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From what I can recall it was just like the HOB version from the year before. Maybe a bit more guitar. I remember bitching to someone at the show how weird I thought the song was. But I remember liking it live. It was worlds better than Absurd. It still had the bitch like you chorus.

I was at the 29th show. It was insane

That second album would need to start Hard Skool with the original long intro

I always thought that the CD1 and CD2 were supposed to be like Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac. Two Albums recorded during the same sessions both containing A-listed and B-listed songs and a few extra tracks not slated for either album.

This probably will not happen but The Sphere in Las Vegas will be looking for legacy rock acts with Gen-X fan bases with money to pour out of their venue and into the casino to gamble at the Venetian. Venue is 18600 seats. I can imagine GNR could sell out at least 10 shows. I saw U2 twice there last month and it is by far and away the best concert experience on earth right now. If GNR does a residency there I might go for a week straight. Wishful thinking……

Agreed. Soul Monster probably around 2004-2005. The General probably around 2002-2003

This is the power of denial. It was over in 2008. NO ONE cared about CD anymore except people like us. It was too late. But if a reunion had come shortly after the CD release Slash and Duff could have done the songs live, more people would have been aware of the album, it would have sold better and they would have made a boatload of money touring. Win. Win. Win. Why would a top industry manager placate you if they knew your choices were going to make everything less successful? GNR was almost at the theater/county fair level in the US by 2014. So Axl was completely wrong in 2008 hence the 2016 reunion.

You want the Azoff type. A highly educated pit viper who knows everything, everyone, and who everyone owes a favor. CD was DOA no matter what. It was just too late. 2006 was the last point it had any chance of truly being successful. Azoff knew this but I’m sure Axl was probably in denial. Thank God he was there to negotiate that BB deal or maybe CD never happens. And he could read the tea leaves that a reunion was inevitable and the only way GNR was going to be a successful rock act again. But Axl is stubborn and it took another 8yrs for what Azoff knew was inevitable.

Wouldn’t it be midnight est? Which it is now

I’ll never understand why they would wait till the very end of the tour to break this out

True. But pussy full of maggots is not the same as “Daddy Don’t” I mean I think it’s an awesome song but I’m pretty surprised they are potentially playing it live

It is a very delicate subject. I feel like when he starts that daddy don’t stuff the casuals are going to be looking at each other going WTFF is happening right now

I’m not sure he can handle that bridge on soul monster live

So Jealous

I debated so hard about hopping on a plane to this show. Would have had to re-arrange my entire week to do it. Decided against it. If they debut the General tonight I’m going to be having massive regret

This is what I was thinking as well. Monsters just has a cleaner more polished sound. I guess we will know soon enough

After listening to these two tracks a bunch it’s obviously Slash on Soul Monster. But I’m not sure about the general. The more I listen to it it sounds more like Robin and then Bucket on that outro. Is anyone else thinking the same?

We need a Time Machine to 2006 to retrieve 2006 Axl just to do that bridge live.

I’m not negative just been going through this since 1999 and incredibly realistic. I still think it’s a miracle that CD ever got released

There is no album. Slash said he wanted to cut a brand new one but he’s on the road all next year. It’s just gonna be more singles or nothing

The Bridge in Monsters……The Slash lick into those vocals….goosebumps every time……that’s the Axl Rose OG shit we have been waiting for since 2008…..GNFR….

Soul Monster is so so good. (Isn’t it much more enjoyable to refer to it as its original title that we have all been obsessing about since 2008 but I digress) I love the bridge and Slash’s outro. But TWAT is the best piece of Music Axl has released since 1991. It’s an almost perfect Axl Rose song. It has so many elements that it should not work and yet it does. It’s modern and classic at the same time. I do not prefer buckethead to slash at all (great guitar player but what a fucking weirdo) but his outro solo on TWAT is an absolute banger. TWAT is on about the same level as Civil War but not quite on the level of Estranged. I would say Soul Monster is about the same level as The Garden which I personally love and wish they would bring back to the set at some point.

I bet the 2010 version CD2 has some Ashba. Just got douche chills

I enjoyed your work piecing together that rehearsal with the cell phone clip from a few months back. Who would have thought it was soul monster!

Slash is definitely on The General. I would bet anything that little riff at the beginning of the song was not there on the original recording. That sounds like something that he would have added to me. Per some feeling the potential hidden track being spoiled. When your releases happen on schedule the chance of this happening drop dramatically. Look at CD- Even if it had come out in late 2006 the vast majority of it had not leaked in any form yet.