The Inevitable Disappointment Draws Closer: Did Axl Rose Really Deliver "Chinese Democracy" To Geffen Execs?

the inevitable disappointment draws closer

Did Axl Rose Really Deliver "Chinese Democracy" To Geffen Execs?

Every music site out there is a-twitter over a sentence that appeared in a TheRockRadio.com item about the possibility of Axl Rose entering the reality-TV game: "Sources at Rose's label, Geffen Records, said that a finished version of Chinese Democracy has been delivered to the company." What? A finished version of the years-in-the-making album? As in ready to ship and promote and make very expensive videos for? This is the stuff that slapped-together blog posts and excited NME items are made of!

One wonders why would this news be delivered to the world via a Web site run by a couple of guys in Cyprus—sure, they have a weekly GNR-themed hour, but something tells me that won't suddenly result in Axl trusting them with his secrets.

And then one notices that TheRockRadio's speculation was directly lifted from an item about Axl's reality show from AllYourTV.com. You know, AllYourTV.com! Why a Web site that
"focus[es] on just one subject—primetime and daytime television" is suddenly an authority on Axl Rose's messenger habits is beyond me; the fact that they ran with the NME's "Amy Winehouse on Dr. Who" April Fool's item on April 3 makes me even less inclined to go popping open those Dr. Pepper cans just yet.

Rumors: Axl Rose For Reality TV [The Rock Radio]
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2:30 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
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by mike a at 03:29 PM on 04/10/08
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If and when CD is ever delivered, I hope it happens in bizarro Pink Moon fashion - Axl appears out of nowhere, hangs out in his label's offices for awhile, drops off the tapes while no one's looking, then leaves.
by Julio Allison at 04:01 PM on 04/10/08
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So this means what? That inevitable disappointment is imminent rather than eventual?

And do comments like that make Axl grab his tapes and run back into hiding?
by revmatty at 04:34 PM on 04/10/08
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If Slash isn't on it, I don't care.
by owenmeany at 04:37 PM on 04/10/08
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You KNOW it's gonna be doody.
by tigerpop at 08:41 PM on 04/10/08
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@owenmeany: Yes, if what you mean by doody is THE BEST ALBUM OF ALL TIME PERIOD!!!!!!
by Lax Danja House at 11:06 AM on 04/11/08
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I'm pretty sure a couple of the band members have already confirmed that the label has had the album for about a year now. Apparently the next step of the Chinese Democracy circus is the battle over internet royalties.
by Plague at 02:49 PM on 04/11/08
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A "year" is an exaggeration- but they've certainly had it for quite a few months.