could have had other relationships. However, I think it's highly unlikely that there were relationships that affected him as deeply as the ones with Erin and Stephanie. And even in the interview he did with Rolling Stone in late 1999, he basically implied that a lot of the album would be about Stephanie when he said that he hoped Dylan would listen to the it one day.

These are about his biological father and they don't seem to be actual lyrics to be made into a song, but just thoughts in rhyme, maybe with the intention for some lines to be morphed and used as lyrics. The General seems to be about his stepfather, of maybe about both.

Great summary. Regarding Evader's version, I'm glad that he got the "intro" part ("who would to this to you" etc.) of the phone clip wrong in his otherwise exceptional work. When the phone recording and his version was all we had as "The General", I was thinking that if the real song was anything like that regarding that part, it would suck. I totally hated it. But the oooh-oooh's melody in Monsters is awesome. It really gives me Bowie vibes and it's one of my favourite parts in the song.

Yes, on ASCAP as songs written by him.

But how would they do that with tracks that we've heard in some form, like Oklahoma/Berlin and Zodiac? They can't change them that much to the point that we won't recognize them.

Yeah, they just owned the place.

It was mostly Duff related material and they notified Duff, who went and collected it. Here is the photo:

Knew what? About the "EP"?

Children Of The Revolution

He said he recorded it on a Christmas Eve. He was in a recording studio at the time of the holidays in Dec. 2006 and Jan. 2007, but according to this article he started recording on Dec. 27: https://www.a-4-d.com/t5847-2008-11-25-l-a-times-vegas-blog-recording-chinese-democracy-axl-rose-at-the-palms-studio I vaguely remember reading that a forum member had "investigated" it and found that (I don't know what the evidence was) that it must have been Christmas Eve of 2004.

I don't know, the member who recorded it was certain that it was the same song.

No. There wasn't a demo with this title in the Village leaks.

Here is the link for the people who might not know or can't find the snippets: Regarding Bucharest (I think it was Budapest), as already pointed out, the song played at soundcheck was The Garden.

Yes, we can't be sure, but the one thing we have against the hidden track theory is that the pattern in similar cases by other artists is that the hidden track is registered separately in the credits databases. That's far-fetched, but it would be hilarious. But it seems that, on SESAC at least, "The General and Monsters" was registered simultaneously with Perhaps. So, if the person who registered them was told to register Perhaps, The General and Monsters got it wrong, he would either either register each of the three titles separately, or all three of them together (that would be even more hilarious )

Yes, we obviously can't be sure how it plays out until it's released. But I think we can be almost certain that both songs are intended to be released with Perhaps. Interestingly, when the forum poster with the soundcloud account got his upload of Monsters taken down, the takedown notice from Universal said that he had illegally uploaded The General. So, at least legally, it's been treated as part of The General.

It doesn't seem that this has happened in other cases of hidden tracks though (as far as I have looked into it). They seem to be registered separately. On the other hand, I don't think it's something like Rocket Queen either, as Monsters is too fully structured as a standalone song to be attached to the General as a coda. Maybe it will be something like a medley or a "concept" vinyl side that consists of two parts/tracks.

I don't know if she did anything on Yesterdays, because there are songs in the set on which she doesn't play anything on her keyboard and only does backing vocals.

Me and My Elvis being Soul Monster wasn't even based on something a band member or a source said. It was just speculation (or educated guess) from fans based mainly on the fact that it had "Elvis" in the title and on the assumption that every rumoured song must be in the Village discs under another name. And then the speculation somehow turned into confirmed "fact".

Because it turns out that Me and My Elvis most likely wasn't Soul Monster but another song.

I'm no musician or expert but I think I can recognize Slash. I heard a clip that had isolated the guitar in the outro of The General, and it totally sounds like Slash.

Nice. But I'm afraid it will find its way on facebook, Reddit, discord etc, and then reposted here by someone asking if it's legit

And to add to this, many of the trends Axl was supposedly chasing were themselves inspired by older ('70s) stuff that Axl was always a fan of, so it was natural that he would like them.