Glad youre okay, dude.

That must've been some serious posting you were doing.

All I can say is WOW... Song #2 the most. It could be a killer song for a James Bond film.

The older songs, the thing that strikes me as "new" about them is that Axl has tinkered them to death. If these were the changes that were holding up the album all these years I'm completely dumbfounded. But if this was the first time I was hearing them I'd be blown away.

There is no way these are the finished versions. These are all demos as far as I can tell. Especialy if Andy Wallace is mixing them. No Way they're mixed and mastered.

I think he has snapped in different ways. Going from hermit to party boy as fast as he did kind of says something. And I think it changed the bands dynamic vastly. Check out 2002 and compare it with 2006. Even though the band sounded tighter on stage, the group seemed compeletly different. Maybe Axl's change affected the others.

Tommy seemed like he didn't give a shit on stage, completely different than he did in 02. Robin went through a complete personality change. I always took his hippy, 70's rock star persona of 06 as a way of telling people he wasn't real happy where he was at.

Man, no one has seen bashers like there were at the old Rollingstone board. Dave was funny as hell. He was so damn stubborn no one could win an argument with him. See his debate about the Portland cancelation with Beta for an example... And he did have a good point, which started jarmo's "If you don't believe EVERYTHING the band tells you, you're not a fan." Mad, remember Pissin? He made the RS.com board hilarious. It got to a point where the bashers just knew there was no use in bashing anymore.

Personally, it's just really hard for me to respect jarmo in any compacity. And I'm not down with his irrational, mistreatment of people, especially people who were oldschool members of that site for so long. And to question peoples loyalty to the band and say who is or isn't a fan? I'm sorry, but that shit just doesn't fly with me. However "okay" he was before has totally evaporated in my mind.

This place will survive a new official forum, if that really does happen. This place is like a clique in the GNR fan world. A retreat from the bullshit, power trips, illogical, asskissing and delusional thinking.

Just know we do have someone(s) on our side in the band

And Aussie, you need to clear your inbox, bro

I can't help thinking that this is the most complicated case of a band trying to release an album that I've ever heard of.

The only thing I can think of is that Axl really pissed off someone he shouldn't have pissed off at Universal.