This is a legacy touring band at this stage of the game.
not only. we had 5 (very good) new songs since the reunion. it's half an album.
quite a lot, in GNR standard.
Yeah, but just in the form of a fresh coat of paint slapped on demos from 20 years ago, composed by other dudes, long gone.
The reality is that they have been back in communication since 2015 sometime and that has not produced one piece of music. You just can't shine that up.
To which I say...don't put yourself through it. This band is no longer a creative entity and has not been for some time. This is not news.
Stop trying to get blood from a stone, I say. Just enjoy the shows.
you have to start with something.
it doesn't matter if the songs were co-written by people who aren't in the band anymore, and when.
I wanted The General, I want Monsters, I want Eye On You, because these are great songs.
I don't give a damn if Duff wasn't in the studio when they were composed, or if Slash wrote a pre chorus in 2018 instead of 1996.
these are not fans concerns. I don't care if Roger Waters wrote The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking for a proposal to Pink Floyd and finally released it as a solo artist.
I understand what you mean by "this band is no longer a creative entity" but we have no clue.
Slash and Duff have apparently already wrote material and likely had Axl listen to it (no point to write stuff if not)
was he into it? that's a question I'd like an answer.
how does it sounds? old Guns? Velvet Revolver? something different?
and yeah, when can we expect the first post reunion single written by this line up?