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If They should really drop it on the 22nd or 29th. More buzz. More media articles. Potentially more ticket sales. It’s 2023. Everything is all about streaming. Vinyl is a really a niche hobby. I absolutely love music and do not own a record player like most everyone else.

Let’s hope they are not stupid and this thing hits streaming well before the vinyl release

IRS. But I don’t think Axl could do this song live anymore.

In that article that just came out. He said that it may be making an appearance in the set list soon. Wasn’t it like 2 days beforehand though? All I was saying is that if they are going to play it they are going to stream it.

Richard said they are looking to add the General to the set list. I cannot imagine that happening if it’s not coming out on streaming first.

Someone has it. Everything was still done on CD in the early 2000s. So someone somewhere has it and probably more The NIN guy on @Gambit83 podcast said he had all of the demos from Chinese 20 years ago.

If all the tracks from the CD2 vault are not released this year this would be the most logical way forward. Even 6 CD2 tracks and 4 all new tracks could be doable. Axl could probably bang out vocals for 4 new tracks in a week.

Agreed. I know much of this fan base is insane but the hardcore GNR fan base is also extremely loyal. So many fans have stayed the course through the painfully long wait for CD and the baffling wait for this pez dispensed version of CD2.

They really do need to put the Chinese Era to bed once and for all. It will be a shame if songs like 7, Soul Monster, Cuban Skies ect….never see the light of day. But really they need to comeback with a new album and a fully branded tour like Metallica if they want to continue doing stadiums for the long haul.

I did. It was my first GNR concert. I had been a fan since the late 80s but was way too young to see them in the early 90s. When they hit the stage and ripped into Jungle it was in the top 5 of the most excited I have ever been in my life. I think that was night 2. I was at night one. But it was so long ago I can’t say for sure.

I think I listened to that live cut of Madagascar from Rio 01 that I downloaded off line wire 500x in 2001.

I was at The Joint in 01 with the original Nu-GNR lineup. That was a pretty wild moment. They still had the same stage setup as HOB 2001 and Rio 2001. The whole thing was really surreal and cool in a weird way. I actually would have seen every version of Nu-GNR had they not cancelled the second half of the 2002 tour. Really the best moment of the era wasn’t a moment. It was that Axl was in the tail end of his prime and could still really sing almost like he could in the late 80s early 90s.

Axl was singing in 2009 like he was trying to get out some serious anger. Or maybe he was just angry at having to tour Asia to pay Irving Azoff. Or maybe someone got his order wrong in a restaurant.

Axl actually looks much better with the beard. My guess is he doesn’t do facial hair anymore because it’s probably white as snow

Next thing will be that it only plays on the G’N’F’R record player. Also available for pe-order on gunsnroses.com for $399.99. With this exclusive pre-order purchase a key chain will also be made available as well as 5 minutes of access to the night train message board where all replies must be sent by priority mail with official Guns N’ Roses stamps also available for purchase for $29.99.

Hey man that was really cool. Thanks for sharing

Agreed Yesterdays is a bit more in the ball park although perhaps is definitely more yesterdays. I would have said think the who and Led Zeppelin crossed with third eye blind with a Brian May guitar solo

Unless they have changed it dramatically Atlas should not be described as between November Rain and Glam Rock. I can kinda see the Glam Rock but even that’s a stretch. The other songs were absolutely described accurately. I wonder why the writer had such a hard time describing Atlas. The first minute is kinda like the who and zeppelin and then it just kinda turns into a genre late 90s rock song with a really good Brian May solo.

Yes you are venturing too far into conspiracy land. It will be out on streaming well before the physical release. People need to hear what they are purchasing. It’s not 1991 anymore

It’s for the official Guns N Roses 2023 year book. 49.99 on gunsnroses.com Comes out November 23rd

Is this really anything more than a novelty? I would not pay anything for this. I think Robin and Bucket are great guitarists but they looked like freaks in 2002

Maybe not. Although that dude obviously loves attention, maybe he just doesn’t want any legal action taken against him.

If I recall correctly the songs on CD with strings were arranged by a guy name Paul Buckmaster. I don’t think Beltrami worked on anything that made CD

Why this song was ever worked on again is beyond comprehension. It was mixed, mastered, released, and put on a movie soundtrack. This would be like Metallica continuing to work on I disappear and then internet trolls claiming it was going to open their next album. And that demo of the reworked OMG is awful. They took a song that was not great to begin with that everyone hated when it was released and made it even worse.

It sucks that we had to hear anything in demo form. But what was the alternative? Not listen to anything. It’s been 1 studio album and 3 (almost 4 singles) in the last 32 years