Someone here will know better than me but wasn't there some situation where mid way through the process of a rehearsal or a recording session he was like "I need to go get some smokes, i'll be back in a bit" then just drove off into the sunset never to return to the band at all.

Or it could be an urban legend...but I think there was some story of that nature told from someone in one of his bands at one stage.

As far as GNR, I don't think he'd be interested in a long term long haul tour commitment. Look at how he was interested to write with VR but didn't wanna join and deal with the lifestyle. I could see him doing a handful of shows with GNR for a bit of fun at some stage...but I would be surprised if he decided it wanted to become a full time guy anymore.

I guess maybe if he needs a lot of money, but I think a handful of paydays for the buzz then continuing on his life of adventure is more his style than the grind of a 3 year tour with the same setlist in your old age.

It's interesting....we know they recorded at least an album of demos with Corey Taylor....

Corey has said:

"I think it was ten [songs that I recorded with Velvet Revolver]… I think it was… It’s either nine or ten. There was a handful that we wrote, and then there was a handful that I kind of rearranged a little bit based on music that they already had. So it wasn’t music that we kind of wrote together. I mean, there were, like, three… I think there was three songs that we wrote together, which were actually pretty sweet. And then the rest of it was me writing to music that they already had that I thought was pretty cool.”

On the same subject slash has said:

"Corey came in, just like a lot of other guys came in. Of course, Corey's Corey, and he's probably one of the best guys out there. I love Corey. I just thought it was a different style than what VELVET REVOLVER was trying to capture. But, still, the songs are cool. But if we were gonna do anything with that, they would have to be re-recorded and… 'Cause, I mean, it was very raw and very, sort of, 'making it up on the spot' kind of deal. And so we'd have to revisit everything and then we'd put it together, I think. But that's not really a plan. I'm just saying if it was… I don't wanna get any ideas in anybody's head. That would be the only way that it could be released, [and] I'm not saying that it's going to."

So it's interesting...although we also know Slash has reused VR demos in his solo stuff - so maybe all of these songs have since been borrowed and converted to other Slash purposes....but it sort of suggests that there's at least some jam material lying around in a vault some place. Even if not polished up to a full record...I would love to see stuff like this surface as a bonus disc on a reissue of the main records or something.

I would love to see something.

I suspect we might just get something like GNR doing fall to pieces as a tribute to scott next tour or something.

Between scott's unhappy passing, the awkwardness at the last VR reunion before the end, multiple comments from Slash speaking unfavourably of the whole experience, and now the further awkwardness with Matt being left out of the reunion and him letting it be known to the media....it's hard to see how the cards would go the right way.....

then again...they have some toys in the vault...like the 3rd album they never finished, and who knows what other outtakes and stuff.
Dave kinda deserves his moment too.

I'd like to see it...but yeah I dunno...maybe a reissue with a live disc? Between Slash and Duff being in GNR, and Slash having the Myles stuff on full boil, it's easy to imagine this getting ignored though.

I don't feel about it the way I did at 14 years old....and so I'm not expecting this album to change my life or reinvent popular culture or anything...but I believe a bunch of talented dudes could still make a song or two that I will enjoy.

Something is better than nothing to me. Even 'bad' songs work to show me what I liked about the 'good' songs haha and I still think there will be some good songs somewhere.

Life will end things soon enough anyway, these guys are not spring chickens, neither are most of their audience, and meanwhile the world seems to be trying hard to end itself first....so I mean I'm not in a hurry for it to be over any faster.