Chinese Democracy.

I'm giving the leaked version a listen. Axl is one hell of a vocalist. A times, the production is overdone. Other times, it's only pushing 1990. I had no idea that Tommy Stinson was playing with G^NR (+1). The New York Times has a write-up on Sunday. This paragraph was great:

“Chinese Democracy” sounds like a loud last gasp from the reign of the indulged pop star: the kind of musician whose blockbuster early success could once assure loyal audiences, bountiful royalties, escalating ambitions and dangerously open-ended deadlines. The leaner, leakier 21st-century recording business is far less likely to nurture such erratic perfectionists. (Mr. Rose did manage to outpace Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, which re-emerged on tour this year but hasn’t yet released a successor to its 1991 masterpiece, “Loveless.”) The new rock paradigm, a throwback to the 1950s and early 1960s, is to record faster, more cheaply and more often, then head out on tour before the next YouTube sensation distracts potential fans.

That made sense to me, because I've been waiting for this record for a long time, and it's not something that couldn't be done in any number of local project studios. Some nifty textural stuff going on with the guitars, though. You don't hear enough really extreme guitar sounds much anymore in this genre.

That paragraph reminds me that we need to get our asses in gear with this pre-production. Sunday.
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