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revolvadrama

Slash Gives Eddie Trunk The Final Word (We Hope)

The MSG Network* has released an interview with Slash hosted by Matt Pinfield, who really needs to give up the cheaply toupee'd "Eddie Trunk" persona he's created. Nobody's fooled. Mr. "Trunk" (yeah, right) explains that he's been so busy lately that he's only been able to read 85% of Slash's book, and even that's just because he's had some cross-country flights. Despite this riveting look into the life of a radio personality (what, doesn't he read on the toilet?), Slash is somehow able to go on with explaining just what happened with Weiland, and he hints at why we should give up on the Axl dream. More »

3:30 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Anthony Miccio
735 views, 8 comments

Latest by CaptainPeacockSuit: He's looking for a lady that rocks! Since 1986 when MTV introduced the world to the blue-eyed lead singer of Poison, women around the world have worshiped Bret Michaels as a veritable Rock God. Never out of the spotlight, Bret's career more »

Guns N' Roses are impressively free of bitch about guitarist Robin Finck's return to his old band Nine Inch Nails. "Robin's plans caught everyone in Guns, as well as our fans, a bit off-guard.... Neither we nor management, etc., know any more in this regard and we prefer not to speculate or offer opinions at this time. Robin's Robin. We're in negotiations for the release of Chinese Democracy and things are going well. When we begin to put tour plans together, we'll see where things are. Until then, Robin's touring with NIN and we're working with management on our game plans." I can't imagine it'd be that hard to find a better Izzy, let alone a better Gilby. [gunsnroses.com]

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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! More »

2:30 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
2,872 views, 7 comments

Latest by Plague: A "year" is an exaggeration- but they've certainly had it for quite a few months. more »

tv party (not tonight but maybe soon)

Today's Twist In The Axl Saga: Reality TV?

I have a hard time imagining Mr. Rose is into this kind of thing, but "a major music-oriented television channel" (do they still have those?) is allegedly trying to get Guns 'N Roses to do a reality TV show chronicling the creation and release of Chinese Democarcy. I'm sure his label would be ecstatic, as it not only would serve as great hype but relieve some the financial burden of spending fifteen years working on a single album. "There is a lot of footage to choose from," said someone who may know something. "Some of it is incredibly personal and revealing about Axl's life." So when will see this this footage of Axl sitting around his mansion in slippers, eating Funyons, and wondering if industrial is still the future of rock? More »

4:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Anthony Miccio
600 views, 6 comments

Latest by Hiphopopotamus: It's actually really interesting and/or depressing that this album is so many years in the making that there really isn't a way of determining who has digital rights to this, since MP3 didn't exist when the album started... more »

burning questions

Robin Finck Rejoins Nine Inch Nails--Does That Mean He's Not Going To Tour With Axl Anymore?

Trent Reznor announced on Friday that former Nine Inch Nails guitarist Robin Finck would be back in the fold for his band's summer tour, which will hit Lollapalooza and the Pemberton Festival before traveling to various arenas and amphitheaters. Now, given that Finck was a touring guitarist with Guns N' Roses, and given that Axl has been making noise about maybe putting Chinese Democracy out in time to give everyone in the country a fizzy drink, and given that there's all that Velvet Revolver drama, what does this mean for Axl and his possible touring plans for the next few months? I'm sure that the speculation will be far, far better than whatever actually winds up happening, so, y'know, have at it. [Blabbermouth]

5:10 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Maura Johnston
543 views, 2 comments

Latest by Superawesomerad: All it means is that yet another person is sick of Axl's shit. more »

there are 39 tuesdays left in 2008

Axl Rose, Possibly Inspired by Revolvadrama, Spins Tracks For Bigwigs

With everybody talking about what will become of the band Guns N' Roses, it's no surprise Axl would like people to start talking about the name Guns N' Roses again, preferably in a less carbonated context. Word is that he's been playing six (six!) songs for "music industry honchos, tastemakers and so forth," and at least one anonymous music executive is pleased with what he's heard. More »

11:20 AM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,127 views, 4 comments

reworkings

Slash Finally Realizes Weiland Is Velvet Revolver's Weakest Link

Slash promises that Velvet Revolver will record a third album, with or (please please please) without Weiland. "We don't know how or when but the core four guys will continue," he was quoted as saying. It's a heartwarming response to the bitchfits his estranged compatriot has been issuing to the world, as there's no reason The Band Formerly Known As Guns N' Roses should back a grating, obnoxious hack who can't get his pipes around anything on Appetite For Destruction except "It's So Easy," making him more of a rock dodo than a rock dinosaur. But now that The Big Empty might be out of the picture, which grating, obnoxious hack (with more vocal range) should replace him? More »

10:00 AM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Anthony Miccio
2,057 views, 10 comments

Latest by wakeupbomb: Come on people, is there a more obvious choice than Justin Hawkins from The Darkness? Seriously, the Darkness broke up (didn't they?) and he's got the pipes to cover Axl's high notes, and rock out on his own. more »

hmmmm

Is Axl Rose Getting Ready To Throw A "Free Soda" Party?

Dr Pepper's offer to bestow a free can o'pop upon every American (save Slash and Buckethead) should Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy actually come out in 2008 brought GNR frontman Axl Rose out of hiding, prompting him to say that he'd even share his can of carbonated sugar water with Buckethead should the giveaway come to pass. Now comes the news that Axl, and whoever's in his band these days, have found new management in Irving Azoff and Andy Gould. More »

1:00 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,083 views, 7 comments

Latest by CarsmileSteve: wait, so no one else is seeing some kind of "axl to replace donny walhberg with weilland doing backing vocals on hangin' tough" tour option here? all yr 88-92 music in one handy ticket... more »

wouldn't you like to be a pepper too

Axl Rose Is Not Entirely Selfish When It Comes To Sharing His Soda

... but sharing the completed masters for Chinese Democracy is another story. Rose responded to Dr Pepper's declaration that it would give a free soda to every American—save Buckethead and Slash—if his long-delayed album came out this year via a statement on the official Guns N' Roses site: More »

10:15 PM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,171 views, 6 comments

there are 40 tuesdays left in 2008

Axl Rose Could Buy The Country A Soda If He'd Just Release His Damn Album Already

Never let it be said that I'm above appreciating a good stunt, especially one that involves the release of Chinese Democracy—an album that is on the verge of reaching the "20 years in the making" mark sooner than you might think: "In an unprecedented show of solidarity with Axl, everyone in America, except estranged GNR guitarists Slash and Buckethead, will receive a free can of Dr Pepper if [Chinese Democracy] ships sometime — anytime! — in 2008." Knowing Axl, though, he'll probably throw a bitchfit and demand that the promotion be reworked with free bottles of Vitamin Water before he puts any more notes to tape. [Chinese Democracy When?]

10:00 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By Maura Johnston
621 views, 2 comments

Latest by cmarsh: "bitchfit". you made that up, didn't you. huh. i mean, i thought about using that a couple times but it always seemed to fall flat. listen, take care. more »

great moments in pr

Axl Rose's People Just Getting Around To Letting World Know That He Can Be A Good Guy

Today an item about Axl Rose helping out a neighbor whose house was in danger of being destroyed by the California wildfires while working on saving his own house is making its way around the Internet, complete with articles headlined "AXL ROSE IS A HERO" and Axl's unidentified neighbor saying that she feels "blessed" to live next to the reclusive Guns N' Roses frontman. But what I don't understand is why this story is firing up the hardrockosphere now, given that the story being referenced originally ran all the way back in November. Could this be some weird pre-pre-push for Chinese Democracy that's centered around the idea that Axl is a good guy who will do wonderful things with the money that fans should lay out for his long-delayed album, or did some hapless reporter expereince an RSS hiccup that's reverberated around the world? Clip of the original Fox report after the jump. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Maura Johnston
449 views, 1 comment

Latest by heyzeus: Same thing with that skateboarding kid getting hassled by the rent-a-cop in Baltimore - that happened last July. This means only one thing: glitch in the matrix. more »

If Guns 'N' Roses' Chinese Democracy is indeed finished and ready to be leaked to BitTorrent, what's the hold up? Could it be that Axl wants more money from his used 'n' abused label? For a guy who never leaves his tartan Xanadu, he sure spends a lot. [Blabbermouth]

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itchy trigger fingers

Is Tom Petty A Big Enough Draw For Super Bowl Audiences?

There are a few things that are looking wobbly in the days leading up to Super Bowl XLII—cough cough, Tom Brady's ankle, cough cough—and programmers on cable networks are betting that the ratings power of Tom Petty is one of them. The Hollywood Reporter is saying that networks are in a "counterprogramming frenzy" thanks to the allegedly low starpower of the veteran rocker, although weirdly enough they're trying to go for the bro demo that I'd think would like classic rock, scheduling eating contests judged by former Giant Sean Landeta (Spike TV), the premiere of a reality series about Deion Sanders (Oxygen, go figure!), and a kitten halftime show for the Puppy Bowl. OK, that last one probably crosses more demographic lines than its competitors. While it's pretty obvious that the halftime show's programmers have been all about skewing conservative since the Super Bowl that ruined Janet Jackson's career, I don't know if Tom Petty is as weak a target as the folks at Spike and Oxygen suspect, his live shows do pretty well as far as ticket sales go, and I'd bet that his cross-demographic name recognition is higher than that of any top-20 musician today who hasn't appeared as a featured performer on a TV show. At the very least, I'll be tuning in to see if he brings out a special guest or two: More »

2:55 PM on Wed Jan 30 2008
By Maura Johnston
889 views, 28 comments

Latest by Schluby: @iantenna: You're jammin' me. Quit Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammin' me. more »

rumors

"Chinese Democracy": Is It All Over But The Marketing Plan?

There are 50 Tuesdays left in 2008, which means that there are 50 more chances for all of us to wonder if Chinese Democracy will really, finally be released at some time prior to the impending apocalypse. The latest rumor regarding this years-in-the-making album: It's done! But Axl Rose and his label don't quite see eye-to-eye on how the album will be marketed, which is leading to further delays. What could the disagreement have stemmed from? More »

10:30 AM on Thu Jan 10 2008
By mjohnston
2,381 views, 16 comments

Amazon's Music Store Gets A Little Bach-ed Up

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etiquette

This Just In: Axl Rose May Not Be The Best Houseguest

Last night on Late Show With David Letterman, Slash stopped by to plug his new book and clear the air with Axl Rose, although maybe doing so by talking about how Axl kicked his grandma off her perch on the couch so he could crash out until mid-afternoon—and how Axl responded to being rebuked for his couch-ganking by jumping out of a moving car—wasn't the best plan of action for doing so, given his, uh, temperament. Guess we'll be seeing another Velvet Revolver album in the next few years!

11:30 AM on Wed Oct 31 2007
By mjohnston
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Actual, audible proof that Axl Rose has actually been in a recording studio sometime in the past few years: The Sebastian Bach cover of Aerosmith's "Back In The Saddle" that he cameos on—from the sound of this pretty low-quality radio rip, Rose pretty much replicates Steven Tyler's original vocal track for most of the song—has made it to the air. The sludge-metal backing track doesn't really serve the song's original swagger well, but it is kinda interesting to listen to in a "oh, so he can kinda sound the same as the old days with enough studio trickery behind him" way. [MyGNR.com, via MetalSucks]

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Colombian Radio Station Exposes The Sacred Heart Of Axl Rose

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