As Is is a great track from the new VH album

I actually came into Page 2 to say exactly what you did ID.

What Axl (and the rest of the old band needs) is someone like Brendan O'Brien go in there and whatever made that original album so good, just keep it and bring it up. Nothing more.

I've felt AFD has needed it for years. I honestly was never nuts about the mix for AFD (needs more dynamic dimension to it, make it louder without distorting it, imho). O'Brien would do it without burying anybody, nor doing the "loud wars" with it so it was distorted and awful.

I would love to see some remixing of UYI one day. Now that would be the tricky thing. I would love to hear a stripped down re-mixed, re-released UYI. Something that removes ALL vocal special effects and voice over garbage, and is just GN'R rocking. Not to mention UYI has alot of stuff sitting in the garage that could be totally redone and thrown in on a bonus disc.

As far as Axl using the current GN'R to re-arrange AFD, and throw in some Lies & UYI songs -- just keep it. I wouldn't mind hearing it, but it needs to be saved as a bonus disc for a future GN'R original album as a selling point. But in reality for me, I would've loved to hear a Robin/Bucket-fueled 2001-02 remixed AFD with some of their unique solo rearrangements. Because they WERE SO DIFFERENT from what came before.

The current GN'R, no matter how good they are, are obviously there paying tribute to the old band. Full on. DJ handles Slash, Ron handles Bucket, Richard channels Slash, Izzy & Gilby mixed together, while Tommy basically admitted he just "does it like Duff".

I have no interest in hearing that band re-arranging AFD. There's no point. At least there was a point in that in that 2001-02 band.