I was amazed when America elected Barack Obama to be President of The United States but nothing and I mean NOTHING can top the fact that Axl Rose is finally releasing Chinese Democracy. I would've bet on Texas electing a gay extra terrestrial before this project saw the light of day. I was literally a zygote when I first heard about this album, right after GNR's bust-out release The Spaghetti Incident?
Slash and Duff McKagan had their fill of Axl back in the early 90's and went on to form Velvet Revolver with the sinewy junk-incubator that is Scott Weiland. Axl went a different route and chose to work with respected musicians like Bumblefoot and Buckethead.
I just don't understand why people have problems dealing with a low-key personality like Axl's. Here one of his colleagues, James Hetfield of Metallica fame sounds off on what type of guy Axl is:
But alas Mr. Rose has finally gone and done it by offending an entire Republic (record sales jump?) with GNR'S latest release. Apparently the government of China percieves this bed of Nordic cornrows as some kind of incendiary poet. They took particular offense to the lyric:
If your great wall rocks, blame yourself.
Lookout Keats, I think Axl is punching your card.
Like the Hadron Collider, Chinese Democracy was a labor years in the making. One project was spearheaded by a physicist, the other by a guy who wears catcher's gear and bicycle shorts at the same time. But both, and I do emphasize both have the distinct power of possibly creating a black hole that could swallow the earth.
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