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Saturday, 21 March 2009 00:00 |
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Guns N' Roses is proud to announce that guitarist n' songwriter Dj Ashba has joined the band for an upcoming tour.
Ashba, who officially replaces current NIN guitarist Robin Finck, is best known as co-founder of hard rock bands Sixx AM and Beautiful Creatures. |
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Axl Rose Interview with Del James February 2009 |
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Friday, 27 February 2009 00:00 |
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Since releasing the long-awaited Guns N' Roses album 'Chinese Democracy' this past November, Axl Rose has said very little about it, taking to message boards and e-mails for the few comments he has made. But if there's one person who could get him to break his silence it's Del James, Rose's longtime friend, road manager and the man whose short story, 'Without You,' inspired the epic clip for 'November Rain.'
James, a music journalist who has covered G N' R for years, dating back to his days at metal mag Rip, as well as in several Rolling Stone articles, spoke with Rose and is sharing the results of that one-on-one exclusively with Spinner. Yes, here he is, W. Axl Rose, letting loose on Slash, answering whether he was trying to make the best album ever and waxing philosophically on when the original G N' R lineup really died. |
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 00:00 |
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Guns N' Roses Band Member Q & A at your Guns N' Roses Forum ChineseDemocracy.com If you missed Axl on here in December, here is your chance to have your questions answered by the rest of Guns N' Roses: Dizzy, Brain, Chris, Dizzy, Frank, Richard, Ron and/or Tommy. If you are a member of the forum, you can use this thread. We will select about 10 intelligent (we hope) questions for each band member. So if you have something cool to ask …. Like guitar pedal configurations that Fortus uses with GNR and the like… DO IT! Then they will answer your questions in some sort of fancy (or not) video shoot talking to you directly. |
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New Axl Interview - Chinese to Rock Band, Axl on making of CD and more |
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Friday, 06 February 2009 00:00 |
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From Billboard.com by Jonathan Cohen It's been nine years since Axl Rose gave a substantial print interview. For all that time and more, he's been working on the album "Chinese Democracy," which finally arrived in late November.
It was an arduous process, to say the least. Guns N' Roses haven't released a new song since 1999 or an album since a 1993 set of covers. Since then, Rose has toured sporadically, worked with a rotating cast of musicians -- he owns the Guns N' Roses name, according to his attorney, Laurie Soriano -- and recorded numerous versions of the same new songs. According to a 2005 article in the New York Times, Universal Music Group had spent $13 million on "Chinese Democracy" by then.
The album came out in the United States as a Best Buy retail exclusive and debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 261,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. To date, it has sold 537,000 copies in the States, far fewer than the 1.3 million that Best Buy bought upfront, according to the Wall Street Journal. But the album has sold 2.6 million copies worldwide, according to Universal -- a number that counts only retail purchases -- and the company plans to start promoting another single soon. |
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