I like what slash has done with it.

Will be excited to hear it live with Axl.

My only thing is that hardschool was one of the more generic demos and in my mind nowhere near as songs like State of Grace or Perhaps etc.

But I'll take it.

In Australia the venue pays an annual license fee to cover the songwriters of all music played in the venue - every artist submits a setlist and it's split between them at the end of the year. The cost to a big venue like a stadium is proportionally more than a small venue like a bar.

End result, Axl wouldn't have to pay pitman if he plays silkworms, but it would cause pitman to get paid (from the performing rights cut taken from the venue)

Thus if you had the right level of spite, you might withhold a song just to stop that happening.

Not saying Axl does this...but if he's as much of an asshole as I can be in the right mood then it's at least a possibility.

I think it's one of Axl's most beautiful songs.

I see what you mean about it being out of place on the record, it's more of a UYI track, I would have been interested to hear it recorded around NR era.

Like i said about TWAT too - it would be interesting to hear a slash composition for the solo part - not just Slash covering the existing solo with improv like we mostly get live these days - but a 1990s Slash doing a fresh take to elevate the song....that would have been interesting.

That said it's a beautiful song.

The dance version with the scream vocals is kinda different but amazing vocally too. I love it in a different way. I hope one day the vault opens and there's more gems like this one - the fact we almost never heard that makes me think Axl could always have other throw away stuff that O love somewhere.

Yeah that's the other element....

It's like take your 4 albums....

then remove songs you don't want to play because of beef with a co-writer (eg Pitman/Izzy etc), then remove songs that are punishing to vocally perform too often (eg Twat screams), then remove songs where there is controversy (Get In The Ring, One in a Million), then maybe remove songs where you may have moved on from those emotions (Shotgun Blues), then limit how many times you want to ask Slash to cover Robin songs (maybe just 3 this setlist) then limit how many agressive songs you want in a row....(everyone take a step back)...then limit how many ballads should go together before it gets too samey....then consider the list of songs that the audience will require to be present and which ones of those already violate the above rules....then find a way to make that new for 30 years...

Not saying it can't be done...but I can see why they find it hard.

I think some of the fun of the covers for them is not only the change but also that they are reasonably critically free....like if Axl writes a new song we have to ask how this compares to AFD and if it's about Erin or Slash or whatever....but if he sings Sailing it just sounds cool