You say Remaster

You mean Re-Arranging. Or Remix.

Remaster just means cleaning up the old songs and making them fresh. The exact reason for a new release. lol...

Monk that 1999 re-record has flown the coup along with Bucket & his chickens. Axl has the most solid GN'R tribute lineup he's ever had, and most successful -- right now.

I'd love to hear that stuff too, but me thinks it'd make more sense on an CD/Echo of Miles release than a release having to do with the original Guns N' Roses.

My expectation bar is in the fucking basement (ala Neemo). All this shit should've happened LAST FUCKING YEAR like other albums such as Whitesnake '87 that got the big Super Deluxe Edition treatment.

My hopes, at the least.

Disc 1:

AFD Re-mastered + Shadow of Your Love [2018 Remix], Jumpin' Jack Flash [2018 Remix]

That should be the base-CD. The cheap one.

Dream list:

CD1: AFD Re-mastered (original 12 tracks remastered)
CD2: AFD Reconstructed (new tracklist, re-arranging tracks similar to setlists and removing Anything Goes & electric-You're Crazy for extended versions of Nightrain, Rocket Queen, as well as adding 2018 remixes of Shadow of Your Love, Jumpin' Jack Flash, Patience, Used To Love Her & acoustic You're Crazy
CD3: Demos of anything and everything they'd like to put on it
CD4: Some HQ un-released Live Performance from 1987-88

I don't think Ben & Chris cared for each other that much, beyond just mutual respect of talent. Ben can be short-tempered and Chris would do stuff that I think rubbed Ben as self-aggrandizing at times, and even since the reunion in 2010, there's been a weird vibe between the two of them, and Ben seems to put up an invisible wall with Chris to even be able to tolerate Chris. James has actually pointed this out prior to Cornell's death, and is very visible in multiple videos since the reunion kicked off.

As for Cornell's update stuff, none of us are going to know something new until the autopsy is done, but after the County ME released the report with the timeline of what was going on... it looks more and more to me like Cornell was done and his decision was done.

How long does it take one to get off a stage? When did SG get done? Around 11? Not only was Cornell back at the Hotel, someone as MASSIVELY high profile as Cornell was off stage, back in his room, and dead within what... a little over an hour? That's fucking fast. Really fucking fast. The only other weird scenario would be murder, but i'm not seeing anything of that here.

Maybe he called his wife who tried to talk him out of it? And she just told him to take an extra Ativan?

I know it's all speculation and conjecture, but when I heard that timeline of when they found him, it leans even more to something Cornell planned, might've had second thoughts, and then went through it. Depression is a chronic condition, he was probably thinking about this regularly depending on his mood.

Anyways, RIP to him, and love to his kids and friends, and mom, and the Seattle family. It's just so sad.

I agree with the third option as well, but possibly minus the demos, and plus a bonus DVD.

I just think an 30th Anniversary AFD sells itself. No demos necessary. If you got the big deluxe edition it could feature the original album and its mixed cleaned up, a new 2017 remaster disc, possibly a disc of 2017 re-records mixed with remixes, an audio live show from the era remastered, plus a DVD featuring various live performances of AFD songs from the Not In This Lifetime tour cleaned up in the studio, like anniversary live performances collaged together, rather than a whole show. Throw in some of those Adler guest appearences as well.

It'd sell gangbusters.

To me, all of the old demos should be saved for 2018 and a 30th Anniversary of GN'R Lies. That would allow them to pad the 8-track EP, and turn it into a 20-track deluxe edition with lost demos from that 1987-88 era, live cuts, studio outtakes, etc.

Then people would buy that gangbusters.

And they'd get our money TWICE. They do the demos n' shit with AFD, and most will go after AFD30.

This was the very first thing I thought, and also the first thing I mentioned to a friend. Cornell touched many different drugs over the years, and he, along with Layne, were the first to kinda discover the whole OxyContin thing years before it became the drug of choice for Gen Y'ers.

The only thing that makes me think Cornell might've hesitated was if, because he was a lifelong (almost) addict, if he assumed he'd need a shitload of smack to get it done, and bailed on the idea, because, like you said, he wanted to make sure it was good and final.

I also feel this was per-meditated. There are no murder conspiracies here. Kurt, in my opinion, was murdered (of the Seattle guys). Chris, along with Layne's slow suicide, they knew damn well what there end would be, and Chris probably made his mind up years ago, and whatever "bullshit" lately brought him back to that option, an option he had considered before.

Alot of people have missed his last tweet before the Detroit show included #nomorebullshit while going to perform at The Fox in Detroit. Even if his death was close, he was no dreading it, it was a sense of relief, he knew what his plans were.

Then to see the clips of the show, his frankly bizarre behavior (obvious mania going on, especially in the eyes), makes you question whether he was high during the performance, or like Charlie Sheen before him, he was "on a drug called Chris Cornell", and was overtly exciting knowing this was his final performance.

The My Wave intro is even more telling, and weird. The analogy he made about the crossing burning and telling the audience to do whatever they want, but to not fuck with him (and then amend to adding the band), as well as the intro to Mailman, where he made an analogy about writing the song about some guy with a gun spraying a post office, or whatever that was he talked about.

Whatever was going on in his life, he had had enough and knew Detroit would be his end, even though there was a few more dates.

I agree Detroit (or possibly the venue) must hold some significance for him. Remember this was a mid-week Soundgarden-ONLY show, and not the festival dates on the weekends they had been playing. He knew this would be personal, and SG knew they went out of their way to book this specific gig. He knew it was coming and picked this one for a reason. That I agree wholeheartedly.

One also has to wonder if he had been contemplating this for months. He got closure with being able to tour solo, tour with Temple of the Dog, one final Audioslave show, and close out his career with Soundgarden. If not, alot of damn things lined up for him that came full circle for his life and legacy.

I also agree by his recent comments, and the fact it had been going on five years, and they hadn't gotten into a studio yet to record the follow-up to King Animal, yet Cornell was still doing solo stuff as well as guest appearances constantly, was another sign that SG was at a crossroads, and there were no plans Chris' end for future SG music. At least not in whatever current capacity was going on. The band however wanted to record, based on multiple comments made, and something was holding that up.

I completely disagree with you here. It's not fair at all to Kim, one of the most underrated guitarists in his era, and the actual FOUNDER of the band, to pack it up, because Chris couldn't deal with his bullshit and chose to pack it in and leave the building for good.

That's not Kim's fault. Or Ben's. Or Matt's. Granted Matt can always jump to Pearl Jam, but I always hated how SG, with all that talent, sat dormant for years, so Chris could go do what he wanted.

There's no way that band is not feeling tons of mixed emotions right now, especially Kim & Ben, imho. And it is way way way too late in the game for these guys to rebuild that band into something else (think Dead & Co.) in order to keep making music and go on.

Although Cornell was an amazing writer, I would absolutely support, based on Chris' decision to leave the way he did, a Soundgarden without Cornell.

But I do agree, that they'd have to have a singer that matched Cornell's prowess both vocally and lyrically. Axl is a good choice, but Axl's never had the soul to his voice that Chris did.

Chris is irreplaceable. That would be like Zeppelin replacing Plant with Myles Kennedy.

Although I hear Sammy Hagar is available (wink wink, lol)

I agree. This is total fuckin' bullshit. The fuckin' PC, SJW pussies at work again. The first song I thought of today was Pretty Noose. I was going to post it here, 'cause it was all I was listening to. Trying to find some clue, thinking maybe it was a sign years ago of a planned end.

But if you start deleted Cornell's lyrics and songs n' shit, you might as well delete half of SG's catalog. Same with Layne Staley, let's get rid of Mad Season's Above album. Let's delete River of Deceit, while we're at it. Hopefully Jerry Cantrell doesn't off himself, or otherwise we'll have to delete Gone from Degradation Trip.

These guys had the emotion and the balls to do things and take their art to some of the darkest levels in the history of rock, and they lost their lives in different ways. Let's appreciate the ART that sacrifice gave us. A beautiful darkness. Like a great HR Giger painting.