Axl breaks his silence, speaks out online
NEW YORKñHe’s yet to grant an interview about Guns N’ Roses’ recently released Chinese Democracy, but Axl Rose broke his silence last week by answering questions on the message boards of popular GNR websites MyGNR.com and Here Today … Gone to Hell.
Rose addressed a range of topics, including the status of his relationships with former band members, several specific songs from Chinese Democracy, and whether guitarists Buckethead and Robin Finck would one day return to GNR.
“What I can say now is you’ve been told a lot of things in order for others to promote themselves that factually they cannot back up in regard to either,” Rose said when asked why the original lineup fell apart. “They are complicated legally, financially and have devoured a good portion of my life.”
He added that he was recently sued by Duff McKagan and Slash over a merchandising issue “that I was unaware and not involved in. Fortunately that was resolved but it got ugly and took a while going into arbitration.”
Rose didn’t address what took so long for Chinese Democracy, which was started in the mid-1990s, to be released. But he did acknowledge additional material that could be released in its wake.
“For now we’ll concentrate and keep our focus on this album, but I will say I’ve always thought of it as a double,” he said of Chinese Democracy. Earlier, he told fans a video for the album’s “Better” would be released “in a week or so.”
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