I think the Closing In On You clip was legit. Axl really sounded Axl with heavy distortion.

Rust you're right, that's what Axl said. I wanna repeat what someone else wrote: when Axl said in 2006 that his favourite songs are The Blues, Better and TWAT, then you shouldn't expect these to be "fillers". They were working on 32 songs (26 were nearly done ) then. These are the best of the bunch, and I agree with Axl (based on what we've heard so far): add Chinese Democracy and get rid of the cheese in Blues, and we'll have the 4 best songs.

CD will not be a bad album, I hope it'll be good (although I repeat it: less cheese, please!), but for sure the material they've been working on is far from earth-shattering. Well, I'm happier with mind-blowing albums then forgettable good enough albums, but when you're working on something for more than a decade, it's better be mind-blowing. You (with Axl's talent) can easily release a good enough album in every 3 years. But with all the money spent on this record, even a deaf and dumb guy could make a good enough album in 10+ years.

Yeah, DJ Axl in GTA, Axl singing a Rod Stewart cover, praising C. Aguilera or Nu-GN'R in Rockband 2 is cool as fuck, but Slash doing GH or Slash playing with Fergie is uncool.

That was a good rant, and I agree with the most of you wrote. I think out of the new songs, TWAT is the only real stand-out track. It's on the same level with the huge GN'R songs (for me). The others... well, I'm really disappointed. Some could have been a good song or a filler on a GN'R album (I mean the quality, not the style, since they're mostly different), but If The World and the others are like Just Another Sunday II, with more work on it. It doesn't make them listenable though. Throwaway songs that were kept and been worked, but should have never been heard.

Yes, HNB shows can be scrapped easily, but it clearly shows that Axl doesn't have touring plans until November.