Does Anyone Really Care What Gilby Clark Thinks Of Chinese Democracy?

According to Blabbermouth.net, a “fan” asked former Guns N Roses guitar player Gilby Clark what he thought about Chinese Democracy. Here is Gilby’s opinion.

“Yes, I listened to it on a long drive to Phoenix, Arizona,” Gilby replied. “I think it’s very good and very imaginative. Axl’s [Rose] vocals sound great and there’s some creative guitar playing on it also. But there was too many slow, to mid-tempo songs on it for my taste and some of the solos are a little overdone; they don’t match the song. Some of the lyrics are a little redundant. I expected some resolution since it’s taken so long.”

That’s a quick, yet fair opinion of the album. If you think about it, everything he said is spot on. Axl’s voice does sound great, there are too many slow to mid-tempo songs in it and well…the solos? He couldn’t be more correct on this one. They don’t fit the songs well and sound a little too engineered in as if the song was completely done and they suddenly wrote up a quick solo and did an “Insert here” type thing. Other than that, I was pretty wrong in assuming that the album would suck. Musically it was a pretty decent piece of work…but it just didn’t feel like a Guns N’ Roses album.

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