Funky week for 80's Big Hair Bands... Rikki Rockett earlier this week, and now this... Dr. Pepper calling Axl out...
" DALLAS ? For long-suffering Guns N' Roses fans, it's come to this ? putting their faith in free soda.
Fourteen years after frontman Axl Rose and his '90s bandmates started recording the now-mythical "Chinese Democracy," soft drink maker Dr Pepper says it will give away a free soda to everyone in America if the album is finally released in 2008.
The offer didn't escape the attention of Rose. Fans of the blockbuster rock group have been virtually taunted over the last decade with perpetual rumors of the album's completion.
"We are surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper with our album 'Chinese Democracy,' as for us, this came totally out of the blue," Rose said in a statement on the band's Web site.
Greg Artkop, a spokesman for Plano-based Dr Pepper, said the company is simply fans of the band. But with "Chinese Democracy" into its second decade of recording, he wouldn't put odds on the offer succeeding.
"Only one man knows," Artkop said, referring to Rose."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5654319.html