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On the one hand, they are just sightings of Axl at a few clubs/parties. But part of me thinks that there has to be some reason behind the fact that Axl has been seen in public more times in the last month than basically the past 10 years.

Do you think that these sightings have anything to do with the possibility of CD being finished and a release date coming up, or is it just Axl having a good time and deciding to go to some places where the press will see him for once?

Yes , it means chinse democracy starts now. Duh.  :peace:

Well if he played the album then it must be ready... those few unfinished songs mustn't have been for the final 13 for CD.

Yes, it's comin' out bitches, yes!

at least it`s meaning that he feels comfortable being in public again.....    but hell yeah...

CHINESE DEMOCARCY STARTS NOW!!! :hihi:

Probably just took a few days off to party around his Birthday

yeah, but he played some songs at a strip club in 2003. so this doesn?t mean anything in matter of his conviction of his material....

I bet its finished. I hope he's jsut grabbing some publicity to work up towards the release date.

I'd say one of two things: he's just enjoying partying it up a little in NYC for his b-day or he's in town to do business w/ Merck, and party it up a little......either way, at least the positive feedback he's getting from NYC may give him some confidence that people still want to hear his music, blah, blah, blah

Again it was just a rumour.

This time it is confirmed by Mysteron and he is with his bandmates. ;D

i dont think its a coincedance that the world's famous recluse is all of a sudden all over the place, especially after what he said at the korn tour party and  amid all these damn album rumors such as the slash article etc...

 So Axl walks around with a copy of CD in his hand? :nervous: Strange how someone who's had it locked in a vault is now doing that. Too bad more info about that night hasn't come out. Does anyone really think he played the whole album? Its far more likely that a few demos were played. Maybe Axl just walks around with the Trunk/Piazza CD. :hihi:

Read it again and it says he sent his driver back to his house for a copy of the album  :hihi:

It was most probably the entire thing, for a number of reasons! Before the UYI albums were released Axl drove around with them, to see how they sounded on car stereo systems..... i dont think he was very pleased with the outcome if i recall correctly! Also if you read the report about the nightclub it says that Axl had to dispatch one of his bodygaurds to go and get the CD, no doubt it was locked away somewhere.

Jonx

Yeah Jonx, I remember how he previewed the Illusions albums for different people. Played them in his stereo, and gave demos to select groups of people. Remember how Dont Cry demo leaked on the radio in L.A., and Axl was gonna sue to make them stop playing it? I just find it hard to believe he would play the entire album like that, unless it is truly finished and a release announcement is imminent. Hey guys, didn't U2 do something very similar to this about a month before 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' was released?

Good question, but tough to say.  I honestly don't know.  Like I've said in a few other threads today, I can't help but feel there is this energy going around that just feels like something is about to explode, and in a BIG way.  But that could be the mexican I had for lunch ;)

I think CD is done (or JUST about finished).  If it wasn't his birthday I would say something is DEF up...but maybe his buds and Merk just invited him out to NYC for a good time, stippers and VS models (what guy would pass that up).

Playing CD at the club doesn't really tell us much either...were they ruff cuts? were the songs 100% complete or were they of an IRS quality.  Would Axl play them either way?

My personal opinion, I'd be SHOCKED, like REALLY BLOWN AWAY, if CD isn't released before the end of this summer.

I really, really hope so  :peace:

its a good sign to me that's for sure. i don't think that he had a copy of the whole cd with him personally , just some songs.. but that's just my speculation.

Nope, U2 were having band photos taken about a month before the album was due to be released and Edge just so happened to have a finished copy of the new album on him at the time...

Needless to say, the album was stolen, and within a matter of hours, the full U2 album was available on the internet just shy of a month from release.


I really wouldn't be..

I believe that's the deadline Axl is shooting for in regards to finishing the actual recording of the album: April/May/June.

If we dont hear any inside rumors, or tidbits about the album going to mixing/production before the middle of May, I think the waiting game will continue into the early fall..

Axl said they have 26 tracks NEARLY complete, with "nearly" being the key word, plus 6 others that still need a fair bit of work.

As much as we'd like to give Axl the benefit of the doubt, and think his recording habits have maybe accelerated a tad since the RS article came out, I just dont see that being so..If anything, with completion around the corner, I wouldnt be shocked if he was working on the album even less frequently...

Alot of emphasis towards Gn'R's relevance this year will be primarily dependent on the Summer months...

Axl knows he has to capitolize on the Summer...it's just a matter of if he will kick shit into overdrive or still drive this band with his foot on the break.. :-\

these appearences must have something to do with an upcoming record release.  he even stated it himself at the korn party

I would be blown away shocked if we did see it by the end of the summer.

Is it true that Axl played CD in that club in NY? So its finished? Those lucky dudes that worked there heard it. I think Axl is building a profile b4 the release.


 :peace:

Dirty old man hanging around stripjoints?  :hihi:

hahah yeah me too.
I will be blown away shocked when I see it, even if it will be in 10 years, lol.

It is funny. When a band previews an album for the studio (ie: A&R guys) they usually do it in the studio from the original tapes, or now adays, off their computer software.

If CD is on an actual disk, with an actual tracklist, that tells me it came from a mixing studio.

This could be huge news...

If it is true, is this the closest its ever been to being release?


 :peace:

I read something that it was ready in 98, but for some reason it never happened. I'm pretty sure I heard in an Axl interview that he said the label told him that he should go back and work on it some more.

I never believed in the strip club thing in 03.

I didn't want to say anything because I know people are going to flame it... When HTGTH was down I did a search of GNR sites and under GNRONLINE.COM the text (not on the site itself) said news expected May 2006. I just looked again and its not there. It could be nothing though.

I don't think it really means anything.
he probably had some tracks on a burned cd. might not even have been the finished cuts.
don't forget, he played some songs at a strip bar in Vegas a few years back!

it usually does that on google when you search for GNR. it usually says "News expected (insert 3 months ahead)May 2006" on the official site listing. next month it will most likely say June 2006.

Damn... :rant:

I don't know, man. I got a really funny feeling that CD is finished. There was a report on the radio about it and I tried to get on this site to see if anyone else heard about it, which made me search for a GNR site...

I think Axl having the tracks on a CD is really big news.

Any comments Mysteron?

Would be appreciated,

Thanks man

I think it is odd Slash keeps repeating the March date.  Slash has a good thing going now with VR and it would be ridiculous for him to put his rep on the line by making such public proclamations without solid evidence to back it up.  Plus, Slash knows better than any of us, how Axl operates.  I don't think it is impossible for a March release.  We really have no earthly idea how far along the project is.   After all, its been worked on for years, it can't be that far from hitting shelves.  Just my two cents...

I wasn't referring to that. I meant when they played the album to a select group of people in NY. I remember hearing something about that before the album was released.

If axl want to sell heaps of records, an album without alot of hype or pre release stuff is good, If it suddenly gets sprung on us, most ppl would but it rather than wait to DL it.