it is true that i have secured the 1999 re-recorded version of appetite for destruction. a couple of clips that were being used to set up trades have leaked.

upon hearing these clips, some suspected they were taken and altered from the live era album. it is actually the other way around. as had long been suspected, some of the live era album was in fact taken from the re-recorded AFD.

i will be more than happy to provide samples of songs where the vocals are not the same if/when i am approached with a legitimate trade offer.

my email address is mister@mistersaintlaurent.com and i expect to be working on this for much of the rest of the year.

for those who will surely complain that AFD '99 is not being immediately leaked . . . please understand several people were involved in securing this recording and thousands of dollars were spent. i do not have everyone's blessing to leak these songs at this time and i may never. the people i'm working with are only interested in other rare GNR material such as scrapped songs from the chinese democracy sessions, the house of blues DVD, etc.

feel free to post this message on your GNR message board of choice. it's too hard for me to remember which ones i'm not banned on at the moment.