Tell me about it, after Friday I might not have internet access until maybe Wednesday

Anyway

A lot of albums at the moment are being promoted after release, TV ads and such are all saying out now rather than coming out xxx. Perhaps I just miss them before release but it seems most tv ads for albums start being aired 2/3 weeks after an albums release.

I wish GNR would confirm this, I'm not getting too carried away until I hea from the horses mouth. Although everything these last few weeks has pointed to exactly the same thing...it's coming.

Shame about the fact it only seems like one album, having said the clues were there, Baz said only a couple of months back that Axl had said The General's on album 3 which will be out in 2012. We knew as of a couple of moths ago Axl was intending three seperate releases, still a trilogy in a way but not in the fashion we were hoping for. Hell, I'll take one album though, beggars can't be choosers.

It's very hard to gauge GNR's opening week sales compared to other acts. Most other acts we're talking about have released an album in the last 2/3 years their popularity can be measured, they've got singles out (or some do) the response to those can be used as an indicator. None of these can be used to guess GNR's sales, the UYI and GNR craze was way too long ago to be considered a relevant gauge of popularity, there's no current single to measure sales for, and not to mention Axls not the most popular guy in the world anyway, no one knows how the public will respond to a Slashless GNR releasing an album.

Of course good music will win through, if the album is good it will do fine. It'll be very interesting to see how first week sales go, and will probably be a good indicator of how the general public feel about Axls new version of GNR.