CHINESE DEMOCRACY - Promotion thread (scans, links to promotional material)

[Is he struggling?]

yeah saw them too. saw them yesterday on the man u v villa game too

I have to say that those ads at the footbal were really lousy - waching the match on tv, I could hardly make out what was being advertised. Must have been the use of light orange font on a yellow and red background.

[GypsySoul]

BestBuy flyer 

[Eazy E]

Just heard Chinese Democracy on the Grey Cup.... there was also a mention of the album in a Future Shop commercial (it had an older versoin of the artwork actually!)

[TWT]

amazon.co.uk has a video on the homepage. Hadn't seen it before today.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/

[Christos AG]

I just got interviewed on one of the biggest news radio stations in Greece about the album!!!   ..

www.alpha989.gr

[Albert S Miller]

I just got interviewed on one of the biggest news radio stations in Greece about the album!!!   ..

www.alpha989.gr

Wow!! How cool is that?  Were you just in the right place at the right time?

[Christos AG]

I just got interviewed on one of the biggest news radio stations in Greece about the album!!!   ..

www.alpha989.gr

Wow!! How cool is that?  Were you just in the right place at the right time?

Actually, they contacted me and asked me to talk on air about the album and the band... 

I've given a few more interviews over the years on TV and radio.

It was really cool... 

[Mobenrad]

I just got interviewed on one of the biggest news radio stations in Greece about the album!!!   ..

www.alpha989.gr

Wow!! How cool is that?  Were you just in the right place at the right time?

Actually, they contacted me and asked me to talk on air about the album and the band... 

I've given a few more interviews over the years on TV and radio.

It was really cool... 

Nice opportunity

[Christos AG]

I just got interviewed on one of the biggest news radio stations in Greece about the album!!!   ..

www.alpha989.gr

Wow!! How cool is that?  Were you just in the right place at the right time?

Actually, they contacted me and asked me to talk on air about the album and the band... 

I've given a few more interviews over the years on TV and radio.

It was really cool... 

Nice opportunity

It was a good opportunity to advertise the album cause there almost no promotion at all at the record stores... No posters, no special stands, no nothing.

Universal doesn't have any t-shirts like in other countries and they'll send me like 5-10 promo cd's after countless phone calls and after they saw that I'll have a half page ad for the album and the fan club on the next 3 issues of the Greek Metal Hammer...

[axljungle]

Today In Spain, I saw a GNR Promo for Chinese Democracy, during the program "Padre de Familia" ("Family Guy" in English). The Spot promote this TV serial, and you can see it at the begining and at the end.
 

[Mobenrad]

I just got interviewed on one of the biggest news radio stations in Greece about the album!!!   ..

www.alpha989.gr

Wow!! How cool is that?  Were you just in the right place at the right time?

Actually, they contacted me and asked me to talk on air about the album and the band... 

I've given a few more interviews over the years on TV and radio.

It was really cool... 

Nice opportunity

It was a good opportunity to advertise the album cause there almost no promotion at all at the record stores... No posters, no special stands, no nothing.

Universal doesn't have any t-shirts like in other countries and they'll send me like 5-10 promo cd's after countless phone calls and after they saw that I'll have a half page ad for the album and the fan club on the next 3 issues of the Greek Metal Hammer...

Yeah no kidding. I've read--and expected--that Universal was launching the whole monumental campaign thing. It really doesn't seem like it followed through unfortunately. They began promoting the thing only a month before it came out. That's not very good. Slipknot's new album was #1 on release, and they were promoting it with their first single 3 months before it came out.

[RickDunsford]

that display they have at best buy i'm picking that up saturday

[mrlee]

I was listening to kerrang radio this morning in the car on the way to college.

At about 11ish a show came on in which they announced the new album is released in the UK today. And wanted people to text in if they thought it was good or not to the show so the presenter could read out opinions.

Later on they would also be having a "old guns n roses vs new guns n roses" in which i assume they play two old guns tracks, and CD and better from the new album.

Sadly i arrived at college long before this. so i cant report on what the texts reactions to the album were!

[FunkyMonkey]

GUNS N' ROSES: 'Chinese Democracy' Mania Hits Germany, Japan; Video Available - Nov. 24, 2008

German TV station Pro7 aired a two-minute report on the release of GUNS N' ROSES' long-awaited new album, "Chinese Democracy", which included interviews with the band's fans and a short chat with Sven Kilthau-Lander, senior director of promotion at Universal Music Germany (international division). Watch the report below.

In other news, one GUNS N' ROSES fan has posted a short video clip of a truck advertising the "Chinese Democracy" album on the streets of Tokyo, Japan. The fan says, "It must have come past me about 5 or 6 times within an hour."

Plus Swedish, Dutch and German TV commercials: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109526

[estebanf]

Buenos Aires, Argentina

look at the bike

[Dead N' Bloated]

In a battle for worldwide supremacy GN'R is prepared to take on all comers, no genre or artist is safe.


If you haven't been to Best Buy yet, get it on iTunes now: http://itunes.
apple. com/WebObjects/MZStore.
woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=297019864&s=143441
Then copy and paste this message and post it on every forum you see to tell everyone out there that you?ve bought Chinese Democracy, and it?s their turn to do the same.


From GN'R myspace.


 

[sandman]

i saw a new commercial last night on VH1 Classic. it was around 11:30 and i was watching an Iron Maiden performance from Rock n Rio 2002.

i wasn't really paying attention to the comercials, but all of a sudden i see the giant red star and i think it was CD playing in the background. then there was a voice over that said something like "gnr...cd...featuring the hit song CD....and Better." and they played a few seconds of each song. then the voice said "available now at Best Buy."

anyone else see this one? i did a quick search on youtube but didn't see it.

[elmir]

Universal doesn't have any t-shirts like in other countries and they'll send me like 5-10 promo cd's after countless phone calls and after they saw that I'll have a half page ad for the album and the fan club on the next 3 issues of the Greek Metal Hammer...

at least you managed to get something....in SA, there is still no radio airplay for either of the two singles...(an independent rock station occasionally plays CD)....the album is still not in stores...(wont be for another week apparently)...and a certain Universal rep said that they would recommend to stores that they only order a few copies as they don't expect this "thing" to do anything major in terms of sales....

fukn frustrating....not to mention that we don't have any T-shirts, posters, or TV ads...and Best Buy don't ship outside the states...crap....

[gunns1]

Is there any more information/rumours on the music video that might be happening?

I want to see GNR on tv/youtube/myspace peforming songs from the record to really shove this album in peoples faces.

[g2r_Axl]

Aside of putting on the premiere listening party with Universal on the 20th i've had 3 radio interviews between Thursday and Monday for the album.
2 for BBC and one for Manchester Rock radio. Also one for BBC tv at the album premiere.
All of the interviews i pretty much praised Chinese Democracy or stayed neutral when they started comparing it to classis GNR saying "look its something new i think its gonna work lets go with it. Original GNR was superb but lets not condem this new album cos we've not got anything else right now theres some great stuff on there and until a reunion lets be happy with it all."
Pretty much every presenter open minded to what i was saying.

However the prick from BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday was totally trying to condem the album and trying to get me on board and say its nothing without Slash. Which i didn't do i pretty much said its something new give it a chance. He did try and make me look stupid for not agreeing with him but made himself look more of a dick when he cracked a joke that no one got the punch line of about Guns 2 Roses having a "Slash" on stage as in he mean't taking a piss on stage. He ended up laughing to his own joke even his broadcast partner looks puzzled with a "wtf" look on her face.

I'm just waiting for the mp3's of these interviews and once i get them i'll put them up here