"There's been some concern. That if we play five or six new songs, then there can't that many more on the album. Au contraire, mon frére. We're just playing the songs we're not considering putting out as singles or anything. So, you'll get 18 songs, and about 10 extra tracks." (Axl, Docklands, 08/26/02)

What if I told you we were getting the "extra tracks" right now?

I'm on Buckethead's email list and I get a "the madman has released another album" email every 2-3 days.

Makes me feel like a lazy sack of garbage every time.

It's a song about Robin Finck.

"The General" is a litmus test for me.

It's the sequel to one of the best Gn'R songs of all time in "Estranged" and likely one of the last songs finished up. It would have Axl giving an Angel Down era vocal take and maybe one of the last songs Buckethead recorded with the band. So on multiple fronts, it should really deliver.

It should be divorced from early CD session songwriting ideas and has the potential to be more comfortably sprawling. In summary, this has the potentially to be a damn good song. That is what I'm expecting. And if anything, the guy who heard this at the 2012(?) after party is responsible for more of my hype than Sebastian Bach.

I was hyped for "Zodiac" and if it's half as good as that, I'm gonna be through the moon.

I'm excited but I'm considerably more nervous.

They need a meme album title, a red-blooded lead rock single, and a single that strippers can dance to.

If they do something pretentious like 72 Seasons or some lame try hard bullshit like a self-titled album, I'm officially burying them.