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Slash On CD: "It's A Great Statement By Axl"

Slash, former Guns N' Roses guitarist, recently talked to VanityFair.de about "Chinese Democracy" and his autobiography.

VanityFair.de: What do you think “Chinese democracy” - the album your former colleague Axl Rose has been working on for ten years now - will sound like? 

Slash: To tell you the truth: I already listened to it. At first I thought that I would never listen to it until it’s released, but someone handed it to me and I was in my car and I was like “Okay, let’s give it a try.” So I listened to it: It’s a really good record. It’s very different from what the original Guns N’ Roses sounded like, but it’s a great statement by Axl. Now you understand where he was heading all this time. It’s a record that the original Guns N’ Roses could never possibly make. And at the same time it just shows you how brilliant Axl is. So it was a relief for me to actually hear it.

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Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal Signs With BCD

DEEP/BCD Music Group has announced the signing of Guns N' Roses lead guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. His latest CD, "Abnormal", which was released on July 1 via all digital outlets, will be made available in October. The DEEP/BCD Music Group version of the album will include an exclusive bonus track not available anywhere else.

"Abnormal", the follow-up to Thal's previous offering, "Normal", is a hard rock album flavored with a light-hearted mix of different styles and genres, with catchy hooks and blistering guitar work. It contains "17 powerful, well-delivered tracks" featuring Thal's "incredible lyrics and seriously intense skills on the guitar," according to a press release.

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Warrior Soul's Chinese Democracy

According to Blabbermouth is Warrior Soul, the band fronted by legendary singer Kory Clarke, the latest act to announce (jokingly or not) that it has selected "Chinese Democracy" — the name of the perennially delayed new Guns N' Roses LP — as the title of its new album. The CD will be available exclusively at shows on Warrior Soul's forthcoming U.S. tour, which begins on October 16 at the Double Door in Chicago, Illinois.

Stated Clarke: "I'm really proud of this album. It's been great to make another Warrior Soul record and this line up is the best I've ever had." He continued, "People have been waiting for a long time to hear this record and I'm thrilled to finally release 'Chinese Democracy'."

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Slash To Compose Score For Mexican Film

Slash, the former guitarist for Guns N' Roses and the current guitarist for Velvet Revolver, will compose the score for the Mexican film, "This Is Not A Movie", the second production written and directed by Olallo Rubio.

"It's very cutting-edge, very artistic, and a little bit trippy," said Slash when discussing the film with the English-language magazine Mojo. "It's dark, and jagged and a bit surreal, in and out of reality, you know?"

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Slash Reflects On Wild Guns N' Roses Years

(3 News) 23 years ago a rock band called Guns N' Roses formed in Los Angeles. Now guitarist Slash has moved on - but he still has fond memories of his musical achievements. Slash left Guns N Roses in 1996 after creative differences with lead singer Axl Rose - but he still feels proud that whatever they did, they did it their way.

"Everybody else is making compromises and concessions so that they can make it big and get their, you know, their picture on the cover of Teen Beat or Us Weekly or whatever you know, so, so...There's a sort of, kind of, selling out to that. But I think what was great about Guns N' Roses is that we made it on our own integrity and we didn't give up anything to anybody and made it on our own merit."

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GN'R Camp Comments On Lefsetz Rant

Exclusive report from Paul Cashmere of Undercover:

In his latest bizarre rantings, Bob Lefsetz has encouraged Axl Rose to kill himself.

In what can only be described as a remarkable example of insensitivity, Lefsetz wrote “Of all the marketing/distribution ideas I received in response to my missive, I'll only reveal one, that upon the album's release, Axl Rose should commit suicide”.

Axl Rose should be furious that any human being could sink to such a low level. "It appears unethical, irresponsible, reprehensible, misguided and just the sort of thing a douchebag like Leftshitz would say," Guns N' Roses said in a statement to Undercover.

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Guns N' Roses Leaker Asks For Financial Aid

Andy Greene of the Rolling Stone magazine reports that Kevin Cogill, the blogger who was arrested by the FBI last week for leaking nine unreleased Guns n’ Roses tracks, has broken his silence on his Website.

In a new post, Cogill reveals that he has retained the services of attorney David J.P. Kaloyanides, who works with “many indigent clients who cannot afford to hire their own lawyer,” according to his Website. Cogill has set up a Paypal account on his site to raise funds for his defense. He also plans on auctioning his Gibson Les Paul BFG guitar.

If convicted Cogill faces a possible five-year prison sentence and a $250,000 fine. A preliminary hearing is booked for September 17th.

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Is Best Buy A Done Deal?

According to Bob Lefsetz, author of The Lefsetz Letter, the deal with Best Buy is done:

A little birdie told me the deal with Best Buy is done. All that’s left to do is sign the contract.

Of all the marketing/distribution ideas I received in response to my missive, I’ll only reveal one, that upon the album’s release, Axl Rose should commit suicide. This is brilliant insight. Nothing’s a better story than the death of a cultural icon, especially one who flaunted convention.

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War Of The Roses

"Watch You Bleed: The Saga of Guns N' Roses," an explosive new book by veteran music historian Stephen Davis, lays out the gory details, sin by sin.

Drawing on interviews with Davis and passages from his book, Larry Getlin of the New York Post examines the band's depraved rise and fall.

For Guns n' Roses, "Appetite for Destruction" was more than the title of a landmark album that sold 15 million copies in the US and turned the group into rock legends. It was also the perfect description of a hunger that, while catapulting them to stardom, also mired them in a miasma of degrading sex, lethal drugs and brutal violence that left them and their associates on the brink of death.

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Did You Hear The One About Axl And Kelly?

Paul Cashmere of Undercover sets the record straight about last week's bizarre rumor:

Oh dear, OK Magazine is it again. Axl Rose has hit on Kelly Osbourne if you believe the tabloids. Don’t! The fact is that Axl Rose wasn’t even at the party where he was supposed to have propositioned Kelly Osbourne.

That beacon of credibility OK Magazine reported that a source said that Axl, "kept leering at her and saying, "I want to f*** you!". The whole story is total rubbish.

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