polluxlm wrote:

I don't know what Roy Thomas Baker problem was when he told Axl he had no hits. I'm listening to the 98 mix of CD (song) and to me that's a fucking hit in 2000. The Blues is a hit. Catcher could be a hit. Those songs were ruined in production.

Roy Thomas Baker telling Axl he didn't have any hits is arguably the reason for the whole fucking mess. Those tracks were perfectly good at the time, and the knock to Axl's confidence prompted the next few years of navel-gazing and self-doubt and reworking and over-production.

misterID wrote:

It amazes me they didn’t get Josh for the reunion. He has chemistry with both Axl and Slash. It makes too much sense

Am I crazy? How would Josh have chemistry with Slash? Josh was a session player for Paul Westerberg and Stinson plus was drummer in The Replacements reunion. He literally had nothing to do with Axl or Slash

misterID wrote:

Pretty sure Buckets SR solo was basically just noodling elephant noises. Not much to it.

I’ve heard Fernando gave a bunch of songs to people, have no idea the truth. The major source of leaks came from people at the label. It’s how it fell into the hands of people who didn’t even care what they had., who most likely never even kept them

If memory serves me right, didn't those 2017 leaks of alt mixes of Madagascar and The Blues come from MSL. Think he disclosed he got them from someone who used to/does work at UMG.