I totally agree, benedict! Thanks for that post.

We'll see who has the last laugh when the new album is released.

Wow! An actual review! Maybe this will see the light of day this year!

http://www.spin.com/reviews/magazine...23_gunsnroses/

Seems like an early April Fools Day review.

Without incredible reviews and a strong single garnering massive airplay I don't see this flying out of the stores. I think a lot of people see Axl as the white Michael Jackson (I know, kind of redundent) because of his eccentric behavior. He may be comercially scarred. I'm betting against it being a hit but I could be wrong.

Sorry if I missed it, but is there an actual release date for this album yet?

Mordred, I think you may be right. Supposedly in the print version, there's a disclaimer at the end of the article saying it's a joke.

Kind of makes sense. Why would they cover "Cowboy Song" and redo "Think About You"?

It's not April 1st though. Then again, the review can't be a bigger joke than Spin.

And look at the smug prick who wrote the "review". Chuck Klosterman's head needs to end up on a stick.

Wow. For writing a sarcastic review of a pop record? Hate to see what you'd do to a real criminal.

Nah, I'm not upset about the review (don't really care one way or the other about "Chinese Democracy"), I just don't like the guy.

Was head on a stick too... harsh?

Two warm-up dates in New York City were added to their upcoming tour.

So the current schedule is as follows:

And supposedly there will be a North American tour this fall to coincide with the album's release.

I did not know Rock in Rio was in Portugal.

Yep, the last one in 2004 was as well.

http://rockinrio-lisboa.sapo.pt/

Seventeen years after their first stint opening for the Rolling Stones, Guns 'N Roses have been tapped to open for the English rock legends at two German shows this summer. GNR will support the Stones July 10 in Nurnberg and two days later in Leipzig.

The dates will come in the middle of GNR's summer European tour, which begins May 27 at Lisbon's Rock in Rio festival. The band will warm up for the jaunt with a May 12, 14-15, 17 stand at New York's Hammerstein Ballroom. As for GNR's eternally delayed new album, "Chinese Democracy," no release date is in the offing,

BILLBOARD.com

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...t/14529943.htm

Posted on Mon, May. 08, 2006

Axl Rose heralds new Guns N' Roses album

JANET MORRISSEY
Associated Press

NEW YORK - Rock recluse Axl Rose made a surprise radio appearance to
proclaim that Guns N' Roses 10-years-in-the-making "Chinese Democracy" album
will finally hit store shelves this fall.

The comments Saturday on Eddie Trunk's syndicated radio show marked the
first interview the painfully private Rose has given since his failed 2002
comeback tour, which was abruptly scrapped midway amid riots and canceled
shows.

Roses impromptu appearance came when former Skid Row frontman Sebastian
Bach, who was co-hosting the show, called Rose's cell phone and patched the
call through the studio.

Quizzed on when the near-mythical album would come out, Rose said, "Sometime
this fall or late fall." His band could be heard rehearsing in the
background. "It will be out this year."

Trunk invited Rose to drop by the studio, and about an hour later he did.

Asked about the aborted 2002 comeback tour, which ended when Rose failed to
appear for a gig in Philadelphia, Rose told Trunk he felt pressured into
doing it before he was ready. But he insisted he has no regrets, since the
short-lived tour helped the new band members to gel. (The 2002 lineup
included keyboard player Dizzy Reed from the original GNR, former Nine Inch
Nails guitarist Robin Finck, bassist Tommy Stinson from the Replacements,
guitar shredder Buckethead, drummer Brian "Brain" Mantia formerly of Primus,
guitarist Richard Fortus from the former Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit
Love, and keyboard player Chris Pittman.)

"Can you tell people why the tour ended at that point?" asked Trunk.

"Umm, no, not exactly," said Rose, declining to discuss it.

Plans are currently in the works for Rose to relaunch his comeback by
playing four shows at New Yorks Hammerstein Ballroom over the next 10 days,
then head to Europe to play several music festivals.

Rose said the band at the Hammerstein shows will be similar to the one that
played the 2002 tour, except for a new lead guitarist, whom he declined to
identify except to say it's not an old GNR member. Buckethead left the band
in 2004.

However, later in the broadcast, Rose seemed to contradict himself when he
said hes been hobnobbing with former GNR guitarist and songwriter Izzy
Stradlin, and strongly hinted that Stradlin may show up for the Hammerstein
shows.

Former GNR guitar maestro Slash may end up back in the band as well, but
probably not before the Hammerstein shows.

Izzy being back would be great. Don't buy that Slash would come back but if he did so would Duff. Good news.

So what the hell was that SPIN review all about. Is that a joke?

Well, it did come out on April Fool's day.

today my cousin brought me a CD-R. It's labeled GNR "The Chinese Democracy" mixtape. Haven't listened to it all, just sampled it.

... listened to it. It's GNR alright. It has IRS, Madagascar [studio/demo & live]... 13 tracks total... blah blah. Just release the damn album already.

Today marks fifteen years since the last full album(s) of original Guns N' Roses material was released.

In that time. . .

. . .Izzy Stradlin released six albums
. . .Slash released two albums
. . .Duff McKagan released two albums
. . .Velvet Revolver, featuring Slash and Duff, released one album, and is working on their second
. . .Stephen Adler released an EP

. . .and Axl Rose has officially released one song.

hahahhaahah even gilby clarke is more "in" to the youths than axl rose!!! (rockstar supernova)

heard a commercial [yesterday] for the KROQ show next week with GNR headlining [I had forgorten about it]. I asked my brother if AXL had done any more interviews since the last one he did [since he promisied to do more] and anything on the album. My brother said that he believed Axl said January 2007. Anyway since the thread was bumped I thought I would share that [I wasn't gonna since nothing is really known]

In the new Rolling Stone it is reported that Axl still said it would be out this year backstage at the VMA's.

I don't believe it for a second. I believe he said it, but I don't believe it's coming out this year. If it was, the CDs should be at the pressing plant right now or in the very near future.