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GNR's Chinese Democracy may be out this fall

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LoKyBuckeye

LoKyBuckeye

I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
Some of it that has been leaked isn't that bad but lets see what kind stunts Axl pulls :lol:

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Axl Rose: New Guns N' Roses album due in fall

NEW YORK (AP) -- Rock recluse Axl Rose made a surprise radio appearance to proclaim that Guns N' Roses' 10-years-in-the-making "Chinese Democracy" album will finally hit store shelves this fall.

The comments Saturday on Eddie Trunk's syndicated radio show marked the first interview the painfully private Rose has given since his failed 2002 comeback tour, which was abruptly scrapped midway amid riots and canceled shows.

Rose's impromptu appearance came when former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach, who was co-hosting the show, called Rose's cell phone and patched the call through the studio.

Quizzed on when the near-mythical album would come out, Rose said, "Sometime this fall or late fall." His band could be heard rehearsing in the background. "It will be out this year."

Trunk invited Rose to drop by the studio, and about an hour later he did.

Asked about the aborted 2002 comeback tour, which ended when Rose failed to appear for a gig in Philadelphia, Rose told Trunk he felt pressured into doing it before he was ready. But he insisted he has no regrets, since the short-lived tour helped the new band members to gel. (The 2002 lineup included keyboard player Dizzy Reed from the original GN'R, former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck, bassist Tommy Stinson from the Replacements, guitar shredder Buckethead, drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia formerly of Primus, guitarist Richard Fortus from the former Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love, and keyboard player Chris Pittman.)

"Can you tell people why the tour ended at that point?" asked Trunk.

"Umm, no, not exactly," said Rose, declining to discuss it.

Plans are currently in the works for Rose to relaunch his comeback by playing four shows at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom over the next 10 days, then head to Europe to play several music festivals. The first Hammerstein show is May 12.

Rose said the band at the Hammerstein shows will be similar to the one that played the 2002 tour, except for a new lead guitarist, whom he declined to identify except to say it's not an old GN'R member. Buckethead left the band in 2004.

However, later in the broadcast, Rose seemed to contradict himself when he said he's been hobnobbing with former GN'R guitarist and songwriter Izzy Stradlin, and strongly hinted that Stradlin may show up for the Hammerstein shows.

Former GN'R guitar maestro Slash may end up back in the band as well, but probably not before the Hammerstein shows.
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In related news, Maurice Clarett will be making a huge comeback and will be an NFL starter this fall.

(That was meant as sarcasm, for those of you unable to tell the difference.)

Bottom line is I'll believe it when I see it; and either way, it's likely going to flop if/when it ever does happen.
 
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AJHawkfan said:
Bottom line is I'll believe it when I see it; and either way, it's likely going to flop if/when it ever does happen.
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exactly... too bad Buckethead left... he made them 100 times better. I was never a big GNR fan but I want to hear it if it does ever come out. But, Axl will get his panties in a bunch about something and it will probably be released in 2016.
 
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LoKyBuckeye said:
exactly... too bad Buckethead left... he made them 100 times better. I was never a big GNR fan but I want to hear it if it does ever come out. But, Axl will get his panties in a bunch about something and it will probably be released in 2016.
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Really? That soon?

I know they're called "Guns N Roses," but is it still Guns N Roses if its just Axl? Is anyone left from the old group? Would it be "Led Zeppelin" if Jimmy Page put together a band and called it "Led Zeppelin?"
 
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Classic Rock recently tracked down Beta Lebeis, personal manager of Axl Rose, who confirmed to us that Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album "was finished before Christmas".

She added: "Everybody knows that."

Lebeis said Axl is currently "in negotiations" with unspecified parties to arrange to album's on-sale date.
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Could it be true?
 
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Pitchfork: Chinese Democracy in 2008? Free Dr. Pepper for All!

Chinese Democracy in 2008? Free Dr. Pepper for All!
This is some seriously good marketing, yo

Guns N' Roses are a once-great pop-metal band with a surprisingly long shelf life, led by a reclusive, volatile frontman who's spent roughly a decade and a half and, reportedly, upwards of $13 million crafting an album/punchline widely known as Chinese Democracy. Dr. Pepper is a syrupy, prune-like soda beverage brewed by the Cadbury Schweppes corporation.

What the two had in common before this weekend, I couldn't rightly tell you (okay, yes, both are prune-like), but as of March 25, 2008, the fate of the two juggernauts is as intertwined as Dr. Pepper's trademark m?lange of 23 flavors.

According to Billboard.com, Dr. Pepper has offered every single person in America (besides famed GNR deserters Slash and Buckethead) a free can of their brew, provided Axl Rose and company release the long-promised Chinese Democracy sometime in the year 2008.
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