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http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6150448/guns-n-roses-dizzy-reed-new-music-appetite-for-democracy

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"It'll come out when it comes out, when it's ready," Reed says of the legendary group's next batch of material.

Guns N' Roses is in the midst of an open-ended break while the new "Appetite For Democracy 3D: Live at the Hard Rock Casino -- Las Vegas" film pacifies fans. But longtime keyboardist Dizzy Reed is confident the hiatus won't be interminable.

"Guns are definitely taking some time off, but we'll see," Reed, who joined the group during 1990, tells Billboard. "I'm not sure if we're gonna be doing anything else this year. Hopefully we will, but definitely next year. We can't stay away too long."

That, of course, means that rumors circulating during the group's recent residency back at the Vegas Hard Rock that Axl Rose planned to pull the plug on GN'R were unfounded.

"You know, so much of that crap gets out there, you can't believe any of it," Reed says. "At this point, having been in the band for so long, nothing surprises me. When I hear things like that I immediately dismiss them until I hear further. I'm never really concerned enough to even ask where it came from, or why, because if it's that important I'll be getting a phone call."

Like his bandmates, Reed is hoping GN'R will be returning to the studio as well to finished a follow-up to 2008's "Chinese Democracy." There's new music around -- "We've all been handing files back and forth to one another in various combinations," he says -- but that's on top of other material from the "Chinese Democracy" sessions and after that "needs to be finished and needs to be released. I think a lot of it is either finished or close to being finished -- it's just a matter of picking which songs and where and when and in what order. And if there's other things that come up that are worthy enough to add to that, then that's gonna happen, too." He won't guess on when, however. "No, I gave up on that a long time ago, with the last record," Reed notes with a laugh. "It'll come out when it comes out, when it's ready."

Meanwhile, Reed is hoping that "Appetite for Democracy" -- which was filmed in November of 2012 and is available as a 3D Blu-ray and a standard DVD -- will be an acceptable stand-in while GNR is away. "I think it's great," he says. "I think we captured a great moment in time with the current lineup that we have. There's not a lot of footage out there of this particular lineup of the band -- obviously there's no videos and stuff. So I think it's a cool thing, and great for the fans. It gives them something to share the moment."

Of course, GN'R's touring this year included some guest appearances by founding bassist Duff McKagen, who subbed while current member Tommy Stinson took part in Replacements reunion shows. "It was great to see Duff again and play with him," Reeds says. "He's just a great overall positive person, and a good friend. We fell out of touch for a long time, so for me, personally it was just great to see him and be around him again. Tommy's a great player, too, and the shows are great with Tommy, but it was a lot of fun to play with Duff. He's got a certain sound and a certain feel; I think he had to kind of feel it out a little bit wtih Guns again this time, which is weird because he started the band, but once he got into it, it was great."

Reed himself will be staying busy during Guns N' Roses' time off. He and GN'R guitarist Richard Fortus play in the all-star Dead Daisies, which will be supporting the Bad Company/Lynyrd Skynyrd and Kiss/Def Leppard tours during the summer. And he's organizing 10th anniversary shows for his covers band Hookers N' Blow, on Sept. 5 in Los Angeles and Sept. 6 in Las Vegas. "There's always guests, and there's a lot of Hookers N' Blow alumni from 10 years," he says. "It's a pretty big list, so hopefully a lot of those people will come down, too. It's definitely gonna be a blowout."

Thanks to Gnrtruth.

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This band is a gang of brothers. Axl may look and sound like a moronic asshole but he's always cracking jokes all the time and is more loyal than a dog to his pals.

This is part of the reason why I don't think BBF is leaving.

He may get frustrated with certain things, but I think he genuinely enjoys being in GNR.

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'Reed says of the legendary group's next batch of material.'

Stuff like that really bothers me. And this is coming from Billboard. None of the guys in that picture are legendary in any context except for Axl and they're not even the guys who wrote and played the core of the last album.

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'Reed says of the legendary group's next batch of material.'

Stuff like that really bothers me. And this is coming from Billboard. None of the guys in that picture are legendary in any context except for Axl and they're not even the guys who wrote and played the core of the last album.

Frank-FerrerRichard-FortusBumblefootChri

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'Reed says of the legendary group's next batch of material.'

Stuff like that really bothers me. And this is coming from Billboard. None of the guys in that picture are legendary in any context except for Axl and they're not even the guys who wrote and played the core of the last album.

That's not true, everyone except Ashba played on Chinese, and 4 have credits on it.

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Note the phrase "core of the last album".

Fortus plays a pretty much pointless layer of rhythm guitar on only 5 songs. And Bumble and Frank merely provided last minute afterthoughts. Fuck, Frank only appears on one song playing drums all by himself. And none of them have even one songwriting credit.

Literally half of the current nu lineup had next to (or in Ashba's case, literally) fuck all to do with CD.

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'Reed says of the legendary group's next batch of material.'

Stuff like that really bothers me. And this is coming from Billboard. None of the guys in that picture are legendary in any context except for Axl and they're not even the guys who wrote and played the core of the last album.

Frank-FerrerRichard-FortusBumblefootChri

Where's Axl?

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'Reed says of the legendary group's next batch of material.'

Stuff like that really bothers me. And this is coming from Billboard. None of the guys in that picture are legendary in any context except for Axl and they're not even the guys who wrote and played the core of the last album.

Frank-FerrerRichard-FortusBumblefootChri

Where's Axl?

On his solo band

This is GNR, you fool :headbang::headbang:

:monkey:

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DISCUSSION & NEWS: MyGNRForum's magisme Laughs Off Dizzy Reed

That's what I was saying in the latest Duff Talks VR thread. I think these guys believe what they're saying when they're saying it, but that doesn't matter much.

IMO, "Dizzy Reed Talks New Music" should be taken as seriously as "Joe Blow Public Talks New Music" because they're both equally in the know as to if/when more GN'R material will be released.

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