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]
Rumors that Axl Rose would be promoting/financing the release of Guns N' Roses' many-fortnights-in-the-works album Chinese Democracy via a reality show chronicling its final stages are 100% untrue, according to Rose's longtime associate Del James. In a terse statement on the band's official site, James said "Guns N' Roses will not be appearing on any reality TV program to promote their forthcoming album, Chinese Democracy, or for any other reason.... The reality TV rumors started a little while ago and have taken on an Internet life of their own, but there is no truth to any of this." I wonder if that also means that the source tipping off AllYourTV.com, the site that initially reported the rumors of the show, was also fibbing about Chinese Democracy being delivered to execs? Ah, Internet. Anyway, those of you who still want to get your GNRTV fill can enjoy a chunk of the 1989 MTV Rockumentary about the band—including William Bailey's famous "A-X-L, click" explanation of his nom de guerre—after the jump.
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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!
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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]
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.
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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?]
Latest by cmarsh: "bitchfit". you made that up, didn't you.
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i mean, i thought about using that a couple times but it always seemed to fall flat.
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Right now, Axl Rose is somewhere out there, polishing off the 37th rough mix of Chinese Democracy and getting ready to hit "delete" and start all over again. Meanwhile Izzy Stradlin, who left Guns N' Roses in 1991, has since released eight solo albums. 1992's Izzy Stradlin & The JuJu Hounds, was the only one released soon enough to have benefited from the afterglow of his GNR departure in such a way that it made a blip on the pop-culture radar, and his last three albums have been digital-only releases. Still, that first album and its single "Shuffle It All" remain longtime favorites of mine, and if Izzy keeps quietly releasing collections of Stonesy licks directly to iTunes for the rest of his life, I'll consider that a more noble pursuit than if he'd joined up with Velvet Revolver.[YouTube]
Latest by Charlie Kerfelds Jetsons Tee: @ColdBloodedBMC: I actually believe Duff played bass on EVERY track, barring one or two at most... I know for certain that Taz Bentley (ex Reverend Horton Heat) played drums on every track.
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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?
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I can't believe that there are people out there in 2007 who are still scared by Guns N' Roses' "Welcome To The Jungle"—in 2007, people!—but apparently a schoolteacher in Connecticut, who was staying after school one day when three teenagers took over the PA system and engaged in some impromptu karaoke, is still unnerved by the lyrical content of W. Axl Rose and Co. Or maybe she was just freaked out by the crummy rendition of the song that she was subjected to?
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Latest by 70swannabe: guys, i was born in the 1990s and i love this song, also while we are talking about this i love because its midnight, stairway to heaven, Happiness is a Warm Gun. and Turning Japenese. Music today sucks. mainly rap. more »
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!
So long as rockers old and new are worried about the public's perception, no one's going to go broke writing trend pieces about "selling out." This New York Times article looking at the marketing moves of former GNR bassist (and "business school graduate"...who knew?) Duff McKagan is another case in point, as musicians and biz folks alike are trotted out to defend their shilling and make their aging audience comfortable when "rockers are eagerly plastering their names everywhere." In fact, rockers are now so comfy with "plastering their names everywhere" that advertisers are starting to get nervous that audiences are ignoring the stuff those names being used to sell.
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Latest by dennisobell: 'Course that really doesn't take into account where listeners fit in. But we're barely a secondary market these days.
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In case you were fooled by this Blabbermouth post about an upcoming Queen tribute album featuring Axl Rose, Ripper Owens, and uh, Clay Aiken: The "source" is a year-old taking-the-piss post on a Queen message board. That said, I could definitely see Axl dropping a Spaghetti Incident? 2 featuring a cover of, say, "Tie Your Mother Down" before Chinese Democracy comes out. [Queen Zone / Blabbermouth]
Today there's an Irish Times article on the fate of Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy that goes so far as to draw parallels between the long-in-the-works album and the Stone Roses' Second Coming, which seems to me a flawed comparison if only because, you know, the latter album actually came out eventually. Anyway, tucked into the story—which seems like it was subject to a lot of verbal taffy-pulling in order to make it fill out column space—was this little unbeknownst-to-me-before factoid:
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Guns N' Roses keyboardist Dizzy Reed—who, on MySpace, plays a 24-year-old lesbian—is looking for a roommate: "That's right, I am stil looking for a place to lay my head when I am in L.A. And let me narrow it down so I don't get the multitude of useless responses I got last time: I want to rent a room From someone not TO someone. It must be in L.A. (so don't bother resondoing from anywhere else saying you wish or whatever) preferably the Ho, WeHo, NoHo area. And I prefer a female roomate who doesn't have any crazy ass drug habits (esp. weed, speed) but drinkin jager and watchin sports is way coolio. No weird ENERGY man!! Contact me if u r for real.....Diz." Ladies? [Dizzy Reed's MySpace via Blabbermouth]
Not that this means anything about Chinese Democracy coming out, like, ever, but Rolling Stone has photographic proof that Axl Rose does, in fact, enter recording studios from time to time. Is it just me (or the crummy lighting) or does the Guns N' Roses tattoo on his forearm look like it's been altered, "Wino Forever"-style? [RS]
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And it's my two favorite members! Let the conspiracy theories/reunion chatter/talk of Chinese Democracy being completely scrapped and recorded over the course of a bourbon-soaked weekend flower anew! [
Rumors that Axl Rose would be promoting/financing the release of Guns N' Roses' many-fortnights-in-the-works album Chinese Democracy via a reality show chronicling its final stages are 100% untrue, according to Rose's longtime associate Del James. In a terse statement on the band's official site, James said "Guns N' Roses will not be appearing on any reality TV program to promote their forthcoming album, Chinese Democracy, or for any other reason.... The reality TV rumors started a little while ago and have taken on an Internet life of their own, but there is no truth to any of this." I wonder if that also means that the source tipping off AllYourTV.com, the site that initially reported the rumors of the show, was also fibbing about Chinese Democracy being delivered to execs? Ah, Internet. Anyway, those of you who still want to get your GNRTV fill can enjoy a chunk of the 1989 MTV Rockumentary about the band—including William Bailey's famous "A-X-L, click" explanation of his nom de guerre—after the jump.
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