Considering Axl's apparent interest in remixes (given what we know of Brain's work), it'd be very cool if he released the multitracks in an official capacity, especially with some of the online DJ services. That would legally expose the multitracks to a whole new audience of remixers, and could result in new fans.

imsorry, when you have time please let us know your process for remixing songs (or do you have a thread about it somewhere?). Do you get rid of sounds using Audacity's "invert" process, or something else? It sounds like you have remixing down to a science!

Years ago someone told me that if you rewire stereo speakers you can get the "invert" sound. I did it and wow, what a revelation. Audacity is a lot easier!

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ZeroMortals7 wrote:

dalethirsty wrote:

a raw use your illusion as one album without all the filler would have been amazing.

i'd love to hear that version someday.

but then there's also this interesting quote from axl:

It's obvious Axl never wanted to bury AFD. $1000 for AFD Box and $179 for AFD Deluxe. AFD dominates NITL setlist. Doesn't look like AFD is buried to me.

Yeah, 27 years after the quote was made. I'm certain that Axl in 1991 didn't feel like having AFD as the band's main lasting legacy. Singing the same songs every show for over 30 years. But then, I doubt he saw everything going to shit as much as it did.

“I was really happy with a lot of the material and I think we went in to do basic tracks and with a new drummer we did 36 songs in 36 days, so we weren’t fucking around,” says Slash. “After the basic tracks were done, I’d spend three weeks doing guitars, which for 30 songs was actually pretty fast. I was sometimes doing two songs in one day. But everything hit a brick wall when it came to doing the synthesizer stuff, and I never agreed with doing the synthesizer stuff anyway. Although I think some of it is brilliant, it was part of the new way, which was the beginning of the end. That was the beginning of the whole process taking forever. It was like a lot of days were not working, some days it was working, and most of the record was finished. It didn’t really need all the rest of it. That was the biggest disagreement for me.”

Izzy Stradlin was also exiling himself, distanced by the scale of the recording. “I did the basic tracks, then he [Slash] did his tracks, like a month or two by himself,” he said. “Then came Axl’s vocal parts. I went back to Indiana…”

“Well Axl’s a… perfectionist,” says Duff slowly. “That’s what makes him great. The end product’s great, but it gets maddening to work with that person. There’s no hashing out with them. November Rain in particular, the song was torturing him. He was happy he was finally finished with it. It wasn’t really characteristic of the band.”

a raw use your illusion as one album without all the filler would have been amazing.

i'd love to hear that version someday.

but then there's also this interesting quote from axl:

“We knew we had to bury Appetite in some way,” Rose told Hit Parader, soon after their release. “There was no way to out-do that album, and if we didn’t outdo Appetite in one way or another it was going to take away from our success and the amount of power we had gained to do what we wanted. I’ve never really looked at it as two separate albums. I’ve always looked at it as an entire package. For me it fits together perfectly for the 30 songs in a row. Everything that we decided to record for the album made it.”

The thing about new music is the longer he waits, the less likely he is to profit from it financially or artistically.

The catch 22 is each subsequent release requires negotiation and has an effect on brand value.

I doubt it's as simple as "release the vault".

And honestly, if nothing comes from CD10, then I don't see it coming for a long time.

In other words, don't wait on it.