So I'm on vacations and got a little bored. Started reading some old rumours and insider infos posted across the boards to see what hit the wall and stayed. Found a topic that felt interesting:

The next album is done and was in that state since CD came out and it is all Buckethead//Brain/Finck material which the current band members play over, except trademark eyeliner guy.
It was supposed to come out exactly 1 year after CD, but Azoff's games killed it all.
Is why there is no USA tour too, he pretty much owns everything or he is heavily involved with the ones who do, all related to each others business.
Azoff's proposal was, reunite or I will destroy this band.

Now this is interesting as it was posted way before the lawsuit settlement that made the band tour US as part of the deal. Educated guess?

The current band members would rather want an album with new material out.
Axl isn't impressed by their efforts, Bumble is rebelling because of this, he wants the next album to have his writing on it for royalties.

This was in 2010, way before Bumble's meltdown last year. Kinda makes sense. Also, Bumble publicly said something to this effect, of releasing music "of people that aren't in the band for almost ten years now".

Most insiders know he is in it for the money and as a career move collecting supporters for his solo career, he can't stand GnR music, is a fact, Axl knows this too but he needs him as long as Buckethead shows no interest in returning, which Axl still wants and tries to accomplish in different ways behind the back of the band, is also why he wants to push the unheard Buckethead/Finck material through on the next album, long sentence with wrong usage of commas has ended now.

Okay, polemic topic. I've heard this from people that follow BBF work from way before he joined the band - mind you, people that don't access GNR boards - so when I read this it rang a bell.

Axl actually gave up on that after the Azoff thing, so he let it go and was content being a jukebox nostalgia act, which the band at the moment still is.
Axl wants to change that now.
So not all is a happy cakefest as you see it.

MSL documents are related to this and didn't happen on the same period, only after this was posted.

There are 3 remixes of CD (Axl, Brain, Dizzy-Pitman), big whoop.

This is, as far as I know, the first mention of the Brain remix, that was later confirmed by him.

DVD always has been on the agenda but the support from the company (which is Azoff's contact's lap dog) is zero, like in pretty much anything else the band wants to do, no support from any corner.

The one we're getting now, perhaps, since now the debts with Azoff are paid and there's no legal obligation to give him money anymore?

You already heard parts of "new" songs live that the current members wrote that Axl isn't impressed by, instrumental mellow versions and no shit, they will play unheard full songs one day.
So nothing new there.

Have to say some "jams" they played before some songs in 2011/2012 (Madagascar, Patience, Paradise City) are often mentioned as "this could be a really great tune if they worked it out lyrics for it". Notice that these jams were not really frequent in 2010.

What you guys think? Also, are there any old rumours you remember that ended being true?