Actually....yes.

Releasing it... regardless of its quality...makes everything move quicker.

The label wants a reunion so they can keep selling boat loads of copies of AFD?

Release the album.

The label wants Axl to move on from these songs and start working on something else?

Release the album.

The label wants Axl to go solo and see where that goes?

Release the album.

There's no situation where rejecting the album works in their favor. In fact .. it's extremely reckless to continue to sit on it.

They would've realized quickly that nothing new is being created after shit canning a release. It's literally the same songs with him adding a few vocals here and there to already recorded instrumentals.

Unfortunately for both sides...it's now getting to the period where there's no one competent to negotiate a release  TB didn't know its elbow from its asshole and Merck was too busy reading forum drama and emailing Madison and Chinese Blues every day to care about anything else.

Once the project gets introduced to Irving Azoff, it's already over. It's all about dumping the beer coaster into the hands of a company dumb enough to pay the tab....which wound up being Best Buy.

Every time both the label and Axl came upon a fire in the road, they went the wrong way.

I love how 3 of their "new" songs have already been thrown into the list of alternates.

Gotta keep those covers though...can't risk dying from boredom onstage.

Yeah....Jordan talked about this eons ago. He was a damn good 3 point shooter... especially in clutch time...but he refused to go deeper into the use of 3s because he knew it would cause the rest of his game to suffer.

The current NBA pretty much proves him right.

If that's really how Jordan felt, he must have felt damn lucky to have Paxson, Armstrong, and Kerr as his 3 point weapons during the 2 3peats.

I resumed watching the 95 playoffs. With hindsight I feel bad for this Orlando team. Easily whipped the Celtics in the first round. They're young, hungry, and have no idea this is their one shot at a ring.

Jordan should've come back one or two months earlier than he did. The team is still rusty and awkward in the playoffs. What an ego he has believing he could come in at the last second before the playoffs and win another ring. He never would've allowed it but I think he would've been more effective in this year's playoffs coming off the bench as a stunt/specialty player for 15/20 minutes a game...maybe increase his minutes deeper into the playoffs.

I'm about to watch the Suns-Rockets series. Havent watched this since 95. It amazes me how the Suns did not capitalize on Jordans absence which left everything wide open.

Instead the Rockets go back to back. Was shocking then and still is.

Another team that should've jumped at the opportunity with Jordan gone is the Pacers. At least they got close.

Hornets too. They suffered from a lot of bad luck and timing.

Massively underwhelming.

Having said that....

It's the post-Izzy UYI tour. leading into TSI which really lowers my interest. The main interest I've had in this project for decades was the summer 91 tour and the insanity of the UYI release. This project clearly had nothing to do with that. Once again....fan assumptions made this into a bigger deal than it really was. I guess they went into those record stores at midnight Sept 17th to witness the hysteria without cameras.

This documentary was clearly meant to be released as a tie in to TSI....that has never been communicated to fans before. Slash's desire to immediately go back out on tour now makes a bit more sense...he knew this was going to be in theaters/video stores that coming summer.

After watching this footage...only thing I'm interested in is the rough takes from the TSI sessions....they obviously have them.

As far as the personal interviews...these guys weren't very interesting if I'm being honest and these are cherry picked conversations. Was wacky seeing Slash and Dizzy hanging out together.

So like everything else....this was hoarded for decades.

Fantastic...