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Discuss “Big Al’s Metal Shop”

It seems that March 6 will bring us the much-awaited, much-leaked, much-debated, and perhaps over-hyped release of Chinese Democracy. For a while, it seemed the real thing (i.e., democracy in China) had a better chance of happening before we got the album, but Axl promises that this is, tentatively, the real thing. Unless of course... Nah, forget it. It’s coming, and if you’ve seen the band live or watched the concert videos on YouTube, then it should come as no surprise that this is worth talking about. Songs like “Better,” “The Blues,” and “There Was A Time” (awesome acronym) all push the envelope of hard rock, building a bridge linking the present to the ’90s. With a musical sense that evokes Stevie Wonder and Queen battling...

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