Can't distinguish anything Fortus is doing in particular - he has no discernible character whatsoever. Slash has trademark licks all over the place but I honestly could not point out one Fortus moment on this. For a player of his skill and experience you'd think he would have found a way to bring back that 2-guitar locked in complimentary thing that Izzy brought but I guess that's as much on Slash and points again to the cut and paste nature of the approach.

Duff is high in the mix - i'm not sure what I make of his parts - there is a touch of what has been discussed here previously, him playing kind of like "hey it's me Duff, the guy that did the 'It's so easy' intro" and some of it seems a bit over the top.

Brain's drums would have swung and grooved a lot more had they not had all the life compressed out of them. For a drummer of his talent, they have again managed to make him sound like a damn drum machine. Rumours they've parted ways with Caram. It's time to move on to a new engineer/producer who can capture them sounding like a cohesive band playing together.
Again, how does Frank feel about riding the bench?

Axl's vocals are the star but the 'hey hey's' are kind of comical and annoying.

No Guns n' Roses 90's cliche has been avoided on this one and it's hard to see that not being deliberate.

As has been said before, why on earth couldn't they as a band have recorded it fresh from the ground up? It sounds great in the soundcheck