You know I've rarely been as heartbroken as I was when Chinese Democracy came out.  I had got three years of posts out for it- a real treasure lode.

Luckily, the release of CD has been good for a lot of bizarre news stories.

First, Communist China didn't find the album's title very funny.

Now, Axl wants to fight with Dr. Pepper.

Yes, the reason the album didn't sell well wasn't because Axl didn't promote it, or because no one buys albums anymore, or because it was sold in primarily only one retail outlet.

None of those reasons.

No, it was that damn Dr Pepper website crashing. 

So you're telling me that someone was going to Best Buy to buy the CD; first going to the Dr Pepper website to get a free beverage.  Upon finding themselves unable to log into the Dr Pepper website, their day was ruined and they could no longer make the trip outside to buy CD. 

Is that logical?

What the hell am I thinking?  This is the guy who delays or cancels concerts for the smallest thing.  Of course, he think that's logical.

So, I get the feeling Axl is pissed is because he had to do a rush job to get the album out before 2008.  If he knew ahead of time Dr. P was going to botch this up, he could have went back to the studio for finishing touches.

Where does Dr Pepper get the gall?  What's wrong with taking 14 years to record an album?

Consider this:

If all albums took 14 years to make, The Rolling Stones would be in the studio recording Between the Buttons.  No Miss You, No Emotional Rescue, and No Jagger solo albums, and I think now the world is ready for a song called "Let's the Spend the Night Together".

The Beatles (presumably Paul McCartney and Scott Weiland) would be finishing up Help! with Rubber Soul on the horizon.

The Who would have their next two albums Tommy and Who's Next ahead of them.

Joe Strummer's swan song would be not the very good Streetcore but the classic London Calling.  I won't even bring up Carbon/Sillicon.

Weller would be touring off All Mod Cons  (which is just fine with me).

U2 would be on late night talk shows performing "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to promote War.

Finally, if all albums took 14 years to record, it would only have been six years since the last My Bloody Valentine album, not 17.