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marnold
October 28th, 2008, 11:06 AM
Over on Imeem (I never heard about this site until today) you can listen to the title track of Guns N' Roses' "Chinese Democracy" (http://www.imeem.com/gunsnroses/music/ZDPzX2B2/guns_n_roses_chinese_democracy/), an album 278 years in the making. I half way expected the track to suck but it is not at all bad. I may have to check out the rest of the album. And enjoy my free Dr. Pepper.
SuperSwede
October 28th, 2008, 11:10 AM
Its certainly not bad, but it aint Guns´n´Roses in my book either... its Axl, but no cigar...
Tone2TheBone
October 28th, 2008, 12:48 PM
What? No screaming Silver Jubilees? :mad:
SuperSwede
October 28th, 2008, 03:10 PM
What? No screaming Silver Jubilees? :mad:

Not a British amp in sight!! :deadhorse:
Katastrophe
October 28th, 2008, 03:11 PM
Who ended up on the album playing guitar? If it was Ron Thal (Bumblefoot), he plays Line 6 Vettas, I believe.
warren0728
October 28th, 2008, 03:22 PM
Who ended up on the album playing guitar? If it was Ron Thal (Bumblefoot), he plays Line 6 Vettas, I believe.
i think there were several guitarists on the album....including buckethead....
marnold
October 28th, 2008, 04:20 PM
The Wikipedia page lists a number of guitarists, including Buckethead and Bumblefoot and . . . Brian May?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Democracy
Andy
October 28th, 2008, 05:41 PM
well I listend to it.I bet nearly anybody on this board could play that song with minimal effort.
except for a couple short breaks it's 4 very basic barre chords.

and his signature katherine hepburn vocals.

to be fair I never was a big fan, tho I did like the first G-N-R album.
mabey the other stuff is more interesting.
hubberjub
October 28th, 2008, 06:08 PM
It just doesn't have that raw bluesyness to it.
Andy
October 28th, 2008, 06:17 PM
as much as they overworked on it they probably sucked any true bluesy rawness out in the mix.
marnold
November 20th, 2008, 12:41 PM
Chinese Democracy is now streaming in its entirety on Guns 'N' Roses MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses). Since this has got to be one of the signs of the apocalypse, I would humbly suggest that you all consider repenting. ;)
Algonquin
November 20th, 2008, 12:55 PM
Since this has got to be one of the signs of the apocalypse, I would humbly suggest that you all consider repenting. ;)
LOL :rotflmao:
Blaze
November 20th, 2008, 01:21 PM
http://fr.myspace.com/gunsnroses
Kazz
November 20th, 2008, 05:03 PM
Chinese Democracy is now streaming in its entirety on Guns 'N' Roses MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses). Since this has got to be one of the signs of the apocalypse, I would humbly suggest that you all consider repenting. ;)




Hey Matt, can we have a chat :-) :rockon:
pes_laul
November 20th, 2008, 08:49 PM
the only song I hear was "better" which wasn't that bad it just seemed to digital. Though I could really dig the solo in it:dude:
R.B. Huckleberry
November 26th, 2008, 06:28 AM
It's...epic. It truly is. Is it Guns N' Roses? Well, not as I knew them. But Axl owns the name so he can have whoever he wants on his record.

The hugeness of everything on Chinese Democracy is mind-blowing. The songs are at their core very good, and we'll debate the (over?) production for decades (I think it's great as is).

Now, I know it isn't the Appetite or Illusion albums. It wasn't ever going to be, and I made my peace with that ages ago. But it's an ambitious well executed body of work.