The evil label, bankrolling the project from '94 to '04. They fail to recognize the genius who stayed home for the mothership release. When he finally re-surfaced, he blamed the label (which dropped the ball, but so did everybody else).

The label has been mostly useless for Guns artistically (big surprise), while Guns have vehemently denieyd most procedural media access and promotion opportunities. One big print interview with Axl, with a talk show appearance (interview + live song), and he's done the bare minimum to show up and present his art to the public through his own image.

The label may be kicking themselves now. I'd imagine CD gets more attention now than on its release. The label could release things, digitally. Only the window of opportunity passed. Ax was in the mood when the label was not - and vice versa. Sounds like a petty and uneven relationship, where they get nothing done within a lifetime.

Duff and Slash should just start hammering songs out and arrange them with the band. Mr Moody could focus on lyrics and melody. 4-6 songs, rockers. Gee, would it sell?

Likely not.

It's still 15-20-year-old music falsely labeled as new, if by new we mean things Axl & co have tinkered with during the past few years.

Atlas.

I put my vote down on the Sean Beavan -era. Having said that, anything that could be heard is likely an Axl / Caram production (2002 onwards).

In all likelihood, the Beavan tracks feat. Bucket would kill the latter-day versions. Oh, well.

We may hope someone like evader will work their magic.

Nice to see you, dave.