Do You consider CD a follow up to Illusions?

[jameslofton29]

I'm really interested to finally see who is writing these songs. In the old days, it was mainly Izzy and Axl. Now, we dont know who is doing the primary writing. For many years, all the new songs were only instrumentals with no lyrics. Its during the second half of the wait for CD that lyrics finally started to come together. I always figured that a lack of lyrics was one of the reasons for no CD. During some of the new GNR shows, Axl made a few references about songwriting. He used the term "we" instead of "I". Maybe the new album is written by everyone. That is completely different than in the past. And that fact in itself makes this album unlike any other GNR album.