Does anybody know if the record company rushed this out against Axl's wishes? What's the deal? It just seems weird to me that after all this time, the record comes out and Axl doesn't even do an interview for it, much less a tour. It's like a great tree fell in the forest and made no sound.

I'm not really a G&R fan, I'm just curious.

I think its because its a flop, if it were any good there would be promo all over the place

Well, there have been plenty of crap records that have been promoted heavily. It's like they intended for it to flop.

I'm pretty ignorant about Guns n Roses(although I love Izzy Stradlin's solo cds)but didnt some of the material on it date way back or was I misinformed?

Its just a crap record. All the press and publicity in the world can't change that

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Does anybody know if the record company rushed this out against Axl's wishes? What's the deal? It just seems weird to me that after all this time, the record comes out and Axl doesn't even do an interview for it, much less a tour. It's like a great tree fell in the forest and made no sound.

I'm not really a G&R fan, I'm just curious.

Rushed it out? It seems like we've been reading about the arrival of 'Chinese Democracy' for about the past 15 years!

From what I heard it was kind of rushed out. Other versions with different packaging are on the horizon. It has a few decent songs and a couple killers.

Axl promises the next CD will be properly promoted and Chinese Democracy is just a taster for what will come.....

And there's a tour being curently prepared, I heard

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Funny how the only G&R records that had any spark were the ones with Izzy who was famous for tracking his parts ONCE. Now we have CDemocracy with its million guitar parts redone a million and guess what...? It flops badly!
Hope Axl Rose will learn a lesson here...

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Does anybody know if the record company rushed this out against Axl's wishes? What's the deal? It just seems weird to me that after all this time, the record comes out and Axl doesn't even do an interview for it, much less a tour. It's like a great tree fell in the forest and made no sound.

I'm not really a G&R fan, I'm just curious.

Best Buy paid something like $14 million for 1.6 million copies. So Axl doesn't really need to do any promo though Best Buy may have a different view.

It really is God awful except for maybe 3 songs.

Like dcba says - Izzy left the band and it all went to sh*t. Slash was the Les Paul monster, Axl the screaming frontman, then you had assorted Duffs and Whizzys and Doobies jumping around at various intervals. But it's all just spinning wheels if there's no good songs. And that is what Izzy brought.