Let’s be honest....the people who bought Chinese were in essence Axl diehards. So, In my opinion he would have had a large following, by normal standards, had he released Chinese as a solo record. Ozzy did well with his solo guitar wizard. Axl would have done the same with Buckethead....think TWAT released as a lead off single to an Axl solo album. Pretty fucking good had the masses heard it in that context. Hard to believe a tune like that got buried before it even had a chance. When really put in context of what should have happened but what actually did, it is one of the biggest colossal fuck ups, could a shoulda woulda twists of fate in music history.

That was good.

Best bet is all we get this year is a UYI 30 year anniversary Deluxe Edition and Super Deluxe edition.

Monkey, you have always been a glass half full guy, which is better than negative Nancy like me. But, the issue isn’t whether or not there is killer stuff in the vault. The issue is nobody seems to want to release anything! Not the record company, not the band, not literally anybody. All good to play SCOM ad nauseoum. It is well beyond mind boggling that they can’t release one song in 13 years. Slash and Duff have literally added nothing other than trotting out the hits for the masses while putting more cash in Axl’s bank account. It’s actually not a joke anymore because people don’t care enough to make the joke....Bad Company 3.0