Do you think the recent Axl public appearances mean anything about a CD release?

[Ax]

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?

[Saul]

Yes , it means chinse democracy starts now. Duh. 

[badapple81]

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.

[Markus Asraelius]

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

[WARose]

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

CHINESE DEMOCARCY STARTS NOW!!!

[Eazy E]

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

[WARose]

For him to play anything in public means he must be 100% pleased with it and to play the whole CD is awesome, lets just hope those rumours are true...

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....

[Sam]

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?

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

[jmapelian]

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

[ppbebe]

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....

Again it was just a rumour.

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

[GnFnR87]

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...

[jameslofton29]

 So Axl walks around with a copy of CD in his hand? 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.

[Origen]

So Axl walks around with a copy of CD in his hand?

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

[Jonx]

So Axl walks around with a copy of CD in his hand? 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.

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

[jameslofton29]

So Axl walks around with a copy of CD in his hand? 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.

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?

[The Dog]

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.

[Kaybee]

I really, really hope so 

[Chief]

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.

[AxlsMainMan]

Hey guys, didn't U2 do something very similar to this about a month before 'How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb' was released?

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.

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

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..

[nonlinear]

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