Am I dreaming? Or did Dr Pepper really offer to buy everyone in America a drink of their (insert comment here) tasting soft drink if Chinese Democracy appears in 2008. Some April fool mishtake surely, but this missive is dated from late March on the GNR website:

March 26, 2008

Press Release from Axl Regarding Dr Pepper
We are surprised and very happy to have the support of Dr Pepper with our album "Chinese Democracy," as for us, this came totally out of the blue. If there is any involvement with this promotion by our record company or others, we are unaware of such at this time. And as some of Buckethead's performances are on our album, I'll share my Dr Pepper with him.

Axl Rose

I thought of this in connection with the waiting for the new lp thread but thought it so good it needed a new one. How can we encourage our rock stars to meet their production quotas? Clearly soft drinks are doing it for Axl, how about some babysitting and a nice cup of tea for Ms Bush, or a supermarket sweep round the Apple store for Kraftwerk?