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On August 26, 2002, Axl Rose said:

"There's been some concern.  That if we play five or six new songs, then there can't be that many more on the album.  Au contraire, mon frere.  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.  And when that, when the record company feels that has run its course, then you'll get it all over again.  By that time, I should be done with the third album."

That was 7203 days ago.  7203 days before that, December 6, 1982, Axl was moving to Los Angeles.  The band we know as Guns'n'Roses would be together two and a half years later.  Half of his life outside of Indiana has passed since announcing publicly he was ready to provide 28 brand new songs as the first part of the 'trilogy.'  That was 20 years ago!

But of course there hasn't been 28 brand new songs in all that time.  There hasn't been part two of his 'trilogy.'  The latest setlist I can find (October 3, 2021) has 8 songs from Appetite for Destruction, 1 more from Lies [I don't count "You're Crazy" as a Lies song since it was on Appetite.  They could play it on a ukulele in pig latin and it would still be a song from Appetite.] and 9 songs from UYI, five of which were songs they had before Appetite was released and/or were covers.  There are a few more covers, some fairly new, and the three old songs they've just released in the last few years.

Obviously I've dropped most of the attention I had been paying to this band not long ago but it still sometimes gets to me, what the hell is this band for?  At this point I have to wonder if it was intentional all along and if it wasn't, why would anyone pay to hear a bunch of old songs by a guy who can no longer sing and whoever his current employees happen to be?

There's something deliberate about it, I suspect it was to destroy modern music.  G'n'R was the last major rock band, they were immediately deep in Hollywood from the start.  The UYI albums were released at the same time as Nirvana's Nevermind which destroyed rock'n'fuckin'roll.  Both were on Geffen Records so the company was obviously planning this.

I also do think it has something to do with mindless fans although I don't have a clue how that works.  My mind doesn't work that way which defeats the purpose of getting people to hand over large sums of money to listen to "Mr. Brownstone."  But there's something there anyway.