New York - With or without "Chinese Democracy", the much antecipated Guns N' Roses album which is on the shelves for more than 5 years, the band stays the same and will keep performing live, tells Axl Rose, lead singer and frontman, in a exclusive interview.
Before the constant postpones of the material release, Rose confirms that this year, the fans will have a great surprise.
"The tour and the album release excite us very much. We are focused in the album release, altough sometimes it doesn't depends on us. We are in a revision process of what we had done, and the album will come out.
"I don't like when there is speculations. Guns N' Roses keeps alive. The best way for the public to know about us is trough our website (
www.gunsnroses.com). There are all the details of what we've been doing and I tell you that nothing will be defrauded", says the singer and songwriter.
In the next Saturday, he says, Guns N' Roses will begin the 2007 World Tour in Tokio with 5 gigs. There they will play some songs of the record which has been taken such speculations.
Till the present moment, there is other confirmed dates in the South Africa tour.
The change of the manager, their renegotiation with Universal Music, adjustments by the right of using the bands name, and the different opinions on choose simple promotional stuff and publicity plans are some of the reasons that have been put in test Rose's patience.
"Everything is a problem. There is too much proceedings and many histories to tell around. What is confirmed is that we want the release to be in the right moment, in the right time frame.
"The band is still the same, we want to tour, be in a live concert is our priority and makes me happy to keep having all the fans support. For them we keep touring, for them we keep united as a band", states.
The musicians in the band are, among with Rose, Dizzy Reed and Chris Pitman on the keyboards; Tommy Stinson on bass; Brain and Frank Ferrer on the drums; and Robin Finck, Richard Fortus and Ron Thal on the guitars.
They worked on "Chinese Democracy", reason why they will appear in the credits of the production.
In their official website, it says that "The Blues" and "Madagascar", tracks that Rose and the band have been playing live in the last few years, will be in the new album's setlist.
Axl Rose is consider to be someone not that easy with his musical tastes, and says about the new bands that he've been listening lately that he recognize the talent of The Killers, Keane, Wolfmother and The Fray.
"I talk about what I heard and I believe that The Killers takes an advantage from what they do, they are kids very dedicated, with a huge potential that I enjoy. Seems to me like the new generation are more opened to a rock not that purist and that, at some point, could work to some", says.
The singer and songwriter has friends in the music business like Lars Ulrich, from Metallica, and the Black Sabbath ex-frontman, Ozzy Osbourne.
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