Yes he could. The downloading thing does seem like complete bullshit.

Russ, the word that "the ball was in the record company's court"-vague, but I personally believed it was his way of saying that the album is done. Beta said NOTHING about downloading the album-read again-that is speculation from Classic Rock.:headbang:

can't you see they are already playing it?:nervous:

James, if he has multiple albums of material, someone may buy it all. Uni may just want to dump it for whatever they can get as well...just take a loss and get rid of the headache. They still own the back catalog so they aren't too worried over this either way. Can you people not see that there are tons of different scenarios and alot of unknowns. One unknown is the quality of ALL the material. This board has just become too bitter for me these days. Whatever happened to the saying "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything at all.":peace:

Because it is unethical to discuss ongoing business negotiations until they are finalized....especially if they are negotiating over money. They obviously don't have a release date so there is nothing to discuss there. I have said before that there are a lot of options and there is alot of money at stake. It actually can be very complicated. In the end, when you are negotiating over millions of dollars, you simply don't risk pissing off any potential parties by discussing the details. You also don't rush things and give the impression that you are desperate to release the record. Then the other party has the upper hand in the negotiation process. How many sources do you need to confirm that they are in the process of renegotiating their record deal?:thumbup:

ps....and before you say "Axl has had 10 years to get the deal done"....remember what Merck said in late 06, "the record company would not deal with them until they had a COMPLETED album."

pss and James you are partially right, don't get excited until we hear from the record company. Unfortunately, we don't know which record company as they could be trying to sell the project. Beta says "unspecified parties".:peace: