Thursday, October 23, 2008

This Just In: Hell Just Froze Over...



So, hell just froze over but the good news its not the perfect temperature for your free Dr. Pepper.
Let me explain.
In 1994 Axel Rose, lead singers of Guns N' Roses announced that the band was working on a new album named Chinese Democracy, 14 years, a few dozen lawsuits, three guitarist and approximately 30 million dollars Chinese Democracy has arrived. The story behind the album delays and vary. Let me just go over some of the highlights:

1995 - The entire band basically quits calling Axel a "dictator"
Axel replaces old band
1998 - Geffen records pays Axel 1 million dollars with the promise of another million if he completes the album within a year (how do you think that went?)
2001 - Axel Rose plays their first gig in over 7 years
Guns has played a series of shows over the last seven years but they have also cancelled over a dozen other shows. The canceled shows, more accurately "no-shows" have led to riots. As a side note, GNR fans dont deserve the right to riot. If you are still following a band that has jerked you areound fro 14 FREAKIN' years and you are schoked that they stiffed you - well, that makes you a moron.
2002 - GNR does a God-awful medley at the 2002 VMAs.
2003- The Offspring claim there next album will be called "Chinese Democracy (You Snooze, You Lose)
2004 - The joke: China will be a democracy before Chinese Democracy comes out" starts to get old. It gets funny again in 2006.
2008- Dr. Pepper announces that everyone in America except for Slash and Buckethead (former GNR guitarist will get a free Dr. Pepper is Chinese Democaracy is released in 2008. (side note: GNR's current guitarist is Bumblefoot - no I am not kidding. What the hell, can they not get a guitarist with a regular name. Slash who has a cigarette permanently in betwen his lips, alwasy wears sungless and a freaking top-hat over his long curly hair and then bucket head who wore a mask and an actual KFC bucket on his head. Weird simply wierd!)
This past Wendesday "Chinese Democracy" the single is released and the album released date is set for late November.
In between all of this Geffen records and Interscope coughed up 13 - 30 million dollars to make the album. Everyone was afraid they would be the guy known for telling Axel "no" and leading him to hand over Chinese Democracy to another record compnay.
During this time Axel also got horrible plastic surgery. Horrible!

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