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James

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Re: Children of the Revolution

James wrote:

It was either abandoned in that 99-00 period due to the negative reactions to both OMG and Silkworms or possibly still around with one of the updated song titles. They sure loved changing song titles all the time... probably out of boredom.

Frankly the idiots at Interscope are to blame for that fiasco. Roy Thomas Baker among them. The only way a rewamped GNR could work is if it was totally different from the old band. At least Axl seems to have understood this at first. You can't have Finck and BH on stage playing Nightrain. Predictably people would just ask where the fuck is Slash.

The 2000 album would have sold more than 2008 CD if it was released. And once the shock was over they could have built on that with interesting, alternative rock n roll for years to come.

When the record company rejected it, Axl should have just gone for the reunion then and there, but understandable why he didn't considering how much he had invested.

Could he have just forced them? Say, ok you wanted an album, here is the album. Either release it or fuck off. I suppose they would have just sat on it. No wonder he felt between a rock and a hard place.

There was an easy way for Axl to get the label to release CD within a couple months.....

They would've been forced to fast track a release. Looking back it's amazing it didn't happen anyways. The songs were already in circulation. The fan base was unlucky that they circulated in the wrong hands.

It should've leaked openly on The Velvet Rope in 2003-4.