Given the magic worked on Shadow I would think the reworking or even adding parts and digital editing might work and large parts of CD were cohesive, only really Scraped and Sorry popped out and that’s kind of cool. Like if Slash and Duff dropped a couple new things into CD II nobodies going to care. An album is just a playlist of tracks. You just hit different areas with different tracks.

Someone once said that the songs got used on their solo albums or VR. Ghost is an Izzy song isn’t it? Bomb has the same riff as a VR song.
I always thought Slash and Duff played on Like A Dog.

But as I remember Scott Weiland rejected some Bad Company sounding songs when he joined VR, Izzy was playing with them before that. Then there’s the 96 material that was sounding great but never used. Did Hardschool come from that?

Questions are only inverted answers.

How the writing is done is interesting. Axl said at CE that he didn’t want to do it like UYI and CD with the band laying down tracks for him to sing over, he wanted to work from vocal melodies like AFD was made. After some crying and sorrowful thoughts I decided this meant all the material they had would be used as suggestions and maybe the vocal melodies would be used as starting points. So Slash reworks songs with vocals.

Whether CD II was ever finished and up to the standard of CD is another question. If so, then you’d expect them to be left aside and newer stuff written, or newer older stuff used.

The story we’ve been told is that Axl has a plan and works on things for years. I tend to believe that, he has something to say with a song like Catcher, in the CD era it was more like coming together of the music and lyrics. Seems like with some vocals/lyrics around Slash and band can be more organic and cohesive. It’s almost like the way Slash would take an Izzy idea like Brownstone or Nightrain and work it up with the band. That didn’t happen with CD. I think it was more like using parts from different eras. So even if you have a CD era song it could still be reworked by the current band, the vocal might be the same and the riff remains the same but it’s played in that classic GNR way, like how songs were GNRized on Spaghetti Incident. Once you have Slash and Duff the songs go through a different filter.

I do think there will be an album if nothing else because if they don’t it will embarrass Slash and Duff.

20 years of everyone shitting on Axl then they can’t even write a song? But maybe the touring is so great no one cares. Nobody said much about Locked N Loaded.

I can’t see them doing a press conference about their new big deal album like the Stones or U2. Are they going to play a song on Kimmel?

I think the album coming out just before Rock In Rio 2021 is how they do it. But even that seems too showy. They might downplay it and release a kind of understated album.

They seem to have higher standards as GNR. More pressure I guess. That’s good and bad. But if you think about it you can go to LA Guns or Faster Pussycat for multiple releases and wait for GNR to deliver the primo stuff.