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Axl Rose Heralds New Guns N' Roses Album

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 8, 2006
Filed at 1:48 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

His band could be heard rehearsing in the background

How convenient.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

> Slash may end up back in the band as well

He's already got three! How many guitarists can one band need?

― Palomino (Palomino), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

'Sometime this fall or late fall.' '..Or Winter. Maybe Spring. Next Summer at the latest.'

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I thought the point of Chinese Democracy was to finally remove the possibility of remaining G'n'R fans...

― js (honestengine), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, so Chinese Democracy may or may not come out and all the members of the original group may or may not be on it. Okay?

― Period period period (Period period period), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

>How many guitarists can one band need?

Paging Mr. Branca...Mr. Branca, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

i am truly saddened that there never was a Buckethead-GnR album released. It was so parallel universe for a while, and without an official artifact, we can't truly prove to alien lifeforms that it happened.

― caspar (caspar), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

i can see Axl putting an old practice tape in his stereo and cranking the volume right before answering .. "yeah yeah, sorry i can't HEAR you so good, my band is JAMMING so LOUD"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Painfully private?" What does this mean?

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Monday, 8 May 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm praying that Buckethead's stuff makes it on the record.

It's going to be odd if they end up replacing him with some unknown shredder.

― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Monday, 8 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's going to be odd if they end up replacing him with some unknown shredder.

So a guy with a fucking bucket on his head is in no way odd to you?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

What fans? This isn't 1989.

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

"It's going to be odd if they end up replacing him with some unknown shredder.

So a guy with a fucking bucket on his head is in no way odd to you?

-- Johnny Fever (sidewaysou...), May 8th, 2006."

No, because Buckethead has been one of the premiere rock guitarists of the past 15 years. It was a bit odd that he was in GNR, but he could obviously contribute a lot musically.

― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Monday, 8 May 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Meh, I've never been a fan. Of course, I'm of the opinion that it'll never really be GNR without Slash onboard, so maybe I'm the weirdo.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

They could just cut out the middleman and get the New York Dolls to play all their new material.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if Axl called Brian May?

― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Monday, 8 May 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm of the opinion that it'll never really be GNR without Slash onboard

You have a point, but I always thought the most pivotal member was Izzy. Izzy made it all click.

― QuantumNoise (Justin Farrar), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

what a fuckin' band, man. one guy from GNR, one guy from the Replacements, one virtuoso who plays with a KFC bucket on his head, and one guy from Nine Inch Nails. This supergroup is gonna be better than Asia!! FUCK YEAH.

― mervin heinz, Monday, 8 May 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Brain is no slouch on teh drums.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, because Buckethead has been one of the premiere rock guitarists of the past 15 years.

really? where?

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

Back issues of Guitar For The Practicing Musician.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

On a bunch of crap I'd have to be paid cash to listen to.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

i love buckethead.

― city of gyros (chaki), Monday, 8 May 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

[meekly, whispers] I'm a fan.
[more meekly] I listened to that segment of the Trunk show. I know there's no fans left, but Blabbermouth has a link to the show: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=51989

[meekest] I kind of liked hearing him talk.

I'll go away now.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

"No, because Buckethead has been one of the premiere rock guitarists of the past 15 years.

really? where? "

Praxis-Transmutation
Zillatron- Lord of the Harvest
Praxis-Live at Bonnaroo '04
Buckethead-Giant Robot [NTT]
Buckethead-Population Override

I urge you to put in some work with big B. There's a lot of stuff to weed through with Buckethead-- he often engages in dull riff fests, or silly samples from horror movies that bog things down-- but when you get into the bootlegs and some of the more obscure stuff, you'll be amazed.

― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

Praxis makes me want to kill myself.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Praxis makes me want to kill nuns, Nobel Prize winners and innocent little babies and then turn the gun on myself.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:24 (nineteen years ago)

I actually hate praxis' albums other than Transmutation. But I can't imagine why anyone would hate Transmutation as much as you guys seem to.

― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like one ugly clusterfuck of a line-up. Two keyboards and three guitars?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

open your mind, man! Every band needs at least 3 guitarists, 2 bass players, 2 drummers, 2 keyboard players, 2 organ players, and Clarence Clemons.

; )

― Matthew E. Armstrong (gensu3k1), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

'i can see Axl putting an old practice tape in his stereo and cranking the volume right before answering ' ha ha, i was thinking the same thing! he was probably playing pinball when he got the call.

― Carlos Keith (Buck_Wilde), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

this interview is classic

― raw like sufjan (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

You have a point, but I always thought the most pivotal member was Izzy. Izzy made it all click.

Yeah, I thought most of Appetite was Izzy's stuff.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 9 May 2006 10:53 (nineteen years ago)

in my books guns n roses are the greatest band ever, its a shame the original line up wont play together, but im sure the new line up with be ganrly, i am very keen to get the new album, when ever it may be released

― matthew roberts, Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

How about spelling correctly fagat

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

gan rly?

― Unlimited Toothpicker (eman), Sunday, 14 May 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

gans n' rlys

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 14 May 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

"That sounds like one ugly clusterfuck of a line-up. Two keyboards and three guitars?"

Axl is only one drummer shy of southern rock. Artimus Pyle would probably be down for being in GnR's.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 14 May 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

buckethead was in viggo mortenson's support band?

― chris andrews (fraew), Sunday, 14 May 2006 04:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm praying that Buckethead's stuff makes it on the record.
It's going to be odd if they end up replacing him with some unknown shredder.

-- Matthew E. Armstrong (matthew.armstron...), May 8th, 2006.

Off topic a bit, but are they still cranking out new "shredders" these days? I know that in the '80s there was a market for young Yngwies and Satrianis but what are they doing now, desperately trying to get Chris Daughtry's phone number?

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Sunday, 14 May 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'd say shredding has gotten popular again, except this time instead of having some poodle haired singer, you mostly have a guy that sounds like he has gargling listerine. I think a lot of the new thrash stuff is a throw back somewhat to that style of guitar playing. Lamb of God even threw it a nod getting Chris Poland and Alex Skolnick to put solos on a track. Both of those guys eventually went into the shredder fusion netherworld after leaving Megadeth and Testament.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Sunday, 14 May 2006 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

Chocolate rape intellectual overkill? Please wipe you feet at the door.

Thx

― Chuck, Sunday, 14 May 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

REVIVE!

could it be happening.

new tour! cryptic hints!

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1542045/20060929/guns_n_roses.jhtml?headlines=true

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

On Saturday, Guns N' Roses headlined Los Angeles radio station KROQ's sixth annual end-of-summer Inland Invasion festival at the Hyundai Pavilion in Devore, California, delivering a set that included an instrumental cover of Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful"

!!!!!!!!!!!

― real savage-like (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

hahah i didn't see that! crazy!

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

So fuckin' crazy!

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

GUNS N' ROSES FANS MAY FIND THIS OF INTEREST!!!!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't find that interesting.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's down. :(

It used to be the self-similar Gn'R synth (i.e. Gn'R songs where every note was made out of incredibly condensed/sped-up samples of other Gn'R songs).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Here it is!

http://showdown.contagiousmedia.org/archive/selfsimilargnr.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, each note isn't a sample, it's a whole song.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

mp3s wouldn't work for me! damn sounds like a cool experiment.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'll why-ess-eye them if they're still on my home computer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!

They played this when I saw them at the Warfield SF show on Sept 22,
Thal did a solo version of 'Don't You Cry'. It was about as good a GNR show as you could get without the original band. I know how stupid that sounds, but that's the best way I can explain it. I had no idea what my ticket money was going to buy, and the end result was really surprising. Like, they were good!! I'm diving in for the Jan '07 show in Sac. Assuming the tour doesn't get cancelled before now and then.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

between now and then, I mean.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

Who knew?

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 February 2010 15:24 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

Guns n' Roses fans may find this of interest...

http://thequietus.com/articles/08869-guns-roses-creepy-gits

― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:00 (thirteen years ago)

http://scrapetv.com/News/newsbrief/entertainment/images-4/axl-rose-fat.jpg

― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:01 (thirteen years ago)

"I'm a secret rock chick so I'm going to rock out."

― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:11 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Axl selling a bunch of fairly worthless crap + a Marshall amp on ebay

― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 July 2012 19:30 (thirteen years ago)

i was wondering when he'd start to show signs of running out of money

― some dude, Friday, 6 July 2012 19:40 (thirteen years ago)

I don't think he's doing it to make rent, otherwise he'd be charging more than $100 per item, and probably autographing them or something.

― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:26 (thirteen years ago)

yeah true. saner-seeming people have frittered away bigger fortunes, though, so i'm just saying it wouldn't shock me.

― some dude, Friday, 6 July 2012 20:27 (thirteen years ago)

yeah I'm guessing this is "they're raising the rent at the storage locker, why not get rid of some crap I don't need"

― perry en concrète (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 6 July 2012 20:57 (thirteen years ago)

was kind of hoping for "they're raising the rent at the storage locker, better clear some stuff so I can move in"

― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Friday, 6 July 2012 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

getting back to where it all began

― goat news for people who love boat news (how's life), Friday, 6 July 2012 23:50 (thirteen years ago)

If I didn't already have a dryer at home, I'd seriously consider buying this: GUNS N ROSES W-10 Kenmore Dryer in Road Case

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:31 (thirteen years ago)

he's selling his stairmaster!

― higgs bosonned by a wite kid after a aol beef (get bent), Saturday, 7 July 2012 00:44 (thirteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://i.imgur.com/rSxYUi9.jpg

― calstars, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 00:30 (nine years ago)

photo taken 2 hours ago

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 02:33 (nine years ago)

So they both have tattoos of themselves? Is that a thing?

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 19:11 (nine years ago)

It's like someone having a picture of their van airbrushed onto the side of their van.

― I'm part of the 48.1 percent (snoball), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 19:19 (nine years ago)

also, why does Slash's tattoo of himself have breasts?

― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 20:00 (nine years ago)

one year passes...

1986 piano demo of November Rain made me listen to the song all the way through for the first time

― kelp, clam and carrion (sic), Thursday, 28 June 2018 21:31 (seven years ago)

^^That sequence of five posts from July 2016 has me ROFL'ing!

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 28 June 2018 21:33 (seven years ago)

eight months pass...

Randomly came across a big Rob Tannenbaum feature from 1988, with various interesting details (at least in light of it being an “early” look at the newly minted superstars):

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-hard-truth-about-guns-n-roses-56711/

He sings savagely, abusing his vocal chords and working the crowd with an unequaled ferocity. Offstage, his pale skin and strawberry-blond hair make him appear fragile, almost angelic. This is the Axl who listens to the Raspberries, George Michael and Philip Glass and has written an eight-minute ballad, “November Rain,” about which he says, “If it’s not recorded right, I’ll quit the business.”

― get your hand outta my pocket universe (morrisp), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 03:56 (six years ago)

five years pass...

“The surgeon general says it’s hazardous to breathe”

― calstars, Saturday, 11 January 2025 01:23 (nine months ago)

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