I felt that way about "Shadow of Your Love" seeing as it was on the Live and Let Die CD single that I had on repeat in my youth....totally not new.

I'm giving Absurd a pass on that front though - as I don't count songs that have been performed live but not released - otherwise although not as long a wait...we'd technically have to say Don't Cry and NR were not new on UYI etc.

Also I actually want them to redo all the old CD demos like State of Grace etc with Slash....so yeah I see Randals point but I'm personally letting it slide lol

Well it's not officially Christmas...but the state I live in has a "lets lock down until we get back to zero" agenda...which will take a very long time with Delta and even if we can it's highly likely the other state that leaked it here in the first place will do so again cos our border controls are not smart.

Meanwhile the other state in a bad way has a lockdown (which our state considers too soft) that may or may not work...but is saying they will open up like the UK as soon as they can get the vax rate up...but then realistically between the vaccine hesitancy and the lack of government supply the timeline for that is kinda like october or november if not later.

Both these states are run by opposing political parties so whatever they do will be designed to shame the other. Like mine will lock down longer in the hopes to get lower numbers to prove the other opened up too fast, or, the other will open up faster to restore business faster to prove our lockdown wasn't necessary etc. It's all about politics at this stage sadly even though people are dying and there's a strong chance of more people dying if we don't work out a national plan that doesn't suck.

For some reason I really like it.

I'm too old to headbang, but there's kinda a headbang moment as it slides back into the main riff each time after those little solo fills.

If i was going to change it I would have maybe given slash an entire section to shred more - like on stuff like perfect crime - maybe instead of one of the verse repeats...but it's fun as it is to me.

I can kinda see why people are not into it, but I just like the mood of it - and the drums and guitar riffs are cool - and I like the little Axl screams in the background too.

Libertad was such a strange time.

Such a weak album from such a powerful band, like VR were always amazing live but it sure didn't translate to those sessions.

It's not that they're bad exactly - it's just kinda like an album of B sides - from another band I would take it - but when you know the kinda Riffs slash was putting out only a couple of years after it makes you realise something was set wrong.

Then the live vibe is weird on bootlegs around that time too - so much chemistry still - but you can see they are not exactly getting on compared to the contraband shows.

Makes for a strange legacy...in that VR is one of the greatest bands I've seen - but you cant show that to someone by playing them the record one night...it's not really down on the tape...i was hoping Libertad was a slump and they were still to write their best stuff in a third album....but I think just too many drugs and politics at that point.