this is really great btw

tho prob only like the 3rd or 4th best MLB album

fwiw, ML has perhaps the best catalogue of any rock artist this side of AFD/UYI.... (just saying.....)

in fairness, yourself & a few others have broached the subject before.

for precisely that reason

there are at least two issues w/this i think. 1: because we've been exposed to leaks before is no guarantee there exists other fit material [for eventual release]. & there are many conflicting reports about the readiness/completeness of this material, in whatever form it exists.
2: more crucially, harking back to Bono's point, IF the material exists we have to assume it's thematically similar to what was on CD. happenings ten years time ago was interesting reading the first time around but how much relevance or interest will the same infatuations & stories have now?? CD was plagued by self-reference in it's plotline's & it's fairly safe to assume the other material from that time deals with the same subject matter, so the ultimate question is what's the point of going over old ground? then, does axl's gnr have anything interesting to offer on the telling of the story? as far as crucial condundrums go it's not a very fascinating or ambitious question. a better idea would be to finally work quickly & start releasing things & fucking the consequences - which btw should be a vital foundation stone in the GnR world (but is an excuse far too easily discarded...)

+ 1 & to everyone going to these gigs

2 things here, slightly similar tho...

it IS desperately sad that Axl so suddenly & for so long became that stereotypical artist who has to take a break from their fame.
& he IS to BLAME for the direction they've gone in. [b]a direction which has relegated from the level they were, & deserve to be at, to a level of mediocore soft-rock USA bands like Journey Heart etc. & at a stretch Areosmith & Grand Funk.
GnR were once pioneers* or a virulent strand of rock n roll. now they're reduced to a touring act, in support of a DOA album from 5yrs ago no less. of course Axl is to blame [amongst others, unfortunately - tho a lot of that is more of axl's particular fault].

only two time i've been unable to get to front of GnR gig - Duble RDS '06when they had a shitty crowd divider thing that pearl jam & a lot of festivals/big gigs have these days & then at Belfast '10 when there was just too many people there! the next night in Dublin '10 i was able to waltz right up to the front despite coming in @ around 10:10pm (which was early, of course....)

+ 1, of course.
(+ really glad to see them doing Chicago & AC & not just NYC/LA/London/Paris.)

tho how much of this is old plans that didn't work out 2-3 maybe 5 yrs ago??

*just because rock acts proverbially 'wear their heart on their sleeve' regarding their influences doesn't automatically diminish their incendiary nature or originality.

BUT, mrID, could it have been the plan all along to be in europe whether they were inducted into the HOF or not. maybe they saw ahead & planned for this occasion...