Blabbermouth has the full letter written by Axl’s lawyer to Dr. Pepper. Read the whole thing. The whole letter sounds harsh and nasty. Dr. Pepper deserves it though. Dr. Pepper, greedy bastards. I hope Axl sues them to the ground, what a ripoff.
See it here:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109700
Kev
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
“Chinese Democracy” is finally here after a 14 year long wait. As I said, I fucking loved the new album, it is amazing. People would probably hate me for sayin’ this but oh well, I ain’t afraid to voice out my honest music opinions, I personally think “Chinese Democracy” is better than “Apetite For Destruction”. “Destruction” is a good record, but man, that is one of the records you get sick and tired of hearing so many times. “Destruction” is kind of an overrated album, to me “Destruction” is nothing special but I like “Use Your Illusion I and II” more. Hearing “Chinese Democracy” in myspace, I was pretty speechless and knocked out. It’s definitely worth the long wait. Now the album is finally here expect the album to be no. 1 on the Billboard for a few weeks or even more. I personally think “Chinese Democracy” has the potential to be the next biggest selling album in years. So watch out Shania Twain.
For your free Dr. Pepper: go to http://www.drpepper.com/, they have a free Dr. Pepper form up there keeping their promise.
Congrats to Axl.
Kev
Not too long ago, Dr. Pepper begged and begged Guns N’ Roses to release “Chinese Democracy”. A week later, Axl responded to the Dr. Pepper offer, saying that he is flattered as hell that Dr. Pepper supports the band and the long awaited album. Dr. Pepper desperately wanted Guns N’ Roses to release the album this year. The company is sticking to their word that now that the Guns N’ Roses “Chinese Democracy” release is real, every person in America gets a free Dr. Pepper.
The company explained before that this isn’t a ploy to help promote Dr. Pepper, they really wanted the band to release the long lost album.
On the release date, Nov. 23rd, to get your free can, go to the Dr. Pepper website where you can enter in your information and then they will send you the coupon so you can get a free can of Dr. Pepper anywhere the drink is sold in the USA.
Billboard reports:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003877349
How much do you want to bet that if Dr. Pepper didn’t offer Guns N’ Roses this, then the “Chinese Democracy” release would have been even longer to wait?
Axl just had to jump on this opportunity ’cause he knew this would help promote the album, big time.
You think “Chinese Democracy” will bomb in record sales? Hell NO. Not a fucking chance. With Dr. Pepper helping out to promote the album. It has a possibility of being the biggest album in years. It will definitely sell a lot more copies than Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” that’s for sure.
I see “Chinese Democracy” being no. 1 on the Billboard 200 for at least several weeks or a whole friggin’ year.
Kev
Well, it didn’t take long for Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses to pick up on the Dr. Pepper offer. Axl Rose wrote about it on the bands “new” official website.
Although Buckethead is no longer in the band, his recordings on the album are still on there, Axl replied back he’ll share his free drink of Dr. Pepper with Buckethead.
Read it here:
http://www.gunsnroses.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080326&content_id=a1&vkey=news&fext=.jsp
But again, he still says nothing about a “release date” and no word about the future of “Chinese Democracy”.
Since Axl seems very happy about the Dr. Pepper offer, maybe he will actually release the album this year.
Lets keep our fingers crossed!
Kev
Well, it didn’t take long for Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses to pick up on the Dr. Pepper offer. Axl Rose wrote about it on the bands “new” official website.
Although Buckethead is no longer in the band, his recordings on the album are still on there, Axl replied back he’ll share his free drink of Dr. Pepper with Buckethead.
Read it here:
http://www.gunsnroses.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080326&content_id=a1&vkey=news&fext=.jsp
But again, he still says nothing about a “release date” and no word about the future of “Chinese Democracy”.
Since Axl seems very happy about the Dr. Pepper offer, maybe he will actually release the album this year.
Lets keep our fingers crossed!
Kev
The soda company Dr. Pepper wants to help Axl Rose and the new Guns N’ Roses release the long awaited album that the public has been begging to get released, “Chinese Democracy”. Dr. Pepper is offering that if Guns N’ Roses new studio album “Chinese Democracy” gets released in the year 2008, every person in America “will” get a free can of Dr. Pepper except for Slash and Buckethead who were former members of Gn’R. NO KIDDING! This is for real!
Guns N’ Roses announced a release date for “Chinese Democracy” hundreds of times but the album never came to us. The latest release date was back in March 6, 2007.
Dr. Pepper soda company is “that” desperate to help Axl Rose out, check out their blog for proof:
http://www.chinesedemocracywhen.blogspot.com/
Billboard reports:
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003741826
I truly believe “Chinese Democracy” will be the biggest selling record in music history if it ever gets released. I doubt Axl will give us the album this year. Gn’R still constantly goes on world tours to this day but no new album yet! I will buy the album myself if it’ll ever come out and I’m sure it’ll be a great record, but it definitely won’t be better than the classic “Apetite for Destruction”.
Come on Axl! Stop fuckin’ with us and your longtime fans and put out the album already! We need a true Guns N’ Roses comeback just as much as we need Ac/Dc to comeback to destroy mainstream pop music! We need rock n’ roll back dammit!
Kev
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