change the station? first of all, this will be played mostly on modern rock stations.  usually there is only one station like that to choose from. MOST people that listen to rock listen mostly to rock and are not gonna change the station to rap or country because they just can't make it through this short song.

secondly, how many poeople at that point are hating the song enough to change it anwyays. whether we like it or not is opinion but this song is obviously fluid enough to avoid annoying people who are rock fans but not into this particular song.

again, you have your opinion, and you are entitled to that but gnr is not trying to impress you - they are trying to impress the masses as much as possible and the people that have heard this song, excluding the really bitter and pathetic die hards that will never be impressed no matter what axl does without slash, are loving this song at about 90 percent and i am reading multiple comments from them saying how "catchy" it is and how awesome it is so i think this song will do well as a single, provided they promote it properly.

again i disagree - gnr is not targeting us or casual gnr fans that are older and not buying anything anways. they are targeting a new audience and will do so with new and different music like they did with appetite. before someon changes this into an appetite vs chinese democ. argument - don't. i am not saying that much. new fans are to be the main target with a large promotion. rock band is a good start. the song is catchy. nobody is gonna stop a 3 minute song cause of the first 15 seconds either. rock band won't sell the cd for them, no but it is just the start of things to come i am confident. i do agree that it is not enough though buzz.

me too - it's the second time he's told us to fasten our seatbelts

that's odd that he hasn't commented
darknemus should also be able to clear this up since he is phone chums with msl

i don't agree - axl being PROTECTIVE of his songs does not make the project amateurish.

as far as half the posters in this thread saying this is all bad news. how so? nothing has changed. NOTHING. maybe you all want it to change in order for the release to be near but the bottom line is the album is not being promoted yet, whther it's release is near or not.

august, september, and october stand in front of november. if the album comes out in november there is still a lot fo time for the promtion to start. that is when you can expct bumble to start talking about the damn album.

news of one new song on a video game just recently came out, mysteron just recently said they are still trying to get the album our in '08, bumble just now said that the album is in negotiations. anyone who expects the next reveltaion to be bumble spilling all the beans in an interview irrelevant to the rest of the world needs to think again.

when promotion of this album does finally begin, whether it is this year or ten years from now, it will be aimed at the potential fan base, not the current fan base (us). they already have us. the first stage of the promotion will not be gnr's relatively unknown guitar player telling a minute group of fans that cd is coming out this year or what the tracklist is, etc.