I am almost willing to concede that they may be making plans to release the album, but I'm nowhere near ready to say it's coming out in '08.  Having management is the thing that makes me feel better about the situation...no album was ever coming out without a management team in place.

Yes, it completely sucks.  I wonder if this is how people in their 20's and 30s felt in the early to mid 80s?  They were coming off The Beatles, Stones, Zepplin, Sabbath, etc and were stuck listening to the new wave movement in the early 80s followed by hair bands.  Maybe there's another revolution coming (and no, Axl won't be leading it).

I'm one of the few that actually likes Libertad (though admittedly i haven't listened to it in a couple months).  I think the album is good, but in a much different way than people expect when they hear Slash playing.  It's not his best work and he gets lost in the mix from time to time (which should never happen), but I'll take it over anything by Nickleback or other "rock" bands of today,

James - I'm not kidding, not at all.  I don't like his solo stuff, at least not what I've heard.  That said, I don't want Slash in this GnR anyway.  This GnR is a joke and bringing him back in an attempt to legitimize all the bullshit of the past 15 years would be beyond rediculous.  If this is what GnR is going to be, then so be it.  I want either a full reunion or this band to get off it's ass and actually accomplish something.  Unfortunately it looks like I'm going to get neither.

I think BH and Finck are fine together in this pseudo-industrial version of GnR, but neither has a place in the band that actually accomplished things.  Neither of them fit the sound that was Guns N' Roses and their performances of the classics prove it.  You can cover for them by saying they are "making it their own" but when you're in guns N' Roses, you should play the songs the way Guns N' Roses wrote/recorded them.