Here Today... Gone To Hell!

This is from Premier Guitar.  The article is mostly an interview with Slash in support of his new album Living the Dream with Myles Kennedy and he talks about guitars n' stuff too.  (I didn't actually read the article.)  I'm just posting the GNR part because, TBH, that's all I care about.
The interview was obviously done before the current GNR tour leg (which Slash refers to as "its final run").

Slash: Living the Dream
Tzvi Gluckin
November 27, 2018

How about Richard Fortus (rhythm guitarist in Guns N’ Roses since 2002)? Is it the same type of playing relationship as with Frank [Sidoris, rhythm guitar]?
Richard’s great, man. It’s the same kind of thing. It’s not my personality, I guess, to want to concentrate on the two-guitar approach, even though I’m always in a two-guitar band. It’s always been, “You’ve got your thing, doing whatever you’ve got to do over there, and I’m doing whatever I do over here.” Usually they work together pretty well. If there’s something specifically that needs to get worked out, like with Richard—because a lot of that Chinese Democracy stuff, obviously, I didn’t have anything to do with writing it, so it was sort of foreign to me—he definitely had his parts and he showed me what some of the other parts were. We would jam the stuff and I would come up with my own interpretation of what those other parts were. But for the most part, Richard just does his thing and I do mine.

What’s next?
Guns is doing its final run on the Not in This Lifetime… Tour next month in Asia and South Africa and Dubai, and then that’s it until we can hunker down and do a record.

Is there a record in the works?
We’ll see [laughs]. Right now, it’s just something that we’re all talking about.

Soon is the word :hihi:

Interesting direct responses there...

Seems to say two things fairly unequivocally:

The NITL tour is finishing after this leg.

There won't be anything else until they can make a new record.

Well, yeah, but I don't think that's a threat either. If someone wanted some new dates I suppose he'd be game.

But really now would be the time. This is now or never :-\

Or he could have simply just misspoke or picked a poor choice of words.
He probably doesn't feel the need to correct/explain what he might have meant to say because he knows that in the GNR world, whatever any one of them says will be turned inside out and upside down and dissected to fit whatever scenario people want it to fit.

I don't think it is so much that either, there are just so many variables. Obviously, the music industry is another world but I work in a project-based industry.

Everything is always delayed and nothing starts in the week originally planned. Just nothing. And nothing gets completed when estimated.

It's quite possible that artists are not so different after all as it's business. Something is planned but there are other people involved as well apart from the band members. I could, of course, be totally wrong here as well but I don't know.