I get a "Invite Invalid" message?  I thought maybe cause I'm still logged in from the last time, but I tried logging out and also tried a seperate browser. Neither worked.

Lol, in the last 2 weeks I've tried logging onto 2 semi-anonymous servers (that I know little about) & a fucking porno site just to hunt down a Guns N Roses song. Sign me up for therapy for all this.

j/k, thanks for putting alot of this together Dadud

Odd this forums definitely gotten some wierd posts?   There was a post about Black Panther release & it wasn't about a sequel, didn't make sense. I suppose I'm a bit nervous, I got a link to General, sounded legit, but it was hosted on a (fairly reputable) porn site. Xvideos, heard of it I think, I just regoogled it to ensure it was fairly legit. Seems so, probably I shouldn't have clicked it tho. Nothing extreme was on the site, just seemed like youporn type stuff.

How long was the Atlas song, I listened to it on YT but not sure its there anymore, wasn't it only like 4:30 or something. I beleive the 'talk' was it was an epic.

Lemme put on my *Conspiracy Theory Hat* for Randall Flagg here again, and opine that maybe it's all a ruse to get people back into it, and an album or vault outtakes does get put out this year. I'm skeptical & not waiting on one, but, it would totally make sense (to me) to just take a dozen tracks from 10-15 years ago & put them out as an outtakes or 'What if...' type. Honestly, I'd even dig a mini box set or double album of 20-30. Just put it out there, like Brian Wilson. Didn't Prince supposedly have a vault of tracks when he passed away.

That's funny, I was on vacation too that week (Tahoe skiing/boarding). It was before smart phones, & I don't think I brought a laptop. So I really didn't even know until about 3 or 4 days after it happened. Suddenly these songs were out, it was everything essentially. Couldn't believe it.

I was pretty active on the boards prior, but yeah can't believe 13-14 years later, here I am. I remember when UYI came out hearing the song 14 Years & it sounded like an entire lifetime.

More just like general posters. Not really intending on outing hoarders, maybe I could get anonymous quotes from them, but that'd be kinda worthless. Really I wasn't thinking of tracking them down. I was more thinking Lofton, Jarmo, myb MSL, (there was a poster Mike Giulana on HTGTH back in like 05 who broke his wrist & was outta work for like 3 months, and had something like 10,000 or 30,000 posts in that time, then kinda dropped off once he went back to work) and kinda stories within stories. For instance, like what went down at this site with its 1st year creator (Essentially he just gave up & dropped it one day and it shut down, Kinda, there may be more to it but thats the jist of it), we all logged on & it was gone (found out back on HTGTH subforum kinda bout what happened & those who worked to get one back online). I'm sure MyGnr has its stories & issues. The one that closed (cd.com or gnfnr.com?)  & of course HTGTH being the king & almighty of all Guns forums.

Just the whole concept of grown ass men following a message board for 15-20 years on Guns N Roses, a band who put out really 1 album since 1991 is hysterical. Kinda like comic book nerds, Trekkies, or baseball card collectors. Alot of people would have never guessed there even are GnR message boards (or fans diehard enough to follow). I spoke to someone who plays guitar about Bohemian Rhapsody movie, and he said he's a big Brian May fan. I asked him if here ever heard or knew of the CITR solo?  He had no idea what I was talking about and laughed when I said there's ppl on the Guns N Roses message boards who were pissed it didn't make the CD album, and that its like the holy grail of post-Slash GnR solo's. I sounded like a flake.

The whole MSL 2006 swindle is an amazing story.

Anyway, its kinda like one of those dumb thoughts, but I think it is pretty remarkable & would be eye opening to most of the public.