I kind of like the videos were just in my mind. It wasn’t the MTV era, it was the leak era of the demise of the record industry. CD was the soundtrack to the end times, the hangover would have killed most humans.

I really see Axl driving his Ferrari down the Pacific Coast Highway to track 1 of Disc 2.

There is that point in 2004 that the recomp gave Axl the green light right? It was an ultimatum but Axl declined. And they put up GH. Bucket quit. So it’s that catastrophe is the context. But Axl did dodge that VR head to head. Understandable given the media climate. It’s sort like what was trying to do was so hard to do. Be GNR and take on the hostility but also does this multi faceted progressive rock album.

It really was like Coppola making Apocalypse Now but in the end the industry was redefined by technology (CGI) and hair metal (Star Wars) and much less artistic bands. Now they just do remakes and reunion nostalgia tours. Luckily Axl is Dennis Hopper and Indiana Jones. Easy Rider and The Cristal Skull.

This is some kind of psyop. The Brazilian article has a picture of some guys growing weed. I have no idea what the article says. His name was Rick Dunsford.

I think Tommy said that people who came in wanted to get a slice of the money. So Bob Ezrin came in and said no it’s not ready. General lack of support from rec comp for 3-4 albums. Even Merck could not set something like that up. There wasn’t that think like put out 1 album then we’ll put more out. No statement of support from Iovine like that. I mean it makes sense to play both sides. What if Slash came back, Axl has said he offered Slash that before RIR. So managers were always more interested in a reunion long term I guess. It wasn’t as simple as great music equals a series of successful albums. They seem to have done everything from Alt rock to electronica to Pink Floyd but all anyone really wanted was Slash. Now you look back and Bucket is sounding pretty sexy.