Another "tenative" GNR release date
Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 12:59 amThe long-delayed Guns N' Roses album Chinese Democracy is tentatively set for release on November 25th exclusively through Best Buy, according to RollingStone.com. The unconfirmed report came from a "vendor convention" held by Best Buy last week in Dallas, where Guns manager Andy Gould reportedly told 900 Best Buy employees the news before previewing three songs. Cellphone recordings of the event later surfaced on Guns N' Roses fan message boards.
Gould also told the crowd that a new G N' R song called "If The World" will play under the closing credits of Body of Lies, the new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe due out on October 10th. That news was confirmed online at film websites whose representatives had attended a press screening of the flick. "If The World" will not appear on the film's soundtrack album.
"If The World" features the guitar work of Robin Finck and Buckethead, who have both since departed Guns N' Roses.
Another new G N' R song, called "Shackler's Revenge," will appear on the upcoming Rock Band 2 video game.
There has been no official confirmation of the new Guns album's release date or Best Buy deal, although Billboard.com has also reported that the latter is nearly finalized.
Chinese Democracy has been more than 13 years in the making, with every original
