I am getting heartily sick of knowing that there's new material out there, but that people are holding onto it in the hope of trading it with other wankers who are hoarding material. Here's a tip: everyone just UPLOAD EVERYTHING YOU HAVE and then we'll see the end of this fucking charade.

Thanks for trying, man. Woulda been amazing to get some new songs, but I'm sure they'll come to light eventually.

Count me in as another one who likes Ron's contribution to IRS - I love that noodling he does in the right channel over the verses. There are only a couple of things from the earlier leaks that they dropped and I would've kept - the palm-muted rhythm part under the "Didn't want to know it all" lyrics in TWAT, and Robin's choppy rhythm part under the second verse of IRS in the 1999 leak (which is sort of there in the final version, but has tons of effects piled on top of it).

Yeah, that was the greatest missed opportunity in GN'R history. MTV was all geared up to promote the new band, their crazy appearance was actually pretty novel and iconic (and not that alienating to the audience in an era where Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland was sporting makeup and contacts). If Axl had bothered to do shed the pounds and engage the services of a vocal coach as he did in 2006, he would've blown them away - and we would've got Chinese Democracy then.