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Clear Channel has agreed to promote the book tour. Mix master Mike is confirmed as the opening act for the Philadelphia signing.

Best Buy is in negotiations to be the exclusive retailer of the book. It will all be previously published information except for 3 chapters.

Outro is 🔥

I still have it in my phone as Soul Monster. We only waited 15 years to hear it from the first time Axl mentioned it.

According to Pele The Children of the Revolution vocals were actually recorded in 1999.

If they want this out on time they definitely should not make Axl responsible for any part of the production lol

“We are working on 32 songs. 26 are nearly done.” Including the 5 reworked songs plus Atlas and SOG we are at 21. So minimum there are another 5 that were at or near completion back in 2006.

I really like the big epic sounding songs with a lot of strings. (NV TWAT Prostitute) I thought that was what we were getting with the General

Both have much less than I thought. That concert intro made it seem like the general would be all strings

I can barely hear any strings at all on Monsters

The cell phone clip sounds much more like the other CD songs. Bucket and or Robin guitars. Hip hop industrial influences. The Slash version still has a lot of the CD sound but is much warmer and bluesier. At least that’s from what I can tell from the cell phone clip vs the full leak. Would love to have both for comparison

That slash lick into the bridge on monsters and the bridge it’s self is the most pure GNR since UYI. I have listened to it countless times and it gives me the chills every time. I still cannot believe we got it. I have been imagining that bridge in my head since Axl discussed it here in 2008. It absolutely lived up to the hype. These songs will never be like the apex songs from the early days but Monsters (Soul Monster) is absolutely worthy GNR canon

Perhaps probably just like the 2000 version, Hard School probably just like the 2000 version, Silkworms probably a hybrid of the 2021 version and 2000 version, The General probably close to the same arrangement with totally different guitar sound, Atlas probably like 2008 CITR way too much bumble, Soul Monster from the cell phone recording sounds like a completely different song, nothing who knows. The 2000 version like a sketch

That cell phone recording sounds almost like a completely different song. The guitars on the Slash version are so different. Love the version we have though

Fascinating how all over the map these rankings are. And how low The General is consistently ranked. Would have never believed this wouldn’t be a top level song.