Some have questioned the fan’s story, but Axl has a long history of playing fans new tunes going back to the early ‘90s. And Guns have already released one "new" song in recent weeks, dropping Absurd (Silkworms) at the start of August. Like that song, this latest reported track is one from the Chinese Democracy recording sessions, originally with a working title of Jackie Chan and also known as Hard Skool.
When we started searching for ‘Hard Skool’ on Spotify, there’s no track, but one of the suggested results is Guns N’ Roses’ official channel, and the band have also been rehearsing the song, although they have yet to play it on their current U.S. tour.
Meanwhile, last week Guns were joined onstage by Dave Grohl for a closing run-through of Paradise City during their set at Bottlerock Napa festival, the organisers of which promptly cut the power before the song was done due to strict curfew. Undeterred, the band played on. Because of course they did…