Brain said he drummed for six years on 30 tracks...

[stipemanblue]

Brain said in an interview he drummed for six years on 30 tracks.
Sebastian Bach said there are 4 albums worth of Chinese D. material.
Axl said there isn't as much material as Baz thinks he heard.

Could there be more songs than 30 but with synth drums instead of live drums or could Brain be confirming what Axl has said about how much Chinese D. material there actually is. Maybe there's only 16 more Chinese D. songs.

[zombux]

30 tracks for next 30+ years ain't that much though

[axlrose4eva]

That means there is only 16 more unheard songs  :'(

[zombux]

That means there is only 16 more unheard songs  :'(

15 - Silkworms is not amongst the 14 at ChiDem. anyway, I don't think 30 is firm number. it can be anything between 15 and 9827376

[GNRVahland]

15 is enough for another album.... after the upcoming tour !

[CalumFarq]

15 is enough for another album.... after the upcoming tour !

Hopefully 

[Bigphil1]

Brain May recorded his parts in 1999.

It was fun. Axl came down to the studio from his house, where he was also working in parallel on other stuff in his home studio, and, with Sean, played about 20 tracks to me ... pretty much almost the whole album as it stood at that time. That's a lot of listening time!

we also had a nice evening having dinner up at Axl's home, with a few friends and record company guys, during which Axl played everybody a whole bunch of tracks that were NOT already on the album ... which he had been working on separately. It was evidently already a mammoth project.

It sounds like he already had at least 30 songs in 1999. He has written more tracks since and also Richard and Ron will have been writing, maybe even DJ will write for them.

I think it's safe to say they have more than 30 songs. I wonder is Baz was actually not far off the mark but Axl wanted to downplay how much material there was for whatever reason.

[eye2eye]

Friend it's about Brian Mantia not Brian May, last time I checked Brain May wasn't drumming for Gn'R

[Bigphil1]

I was referring to the idea that there were only 30 songs in total from the Chinese Democracy era.
Maybe Brain played on 30. Josh played on older ones, Frank played on newer ones, some have drum machines.

What was Dave Abbruzzese's involvement with the project?

I'm satisfied there are more than 30 songs.

[AxlRoseCalifornia]

well those 15 songs left could be the songs that didnt make it to the album. we may never see them

[stipemanblue]

I love Chinese D. For me it's the Apocalypse Now of rock music. If I don't get more songs to ad onto it I still love the album. I am interested in hearing any news about the future of the band and album that's why I like this site so much.

[aussie_GNR92]

Not to mention all the songs that could have been left in Demo form with Freese Drumming. Then there are tracks which would just have Frank drumming. Plus heaps with a drum machine. I'm pretty confident there are more than 30 unheard songs.

[L!VE FREE!]

I hope "The General" somehow ends up on record #2. I really want to hear that song.
From the sounds of it, it will have a killer Brainiac drum attack.

[aussie_GNR92]

I hope "The General" somehow ends up on record #2. I really want to hear that song.
From the sounds of it, it will have a killer Brainiac drum attack.

+1. Sould Monster would be nice too. I wanna hear Axl's vocals on that one.