brilliant post. i'll have to give that whole story a read sometime soon.

i've said it before, but out of all the new songs played at rio 3, madagascar blew me away the most. to this day, the song still holds strong; it hasn't aged a bit.

the main reason i've always loved it is because it's axl singing to himself, for himself. it's his most self-reflective work to date... so much so that i think axl is an extremely brave man just to be able to sing this in front of thousands of people.

just saw dunkirk in theaters over the weekend.

if i wasn't aware that nolan was directing it, i would have probably loved it. instead, i went in expecting some sort of mystery, intrigue or twist, and was left disappointed with a straightforward war flick.

the music, cinematography and acting was pretty damn good... but it just never hooked me, like most of his other movies do.

this x1,000,000

as talented a singer/songwriter axl is, all he should have needed was a creative force behind him like bucket & brain.

those 2 already have natural chemistry; it blows my mind how axl didn't take full advantage of that.

the main reason i want to hear the general is because it's supposedly a brain song. knowing that, it's likely to have buckethead all over it. we also know beltrami worked on that song... there's no fuckin' way that song is anything short of amazing.

at this point, it's probably been tinkered to death with an ashba solo over bucket's parts, but i'd kill a man to hear the original demo.

the axl i know would want to "bury chinese."

with all the bullshit, negativity, rumor & innuendo surrounding that album... you'd think he would want to wipe that out of everyone's memory with an inspired return to form.

i don't think axl wants to be remembered as the failed solo artist who was forced to get back with slash just to be relevant and profitable again... or is the money enough for him to laugh his way to the bank and call it a career?