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The tape was played at soundcheck. First time it's resurfaced since the reunion I believe.

I have to imagine this is what the forums were like circa 2006.

Sorry that this isn't 100% on topic, but is there a good resource for learning more about the ChiDem sessions, the track selection, etc? I'm a long time casual fan, newer hardcore fan and have always been fascinated by what the fanbase knew in 1996-2007 about the album. I know Atlas was swapped for Catcher pretty late in the game, but I'm curious how much was known about the other unreleased songs at the time. Was everyone expecting Perhaps, Hardskool, etc to appear on an album? Were some songs brand new knowledge when the album dropped?

At this point aren’t they the longest tenured lineup of GNR?

Did the Hard Skool live b-sides ever pop up online anywhere? I wondered how decent those turned out.

For the right songs absolutely. DTJ has been super rad and some of the jams they've been doing are worthy of proper release somewhere. Wichita can be a snoozer live but there are versions I love listening to from 2017. Also working under the assumption they'd touch them up in classic GNR live fashion. The "new studio album?" to "maybe an official version of Wichita Lineman?" pipeline

I'd take a Lies-esque new album with 5-6 "new" studio songs and 5-6 live takes provided they are not like those soundboards they put out on YouTube.

Watch me post this and then they announce something at Thursday at 4pm. But I've noticed the trend for the last couple years has been Monday-Wednesday announcements for most of the bigger, established bands, followed by additional promo/announcements/merch/etc on the Friday. On Spotify and Apple Music (probably other services too, not sure), Release Radar playlists of new music from the last week drops on Fridays. A lot of bands have been moving to a system where they announce songs early in the week and gather a lot of organic plays from the big fans, so the song already has some traction when it's promoted to more casual fans, or maybe people who don't even listen to GNR but listen to a lot of rock. Foo's, Metallica, and Chili's all took that strategy. For instance, Lux Aeterna already had over a million plays by Friday when Metallica released it on the Monday, and it didn't hit playlists auto-generated for users until the Friday of that week.

Didn’t they do So Fine once at the Covid shows and then never again?

A whole set of downtuned GNR would lose energy, but a song or two in a lower tuning (like YCBM) would tighten up the overall quality of a set so much.

Absurd seems like a blast live for anyone, lyrics aside. I can’t wait to see it this Summer.

Second since 1993! https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/guns-n-roses/2022/national-stadium-singapore-singapore-3bbe6898.html