There's certainly something odd about this, he said the album was amazing only a few months back, now he couldn't get past 2 songs. Weird. My biggest concern is that he heard the leaks when he described it as amazing and now he does have a finished version it's nauseatingly over produced and not as good. I don't really care if he's heard or not, plenty of people have heard it, Baz said in a recent interview that loads of people have heard it so someone with Halfins connections I'm sure wouldn't have too much trouble getting to listen to it.

Why would we have? It wasn't a fax for us, things like that would only get out into the public if the owner wanted them to. I'm assuming Slash did keep the fax given it's importance like you said and Neemo said it was used in court so it exists in some form. Why do you think something like this would become so public?

Yeah Paul Huge certainly doesn't come off looking too good in Slash's book. As a person and musician Slash is pretty scathing of him.

I doubt any of those jams have ended up being the foundation of anything that will be on CD, I guess an odd riff maybe but as new musicians came to replace the old I think any work from the old guys would have got scrapped or reworked and diluted to the point where it's nothing like what Slash or Duff worked on 10+ years ago.

I considered putting both Stones and Beatles in my first post however when I thought about it more I left them out. Considering how big both bands are I've never thought their music warranted such popularity, but you tend to forget they were really the first of their kind. Had either of them broken through in the 80's or even 70's they wouldn't even be half as big as they are. When current bands are asked their influences Stones or Beatles are usually mentioned and if they are not, then the bands that did influence them would have been influenced by Stones or Beatles, in terms of influence there's very few degrees of seperation between any band around today and these two bands. Better bands than the these two have come and gone since but they only got the chance because of the these two bands in the first place. I think musically perhaps they are a bit overated (Beatles more than the Stones) but their achievements and what they did for music warrants the hype imo.

I said ages ago on ROV games thread to James that I thought PS3 would win the war eventually and I still stand by that.

Wii have got a niche market in which it's peoples 'other' console, because of it's price and gimmick few people own the Wii as their only console yet there's no other console to directly compete so as a result it sells millions. Which leaves PS3 vs 360 and it looks like the tables are starting to turn, I don't expect the PS3 to murder the 360 like PS2 did to Xbox but I still think in the long run it will be the more popular console. Now Blu Ray has won the war and the quality of games for PS3 are improving I think things will only get better for Sony.