I'm with you, and as a result hope there's no new album until late 2019 at the earliest - there's not been any studio pedal shots on Phil's twitter, so if there is a record nearly done then it's all MOR Shanks guitar. Of course, he could be the last guy involved, as he was with THINFS, just to rehash the solo's and do a few BVs but Walls and WWWU both evidently had Shanks and Phil working together in LA on BVs and guitars, so there's (hopefully) no reason to think that would be the case.

Also, and I know this won't happen, Phil did say he'd love to write with Jon at some point... maybe we could get one... you can't fault the Drills on riffs and he did write which is like 80% lyrically acceptable for Jovi. Ok, so maybe he shouldn't write the words, but the music is awesome.