![]() ![]() Meanwhile, Rose has spent the entire Clinton and Bush administrations reworking and tinkering with these songs, pouring every fiber of his being into proving that he did not break up the premiere hard rock band of the late 1980s for nothing. ![]() Since then, the other members have made their cases (Slash’s Snakepit, Velvet Revolver), with varying degrees of success. Slash and Duff McKagan aren’t listed in the album’s voluminous credits, but the material on Chinese Democracy is strong enough that you don’t care.Īt the time of the original band’s dissolution around 1994, Rose’s fascination with industrial and electronic music put him at odds with his bandmates, who saw themselves as their generation’s answer to Led Zeppelin. Chinese Democracy’s 14 tracks are heavy but infectiously melodic, dirty but grandiose-in short, everything the original Gunners were great at, updated for a post-NIN rock landscape and stuffed into a filler-free 71-minute rush of hot guitars, hip-hop beats, and orchestral bombast. But somehow or other, Axl has managed to turn Guns N’ Roses 2.0 into a real band, one that has made not only the best GNR album since Appetite but the best hard rock album of the last several years. Rose is the only link between the band that recorded the 1987 hard-rock landmark Appetite for Destruction and the one currently calling itself Guns N’ Roses, which features members of Primus, Nine Inch Nails, and the Replacements, among others.Īnd if Chinese Democracy had been the train wreck most predicted and hoped it would be, that fact would be relevant. To many, Axl Rose’s ludicrous soap opera of delays, failed tours, and endless lineup changes is just as interesting as the idea that an actual album would emerge from it. ![]() Let’s get one thing straight: Dark Side of the Moon on crack probably wouldn’t justify the 14-year, $13 million wait for Guns N’ Roses’ legendarily delayed Chinese Democracy. ![]()
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