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Re: Atlas Shrugged
yup. as much I love BBF's versions of most solos and all that additional stuff that most people seem to sharply dislike, I'd love to hear the older renditions as well.
and now, please excuse me you bastards, I've just started listening to HOB 2001 after many many years again and YOU are to blame for this! 
Re: Atlas Shrugged
I stumbled upon this and thought it was humorous...
Classic Rock wrote:"In addition to these leaked tracks, Classic Rock has heard versions of Rhiad And The Bedouins, Prostitute, Atlas Shrugged (another track featuring the signature guitar of Brian May) and Silkworms." (Classic Rock, 07/07)
Mick Wall wrote:You’ve got to remember as well that there have been versions of this CD kicking around since 2001 or 2002. There’s one record company executive, who I dare not name, who was playing privately for journalists in London in the summer of 2007, his version of the album, which dated back to when he worked on the project — 2001 or 2002, when it was first on the schedules to be released. And these were finished tracks.
I guess that solves that one.
Give me that sweet, sweet 2002 CD.
That would be the Bucket & Brain / Roy Thomas Baker / Tom Zutaut album, the dog poo/chicken coop edition. They were finished tracks. I'd assume Axl's vox was (mostly) from the Beavan's sessions, aside maybe the 'new' songs, like Scraped and Shackler.
In late 2001, Axl became sole producer. He was pleased with the Village Studios dude, Caram, who was made the next Bill Howerdel, his personal studio guy. Next thing we know, Marco Beltrami and Paul Buckmaster visit the studio, doing in elaborate background sections. That's what Ax felt the album needed.
For the record, Ax apparently really wanted RTB to come back, and got angered by the cold shoulder. If you look at CD's credits, RTB's contribution is marginalized to 'additional preproduction', which itself is attributed to his company; ouch! He was in for around 1,5 years, to be sure.
Both RTB and Beavan got an album's worth of music out of Axl within 1,5-2 years. That's a reasonable timeframe and had Mr Anxiety played ball, he would've delivered the works required to move on. Axl took somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 years to complete his version of the album, as the work depended on his nebulous timekeeping and inability to choose.
Again, had this been part 3 of an already ecletic trilogy, with two prior parts out, he would've gotten away with it.
