According to Billboard.com N Roses' decade plus in-the-making album Chinese Democracy has finally got a release date. Whistle-blowers told the publication that Axl and co. will be releasing the album, the reformed band's first studio album since 1991's Use Your Illusion, exclusively at Best Buy on Sunday, November 23rd. INstead of the usual Tuesday release, Chinese Democracy's release will run with Best Buy's sales week, which goes Sunday to Saturday.
So what does that mean? It means Dr. Pepper is f'ed! Earlier this year the soft drink company launched a marketing campaign that said it would give everyone in the US a free Dr. Pepper if Chinese Democracy came out by the year's end. But the people at DP aren't sweating it too much just yet. "We're waiting to hear about 'Chinese Democracy' just like all the other GNR fans," the VP of marketing at DP told Billboard when approached about the rumored release date for the album. "But if the rumors are true, we're putting the Dr Pepper on ice."
If a free Dr. Pepper and the actual physical release of Chinese Democracy don't suffice GNR's 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction goes vinyl on October 28th thanks to Interscope.
Personally, I think Chinese Democracy needs a new title at this point. Any ideas?
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I thought this leaked 6 months ago on the internet? I even had it, thought it was rubbish and properly disposed of it. Was that not the real album, was I taken for another Death Cab For Cutie ride?
To tell you the truth, I have no interest in this album outside of a morbid sense of curiosity. I do like Dr. Pepper though!
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I agree, a new album title would be nice, but really, I just want it out so they can break up, put the real band back together, and start working on Use Your Illusion III.
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I'm only about 15 years past caring about this...he's got balls even calling the project Guns and Roses! I doubt many will buy into it...hopefully.
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Is "buckethead" still in the band? ;-)
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Buckhead plays on a few tracks but doesn't tour anymore with them.
Would love to see the original band back together but that won't happen. Steve Adler survived a stroke but isn't all there and who knows what gutter Izzy Stradlin is in.
Though it would be funny to see Slash beat the crap out of Axl on stage.
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Izzy has been sober and the most active of all the ex gunners since he left in '91. I think he has 7 or more solo albums, not bad either. He played with the New GNR for a show in NYC in '06 and then several dates in '07. If the old GNR did reunite I could live with Sorum on the kit, he's probably the better bet over Adler, though it would probably make his life.