"It's a great statement by Axl" -SLASH upon listenning to CD Album

[Sean]

I heard from Vanity Fair Germany today:

Dear Sean, just to let you know: Vanity Fair Germany did an interview with Slash yesterday. He talks about "Chinese Democracy":

VF.DE:
    What do you think "Chinese democracy" - the album your former colleague Axl Rose has been working on for ten years now - will sound like?

Slash:
    To tell you the truth: I already listened to it. At first I thought that I would never listen to it until it's released, but someone handed it to me and I was in my car and I was like "Okay, let's give it a try." So I listened to it: It's a really good record. It's very different from what the original Guns'n'Roses sounded like, but it's a great statement by Axl. Now you understand where he was heading all this time. It's a record that the original Guns N'Roses could never possibly make. And at the same time it just shows you how brilliant Axl is. So it was a relief for me to actually hear it.


You can find the full interview here: www.vanityfair.de/articles/kultur/musik-cd/interview/1987/07/21/1/11196/

He also comments on the leaks:


VF.DE:
    Many of the songs already leaked to the internet and a blogger was arrested by the FBI recently, because he published the material on his website...
Slash:
    All the Napster stuff and all these people who talk about illegal file sharing killing the record business and taking money out of the artists' pockets! It may be true. But Napster was just a reaction to the record business not catching up with the development of the internet. Napster was inevitable. But when somebody takes somebody's work and releases it prematurely just to become famous, it's an incredibly selfish and criminal thing to do. A record is a piece of art. And it shouldn't be released until the creator decides to release it - and I don't care how long it took to make it.

VF.DE:
    Do you use the internet yourself?
Slash:
    I'm an old school guy. I only got a laptop within the last five years - and I hate it. The only new piece of technology I use on a regular basis is my Blackberry. I became addicted to it. No wonder it's often called "Crackberry".

[anythinggoes]

Cool thanks for posting

it does beg a really big question

what version did he hear

Did he hear a mastered version

or did he hear the same leaks we have been hearing

[horsey]

i woner who handed it to him ?
that's kool he likes it too.
were axl was going with his music now slash can see.he does like were axl was going with it.
very kool read ,thanks alot.

[Sean]

"This was by phone. Maybe it was just the demo CD, I'm not sure about that. But it's great that he likes the stuff.

Kind Regards! "

[sakuL]

thanks for posting ... he speaks only nice about Axl recently
still I think he's heard only the leaks, but it'd be possible that it was the actual record as well ... well he got some contacts and since it's out of Axl's hands, it's out of control

[cafcnickdugay]

Lets pray that he had the actual record!

[Throwbacks]

Sounds like Slash wants to be a GN'R member again.

[Estranged9]

Great Find!!!  that's awesome that slash is giving CD its props!!  I bet he only has the 10 leaks!?
If not and the final mastered cd is out there around the music industry,,, well      

[Faxl]

Pretty nice of him. All we need now is Axl's opinion on Libertad.

[Faridbak]

Im glad Slash now can see and agree with the direction of Axl, and that he realizes that the old band wouldnt have gone in that direction.
Thanks BP good info

[CoBrA2168]

This is awesome...if it was the final CD, then I wonder if he obtained it from Axl?? Highly doubtful, but ya never know.

[seely]

Pretty nice of him. All we need now is Axl's opinion on Libertad.

 


Cool interview...

[SONOFABITCH]

I love it when Slash praises Axl because ultimately these two need to make music together again.  I will never stop hoping for that.  Ever.

[UcudBmine]

Best thread in a while, nice to see that Slash appreciates Axl effort in this album