Sounds promising, hope it all works out for all you American fans!

I dont know what the original sounds like, I'd imagine it would be pretty good since most lp's did in those days. Its presses in later years that most problems occur imo, I had well over a thousand records and Chinese Democracy was one of the worst, if not the worst. A few songs sounded decent, but mostly it was mediocre and all the inner songs were completely unlistenable.

Hey I wonder when the alternate artwork copies of the vinyl will emerge, that'd be something.

Meant to say, I got the UYI2 remaster along with Chinese Democracy in 2008, and was very happy with the sound quality

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Voted yes, not really convinced either way but the online chats for me were the best insight into the real Axl Rose and he did seem to care a lot, and thats swung it for me.
Plus at a show I was at there was a crush at the front that I was in and he stopped the show and asked folk to calm down and move back to clear some space, so thats a first hand experience of a caring side.

Then theres the other shit, theres a real contempt he shows sometimes - like that whole twitter being "hacked" cancelling the tour nonsense. Bollocks, it was him, and was even more telling how the message stayed in place right up to a couple of hours before showtime, when he finally deleted it and said "backstage at Reading..."
Then he refuses to go on stage at the allocated time, that every other band on the schedule managed to do, just to mess with the promoter, and so deliberately denied the paying fans the full show. Shit like thats just ridiculous and rightfully makes you wonder if he really does have anything else than a contemptuous attitude towards his fans.

And how hard would it have been to come online, either him or a rep and send a short message on, for example, why the Better video and fan Q&A's had been cancelled?

I think its best just to have no expectations and take everything with a pinch of salt, dont get your hopes up for anything cause theres a pretty realistic chance of being let down. If it turns out well, then great, if not then at least you wont feel too disapointed.

Thats exactly why tomorow wont be any different than yesterday.
Guns N'Roses have been shambolic and unproductive ever since TSI came out, its not going to change now or tomorrow, its just the way it is. Mabye at some point in the next few years the rest of the CD sessions will come out, I believe it will, reading Chinese Whispers the other day and even back then Axl was talking about the follow up being more experimental and electronic than the first release - just like he was saying in 2008. It'll come out one day and then that will be it imo, Axl just doesnt seem to have any interest or passion anymore, he's happy hanging out doing whatever he does away from the public eye.
In a nutshell, would it be fair to say Axl Rose took semi retirement after the Illusions tour and anything else he's ever done since then should just be looked on as a bonus?

As for this booklet, I'm unconvinced either way, I'd need to see the whole thing to decide. The Prostitute one looks fake, but who knows... compared to the other alt artwork, these ones look cliche and uninspired. But then the official booklet is about as cheap n nasty as they come, if that had came out last in these circumstances people would be crying BS.