Yeah..it's all about the rasp to me...like I will take any image, any weight level, any haircut whatever...but those songs neeeeeeeed that raspy voice...when he delivers on rasp I forgive anything else.

For example I really like watching the boots of Tokyo 2009 because he had a decent level of rasp, even though it's the ashba band, and even though it was filled through a potato reflecting through a car mirror in 120p resolution...but that rasp....

So yeah...a few Axl screams of rasp will go a long way for me!

Indeed...the first few shows are often a bit rough...so there's a reasonable chance that he'll be in good form.

My dream is he has a really strong night like he did at Houston last year with lots of rasp and they proshot it and we'd finally have something really positive to keep.

(I was kinda disappointed that they released that Vegas Bly-ray as to me that was one of Axl's weaker shows even with the non-slash band)

I wonder what the date is on the 15 second TIL "remix" that leaked?

It was Axl singing over a electronic soundtrack (similar to a child's music box sound from memory). But it was NOT the album vocals - it was in his high raspy voice and with extra "ahhhhs" that were not in the studio cut.

Did Axl sing fresh on that AFTER CD was released? Or was it a case of Brain making something from hundreds of outtakes.

But to the extent you can tell from 15 seconds...it sounded like a much better vocal take than the album version. Lot of rasp.

I think this will be the major problem.

I think the labels would be falling over themselves to make a new GNR record with both Axl and Slash..even a bad selling GNR record will sell more than many of the bands they still back. Sure it won't be like the UYI era top of popular culture era...but if they can sell records from The Darkness and Buckcherry and similar acts then a reunion album is no brainer.

But..they are not going to want to spend a fortune on it given modern sales, and, they would most likely prefer a cut of other revenues or some type of 360 deal.

Meanwhile...Axl and co already have no love for the labels....and are also unlikely to want to work within a budget....and are more likely to want retro style marketing or tour promotion funds and that type of thing....

It's hard too because record companies often ARE assholes, meanwhile we know Axl will shoot himself in the foot rather than back down or do something he doesn't wanna do. Just look at the lame release CD got in the end.

This bit doesn't worry me as much.

They seem of with doing the CD songs live, and in fact, they seem to have put a lot of effort into really owning them for themselves.

So I could see them going into the studio and dismantling the guitar parts around Axl's lyrics and really owning them too.

I think Axl would be cool with it too considering he was letting DJ and Bumble do the same thing with CD after it came out and toying with a re-release.

Of course the risk is that it's too industrial for slash even if he rocked it up, but you'd think maybe that could be fixed by letting him add 1 or 2 new songs of Slash/Duff origin to go with it.

In a world where Slash plays This I Love, Chinese Democracy, Catcher in the Rye and Better all the time...I can see him rocking out versions of Axl's other albums. He might prefer it to doing nothing too....like sure he can go back to SMKC for a fun smaller scale tour for a year or two....but what then...it will be time for more GNR....

My worry is they are going to run out of time though, simply because they take the time with projects as if they are 20 year olds when they're in their 50s or whatever now.