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Originally Posted by oscillate
I found Chinese Democracy to be well-intentioned, but you can hear a lot of overthinking in the production. I wouldn't be surprised if they had half a dozen versions of each song.
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If we are to believe the rumors, 9 of the songs were finished pre-2000.And then re-finished again by 2002, 2003, 2007 and so on. Remember, an actual album was readied for submission to Geffen, Black Frog & Uzi a number of times, so that means, as you said, final mixes for each version exist. How much was changed each time is unknown, and I imagine at some point they will leak out and give us an idea of the process. Again, the rumor is that Axl was influenced over the years by styles of music then becoming popular- like grunge, like alt-rock, like emo, and he then incorporated those flavors into the mixes, for better or worse. We don't really know if the original mixes were the usual raw and rough GNR sound, the more processed later work, or something totally new to begin with.