Tom2112

I think it's that he said several years later he had an album of material as well as the highly anticipated Chinese democracy remix album

On average according to bands both big and small it's 6 months to get physical copies, so unless you don't release physical copies you have to wait the length to get your album ready. So if GNR handed their new album over today, it would be a christmas release... and then there's also things to take into account like how many other major artists are releasing that month... which could mean the album sits ready for another few months waiting for an unimpeded release. Blink 182 work at warp speed in comparison to GNR. Blink got back together, and began the process. They don't need 10 years to come up with ideas, they either have their individual vaults of ideas or they make fresh stuff there and then, the process is almost certainly no longer than a year. I just don't think they are comparable. Slash and Blink is a comparison, as they both work quickly. GNR would still be in group texts trying to figure things out by the time Blink had an album + tour done as well as the follow up (will be interesting to see if this comes true😄)

Were we expecting an album this year??🤣 I certainly was not. As far as not enough material... well, maybe that's a positive? Maybe they looked at the material and said "these 5 are Guns songs, these other songs don't feel right for gnr". I can only hope this realisation was after Absurd/HardSkool and that they realised both of those songs suck donkey dick.

Well... to be fair over the past 20 years Axl has played a lot of concerts and those concerts all featured chinese democracy music, and in some cases there could be 4,5,6+ songs from the album. IF Axl was out there with the aim of just making money he'd drop the Chinese songs, and he'd get up and perform for an hour and change and piss off home. I obviously understand that he isn't as prolific as Billy Corgan, but I think he's just as credible an artist... even if he has spent 7 years milking a GNR reunion and has a tiny discography.

I don't know how gladly Slash would be with GNR releasing an album he doesn't at least play on. If you mean the remainder of the tracks with Duff/Slash's re-recordings, then yes of course they'll happily go along with that. If Axl releases either of those versions that will be the last GNR record AND Slash/Duff will have written absolutely zero songs on it. The cost involved in a boxset is too much, and the interest level in chinese democracy era music isn't enough for any label to finance it. I also find it hard to believe Axl would be happy dumping these songs on some extras vinyl/cd for a boxset anniversary of Chinese Democracy. As for doing no harm putting it out... maybe, but what if HardSkool and Absurd are the better tracks from the collection he has? are we so desperate for music that we want to get 14 other dud songs like those? personally, I'm past the "just release anything, I'll buy it" stage. Whatever they put out needs to be legitimately good, none of this willing yourself to like it BS, those songs really killed my enthusiasm for new GNR😄

Best show I witnessed was 2006 Dublin, closely followed by 2012.... but most memorable was 2010😄 Had fireworks not gone off that night then 2010 would be my number 1 show