Post-VMAs Axl
Interview
August 29, 2002
MTV
By Kurt Loder
MTV's Kurt Loder interviewed Axl right after GN'R closed the 2002 MTV Video Music
Awards at New York City's Radio City Music Hall.
Hi, here we are again
backstage again. Axl Rose - he's back!
Axl: [laughs]
What took you so long?
Axl: I was just trying to put this monstrosity together
What's gonna happen now? Is Chinese Democracy going to come out? Are we gonna see it
soon?
Axl: Umm you'll see it, I don't know if soon is the word. But it will come out and
we will, we'll go back, we'll do some more recording and then we'll start the American leg
of the tour... And see how it goes from there.
This has taken a long time.
Axl: Yeah, but it's also how do you rebuild something that got so big and replace
virtually every person on the crew, every single thing. And how do you make a whole bunch
of guys that are something else into something that already was. I dont know if it's
exactly been done like this. And not with the intensity of these players wanting to play
the material.
This is one of the great performances. Congratulations. You really....
Axl: Thanks
This is a great band.
Axl: Thanks for that Rio review.
My pleasure,
my pleasure.
Axl: [laughs]
Axl Rose! |