Hey Folks,

As ever i've been seeing a lot of reunion posts around the place...some finding their way into modern GNR topics and thus angering people...so please forgive me for starting another reunion thread...but i've been thinking about something.

A lot of people have talked about a reunion show - or handful of shows - and if that goes well then maybe a full tour until it implodes again. Now on one hand - i can see this being easy to get the guys back for - like if you are Slash or Duff - agreeing to do an isolated show means you have the potential for a lot of fun - and if Axl doesn't show up or things go bad you limit your downside to simply those days - and don't get involved in the greater politics side of things. But I also think shows are perhaps some of the stressing factors....from Slash's book its pretty clear that a big part of what pissed him off was the going on late/canceling shows issue.

So i've been wondering about a reunion recording. Now I know that sounds crazy. Like if Axl hasn't put out a record in 14 years how will starting over help. But some of why he hasn't seems to have been adjusting the music a lot. I think merk did say at one stage there were a few songs waiting on vocals...but songs likeTWAT and IRS...it's not the vocals that change in the leaks its the rest of the parts.

Now i'm not proposing taking bucket off stuff like TWAT and adding the old band..but i'm saying surely somewhere theres a batch of "unfinished" songs - less finished than the demos we have - something that just wasn't quite right at the time with that lineup or whatever and  just general song ideas that Axl could harvest and bring back into the fold....

Meanwhile duff and Izzy are always good for songwriting. And Slash mentioned in the doco about the new Alice cooper song he plays on "Vengence is Mine" that he recored that (pretty badass) solo in an hour!!

They don't even have to be in the same room to make it happen. So much less likely to fight. Granted...theres some issues..like musicalluy they'd have to be on the same page..and axl wouldn't be able to do stuff like get Huge to redo slash's parts again and stuff like that...but overall i feel like..hink...like yes...it was painful to get out UYI and all that...but I also kind of feel that in the right circumstances (particualrly if Slash and Co were working around an already existing lyrical idea...that a some new GNR tracks could happen reasonably painlessly....

Don't get me wrong...i'd love to see them share a stage too. But there's plenty of footage out there of peformances...but only so many songs...i'd love a new record more than a tour at this stage.