I got this album for 33 cents on clearance at CD tradepost.

Single best purchase of my life.

Who else absolutely loved this? I think it would be awesome if it was expanded from 2008- present

I do agree that on some tracks, it sounds extremely pieced.. but c'mon.. look at what they took to make this!
The personel section has like 100 people on it. They had about 13 different full GN'R members during this record. Some songs feel pieced together because they are. Ie, Freese wrote this drum fill, then the next drum fill was Brain or Frank, Buckethead Solo over here, Robin's guitar over here, a little bit of This guy and that guy and bam.

Look at the songwriters for the title track:
Rose, Josh Freese, Buckethead, Finck, Tobias, Stinson, Reed, Costanzo, Cardieux

That's 9 people. They've been playing that live since 2000 and every couple of months something changed.

The bassline's all seem consistent because it's just Tommy & Chris

"This I Love" isn't pieced together because Axl wrote it & composed it back in the day before he... took a turn in musical direction.

Just look at this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_De … #Personnel
Those are just the People that made the cut. They've been recording this since the 90's-the fact that it's been this long and so many people have wokred on it- and it got released and didn't sound like utter shit is amazing. It either took some insane method of organization, or just somebody snapped at one point and said "ENOUGH. Just finish it already!" And I'm impressed with the 74 minute or so length- most CD's nowadays are like 30 or 40 minutes.

I Wish the industrial-type sound was more featured. You could have seen it comin' from years back (My world on UYI)- but some people don't like it- I love it. Maybe I've listened to to much Ministry, NIN, & others...

Here's another quick thing, don't believe what you read on the internet. Except the previous sentence.
especially on youtube, there's a crapload of stuff going around (people taking buckethead riffs & remixing them over other songs and claiming it's a GNR leak, the funniest one I saw was somebody who got a hold of the multi's to "the general" somehow claims that it isn't a Guns N' Roses song, that it's a demo from his band- but you can see right trough that. The internet may be the information superhighway, but it's also the misinformation street.

I didn't get If the world or IRS (it was in there but i got an error when extracting) would appreciate a link.