They really need to do more from the UYI's when they tour again. And it would be good if they rotated songs in and out of the set from night to night. Like they could do one cover and switch between Live and Let Die, Knockin' On Heaven's Door, Sympathy for the Devil, Down On The Farm, or Since I Don't Have You. Civil War, Don't Cry, November Rain, and Estranged should be played at every show, and then another one or two of the other UYI tracks should be played every night. 

And limit the AFD songs to Jungle, It' So Easy, Paradise City and Sweet Child Of Mine and then maybe rotate one or two of the other songs in every night.

Plus four or five from CD - there weren't any clear hits so they can change them around ever night. And two or three new tracks, too!

Yeah, I have no interest in the current band reworking the Buckethead era (or older) stuff. They should just go though and find the best mixes and dump it all in a box set and/or iTunes edition. Maybe find one or two of the remaining "big guns" and polish them up enough for a couple of singles to promote the set, but just put it the rest of it all out there as-is. And then get to work with the current band on some new ass-kicking songs.

It's amazing that in this day and age of digital everything, that the major labels still look on anything less than multi-platinum CD sales as a failure. Imagine if they did something original and released a monthly EP of five or six songs from the Chi-Dem vault on iTunes with one or two strong tracks and two or three alternate takes, remixes, instrumentals, etc., and then after six months or a year of that put out a physical CD of the best tracks (plus a few new ones). And also a deluxe Reznor-esque limited edition box set. I mean, if they announced "New GNR track on iTunes today" I would buy it without thinking. But instead we get more rumors and aborted plans, and no new music.

Although I admit I'm fascinated by the backstabbing and soap opera drama of the GNR camp, this is what I really care about - the music that we haven't heard.

If MSL wants to shut up the naysayers who still don't believe him, all he has to do is post a new clip of Checkmate/Jackie Chan that goes about five seconds longer than the old one.

Another possibility, too, is that if there is a mole in Axl's organization who wants this stuff released and MSL doesn't do it, then he may simply send it someone else to leak. Or MSL's backup in China may get leaked. There's copies out there in the wild that are close to surfacing so the best they can do is to get CDII out before the leaks inevitably happen.