That is interesting.

I guess my reason for doubting it is the way Slash took the 5'oclock riffs and made an album out of them straight away when there was dispute in GNR, and then he used VR demo riffs again when he first launched his post VR solo career.  He also used riffs he had jammed with izzy in VR despite izzy leaving. So it seems odd that he would ignore stuff he had written for GNR for nearly 40 years....especially in the context of how he has more than 8 non GNR records under his belt....that's a lot of riffs.

On the other hand...I would believe if there were AFD demos around that Axl might have left them alone for a rainy day....as his late 1990s interests seemed to be more along the lines of stuff like OMG and Silkworms rather than revisiting the early sound...and I think he alluded somewhere that they had some heavy afd type stuff around but he couldn't get slash to like it....(could be a misquote...i'm absentminded these days)

Also...you'd think Tom Mayhue would know his stuff......then again who knows....like even out of the CD songs who knows which ones were old at the time...certainly TIL seems pretty old.....anyways....i'd like to hear anything else they have really.

Snakepit 2 was an acquired taste to me, because Snakepit 1 was one of my favourite albums ever. So initially I was sort of disappointed because it's so different. However it grows on you. There's a real funky kinda jazzy vibe with it in places, and some very good bluesy slash playing. But its less GNR sounding than Snakepit1 which instrumentally is a defaco afd style album to me so when it first came out it kinda threw me a little.

Same thing almost happened with neill blomkamp's proposed alien movie. Someone leaked some of the pre-development visualisation and the world went nuts, fox started ramping up to make it...then Ridley Scott kinda pushed against it cos he was working on other stuff.

At this stage I think leaks would make us go nuts. Can't see it getting mainstream attention though there's just so much noise. Unless it was absolutely mind blowing music. But even then...would be a cult thing.

Excited for this compared to another SMKC album.

I loved the SMKC project in the beginning, but the second two albums were not as good as the first two, and I feel it could use a break to freshen up before it's next outing.

I've always thought slash could retire from rock into the blues scene if he wanted to. There's stuff around from the UYI tour and the Slash's Blues Ball era where he does some amazingly soulful playing. It's hidden by his rock facade, but I suspect slash is secretly one of the greatest blues players of recent years.