What about ALL these statements made you think the March 6th date was gonna happen, just because he said a date? The only thing in the letter that is worth anything is the part where you clearly see the frustration Axl feels to the project and he gives specifics about the album still not being "done".? He also lets us know that the record hadn't even been turned over to the label as of December and they were negotiating a new deal. Mar 6th was tentative as he said-not guaranteed-just like the other statements below-NO DIFFERENT. I added in a few more to get a comprehensive take on ALL his statements regarding a possible release of a Gnr Album.
October 1996 Burning Hills Fax:
#6. There will be a new Guns N' Roses 12 song minimum recording with
three original "B" sides.
NOTE: If all goes well this will be immediately repeated.
#7. However*******Slash will not be involved in any new Guns N' Roses
endeavors? as far has not been musically involved with Guns N" Roses
since April 1994 with the exception of a BRIEF feel period with Zakk
Wylde and a 2 week initial period with Guns N' Roses in the late fall
of '95. He (Slash) has been "OFFICIALLY and LEGALLY" outside of the
Guns N' Roses Partnership since December 31, 1995.
Kurt Loder Interview : 1999
Loder: When do you think we will actually see this album? Is it possible to say early next year?
Rose: We're hoping. Yes, definitely, everything seems to be going well.
Rolling Stone Article: 2000
?The new Guns N Roses album is tentatively titled Chinese Democracy and loosely scheduled for summer 2000?.
''As far as I can tell,'' says GnR's manager Doug Goldstein, ''we are now 99% musically done and 80% vocals done. I see the record being done Feb or March for a summer release.''
Chile Radio Interview: 2001
DJ: When is it gonna be the new album? Is it possible that we're gonna have a new record from Guns N' Roses?
Axl: Yes, I've heard. Um, hopefully we will put out a new single umm sometime this spring and then the record gonna be done in June or shortly thereafter.
AUG 2002 Press Release
There are a lot of new songs that were just done in the last year that we feel that ?okay, well that bumps a lot of stuff off the previous list but it's time to stop that now and wrap up the baby. It feels right, the timing, and a lot of things. We?ve sorted it down to what songs are on the record. What the sequence of the songs is. The album cover art is ready. Blah, blah, blah. If you're waiting...don't.
Seattle Interview: DEC 2002
?Ditch: You've really, you've... It sounds like really nurtured relationships with these guys, and the new disc "Chinese Democracy". Umm, do you have any idea when the fruits of those labours will come to harvest??
Axl: Uhh, sometime during the next year.
RIR Press Release: Buckethead Departure 2004
?Guns will be moving forward and surprisingly (without giving away any details) this unfortunate set of circumstances may have given us the opportunity to take our recording that one extra step further. Regardless we hope to announce a release date within the next few months?.
Spring and Fall 2006: Eddie Trunk Interview and MTV AWARDS
Axl-"definitely coming out this year. Fall, late Fall."
Open letter from Axl Rose: posted on HTGTH, Dec 15th 2006
??this is not a promise, a lie or a guarantee, but we do wish to announce a tentative release date of March 6?.
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