The thing is, we think he's taking too long recording his new album, but maybe he's taking too long but he's not working on his record but doing other things...
It's like when he recorded STP, it took four years to be released, but if you sum the days he really spent working on songs, mixing etc, they spent maybe a couple of months, three or four. He used to say the same about the Emmylou record, it took six years or more starting from the sessions that happened during the STP recordings, but in the end they really spent a month or two if you sum all the days along these years.
I'm sure it's not overdubs what is making it that long for this new record either, but that he's busy with other things. Right now Guy is busy mixing the TCT project and he's been busy with Atmos mixes, MK had been, is and would be busy recording the TV show with Brian Johnson, and maybe they are working on other things we don't know.
It's annoying that he starts recording an album then when something else crops up the album gets put on the back burner every time as if it's hardly important. A new album should be top priority for him with other projects just distractions, especially once he has already started recording the album.
If he'd rather enjoy himself making TV shows with his old pals than finishing off a main project for his patiently waiting fans then it doesn't say much. I'm beginning to lose interest; if it's anything like the last one then I'll probably not listen to it again save for a couple of tunes anyway.