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https://www.discogs.com/release/6287870-Guns-N-Roses-Appetite-For-Democracy-3D

Things making sense in the land of GnR? That’s a different question altogether haha! I wouldn’t be surprised either way at this point. I can definitely see both of these songs being one entity. As people have pointed out, they’ve done it with RQ and Coma. Plus one of Axl’s favorite songs is Funeral For a Friend; that’s essentially two pieces of music sewn together.

It’s can be done. However, the peeps in the know say there’s diminishing sound quality with songs that last longer then 4-5 minutes. https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/longest-commerically-released-7-inch-45rpm-record.129245/

If anybody had Beck lyrics and a Mighty Mighty BosstoneS song on your bingo card for this thread today, hustle and go grab yourself a lottery ticket haha

You’ll be glad to know that neither of the tracks on the 7” are exclusive; they are both on disc 3 of the box! https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/throw-the-mats-a-dime-the-replacements-news-discussion-thread.861933/page-117

I didn’t realize this was still up on YouTube! I was front row of this show right up against the barricade, in front of Axl. Great, great show. The only time they played the 4 unreleased Chinese songs back-to-back. Then Axl got super pissed during Patience and there was no Paradise encore. Oh, memories

The pessimist in me says you’re right. The optimist in me (which accounts for about .01%) looks at what The Kills just did. They released 2 new tracks in late July and immediately sold them as a 7”. Today (about 4 weeks later) they announced a new album would drop in about 8 weeks, containing both songs. This allowed them to sell the 7” exclusively for a month and then include the songs as part of an album later, causing the fans to double-dip and thus boost physical product sales. If Guns followed this pattern, it’d make sense. Bait the hardcore fanbase into buying an exclusive 7” to capitalize on the mythical The General track and then announce a full length about 4-6 weeks later... double your sales on the physical product that will be essentially antiquated in a months time. If they went this route, an album announcement would come in late September for a late November release (8 weeks seems like the magic number re: lead time to release an album). But alas, that would make entirely too much sense.

Full disclosure: this is probably crazy. However the vinyl only release coupled with the mythical The General being relegated to a b-side has me thinking a new album may be closer than we think. Otherwise, I feel they would’ve milked this release a la Hard Sokol with multiple vinyl releases and a CD release. I feel that The General as b-side hooks a bunch of vinyl purchases exclusively through the GnR store, and then the same people buy the same songs when the album is announced in the next 3-6 months.

If this is true, the most interesting tidbit is that it’s nearly 15 seconds shorter than the leaked demo. There goes the dream of additional verses/vocals haha!

Saw VR in 2004 before the release of their debut album Tommy Stinson and Josh Freese with The Replacements in 2015 Josh Freese and Robin with NIN in 2008 Axl with AC/DC in 2016