Now and then, I normally hear a few GNR songs daily cos if I'm on my home pc I just select play all music and hit random so it throws up GNR quite a bit although I often skip a lot of them.

I recently listened to AFD and both UYI albums, part of my work placement involves me doing a job that's pretty dull and time consuming but I can have music on so I brought in a few cds including GNR. Before that I'm not sure when I last listened to a full GNR album, like others have said I go through phases of listening to them a lot and then not listen to them for months on end. I still get a kick when I hear GNR in a bar or out somewhere I didn't expect to hear them though.

The show I attended in 06 was at the MEN arena in Manchester and until the 02 arena opened it was the largest indoor arena in Europe. Capacity for a rock show there is approx 18-19,000 and at the GNR show I saw it was practically full, only a few of the highest and furthest back seats remained empty. I appreciate thought that the American market is different to the UK and Europe.

I'm not sure I agree, there was a video of GNR playing in 06, one of the last shows I think, that was floating round on youtube and the band played CD that night. The performance was great and it sounded as close to the demo version as you'll ever hear. The weak points were that the song lacked the ballsy heavy rhythm that the demo has, however that's a problem that's plagued CD live since day one. There's a power to the demo that's never been replicated live by any era 01-07, however Rons solo was bang on, admittedly that's only one performance but if you saw/heard it I don't think you'd claim he fucks up CD. I'll try find it but I've got a horrible feeling Tsunami removed it and I've not seen it since.

I still think it's an unfair comparison to judge BH's studio work with Ron's live performances, we don't know how BH would sound if he was playing them live. I appreciate it's the only comparison we have or can make but it's not a particularly accurate one.

It's not unheard of for people to prefer demos over the finished version, look at some of the UYI demos, imo some of the UYI demos are better than the final tracks but overall does it make a difference to the albums? Not especially, because ultimately they are the same songs, a few tweaks here and there but that's all they are. I find the 14 Years demo better than the album version but the decision to change that song, imo, for the worse and put that on the album doesn't spoil my enjoyment of the album or the song. I think it's important to remember that, you've either got a good song or you haven't, tweaks can help but they don't generally make or break a song.

Remember how much time Axls put into this record, he isn't going to compromise the album to accomodate someone. The best bits will stay, all we've got to find out is who's done the best bits.

Yeah but that's not really a story is it, that's just Axl Rose having his tea. I think the story was more Axl refused to go on stage unless he got a roast lamb dinner, having said that there was nothing to suggest when this was so maybe it was 6 hours before, in which case it's still not a story

If I had to guess the location of the next GNR tour I'd have thought it'd be South America. If they do tour in Poland I doubt it'll be the only place they go, maybe that's not even the first date of a tour, it might just be the first one to filter down the rumour mill. Assuming there's really a tour in the first place, I seem to remember Mysteron saying there were no plans to tour again until the album was out.

Expect it to be delivered sometime around 2014