It might.

It's hard to know without seeing the actual paperwork.

Some contracts a re-issue and live album would count in others it might have to be new originals. Depends on the wording.

GNR probably wants out of its record deal.

Remember at china exchange Axl said how if he did things differently he would have formed his own record company.

So if you are the label....you have 1 GNR release left that you get profits on.....lets be real - GNR was a classic rock not a dance act, and to the general public Chinese Democracy itself is not a 'real' GNR record due to the line up - so if you are the label - do you want your final GNR release before Axl forms his own label to be a dance remix of Chinese Democracy?

I think Axl's plan was to con the label into the remix album, then he can do CD2 and future releases under his own banner. However the label wasn't that dumb.

This made Axl's next move quite logical. He can't release a new record - as he wants that for his own label. But another tour with the nu-lineup will not do adequate numbers without new material as he's already been out playing hits with them for 15 years.

The logical move is reunion. Reunion can do massive numbers for a huge payday, and it doesn't need new material at first either.

It's about 3 or 4 decibels louder than the original CD.

Listening to the 192/24 bit version it's a bit crisper and cleaner sounding. I notice very subtle sounds like the sound of the cymbals in places and things like that. It's subtle stuff but it's there.

This version being louder will have less dynamic range for the purists that care about such stuff, personally I'm not too worried about dynamic range for hard rock - it's not like if the AFD5 played this live in your living room that there would be many quiet parts - Slash's amp alone is usually set to insane volumes. The compression here brings the recording to modern levels and allows it to sit well in a playlist with newer music.

Obviously an expensive release, but if you're an audio type person then I think the shear fact this is an HD release makes it great.

I hope for UYI to get the same treatment - although given the censorship of Mamma Kin and OIAM - who knows what they'd do with GITR and Shotgun blues etc....hahahah

Well most of the major GNR sites on youtube are now closed thanks to walker and his buddies.

Frans, Gibbo, all of the big sites where people get their GNR content are over. I don't think some of you appreciate the impact of this - most of the time when one of us links to a GNR video its from the same few sources. There's going to be hardly anything on youtube in another year. It will be like when prince was alive and there was no prince content.

So keep protecting walker and so on, but next tour no one will be sharing anything online.