Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses are threatening legal action and demanding an apology from Dr. Pepper. They are calling it a “complete fiasco” of a publicity stunt. Meaning that the company used the band as a ploy to help promote Dr. Pepper soda. Not too long ago, Dr. Pepper made a promise that everyone in the United States would get a free can of Dr. Pepper on Nov. 23rd the day of the release date for their new album “Chinese Democracy” if the album gets released this year. Well, the album is finally here and from what I’ve seen on the website, there was no free offer of a Free Dr. Pepper can that they promised. On Nov. 23rd, release day, the Dr. Pepper website crashed, the band says, and I agree, I couldn’t get on the website myself that day, and I thought I was the only one. Did Dr. Pepper take the website down that day or something?
The company promised “everyone” in America gets a free can, that means everyone. Yet the website made it difficult for “everyone” to get a free can by filling out this stupid little form that no one probably did just to print out this little coupon. America getting a free can of Dr. Pepper when the “Chinese Democracy” album comes out this year was a complete failure by the company’s part.
Rollingstone reports:
I’m on Axl’s side all the way.
Dr. Pepper never cared for Guns N’ Roses or Axl Rose himself. All they cared about was using the band to help promote Dr. Pepper.
Lessons be learned to all bands out there, never trust companies that want to help promote your music. Axl shouldn’t have fallen for it. He probably feels like an idiot for going for this deal.
Boycott Dr. Pepper, I will never drink or buy their soda ever again. Backstabbers!
Kev
K'Brocking 
I think if you read the document you’d see that Axl did not agree to any deal, and that is the real beef. He would have if he had been offered because he’s a money grubbing whore, but there was no offer. Instead, Dr. Pepper was treating Axl like a long running joke. “Hey, did you hear the one about the looney rock star that’s been taking fifteen years making an album no one’s going to want? He says he’s going to release it this year.” I got a hint for ya Axl, NO ONE BUYS CDs ANYMORE! If there is one good song they’re going to go to the Apple store and buy the one song, only an idiot would spend ten or more dollars on a CD that had one or two songs and the rest was crap to be skipped over. Axl, you should have made this record years ago when people still did. After all of these years of waiting this album is going to end up being the turkey of 2008. Axl’s only looking to squeeze money from Dr. Pepper because he sure as hell isn’t going to make any kind of a profit on this stinker of a record, millions of dollars in the making.
I think if you read the document you’d see that Axl did not agree to any deal, and that is the real beef. He would have if he had been offered because he’s a money grubbing whore, but there was no offer. Instead, Dr. Pepper was treating Axl like a long running joke. “Hey, did you hear the one about the looney rock star that’s been taking fifteen years making an album no one’s going to want? He says he’s going to release it this year.” I got a hint for ya Axl, NO ONE BUYS CDs ANYMORE! If there is one good song they’re going to go to the Apple store and buy the one song, only an idiot would spend ten or more dollars on a CD that had one or two songs and the rest was crap to be skipped over. Axl, you should have made this record years ago when people still did. After all of these years of waiting this album is going to end up being the turkey of 2008. Axl’s only looking to squeeze money from Dr. Pepper because he sure as hell isn’t going to make any kind of a profit on this stinker of a record, millions of dollars in the making.