“Chinese Democracy” May Arrive Via Video Game First
One omission from the possibly half-faked Rock Band 2 track list that we published last week: Guns N’ Roses’ “Shackler’s Revenge,” which appeared on another leaked track list and which has the same title as a “lost” film that had some sort of contribution by former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Buckethead. The New York Times is reporting that “Shackler’s” will indeed be on the game come September, and that; more details on the track, via message-board postings pulled together by a GN’R fan blog, after the jump.
According to Saul (Buckethead’s webmaster), “The basic song structure was written by Bucket and Brain. Big B did a score for a film of the same name (never released) From what I can gather Axl liked the plot/ideas of the story and crafted lyrics behind the music. It’s supposed to be a pretty guitar driven rocker of a song with an amazing hook/bridge.”
According to Mysteron (a semi-credible, supposed “insider”), “I know nothing of Rock Band 2, but I am 100 per cent sure that Shackler’s Revenge is a new GN’R song…Whoever started this rumo(u)r managed to pull the title of a new GN’R song out of the air from somewhere…It will be on CD.”
There is a Buckethead song called “Shackler” that is on one of the Dragon Ball Z soundtracks, The History of Trunks.
You can hear that track here, although you have to go through imeem’s annoying login process first. Given that “Shackler’s” hasn’t shown up on any of the 80,000 leaked track lists for Chinese Democracy, and the genesis of the song makes me feel like it’s a song that Axl lent the GN’R “brand” to more than anything else, I’m not taking this as a sign that Universal Music Group actually has a release date for the damn thing until I’ve heard about promo copies going out.
Planned Guns N’ Roses Deal Underscores Power of Video Games to Sell Songs [NYT] Shackler’s Revenge [Chinese Democracy]
