Why would Axl want the new band to re-record the GHs?
Loder: You re-recorded "Appetite For Destruction?"
Rose: Yes, I have.
Loder: The whole album?
Rose: Yes.
Loder: Whoa.
Rose: Well, with the exception of two songs, because we replaced those with "You Could Be Mine," and "Patience," and why do that? Well, we had to rehearse them anyway to be able to perform them live again, and there were a lot of recording techniques and certain subtle styles and drum fills and things like that that are kind of '80s signatures that subtly could use a little sprucing up... a little less reverb and a little less double bass and things like that.
Axl Rose - A conversation with Kurt Loder
MTV US November 8th 1999
Does that answer your question?
/jarmo