some of my thoughts

Even the leakers have lost their originality!

In the old days you'd get maybe 5 secs of a track and you'd be thinking 'is that GNR'? Then you'd get an Axl scream, like the scream in IRS. They'd tease you until your dick was hard for it before unleashing the track! Seriously, I lost days at work over the excitement and possibility music might come out.

Even better there would be a story behind the leak that built up the tension even more - rumours of a baseball star being given a tape by Axl, or the infamous playback at that strip club in LA. And Merck bought some comedy to it as well with his antics.

So to the leakers - if you have stuff, make an event of it! chop it up and bury it in soundcloud and let people 'discover' it. Or why not hand it to the Edward snowden or Julien assange - not even the US gov can get their hands on them! If you are going to have some fun with the GNR camp at least string it out a bit too, i know this maybe horrible but it's quite funny seeing them get their knickers in a twist.

I agree with some of the others about going Down - its like the first half is tommy and then the rest of the band rocked up and put their spin on it. Not sure I like tommys voice sometimes, it sounds very melancholic, I prefer it when he picks it up a bit. Overall 7 out of 10 maybe. Good but can do better.

'GNR are camped out in a secret location working flat out on 'guns n roses' a self titled album which  is to released mid next year and is a straight ahead kick ass rock album, a modern sounding AFD. From what I've heard so far It sounds fucking awesome. Axl will join them later in the year after he's finished laying down the vocals for last track for the follow up to Chinese democracy which will be a double album. Really dark and progressive with some grand orchestrations and some stunning performances. He is literally moving mountains in an effort to release this before the year end and give fans what he feels they are owed. Hold onto your hats folks - GNR mean business!'

Never heard that either. Any more detail?