2002.01.05 - Los Angeles Times - Music Industry Seeks Comeback in 2002

Music Industry Seeks Comeback in 2002

Sales • The pressure is on after CD purchases fell for the first time in a decade. Springsteen, Guns N’ Roses albums will be among new releases.

By GLENN GAMBOA
NEWSDAY

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Guns N’ Roses, “Chinese Democracy” (Interscope/Geffen), release date TBA. The long-awaited comeback by Axl Rose and new hired guns was really, really supposed to come out last year. First, April. Next, June. Then, um, not. It may finally surface this year, with songs that lean (depending on whom you ask) toward the more eclectic rocking of guitarists Buckethead and ex-Nine Inch Nail Robin Finck or to the classic “Appetite for Destruction’’-era sound.

With a pack of rockers dominating the charts, timing may never be better for Rose. That is, of course, unless he decides to wait until rock dies again and comes back to life.

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