I agree that Cornell, and especially Brain don't go to Pitman levels, but you can with Cornell you can definitely see that when Cornell starts being Cornell, people get nervous, and Ben Shepard gets fucking infuriated. He can't stand it. Even today.

Pitman is that same category. But way way way down the totem pole. Most people do not get that Pitman is joking, like Cornell, almost half the time.

And btw, I have, and if anyone has talked to people that know Cornell. Like people that grew up with him. Same neighborhood, early bands.... Chris is still Chris. Cornell was ALWAYS like that. Even on the side.

In other words, I think if we all knew Pitman more personally, we'd know his verbage and style, and like ID said, when he's been an "Axl smartass". Pitman channels Axl alot, but Axl, unlike Cornell & Pitman, Axl is genuinely a funny guy and has great timing. Pitman does not.

I don't disagree with you here. At all.

Pitman is brilliant in the studio. Imho. I like him in Guns.

But yes, his sense of humor sucks. He's that guy with the guys who's a total doofus, that thinks his lines with women sex them up when they are repulsed... Pitman is... well...

this guy

No. Not if "Real" Pitman has a gag order on him.

This has already made some of the blog-media. The bigger sites like Blabbermouth will probably have it up tomorrow.

If fucking Slash, who talks to EVERY-FUCKING-BODY, isn't talking to ANYBODY. Including Trunk.

Pitman can't talk. He's already had his wrist slapped once.

I really think Chris was taking the piss here with MyGayNR trolls, the fly-by-nighters who can't name you deep cuts, but will get into flame wars over Izzy not being there, picking at Chris and Chris being Chris. Chris has a Chris Cornell sense of humor SG. Think for a second. Chris P will make jokes like Chris C, all the time, but only Mother Goose is in on it. Many times his lame jokes, like Chris C, go over like a egg-laden fart on a dance floor, and people just move on.

That's what happened here. The page IS REAL. Chris was JOKING. NOBODY took it that way. Everything shut down, ignore it, and it'll go away.

For SG, for the last five pages, for all of the internet... THAT's WHAT HAPPENED.

Chris doesn't need defending. Chris doesn't need supporting. This is a little thing, blown out of portion. Story over.

Everybody is jumping to conclusions over a bad joke. Pitman is known for being an idiot with jokes. Even in interviews. He takes the piss all the time in interviews. Hell, there was one interview he acted like he was Guns N' Roses. More than Axl. It was obvious he was being passive aggressive, because the interviewer was a clueless hipster moron, and he took offense.

Iverson being Iverson

Manny being Manny

LeBron being LeBron

Kobe being Kobe

Pitman being Pitman

Move along. Nothing to see here.

I still don't think all the vocals are finished. I think bits n' pieces are finished. Raw demos exist. But a fully finished product. I don't believe that. I think that's the "99%" people speak of. Many times Tommy said even as recently as during the 2006 tour that the reason Chinese wasn't ready for release was because Axl's vocals weren't finished.

Now he could've recorded a thousand different versions and wanted to multi-track all of it. OR, and more likely, they simply just were done. They had test tracks or demos that were basically finished and waiting for some takes to be laid down, and Axl just never got it done.

In my humble opinion.

Beyond that, I think the rest is up in the air, UNLESS Axl did indeed finish Chinese II because he and his camp thought within the last couple years that its release was imminent.

Either way, with Slash & Duff being back in the band, we're back to the start to quote AIC. Everything is to start again. There is NO FUCKING WAY ANYTHING gets released out of the GN'R camp that doesn't feature re-arranging by Slash & Duff in order to promote the band. Even if Axl plans on releasing the Chinese leftovers as a "Echo of Miles", it'll be AFTER the 'comeback' album is released WITH Slash & Duff.