I borrowed my brothers old cassette deck he had for his old stacking system, I'm amazed he still has it. The tapes I want to convert are old live dj mixes of me from when I was young playing at local raves, so I cant get them anywhere except off me!
I've caved in and joined the facebook generation and been chatting with some of the guys from those days, it would be fun to share the tapes with them.

I found a mention of it in a Classic Rock magazine from just after the 2002 tour collapsed, it was the issue that had "Guns N'Roses:The End" on the cover.

It was part of a huge speculative piece full of heasay and unnamed sources, all it said was:

"...According to more informed sources, after all the time and most importantly the money thats been spent on Chinese Democracy, Axl nor his record company can afford not to release it.
And the suggestion is in some quarters now is that Axl may even be prepared to bring in a professional songwriting team-as do groups like Def Leopard, Bon Jovi and Aerosmith- in order to at least pepper up the new album with a few identifiable hits. But then who in their right mind would want to be the bloke who went to tell Axl he needed help writing a few catchy tunes?"

CR Feb 2003

Does the old band get a slice of the pie when new gnr play the old songs live?