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For the record, band members are:  Axl Rose, Tommy Stinson, Dizzy Reed, Bumblefoot, Chris Pitman, Richard Fortus, Frank Ferrer

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12.08.2008 GUNS N' ROSES & METALLICA Make Rolling Stone's Readers' Rock List: Best Album Covers Of 2008!

Source:  http://www.bravewords.com/news/102467

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12.05.2008 According to Blabbermouth.net via Billboard.biz, Chinese Democracy went #1 in Europe.  When you hear the press and (supposedly) Geffen rant that it would be #1 here instead of #3 if Axl would have shown his face for some promotion, remember that he didn't show his face in Europe either. 

Source:  http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=110204 

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As before, Guns N' Roses Today will bring you up-to-the-minute news about the band and its members.  Until we're officially back online, here is a news article fresh out of Ft. Worth about Chinese Democracy. We'll forgive Justin Press of the Ft. Worth Weekly for mis-spelling Axl's and Dizzy's names, and for putting the " ' " in the wrong place in Guns N' Roses. I personally enjoyed his stone-washed jeans comment. Wait! Does he say that Axl has LOST range? Um, no, I don't think so, Justin.

From Ft. Worth Weekly
Guns 'N Roses

Chinese Democracy (Geffen Records)

By Justin Press

The era of the idealistic and insane rock star is dead, so music lovers who still cling to sincere, non-ironic rock grandiosity, should be thankful for Axel Rose. The chips have been stacked against this erratic visionary since 1995, and after millions of dollars, 30-plus collaborators, the spread of ProTools, it is without hesitation that we declare Chinese Democracy a success. It has the vengeance of Appetite For Destruction and the epic bamboozlery of Use Your Illusion, but within its veins runs the wallop of '70s arena rock mixed with Stevie Wonder's funk and Roger Waters' pomposity. Basically, Chinese Democracy is a supersonic, fantastic fucking mess.

From the onset, you must know that this is Axel and some merry pranksters, not a band-band. Maybe a mini-cult. The album, which has taken over a decade to make, stars Dizzie Reed, Tommy Stinson, and a few other devoted (crazy?) musos, guys who have endured Indiana's biggest rock star's legendary temper tantrums, allegedly paralyzing migraines, bi-polar meltdowns, and fondness for stupid haircuts.

After the ax-work of Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, Robin Finck, and Buckethead, Slash is but a footnote with a top hat. The riffs on the chugging "Riad N' The Bedouins" and "Scraped" are as driving and hard as anything ever to come out of the Sunset Strip.

Axel used to be able to wring just the right amount of pathos out of a good power ballad, and while he's lost just a little range, he can still deliver. Exhibit A: "Street Of Dreams."

The single of the year has to be "There Was A Time," a track so melodic and catchy it makes "Sweet Child O' Mine" seem like a Capt. Beefheart improv odyssey, and "Catcher in the Rye" melds soulful rhythms with pianistic Elton John-isms, everything lit by the thunder of multi-tracked guitars and an Oasis-sized chorus. Real supernova stuff.

For detractors who yearn for more Appetite, go put another quart of oil in the Camaro. For naysayers who want a third Illusion, 1991 called. They want your stonewashed jeans back.

But for music fans who never gave up on ka-razy, Chinese Democracy is here.

Source: http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=7349


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From GunsNRoses.US :

" Rose is very sharp about the placement of dynamics and manner in which the ebb and flow of a record creates dramatic effect."

Read this entire in-depth review of Chinese Democracy: http://www.gunsnroses.us/news/spip.php?article219

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