@Jackaroe said:

Since this is solved, can anyone chime in on Halloween rumors? Very little banter this year about what might be coming. I'm speculating that we may get one of the mega-albums that are popular favorites: American Beauty, Eat a Peach, Electric Ladyland, Houses of the Holy, etc.

I agree, my pick of your suggestions is American beauty. I have gotten the sense they are more comfortable with maybe doing a dead album. I guess after 30 years of proving how amazing of a band and unique band they are they, could make them more comforatble doing a band that they clichely (I dunno if that's a word) wold get compared to. Early on Itvseems like they hesitated to do anything dead because the countless comments people would say "comparing" the 2 bands