Mikka, I agree with your post. If Bucket is prominently featured on the album, I think Axl will try to get him back for a proper tour. Nobody is really in or out at this point anyway as it is almost guaranteed that no one is under contract right now (Finck would not have done what he did if he was still being paid by Axl). The new Gnr family has lots of members....all interchangeable on a whim. I think that is fairly well proven.

Where Bucket stands out to me on the new leaks:
1. TWAT solo
2. IRS solo, especially how he ends the solo.
3. The guitar flourishes and brief solo on Better.
4. IF The World's acoustic flamenco guitar and his electric solo has great tone to it-I assume that is him by the tone.
5. The solo on CD and it's aftermath-the underlying guitar flourishes under Axl's outro.

Bucket/Finck for new Gnr....that is all you need actually. Slash/Izzy for old Gnr.

What I think is going to happen is that whatever the final tracklist comes down as by the time this thing is released, the touring lineup will be dealt with then. Anybody and everybody that has been in the band and is on the album, is a possible recruit for a tour. I would think the only certainties are Axl, Pitman, Reed, and Tommy for a CD tour at this point. The guitar players are up for grabs.

ps what I mean with the tracklist and as I have said hundreds of times before, tracklists can be changed literally up until 3-4 weeks before release. Since we still don't have a release date and are probably a few months from any possibility of a release, the tracklist is open for change and thus the style of the album can change as well.:/ The band needs to fit the style of the album.

well, he is not competing with 2 keyboard players three guitars and a singer whose voice is basically another loud obnoxious instrument.:P