Look, whatever people think about 2002 GN'R, I think it's safe to say that those members like Robin and Bucket, have paved the way for Chinese Democracy and any follow ups. I don't think you can argue with that, when you take into account all of the recent band interviews.
I'm not at all discounting that Ron and DJ will be on any prospective releases, but what I'm saying is that the
core structure of the songs would have been already written by the Chinese Democracy era band.
I don't see how anyone can really argue with that.
If people think Axl is going to scrap all of that recorded material in favour of
brand new stuff Richard, Ron and DJ, then they are plain wrong in my humble opinion.