While I hate Live Era...only thing on it I listened to was Dust N Bones....a rerelease was loooooong overdue. Hardcore fans had to pay way too much for it. It should've been rereleased multiple times already on various record store days since the mid-late 2000s.

They just never gave a shit.

It's lasted longer than the original classic run.

Insane.

Now that we know they had the Ritz (among others) in pristine audio/video, that should've been the live album to represent GNR as the 20th century wrapped up.

Instead it rotted in a vault for 30 years.

When we get down to the brass tacks of the 21st century, it's not even 3.5 albums.

The legacy is....

AFD

Patience

KOHD - live Marquee version that hit radio in 89

YCBM
NR

That's it. I guess we could throw in LALD as a live staple.

Lies has pretty much been lost to history. Nobody cares.

Even thoug the UYI  wait, hype, and release was insane and one of the big pop culture moments of the 90s, no one knows or cares anymore. It's been boiled down to 2 songs.

TSI isn't even considered a joke anymore. It's nothing.

CD basically doesn't even exist.

They could cut 90 minutes from their set list and no one would complain.

End of an era.

We're going to see a LOT more icons pass in the next 5-10 years. It's frightening.

The 20th century is wrapping up. What will be left in it's place is going to be horrific because the 20th century icons were never replaced.

Is this confirmation they were actually working on this together at some point?!? If memory serves me correctly, the previous story has Axl and Slash working separately.

As you know, I believe we got much closer to a reunion several points in the Chinese timeline.

The Live Era timeframe may be the first...or was the first domino to fall anyways on the path to it.

It's unfortunate they had to ruin Live Era. I wish the label had made them go back to the drawing board or simply not released it at the time.

As far as Bad Apples being excluded, there was no way to get a perfect track list to please both hardcores and casuals. We're damn lucky Dust N Bones was included...the best track on there IMO.

The problem with this is the fact it's not a real band.

It's a horribly mismanaged nostalgia tour that started to drip feed singles the moment ticket sales nosedive.

That's it.

It's why we got nothing in the first few years of the tour. They had no reason to release anything new because the shows were largely selling out.

As far as this "lunacy" of the band goes, it doesn't interest me anymore. Why? Because there's no substance under its paper thin facade.

I even find the Chinese years less interesting now that I realize what a swindle the whole thing really was.

It was an AFD bait and switch. Always dangling a Chinese carrot to hardcores to get them to support the pushing of AFD. The Chinese saga was pretty much a promotional vehicle for AFD and GH.

Look at the Chinese Democracy tours for further details.

The GNR camp figured this out right before the reunion got underway. It's why TB abandoned the forums. They abandoned their hardcore base because they knew that the coming flood of casuals would make up for this loss.

In their defense, many acts ignore their hardcore base now. They simply aren't required in today's environment.

#Metoo

That lineup deserved an album/tour...and maybe an EP right after.

The whole saga could've been wrapped up in 2-3 years.

Then the window is wide open for a reunion in 2005 with no baggage in the way.

The title track peaked at this show. It's even better than the Village leaks version.