Same problem...i guess they have backlog as evreyone with a pc logs in for a free album!

Anyone else having Tuning issues with this track?

Ok i'll bite.

I'm fucking frustrated.

Why? Because they keep saying/implying the album is finished, yet we get no progress.

My views are this:

1. I wouldn't be expecting anything - except that people (like baz) said it exists and is awesome. So don't give me the "better to wait for jesus" and the stuff about not owing me anything. Its not about owing. Its about saying you have something or are going to do someting. then actually delivering on it. But i'm ok with a wait for something cool - if i wasnt i wouldnt have been here since the old band.

2. I was ok with delays and waits for the years its taking being recorded. why - cos i can understand creative bockages. Like merk said about the muse. I can understand maybe axl only had 2 days of work left but it took years to get in a frame of mind to do that. Whatever. Its artsy stuff - so I'm cool with that.

But what fucks me off - is that beta and everyone else keeps saying its done and that its all a business hold up. Now i used to be a lawyer and theres only so long I can let that excuse wash. The reality is any issue can be bargined and settled eventually. I think if the delay goes on into 2009 then we desrve some explaniation into the nature of the wait. Is it copyright clearance? Dispute over royalities? Paycheck issues?
It's maddening to just keep saying the album is done, then nothing happens and theres no reasons given as to why. Give me a real reason and i'll wait a lifetime...but at least give us that, even if we can't be given the album.

I know i say this like once a week. But "It's five o'clock somewhere" is an AWESOME album from a guitar point of view. 

As for selling out. It's insane and I agree with neemo. He isn't sold out, he is iconic. I love that slash working with others is considered selling out to modern rock crap, yet Axl trying to become trent from NIN isn't.

To me the relality is that Axl IS the best front man of a generation, and Slash IS the best guitarist of his style sound. Put them together and you'd again have the greatest band in the world.

Force them to be seperate and you'll still get amazing projects due to their seperate talents. But maybe not like the magic they can create together.

I think soundgarden and audioslave are good bands...but neither of them can hold a candle to Slash.