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- elevendayempire
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Re: Best Buy Posts Album Artwork for Chinese Democracy
God, it's weird seeing the cover over there on the right next to the others... 
- tejastech08
- Rep: 194
Re: Best Buy Posts Album Artwork for Chinese Democracy
God, it's weird seeing the cover over there on the right next to the others...
Yep. 
- dr_love6977
- Rep: 38
Re: Best Buy Posts Album Artwork for Chinese Democracy
downliner wrote:Wasn't the cover artwork was originally shown at Vegas 01.01.01 ?
Hong Kong, 08/14/02.
The Vegas '01 show posters featured my avatar, I think.
On 08/14, at the tour opener in China, Axl proved the cover art was indeed ready.
"Before [GNR] played [CD], [Axl] told a little anecdote why the new album is called 'Chinese Democracy'. He said it was because he saw a photo taken in Hong Kong, which he's using as the new album cover. And then he showed it on the video screens, and it was a black and white picture of a bicycle with a basket, and in the wall behind it, someone had grafittied 'Guns N' Roses'!!! He said 'I didn't paint that myself, so one of you motherfuckers out there must have did it!'" (Fan review)
"At one point, that was going to be the cover of the record - I'm not sure if it's now. This one guy... he was my keyboard tech at the time... Michael... and I mean he was in China at the time and he saw that and took a picture and showed it to Axl." (Dizzy, Metal Sludge, 01/29/06)
- 2002
Oh, that makes sense. I don't know how I never heard that story.
I think the "tinkering" had alot to do with it.
For example, the way CD sounded on the Best Buy leaks and the 06 tour was quite a bit different from the 01/02 tour versions. The Blues is another example and honestly who knows what else was done during the 02-04 period that changed/delayed the album.
CD got quite "bigger" and more "in your face". Let's hope there was some more tinkering done to 'The Blues', or 'Street Of Dreams', or whatever the hell you want to call it. I love the f out of the song, but the production is a little dated. It needs bigger guitars, and a less MIDI sounding piano.
Re: Best Buy Posts Album Artwork for Chinese Democracy
Well, if you don't like it, you could pick one of these.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/6800 … erszi5.jpg
Hahaha....Photoshop is fun!
EDIT: You know what....just to be safe, these are 100% fake.
They actually looks pretty cool. They should release these for real.
Re: Best Buy Posts Album Artwork for Chinese Democracy
all of this points to the fact that the main album was indeed done and ready to go in '02...i wonder why it didn't....and what have they been doing since then...?...maybe the other discs will reveal that one....
Ax just kept tinkering with it. It was supposed to have been ready by the Eurasian tour, so that they would've done the VMA's to launch both the album (with a 09/02/02 date) and the North American tour. But they kept adding orchestrations (Buckmaster & Beltrami), Fortus recorded some bits and pieces, etc.
My opinion is that Paul Huge left because he felt the album was 'done', meaning his work with Ax had also been completed. He probably didn't want to do long, strenous world tours once the album'd launched, so he opted to bow out as everything was finally looking peachy.
Re: Best Buy Posts Album Artwork for Chinese Democracy
I remember a long time ago that the guy who did all the covers for Journey made an album cover of Chinese Democracy. I might be wrong but I think it was after Axl showed the cover art at that concert...
Back when CD was 18 songs and 10 bonus songs.
