The tour has a month left. This band is not very bright.
I might just get some Chinese tonight. I’m tired of waiting for these clowns to release their balloon animal.
This is what I'm having. Was gonna eat it last night but wound up going to In N Out on my way home....
It's really good. Better than Panda Express. Their sweet and sour is pretty good too...avoid the orange, spicy, and honey chicken.
There has to be a catch that it is an instrumental or completely rubbish like silk worms. I refuse to believe the idea that Rose would drop a brand new unheard song on his much abused fanbase.
It's definitely a weird release that makes little sense. It's why I'm leaning towards it being the final Chinese release. The B side is a bone being tossed to us. It's why I'm not going to complain too much about the likelihood of a vinyl only release. We're lucky we're getting it at all.
This band has been mismanaged for years, so you can't look at what they do and think of it from a sensible perspective of marketing.
This is a great point. It sucks to always have to take their incompetence into consideration. It's why the fan base can never actually enjoy any of their releases. There always has to be a ton of shit surrounding everything.
My theory is that for one reason or another, this is a pure NuGNR song, with no Slash or Duff.
No way. I can see why some would believe this but I don't think anything will ever be released again that doesn't have Slash and Duff on it.
The Big 3 are GNR at this point...not 1 + an irrelevant cast of characters.
Those days are gone forever.
If the idea is that The General is going to be an eventual single for a new album, so they don't want to burn it now, why bother releasing it as a B-side?
Probably because we're not getting an album.
I know one final album is the dream (mine too) but it no longer looks very promising.
Here's why:
There also is very little demand for new GNR music.
The ship has long sailed on the big comeback album. The only time it made a lick of sense...2016-17...they didn't care because it was all about the money. 2016 was when pop culture was actually paying attention...a summer 2016 album with all these songs probably would've actually sold 2-3 million. These Slash and Duff additions to the songs should've already happened by the time of Vegas and Coachella. Instead they waited four years to touch any of those songs.
Now? Nobody cares. What makes it even worse is they don't have management that could convince the world to start caring. They can't even release one song properly...how they gonna get the world to care about an album? Each single release has fuck ups. Imagine these people unveiling an actual album.
It's not in the cards.
The fact that they're unloading the biggest gun of all times as a B side to an already dead single tells us all we really need to know about the near future.
Best case scenario...we get Atlas as they're wrapping everything up and GNR goes on hiatus for 2024 and maybe longer.
Whatever is happening, we're in the home stretch.
