Observer Music Monthly - Class of 2007

[TWT]

http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,1992430,00.html

 

[ottosporteman]

I think any reporter, if they don't have anything at all to write, they think:
"Uhn, maybe I could throw some info on that GNR album, since I was expecting it to come out when I was in college"

Then they google Guns N' Roses +Chinese Democracy, copy and paste, put in some toughts of what he just read and:

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM


There's your article...

GOOD PRESS.

[marty]

i like this bit
"It is probably brilliant"
but not this bit
"At long, long last, there is finally a 'confirmed' release date: 6 March."
'Confirmed' no, 'tentative' yes

[doooodickiebr]

yeah, and hopefully the 6th wont come and go like sll the other times

[ppbebe]

i like this bit
"It is probably brilliant"
but not this bit
"At long, long last, there is finally a 'confirmed' release date: 6 March."
'Confirmed' no, 'tentative' yes

True.
"But the point is: if Axl Rose wants to spend a decade crafting an album, that's his business. Hell, he could spend until hell freezes over. It is, after all, his time to spend, not ours. The world keeps turning. Sly Stone hasn't released an album since 1982. JD Salinger stopped publishing work in 1965. In a March 2005 letter in response to a New York Times article, his ex-manager wrote: 'W. Axl Rose is not interested in fame, money, popularity or what the New York Times or any other paper for that matter might think of him. His only interest is making the best album he is capable of.' Guitarist Brian May, called in by Rose to play on some tracks, described him as 'utterly meticulous'."

  I always prefer The Guardian to The Times.

[GNRreunioneventually]

Finally, this really could be their year ...

Alan Smythe
Sunday January 21, 2007
Observer Music Monthly


W. Axl Rose, elusive front-man of Guns N' Roses has spent more than a decade and an estimated $15m making an album called Chinese Democracy. Never the most media-friendly of rock stars, he hasn't given a significant interview for five years. But he certainly knows how to play the media. 'I think there's a great fear of the unknown, and my new thing is, "I am the unknown",' he told writer Del James, all the way back in 1992, at the height of Guns N' Roses' phenomenal success.

i thought that there would be alot more publicity by now and yes, hopefully this is the year of CHINESE DEMOCRACY

[SLCPUNK]

"But the point is: if Axl Rose wants to spend a decade crafting an album, that's his business. Hell, he could spend until hell freezes over. It is, after all, his time to spend, not ours."

[horsey]

hhmmm the wait has been very interesting so far huh people.

[Judge Dredd]

This particular publication has been scathing of GN'R for at least 3 years, so the fact they have chosen to publish what is quite a positive piece may be an indication that Axl has won the press round.

By doing nothing.

[Bartlet]

This particular publication has been scathing of GN'R for at least 3 years, so the fact they have chosen to publish what is quite a positive piece may be an indication that Axl has won the press round.

By doing nothing.

Thats only the opinion of the person who wrote that piece. Not the guardian, so it doesnt mean that paper now thinks hes great. but if he has brought peopler round, its because of a year of great gigs, from what ive heard. And seen.

Doesnt the article say that last years tour was their first for 9 years? thats untrue in more ways than 1!