Does this confirm the leaks were the final version? I've listened to the start of that and the leak and they're absolutely identical to my ears?

Anyone with headphones costing more than £38 want to disagree with that?

Ask it if the mix will be any better on the vinyl and let us know what it says...

I think the material is just all out of context and in the wrong time. Had Axl not been so neurotic and just been bolder and released an album relatively quickly, I think it would have been a great success and contemporary with the time. Having them leak over the following 20 years in various stages of development was always going to ruin the presentation.

Songs like The General and Monsters are dividing opinion greatly. For me The General is the best song we've heard of the CD material. It's mature and brave, but 20 years too late and not really a GNR song. Release that 20 years ago with the Finck/Bucket lineup as 'Axl and co' and it'd have cult status now. Monsters for me is a throwaway, a song so shallow in it's construction it's similar to a mass produced pop song. But people like it because it's catchy.

Old Skool is terrible, the spelling of it is so immature and without knowing it's history, it sounds like a demo from the Appetite era that was nowhere near making the cut. Perhaps should have been on Chinese Democracy, it's contemporary with songs like Sorry and better than a couple of the songs on that album.

Rather than stringing any further releases from the CD archives over the next five years as is probably the plan, they need to just dump it in a vault online and move on from it. Either retire or do a new album that they release quickly without the need for a decade of needless delays that leaves the music outdated.

You leaky MFs

Just a classic example of the messed up nature of GNR at the moment. Just release the damn thing on your own terms. Instead, mess up the initial release, as they have with all the other releases recently. Then mess up the second release so that leaks before you officially release it as well. It shows perfectly how inept and incompetent the bands management or record company is. Whoever is responsible for this, no doubt Axl or TB, is a joke. Why delay the digital release another week to the 8th? What good does that do? Just release it now.

My idea is still the best. Put ALL of the footage, pictures, emails, clips and songs into one huge archive called 'Chinese Leftovers' and host the link online. And then move on, either to retirement or a new album. And don't tour again without releasing a new album, it's beyond ridiculous at this point.

He's clearly a troubled person given his past and his mental health. If he's done things like this though he needs to be brought to justice. How do you tell if it's true or just another washed up degenerate looking for a pay day out of desperation?