From Reuters.
Many have tried, but so far nobody has been able to pry the decade-in-the-works Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” from the hands of lone remaining original member Axl Rose.
Now, Dr Pepper thinks it’s up to the challenge. The soft drink company says it will give a free can of Dr Pepper to “everyone in America” (excluding ex-Guns members Slash and Buckethead) if “Chinese Democracy” arrives anytime during the calendar year 2008.
Rose responded on his band’s web site (http://www.gunsnroses.com) that the band was “surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper.”
You know sometimes a recording artist just has a hard time “letting go” of a project. Maybe Axl is having problems getting the liner notes together or, something like that.
C’mon Axl, I’ve been hearing about this record for ten years, I’d like to hear the record. Any record that takes that long; I want to hear it. And, I want a free Dr. Pepper too.
It will be the first album of fresh Guns N’ Roses material since the 1991 sets “Use Your Illusion I” and “Use Your Illusion II.” Rose has reportedly burned through $13 million in recording expenses for “Chinese Democracy,” and also burned his bridges with the bandmates who helped him turn Guns into one of the biggest rock groups in the world by the early 1990s.
Woah! $13 Million is a lot of recording expenses. I could see how old Axl would be wanting to make sure that everything is just right with the release. After you already have 13 Mil into the thing, you don’t want to have some screw up with the artwork or, anything like that. Damn, $13 million-That’s remarkable.
Look at it this way Axl; You have sunk $13 million into the project but, Dr. Pepper is willing to make a huge commitment just to hear the thing. A free can of Dr. Pepper for “everyone in America”, do the math. At $5.00 a twelve pack and roughly 300 million people in America at any given time…Dr. Pepper is willing to shell out $99 MILLION! Just to hear a record! That, of course, is if everybody in America has a can, I mean everybody-Slash, Buckethead, Jeff Tweedy, Flavor Flav-everybody. So, it will probably be a little less than the $99 million but, still a big gesture on the part of DP.
So, whad’ya say Axl? Ready to throw a little Chinese Democracy our way?
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Pat wrote,
I nominate Axl in Alfred Nobel Prize category one part to the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency;
Seems to me the US sent a man to the moon in less than a decade. If Axl has a decade of data compiled then he may be the father of quantitative explanations of rock and roll, the D’Vinvci of head bangers, the explanation to that question of ages: “Where Have all the Flowers Gone?” according to, but not limited to, Guns and Roses allied.
In any large, long term project it is wise to review or estimate the impact on affected industries all along the supply chain. In my exercise today I look at raw materiel Aluminum needed to distibute 300,000,000 cans of Dr. Pepper.
A North American soda can (12 fl oz size) is manufactured from Aluminum and weighs roughly 15 grams or 0.5 ounces.
-and this amounts to-
150 million ounces of aluminum — 9,375,000 lbs. — 4688 US tons
-or-
4,500,000,000 grams — 4500 metric tons — 4500 tonnes
-and-
primary production of Al in 2004 in USA is 2,516,000 metric tonnes
@2004 prices: $1850.00 per tonne = $8,325,000.00 of Pribek’s estimated $99 to 125 million, is for materiel of the cans, or 7%. The only other materiel in masse is water.
Conclusion:
Doctor Pepper will be distributing this much aluminum if the deal goes through:
0.0017 percent of total rew materiel Aluminum stores in USA @ 2004 at costs = $8,325,00.00
The result implies there is more impact on manufacturing and distribution industry more than the raw materiel needed in the enterprise.
____________________________notes:
Model of Al Storehouses:
APPARENT CONSUMPTION = PRIMARY PRODUCTION + SECONDARY RECOVERY (OLD SCRAP) + IMPORTS – EXPORTS ± ADJUSTMENTS FOR INVENTORY (STOCK) CHANGES.
Unit Value ($/t)
Unit value is defined as the value of 1 metric ton (t) of aluminum. It is calculated using the “Annual Average Primary Aluminum
Price,” in U.S. dollars, as reported in the MP98, Metal Prices in the United States through 1998, and the MYB, Minerals Yearbook
reference: parts of formula retrieved today from:
http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/aluminum.pdf
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Link | March 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Pribek wrote,
Rock and Roll trickle down, voodoo economics-new business model for the record industry.
Axl wins one for the Gipper.
Link | March 27th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
J wrote,
I could name a few artists I’d buy a Dr. Pepper for if they wouldn’t release any more albums…
:-)
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Link | March 27th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com wrote,
Axl is way too long, I don’t know what happened with him. Personally I don’t expect this album very much. I listened a few songs on YouTube and frankly they suck, IMO. I think the expectations are so high but they forgot the feeling in there. At least in what I have listened.
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Link | March 28th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Pat wrote,
Truth is I have ten years of pieces of paper, napkins, envelopes and copious notes in chicken scratch in a box that I could sell for, uh, nothing.
Ovidiu is right; it is too long in the tooth, and will surely sound a bit dodgy. I maintain my right to warn certain entertainers when it is time to “Retire.”
As maestro has warned me, [Pullin' a Jackism out]: “40 acres and a mule.”
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Link | March 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm