Axl Rose mention in Billboard

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There's a track called "This I Love" that Axl's been working on since around 1994.

 

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That's supposed to be his best work.

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In the faint red light of the Rainbow Bar and Grill, Tom Zutaut sips at his drink and spills a bit of regret. It has been 19 years since he signed the then-unknown rock band Guns N' Roses to a contract with Geffen Records, where they turned into multiplatinum superstars. Back in those days, the Rainbow was their hangout of choice.

 

Years after he left the label, he returned in 2001 to try to coax Axl Rose, the band's magnetic leader and by then its only original member, into completing one of the most highly anticipated albums in the industry: an opus tentatively titled "Chinese Democracy." The deadline for turning in the album had passed two years earlier.

 

"I really thought I could get him to deliver the record," said Zutaut, who spent nine months trying. "And we got close."

 

He is speaking in relative terms. Zutaut is but one of a long series of executives and producers brought in over the years to try to conjure up the maddeningly elusive album - to cajole the reclusive rock star into composing, singing, recording, just showing up.

 

Like everyone else who had tried, or has tried since, Zutaut came away empty-handed.

The New York Times, Sunday, March 20, 2005

Arts & Leisure

[LETTERS]

 

GUNS N' ROSES

No Compromises

 

To the Editor:

 

Axl Rose was one of the only artists I ever worked with who was never motivated by money. He consistently put the quality of his artistic output above all. Whether you consider him to be a musical genius on hold, a poster child for the misunderstood, or a narcissist, all of his actions are motivated by a pure desire to make every recording count as a true reflection of his own high standards.

 

In a sea of musical mediocrity and generic voices processed into greatness by computers, Axl Rose achieved the American dream in music without compromising his integrity for the sake of fame or fortune. I am sure that Axl's new Guns N' Roses will impact popular culture with the same vigor and vitality that made "Appetite for Destruction" a part of musical history.

 

TOM ZUTAUT

Los Angeles