It's unlikely I'll grant. But its vaguely possible. I'm thinking someone downloads the rockband setlist showing  November Rain as the GNR track. This person is the type of person who likes to fuck with the GNR fan base for whatever reason people do it - attention or whatever. He is a buckethead fan - so makes up a song name based on one of bucket's solo songs. (ie Changes 'Shackler' to 'Shackler's Revenge', he could have easily been like 'Return to Nottingham' or something) - subs in those words and posts to the net. Bingo instant rumour that sounds kind of legit. The only thing giving this rumour any credibility is mysteron or whatever saying its real. So i guess it comes down to how accurate he is with info. But think of it this way - if it comes out now without the song - will people think Mysteron was full of shit or that the band simply 'pulled' the song? This whole thing could just be a really well crafted BS story that is able to take a life of its own.

For the record...I really hope it is real...and i'm dying to hear a new song, and i'll go nuts when rockstar is released...and I think it is real overall....i'm just saying...to my mind its not impossible that it could be bullshit...more definate things in GNR world have turned out to be red-hearings...

Really? Interesting.

I think the start is a bit bland...only because stylisticly its not so much to my taste..like the way all of buckets songs seem to 'jump' style mid track. I can see that might be a feature most people really like though. It seems like he does it alot I mean "Jump Man" does the same thing and Jorden is similar...its cool but might not work to well other than in an instrumental context. All i mean is that it sounds like at least 2 seperate songs mashed together..lol...

But then any concerns I had over the track obliterate once the solo gets going. That passage from 3.30 - 3:55 is absolutely mind numbing. Maybe it's the guitarist in me, but that's some *serious* dexterity right there...there's got to be only like a handful of players alive who can hit a run like that. At 4.55 its also pretty scary from a shred point of view...but over and above this....I like how the melody gets a little like a Hendrix lick (but on roids) at 5.06...just very cool....and somehow the track starts to get that etherial quality to the ears...like overloading them...the tone the melody..up loud and it just tripps me out...

And I'm a guy who wanted to hate bucket because I grew up loving slash

anyway...its cool if your not into the track...but I think some solos of this caliabre on a new GNR album (as opposed to the cool but short burst thing he seems to do in GNR) would really shut people up, blow guitarists away and make people respect the new songs a lot more....

Interesting...i was just thinking you know how Axl accused bucket of using GNR for his own personal gain on side projects or something like that, and generally I've always thought it was bullshit cos its not like bucket runs around talking about his time in GNR to promote himself. But maybe Axl ment collaboration wise? Like he used his time in GNR to make friends then went off and recorded solo tracks...just a theory. I'm not saying Axl is right or wromg, just i've never undersood how he could even figure that happened...maybe this is how. Like I can see why axl would be jealous of stuff..like the twat outro is cool and all...but its nothing on that ending to nottingham lace...

Hmmm...soothsayer and notthingham lace as GNR tues....fuck that would gave been some cool as shit. That notthigham lace solo has to be one of the coolest things recorded ever by any guitarist..i'd have loved to see Axl worked in somehow....