Chinese Democracy Is Like Sistine Chapel Says GN’R Manager
Heavyweight manager Andy Gould has compared the latest Guns N’ Roses album to the Sistine Chapel. We put Michelangelo’s masterpiece head to head with Axl’s…
Guns N'Roses manager Andy Gould has compared ‘Chinese Democracy’ to the Sistine Chapel in an interview (see below), “When they asked the guy to paint the Sistine Chapel they didn’t say ‘Can you do it in the fourth quarter?’”, said the manager. “They said ‘Can you do it? Can you make a great piece of art?’”
“It took a long time to make the record, but it’s a great record. Is it worth waiting for? Yeah it is”.
Sounds like a lot of management hot air to us, which is why we thought we’d put Chinese Democracy head to head with Michelangelo’s masterpiece. Here, fact fans, is how they measure up.
Personnel
Sistine Chapel: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Chinese Democracy: Axl Rose, Robin Finck, Bumblefoot, Richard Fortus, Tommy Stinson, Dizzy Reed, Frank Ferrer Bryan Mantia, Chris Pitman, Buckethead, Paul Tobias, Sebastian Bach, Marco Beltrami, Paul Buckmaster, Pete Scaturro
Project length
Sistine Chapel: 1508 – November 1, 1512
Chinese Democracy: 1994 – November 24, 2008
Scope Of Work
Sistine Chapel: 12,000 Square Feet
Chinese Democracy: 71.24 minutes
Constituent Parts
Sistine Chapel: 300 Biblical Scenes
Chinese Democracy: 14 Songs
Commissioned By
Sistine Chapel: Pope Paul III
Chinese Democracy: David Geffen
Audience Reach
Sistine Chapel: 10,000 people a day (from figures estimated in January 2007)
Chinese Democracy: No sales figures yet, but MySpace streaming on November 21st reached a peak of 25 listens per second.
The facts speak for themselves, don’t they? So we’ll let the man who started this ridiculous claim speak for himself, too. The interview with Andy Gould is below…
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