I'm really interested in hearing this as I'd love to give my thoughts.

People may disagree, but provided we're getting a new album I think they should call it Use Your Illusion 3.  I'm not the first one to say that and it probably makes people cringe, but hear me out.  Axl is 59 years old and it's no secret it takes him forever to release new music.  His voice isn't in the best of shape judging from the tours.  Give us a double if not triple album to make up a Use Your Illusion 3, because unlike The Rolling Stones we're probably not going to be getting that much more stuff.  Have what is likely to be the last GNR album at Axl's age and in his condition be a big release.

I really do want to hear it and see how it compares.  For a while we were like people dying in the desert from lack of water....err....new GNR music.  But now it seems we have something.

Their last Twitter post had me a little hopeful, but that just turned out to be them showing they were about to perform.  Some of the first responses to it said what we've been thinking.  I'm still going to be hopeful that we get something new this year.  It wasn't right towards the beginning of 2008 that they announced Chinese Democracy was coming out, but we got it come Fall.

And I'm being absolutely serious when I say this, I wish they'd release Rock The Rock for download.  I'm tired of having to keep going to Youtube to hear it.  Even if we get no new GNR album this year that's the very least they could do.

I'm looking forward to it.  The first trailer that was released at Star Wars celebration which ended with Palpatine laughing got me really interested.  I didn't hate The Last Jedi like a lot of people seem to, but I was disappointed.  One of the criticisms was Rian Johnson left JJ Abrams with nowhere to go, but I disagree with that.  Even though I think it sucks that they killed both Snoke and Luke, they ended with Kylo Ren being the new leader of The First Order and people being inspired to fight against them.  We also see there are more people out there with force abilities besides Rey and Kylo.  There are a lot of possibilities. 

The Force Awakens was a lot like A New Hope and The Last Jedi was a lot like The Empire Strikes Back, so if the trend continues then Rise Of Skywalker will be a lot like Return Of The Jedi.  I'm fine with there being some similarities, but these can't just keep being retreads.  Personally I think they need to drop the trilogy format after this.  Keeping numbering them as episodes, but don't make it so every third movie needs to cram as much as possible in it to wrap the story up.  They also need to plan these out ahead of time because I do find it hard to believe The Last Jedi was exactly where JJ Abrams wanted to go after The Force Awakens.  How much of Rise Of Skywalker will be JJ Abrams retconning certain things from the last movie so he can get the story back to where he wanted it?  We'll see in a few days.

If GNR does do a final album do you think that's it for Axl completely or would he finally decide to do his solo projects which he said were more instrumental and on the film score side?  I like what you said James, there really could be at least three sets with the pre-breakup material, the CD era recordings, and then a new reunion era  release.  Maybe if after that Axl did his solo stuff he would release more since not having the GNR burden on him.  Who knows, giving him artistic pursuits outside of GNR might recharge him and could be beneficial to new GNR material down the road.