I suspect instrumentals from the old band will be gone.

I can see why they would keep songs that started as pianos tracks like Perhaps, or things Axl had already vocally worked on like Absurd and The General.

I can't imagine them getting out instrumental bucket tracks and getting slash to adapt them so that Axl can write scratch vocals now - why not just have Axl write scratch vocals to a slash riff?

I think anything Axl had significantly developed will eventually come out, but I think ideas that were instrumental only without vocal lines, and from people who are no longer around would get the chop - and probably rightfully so.

Sounded like slash seemed to think these 5 or 6 kinda tracks were what was salvageable and then the band would evolve past it.

To me the general coming out suggests that. If there was a whole industrial album planned it would surely be a part of that - but it seems like disc 2 and 3 is being changed to this kinda EP worth of chinese follow ups. Then a new era starts.

In terms of Ac/Dc back in 16 Axl kinda implied he would be ok with doing new stuff when he joked if someone could do some good writing for him too. I wonder if he would be more open to using co-writers and stuff these days now he is more chilled. I mean he always worked with Izzy and Del and Huge and stuff....so I don't think he's ever been against it...but it seemed in the snakepit days it was challanging for him to be given like 10 finished guitar instrumentals as a wall of stuff to write for....hopefully these days they could face that sort of thing as a team.

It sounds crazy to think that could happen with GNR, but I sort of feel like when it rains it pours, whatever stopped songs like the general finishing for most of our lives is gone, stuff is being released. I could imagine Axl free from the yoke of all this shit he's been imprisoned working on for so long might not know himself - like he might have much more creativity free to just play around and do fun stuff.

I liked nirvana growing up because it was simple and raw.

I could plug my guitar into a boss-DS1 stomp box or some shit, and relate to the mood of something like Teen Spirit or Breed while playing along.

I never liked how Cobain liked to paint himself as the anti-corporate guy while fronting a corporate band flogging their tshirts and videos to the masses.

I disliked how Cobain implied that GNR were studio manufactured when Axl is 10 times the musician both vocally and on keys, and Slash is lightyears ahead of him on guitar. It's absurdist really, like Slash could learn heart-shaped-box in 5 minutes whereas I'd love to see Kurt solo the end of Tokyo DTJ. Yet he's trashing him in the media and saying that they are not real musicians? Why?

I tired to get back into them a couple of years back, but like Wagszilla said the negativity was too much. Maybe i'm old, or maybe it's just dated badly. Maybe it's since Kurt died and we didn't (thankfully). The whole cool cos you want to die at 27 thing is lame as fuck in my 40s. I dunno it just leaves a bad taste in the mouth these days. Hell it's hard to listen to kids tell me what they think about the world with all these bands hahaha.

I have a similar issue with AIC being depressing but they can still bring me into it with the bad ass bass and guitar sound more than nirvana can anymore.

That said, when they are good they are good. Dave's drumming was awesome. Kurt was great on some moments - I always liked his ledbelly cover on MTV unplugged.

I was always into that rumour.

Something about the song makes me think maybe Axl would dig it. I've noticed he seems to do covers that one can speculate the lyrics resonate with his life experiences.

It's def the kind of song 2006 era Axl would kick ass on.

It's the sort of thing that sounds random enough that it could have happened too.

36 Damn that is scary. Covid sucks.

Like how Axl lowered the perhaps vocals in the chorus maybe the general will come out with all deep vocals. hope not the screams sounded epic.

To me thats the issue with slash's plan to start fresh next year too. Like Axl of 2024 would be unwise to rely on his scream range the way previous Axl would.