Here's the Jam! Music (Canadian website) article on Slash's comments:
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2006/01/07/1383665.htmlGNR disc set for a March release
By MIKE BELL -- Calgary Sun
Putting thoughts in print is a sketchy proposition.
The reason being, no sooner do you write something, then you turn around and it's immediately dispelled or proven wrong or libelous and you're slapped with a summons, or merely slapped.
For example, a week ago I wrote on my online diary -- which I call a "weblog," or "blog," if you will -- "i thinke lindsee lohan iz going to hav a sooper yeer. i see nuthing butt helth and gud fortun for the superhott singer in 2006!! lol! :-)."
(I have no idea what any of that last stuff is, but I'm pretty sure it makes me net savvy -- whatever the hell that means.)
Unfortunately, this week, as everyone knows, Lohan died.
Or went nuts. Or something.
It doesn't really make a difference -- what matters is she's not enjoying gud fortun (although the nekkid Vanity Fair pictures do further the freckled one's superhottness) and I have, in turn, been proven wrong.
Well, the same can be said for an article which ran in Friday's Sun, which bemoaned the upcoming months in the music industry as being slow and without much to get excited about.
Turns out, that was only partially correct -- the next few months do blow, but it appears there may be something that will set off as close to a CD-buying stampede as you'll ever see.
According to former Guns N' Roses, current Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash, the legendary Chinese Democracy is set for release this spring.
Slash recently told a Philadelphia radio station his former band -- now consisting of only Axl Rose from the original lineup -- has completed the 10-year-in-the-making, on-again, off-again album and is getting ready to finally let the world hear it.
"It's coming out in March," Slash tells the station. "I've been told a lot of things over the years, but it definitely sounds like it's coming out in March."
Slash says he didn't hear the news from Rose himself, admitting, also, he hasn't spoken to his former frontman since he left the band a decade ago -- which has led to much speculation about their relationship.
"I haven't really talked to him directly, but we're not at each others throats, or anything like that -- just to kill all of that bad blood that people keep recreating," Slash explained. "God, it's been going on for 10 years.
"He and I have never had a conversation, an argument ... over that whole 10 years and people have been generating all this animosity.
"But at this point there's no friction going on."
If you want to hear the entire interview, you can check it out at
www.gmppodcast.com/tabid/58/mid/380/ItemId/157/default.aspx.
And if you want to hear the album, close your eyes and wish it so. Just don't write it down -- you'll only be disappointed.
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