Axl Rose Sort Of Confused About This Dr. Pepper Nonsense

Congratulations Dr. Pepper, you managed to get some serious PR mileage out of your Democracy Now campaign. (For those returning from internet vacation, here's the premise: If Chinese Democracy comes out in 2008, everybody in the US of A gets a free can of Dr. Pepper. We guess because these days both are pretty syrupy, fizzed-out/flat, etc. Brought to you by Dr. Pepper.) We tried to resist the whole thing, but Axl took some time out from re-recording the background vocals to the outro of "I.R.S." for the 52nd time today in order to respond. Since it's the closest we're getting to hearing Axl output for awhile, let's stop what we're doing and tune in:

Press Release from Axl Regarding Dr Pepper

We are surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper with our album "Chinese Democracy," as for us, this came totally out of the blue. If there is any involvement with this promotion by our record company or others, we are unaware of such at this time. And as some of Buckethead's performances are on our album, I'll share my Dr Pepper with him.

Axl Rose

Keep up at the Dr. Democracy blog. (HINT: Don't really.)

Posted at 12:47 PM
Tags: Guns N' Roses

13 Comments

He got through a whole two sentences there without sounding like a twat.

Posted by: Stephen at 03/27/08 12:57 PM | Reply
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oooh damn child - another jewel for my fucktab necklace!! http://www.sweetandbitter.com/inside/images/fucktab.jpg

Posted by: k at 03/27/08 1:16 PM | Reply
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i don't think the album will ever come out.

Posted by: Matthew at 03/27/08 1:31 PM | Reply
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Say what you want about that corn-rowed nutjob, but lay of Dr. Pepper, man.

Posted by: grayflannelsuit at 03/27/08 1:52 PM | Reply
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the dr. pepper blog is kinda fun to look at, though. and the statement from dr. pepper is genius: "It took a little patience for us to perfect Dr Pepper's special mix of 23 ingredients, so we completely understand and empathize with Axl's [quest] for the perfect album."

"a little patience." ha!

Posted by: The Train! at 03/27/08 1:59 PM | Reply
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might've already seen it, but you may appreciate this clever jab at pitchfork: http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/the-caveman-tapes/

Posted by: Eliana at 03/27/08 2:23 PM | Reply
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Mr. Brownstone inspiried my bands video launched....today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OWIBV9gmR0

not really. but axl was quite the formative crush.

dolphins and white sneakers forever

Posted by: Lissy Rosemont at 03/27/08 2:36 PM | Reply
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he looks like that demon in "Nightbreed" who wants to eat Craig Scheffer

Posted by: dougie at 03/27/08 2:49 PM | Reply
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Wow, I thought I was the only one who knew about that movie.

Posted by: Matthew  in reply to dougie's comment at 03/27/08 3:13 PM | Reply
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Best comment ever.

Posted by: Allah in reply to dougie's comment at 03/28/08 8:19 AM | Reply
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wow, i really was coming back from an internet vacation!

Posted by: vietnamesedemocracy at 03/27/08 4:48 PM | Reply
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SO don't care

Posted by: bly at 03/27/08 8:42 PM | Reply
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I LOVE GUNS N ROSES!!!!!!

Posted by: Alejandra Roxana Re at 05/18/08 7:27 PM | Reply
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