ClaudeF wrote:

FlashFlood wrote:

If I’m Axl, I’d want the original The General out there before the Slash/Duff version. Have your cake and eat it.

Damned right. I want the original, too.

As Detective Columbo, my mom’s favorite TV character, used to say, just one more thing:

“It is widely assumed that I’m likely to have access to more leaks. I don’t. I’m not a hoarder, and I don’t care to have anything I can’t share. I know that there are about ten more Guns N’ Roses songs floating around among outsiders, but I forget the working titles that I had been given, and I forget the name of one guy I met that had them. I’m not just saying that; I really do forget these details. I didn’t care, because they did me no good. What I’ve heard left me somewhat impressed, as I recall, but I’ve heard no new songs more than once, and none all the way through. I can barely remember how they went. I do not have a photographic memory.”

The second disc of Chinese Democracy is circulating.

How do we hear it? What will it take?

These are direct questions to those who have already sat on the tracks for a decade.

I'm pretty damn sure there was a second skwerl disc...sounds like this was quickly retconned.

Either way...he mentions enough songs for the second disc.

Yeah... CD II has been circulating for eons... almost as long as CD.

Jarmo from the GNR fansite Here Today… Gone To Hell came across news of the leak. He immediately notified Fernando Santos, who checked it out, and then did a Whois lookup on Antiquiet.com to get my phone number so he could talk tough to me.”

It's funny and pathetic when one of the people who had already heard everything goes and tattletales because he doesn't believe the lowly plebs are worthy of listening to what he was already listening to.

Hell...he's still doing it! He criticizes anyone getting impatient for new material.

Yeah there's a shit ton of discs...many obviously overlapping.

Don't forget the "Classic Rock disc". They got to hear a disc containing Atlas Shrugged and Silkworms.

Some of what was on there may have been trade worthy - who knows maybe it did happen and those folk are keeping quiet and holding on to those tracks too.

Oh there was definitely more to that leak.

Hell...the Chairman even admitted this with the "more rasp" line.

There was also other trades going on at the same time.

A leaked version labeled 2013 on the file (but no idea if it was from then) this had different guitars particularly in the second half of the song. The "it it opens your eyes" had more of a chuggy almost dancy riff a bit like the rhythms in shacklers. It was less 'busy' in some sections guitarwise but then there were also some very fast shred runs towards the end that sounded like bucket/bumble.

3. A version around 2018 that I suspect may have been a fan composit of the previous two versions. It generally sounded like the end of days version but with some of the shred guitars added over. It was a bit messy in places with guitars conflicting.

I think all of these had the same vocal track though. Although the 2013 one is not mixed/mastered for release properly compared to End of Days so bits like "Gotcha" sound a bit different cos they are not as loud.