They don't really need 40 albums, though, do they? They need 2-3 hours' worth of music that plays well with a wide audience, plus a few deep cuts and the odd new song to gen up a bit of media coverage. As luck would have it, GN'R were such a good band that they managed to cram a dozen or more mainstream hits into one album, an EP and a double album, with a sprinkling of deep cuts spread across them and Chinese Democracy.

I just checked the most recent Stones gig; the lion's share of the tracks played came from four albums, with a pair of singles and five more tracks culled from five more albums (one of which was the most recent single). Almost half the tracks played came from Exile and Let It Bleed. That's not really that different from GN'R, when you get down to brass tacks.

Good point. I'm kinda surprised that there are no gigs in Ireland or Portugal on this tour.

Musicians are absolutely scrubbing their social media of anything relating to Russian billionaires' private gigs. Indeed, playing such gigs for dodgy billionaires from, ahem, less-well-regarded countries was always the music industry's dirty little secret. You'd be hard pushed to find anything from Beyoncé or Madonna or whoever's social media presence that admits to them doing such performances:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi … s-1324577/

That goes double for the current geopolitical climate, in which the Russians they were playing for may very well be war criminals. So I can absolutely understand GN'R trying to purge this from the record.

Anyone save it before it went down?

The problem is they've shot their bolt as far as publicity is concerned by drip-feeding tracks with no sign of an album on the horizon. They should've just worked up all the available tracks, recorded a few more written with Slash and Duff, who are riff machines, and blasted an album out, with Hard Skool as the first single, followed by Atlas and Perhaps. Their strategy is baffling to me.