Blackstar

I've been here since 2016 and never saw it before 2019. Maybe it was shared among some people in private, however I'm 99% sure that this particular screenshot didn't circulate in public forums before that time. The only thing that circulated before 2019 was a list of the tracks mentioned in MSL's blackmail videos, which included Tonto, Going Down etc., but not Perhaps or Nothing.

Here is the video (you have to wait a bit until it loads). No mention of Perhaps. The screenshot of the alleged email containing the track list has been shared many times since 2019 (even earlier in this thread) - I haven't found any evidence that it circulated publicly before the 2019 leaks:

More completed in the sense that Axl put the effort to write another verse on SOG, unlike on other songs. Maybe he did feel that Eye On You and Absurd were fine as they were, however he did put the extra effort on SOG. And I didn't say that Eye On You was necessarily abandoned either - even the use of the aye's on Hard Skool doesn't mean that it's been abandoned altogether.

Eye on You is less completed - lyrically, at least - than State Of Grace, because the same parts are repeated. The fact that a song didn't happen to be mentioned says nothing to me. Some of the song names we knew of before the Village leaks were mentioned by coincidence or because the circumstances allowed it - it wasn't because the band members were open about what they working on. Perhaps was on that alleged track list and, regardless of that, we now know that the band had been working on it, however it was never mentioned.

Why would Axl abandon a completed song with almost completed lyrics? Not only am I confident that SOG and The General have nothing to do with each other, but I think it's very likely that SOG will be released in the future.

Why would State of Grace be the song The General evolved into (because it has to be a song that we've heard, right?) and not Eye On You? It's also a song that we've heard, but hadn't heard of before. And... can't you clearly hear the "Mac Daddy" part in the quieter, lower vocals on the phone clip?

I'll play: How long the track was (approximately)?

Part of This I Love (mostly Slash's solo): https://www.instagram.com/p/CywphaPs21t/

It just that it doesn't take too much for a good portion of GN'R fans to create a conspiracy theory and then get more people hung up on it. In this case, the combination of people pointing out some similarities in the chord progression, of the "mystique" and hype surrounding The General, and of the fact that State of Grace is a song we had never heard of before (there's this weird perception that if a song hasn't been mentioned it must be really another song that we know of), was enough.

I'm 100% confident that it's not State of Grace. As for having vocals, I kind of get the disbelief, but we don't really need any further confirmation for that either - maybe only for the amount of vocals.

He's in very good shape now for his age.

Duff's interview with Eddie Trunk at Power Trip, if anyone is interested: * And another interview: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/duff-mckagan/duff-mckagan-lighthouse-interview

I just think that, as usual with everything on the forums, some people exaggerated about him being "fat" again just because he was a bit more bloated, as if someone can gain (or lose) so much weight in just a few weeks.

Parts of Locomotive: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyv9MoVv-MT/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyv9zBJPWWF/

(Credits: Tako, Robert Arce and unknown)

Yeah, the "record stores" part in the yt comment about the 56 pages document is an instant giveaway for bullshit/troll alert

I think it won't be on record stores though, right? It's exclusive to GN'R and UMG online stores.

Okay, I looked into it. In the case of STP there seems to be registration only for Kitchenware & Candybars (Second Album is not included in the registered title, but there's no separate registration for it either). In the case of Green Day, the two tracks are registered separately. I also looked for Blur's Chemical World/Intermission and Resigned/Commercial Break, and the tracks are registered separately in this case, too.

That was obviously fanmade, based on a track titled "Monstrocity" being in an alleged leaked track list for "CD2". The alleged track list dated from January 2008, more than a year before Ashba was in the band

I don't think so, unless it's a case of two songs combined into one in the writing process and become one cohesive song, like, e.g. Rocket Queen that someone mentioned earlier, but that's a whole other thing. Do you have any examples of two songs combined as you describe it from other bands/artists, so we can look into it? For GN'R we have the different cases of Buick Makane/Big Dump Sex and I Don't Care About You/Look At Your Game, Girl but these don't count because they are covers of songs by different artists and writers, so they were already registered separately.

I think the addition of "monsters" to the title may be just a rebranding of the song for Halloween - and maybe there are references to monsters in the lyrics.

It it were two tracks, they would definitely be registered on SESAC separately. The databases like SESAC, ASCAP etc. list the songwriters per track, not release.

No, both were played in Madrid this year, too.

It got TWAT, too (and TIL). Setlist: It’s So Easy, Bad Obsession, Chinese Democracy, Slither, Mr. Brownstone, Pretty Tied Up, Rumble/Welcome To The Jungle, Hard Skool, Perhaps, Shadow Of Your Love, Reckless Life, Double Talkin’ Jive, Live And Let Die, Estranged, You Could Be Mine, Absurd, Rocket Queen, Locomotive, T.V. Eye, There Was A Time, Down On The Farm, Civil War/(Voodoo Child), Anything Goes, Band Introductions, Slash Solo/Sweet Child O’ Mine, November Rain, Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door, Nightrain, This I Love, Patience, Paradise City (HTGTH)

There's no artwork (not yet, at least).