GUNS N' ROSES - Axl Rose Emerges To Talk Up Chinese Democracy
December 12, 2008, 15 years ago
Jonathan Cohen from Billboard.com is reporting:
He's yet to grant an interview about GUNS N' ROSES' recently released Chinese Democracy, but last night (December 11) Axl Rose broke his silence by answering questions on the message boards of popular GN'R websites MyGNR.com and Here Today ... Gone to Hell
Rose addressed a wide range of topics, including the status of his relationships with former members of the band, several specific songs from Chinese Democracy and whether guitarists Buckethead and Robin Finkc would one day return to GNR.
"What I can say now is you've been told a lot of things in order for others to promote themselves that factually they cannot backup in regard to either," Rose said when asked for his opinion on why the original lineup fell apart. "They are complicated legally, financially and have devoured a good portion of my life."Rose added that he was recently sued by Duff McKagan and Slash over a merchandising issue "that I was unaware and not involved in. Fortunately that was resolved but it got ugly and took a while going into arbitration."
The artist did not directly address what exactly took so long for Chinese Democracy, which was started in the mid-1990s, to be released. But he did acknowledge there is a wealth of additional material that could potentially be released in its wake.
"For now we'll concentrate and keep our focus on this album but I will say I've always thought of it as a double," he said of Chinese Democracy. Earlier, he told fans that a video for the new album's 'Better' would be released "in a week or so."Read more here.
