Stinson talks to LA Times

[Mikkamakka]

Agree with Jarmo!
It is rather we that owe`s Axl, and GNR!!

I'd like to pay for him some money but he has to release CD to get my donation 

[Booker Floyd]

Yeah, by that logic work on the Use Your Illusion albums started in the early to mid-80s. Before GN'R even existed.

No.

When Axl was working on "Dont Cry," "November Rain," and "Back Off Bitch," it wasnt for the Appetite For Destruction follow-up.? Any material written after UYI was written for a follow-up to that album.? Thats the difference.? Do you really question that any material worked on after 1993 wasnt meant for the next GNR record?

And do you believe that work on the album ceased in 2002?

Would you say it took GN'R six or seven years to finish UYI? Some of the material is that old.....

I think youve missed my point.

Im not going by how old a song is, Im going by how much time material has been worked on for an album, between abums.? Therefore, Use Your Illusions would have been worked on for about 3 years.

I'm sure they have worked on songs before 1998, but Tommy wasn't even in the band before 1998. I think once they got a band together, after all the members leaving, things got a bit more serious.

Probably...that doesnt mean the album wasnt being worked on prior to that.

[jarmo]

So you think if they wrote "dozens of tracks" that those are all for the follow up album?

I believe artists can write songs just because they have something to say. Not because they have to write songs for a follow-up album. Then maybe after completing a bunch of songs he/she can decided that "ok, these 15 could be on the new album".

To me it seems like Axl would write songs, and then later decide which ones would be worked on further for a possible inclusion on an album.



/jarmo