AXL ROSE Explains 'Chinese Democracy' Album Delay

[Tombat]

Jada Yuan of New York magazine reports that Axl Rose started out screeching about being 'just an urchin livin' under the street," but in the thirteen years he's been working on the oft-delayed GUNS N' ROSES album "Chinese Democracy" (at a price that's exceeded $13 million), he's had time to reflect on heavy-metal posturing. "We thought we were so badass," he said in the greenroom at the VMAs. "Then N.W.A. came out rapping about this world where you walk out of your house and you get shot. It was just so clear what stupid little white-boy poseurs we were. It was like, 'All right, we can give up the act.' If you're talking about which lifestyle is more hard-core, the one where you get shot always wins." So what's the holdup with "Chinese Democracy", Axl? "It's not about being a control freak. It's about being maybe smart enough to go, 'No, that's a bad idea.' That's all it's about â€" keeping the ability to at least have a shot as opposed to something that's just an obvious disaster. I want to make a good record. I don't want to throw a brick. This cannot be Shaq at the free-throw line."

Rose promises the album will be released by the end of the year.

Source: blabbermouth.net (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=58242)

[brownstones_train]

yeh hes a big hip hop fan NWA

[2NaFish]

delay? WHATeva.

[The Spaghetti Incident?]

I'm worried Axl might have fallen in love with rap :crybaby:

Well, if that's true then Axl has certainly grown up.. I hope things work out, not just for the music, but for Axl... I don't wanna see the man I admire so much end up getting trashed (any more than usual) for releasing a crap album... so maybe if he's been working on it this long and he's finally happy with it, all the people who've waited the full 13 years can forgive him and cd might be the real deal... the best cd ever...

Wow, I sound like a dickhead..

[benny112980]

So that's two different interviews Rose gave at the VMAs where he said the album will be out this year, perhaps he knew the VMA would be a perfect time to start up the promotion.

[2NaFish]

So that's two different interviews Rose gave at the VMAs where he said the album will be out this year, perhaps he knew the VMA would be a perfect time to start up the promotion.

what did he say in the first one?

i could've sworn he said not to expect the album anytime soon in 2002

[benny112980]

No Tuna.....I mean at the 2006 VMAs he gave two backstage interviews, the other being to John Norris and in both he said several times the album will be out this year.

[2NaFish]

ah, got ya.

[Sweet Kimberly]

Why doesnt Axl admit that he lost the tapes.And he cant remember any of the tunes that Slash wrote for him before he lifted.

[dirk]

sweet herpes wrote:

Why doesnt Axl admit that he lost the tapes.And he cant remember any of the tunes that Slash wrote for him before he lifted.

Well since he didn't lift there's not anything to admit

[brownstones_train]

I'm worried Axl might have fallen in love with rap :crybaby:

Well, if that's true then Axl has certainly grown up.. I hope things work out, not just for the music, but for Axl... I don't wanna see the man I admire so much end up getting trashed (any more than usual) for releasing a crap album... so maybe if he's been working on it this long and he's finally happy with it, all the people who've waited the full 13 years can forgive him and cd might be the real deal... the best cd ever...

Wow, I sound like a dickhead..

watch the welcome to the videos dvd.. on the video to the song live and let die i believe he has the NWA hat on..

[Sweet Kimberly]

It is all clear too me now.
Sarcasms off
This still doesnt explain a hell of a lot............. Just a other stupid story about a wash up band.
Axl can go fuck himself

[axlstwin]

watch the welcome to the videos dvd.. on the video to the song live and let die i believe he has the NWA hat on..

and in that Kurt Loder interview he says he likes it. He does....no secret...its cool

[rocokin]

It is all clear too me now.
Sarcasms off
This still doesnt explain a hell of a lot............. Just a other stupid story about a wash up band.
Axl can go fuck himself

Maybe he could use your face to do that