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I mean a great thing for them to do at this point would be to spend a week in a studio together and cut an album of 10 covers, like the Rolling Stones did a while back.

This could be an 'album' that could be done quickly and would have the full band recording organically as people want.

Through this they could do a lot of jamming around those songs and hope that they manage to jam up an original blues based song that they can release as a single.

I mean Metallica get away with covers all the time.

Also, if they chose great songs that younger rock fans don't necessarily know then young fans and casual rock fans will likely think they are new songs anyway.

I have a theory, from what slash said about releasing a couple of songs and then he says the idea is to be freed up to work on a new album after that.

I think it must have been part of the contract when they got together that the new band had to work on and release a set number of axls unreleased Chinese demos.

I think slash hopes they will all work on a new album of new material together in the future, but...

I mean they will probably squeeze another tour in before they even think about another album.

If ticket sales start to go down then we might see a bit of action on a new album, but they would have to go down dramatically for any real progress to be made on that album.

They all know they are more interested in dollars than artistic integrity with this gnr project. Not much money to be made in an album anyway.

In my opinion this is the best he played 'this I love' live. He gave it some space and seemed to be feeling it, unlike what he usually does, which is to 'think' it and try and fit as many new little tricks he has leaned into it (probably to try and show that he is just as good as any technical shredder) but slash was always best when he played from the heart and I think these days he far too often just mails his solos in, rips of his latest little tricks and twiddly bits and then gives an interview saying 'yeah, we recorded the album in under a week, really quick! My solos are sloppy but totally from the heart and full of energy! Bullshit. He is just painting by numbers, anyway...

I'll make another thread about my thoughts there. What this thread is about is what do you think are his greatest moments live? I would like to make a collection of his best improvisations, because I know he still does produce the magic at times! 

CheerS!

1 hour ago, Tom-Ass said:

That is funny.. I was actually thinking last night that the only way this approach would make any sense was 

This is what I think is happening...

Slash said in an interview a while back that he was not sure of if physical albums were the way the industry is going or if they might just release individual songs...interesting after he did such a job of producing the first conspirators album recorded to tape and played live and then released in physical format. He really seemed to want to put out an old style record.im sure that's what he loves...but he mentioned the releasing singles, probably because he sees that that is the most likely thing for for to do.

Now...as for gnr's plan...

I reckon the reunion was basically for the touring. We know how much money they make on these tours and it's astronomical. After all this time gnr's legacy is forever tarnished (slash said years ago he wished Axl did a solo album so that if they reunited then the legacy wouldn't be tarnished), so slash rejoins and they go onstage and it can all crash with mickey mouse voice or whatever...they collect their cheques because people are willing to pay, that's business...

Releasing music is obviously a very secondary thought for them all. Axl would want his songs to be released because he worked so hard on them and obviously because his vocals are better than he can do now. I'll bet that in the reunion contract there was a clause about the necessity to work on and release his recordings. (I say this because I was surprised that they are putting them out now since they could release new stuff, but since they are...)...

I also think they will release a bunch of reworked unreleased Axl songs and see how people react to them. They will keep adjusting what they put out in reaction to the reaction of fans and the general public.

They will eventually release a song that is totally new (probably from the stuff that velvet revolver had and they tried with Corey Taylor - slash said it was zeppelin like and much more what people would expect from them than the other VR stuff) I would say that when they release THIS song, then public reaction will be much bigger....the band will see that and follow it up with an album in the same vane...of course it will have a few Axl democracy demos reworked in there because they can't just slap him in the face with all of their stuff... They might release other reworked Axl songs online to try and drum up publicity for the album. 

Hard stool or absurd will not be on new albums. These releases are just buying time until new music comes out. They are a way to satisfy Axl too.