I’m excited to hear CD II but tattooing the band’s names on my bloated body is not happening. What if it sucks?

Do we have the Beavan album? Stuff with just Finck and Tobias, pre Bucket?

If IRS etc is from 2000 intentions then that might explain no instrumental versions. Bucket came in a re-recorded and added some new tracks to it, but the vocals were from Beavan.

Silk and GD worth keeping in mind as they have vocals. GD could be a single.

Not sure what Cuban skies is and lost track of The General.

I’m glad Berlin and Soul Monster have vocals. Kind of get close to a full album of vocals.

I sort of like the album version and Shack and Better for the horsepower. A lot of the intricacies of the material got mown down for sheer brute force. There’s still stuff going on but it focuses on being a missile, having momentum. I think it was probably important to come out swinging on this big GNR album and scrutiny it was under. It’s almost like Axl understood his job too much, or he got there after the first versions avant garde In through the Out door leanings, Ezrin maybe woke him up to what people expected. It can’t be too indulgent, you’re going into a war zone. You need weapons. And actually he was right it was Catcher and IRS wobbly bits that caught the flack. The nice little interludes and sound effects is what people wanted stamping out. The general consensus was wanting more generic hard rock, less guitar wobbling and funky beats. So it was like making an album with Bucket then trying to make sound like UYI. Almost a futile endeavor. CD reminds of a movie. Like a big action movie and you go see it but you have very little idea how it was made, you might not like the whole movie but the script is great, all the acting is great and stunts are professional, you just din’t Like the ending or the camerawork. But there are great scenes and characters that you really enjoy, so keep watching it even though it’s not perfect.