polluxlm wrote:

smoke wrote:

Yeah, I'd love music in any form over none. But the one single every x weeks plans leaves me cold. I'm an album guy, especially when it comes to artists like Axl.

Definitely. There are so many things that define an album. You got some rockers, some ballads. Bassist does a song, you try something alternative on another. Maybe throw in some interludes or make a theme.

That entire dynamic changes if you start to think one song at a time. Soon you're chucking out clones of Jungle and November Rain.

I still think if one of these guys brought something that Axl fell in love with they'd be recording. I haven't heard anything from DJ or Ron that they've written (as solo or part of a band) that I could see Axl being a part of. He lost a lot with Robin and Bucket leaving, who seemed to really inspire him.

Perhaps, he's blocked. He eluded to that before, that he hasn't been in the right "head space" to write. Then again, you'd figure if he was resented with something minblowing, he'd be all over it.

And if Ron is still waiting for them all to get into a room and write, don't hold your breath. That's not the way Axl works. And again, I'd rather have the album that's already there. Let's not act like they don't have music ready to go, because they do. They don't need Ron and DJ to write another album or song.