Or maybe he saw that Tool is playing 2 new songs on their current tour (still without a new album) and figured he wanted to join the club!

Good point....Axl has tons of lyrics and melodies already in place....orchestration...full recorded songs for God’s sake! The band can pick and choose....add and delete...anything they want or don’t want. Of course, we will get nothing but some more solo records in between cash grab tours and never ending dangling of the “new” music carrot by whatever unfortunate soul happens to be playing guitar that day. Meh. I’ve got better things to do.

And the new music dance has been going on since 1994! They just took a break on November 23rd 2008. If you recall, axl was pimping “ the second half of Chinese” in the chats of December 2008 with “same bat time same bat channel” quote. Instead of a year, it has now been a decade! Honestly, it is unbelievably illogical that ANY of us waste our breath and energy on this issue.

I hope you are right...I rewatched the video and got a different vibe from it....he seems very confident.

Hmmmmmm