According to the New York Times, a new track from Guns ‘ N’ Roses will be featured on the forthcoming second installment of the mammoth rad time waster known as Rock Band, due this September. Entitled “Shackler’s Revenge,” the song is purportedly from G’N'R’s perpetually soon-to-be-released “comeback” album, Chinese Democracy.

Word on the street is, when you play the song, if the deli trays and carved, fragrant soaps aren’t perfectly arranged back stage as the rider dictates, Axl is frickin’ out of there.

From Billboard.biz:

Report: New GNR Song Heads To ‘Rock Band 2′
July 14, 2008 - Digital and Mobile

By Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

A new Guns N’ Roses song, “Shackler’s Revenge,” apparently from the decade-in-the-works album “Chinese Democracy,” will be included in the video game “Rock Band 2,” according to a report in the New York Times. The game will be released in September.

The news makes it seem increasingly likely that “Chinese Democracy” will finally see the light of day before year’s end via Interscope. Nine seemingly complete tracks from the album, not including “Shackler’s Revenge,” leaked online earlier this summer.

“Rock Band 2,” developed by MTV and Harmonix, will support all songs downloaded for the game to date and will also support the original game’s instrument controllers. But it will also introduce new controllers for drums and guitar and boast a soundtrack of more than 100 master recordings.

In April, Motley Crue made its new single, “Saints of Los Angeles,” available for download “Rock Band” well in advance of the release of the album of the same name. The only other place to obtain the track was iTunes.

According to data provided in late May by the band’s management, Tenth Street Entertainment, the track was downloaded more than 47,000 times via the Xbox 360 version of the game alone in the first week after it became available. (”Rock Band” publisher MTV Networks was unable to independently verify these figures, and total downloads that include the PlayStation 3 version of the game were not available.)

By comparison, the same track received slightly more than 10,000 downloads via digital services like iTunes and Amazon, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The track has now sold more than 62,000 downloads

So this is old news for anyone who actually listened to Drive-Thru records artist Halifax’s new record when it came out last year (which is probably about 5 people), but just now in the office, one of our video guys was encoding the video for Halifax’s “Our Revolution” for our top secret forthcoming project and it reminded me exactly how much of fucking scam that song is. Check out the video:

Then check out the video for the classic. Same riff, same beat, same chorus. JUST 20 YEARS TOO LATE BRO! TOTALLY BUMMED!

So apparently Motley Crue was back together again at one point. Whodda thunk it?
Former junkies..err… band mates Sixx, Mars and Neil filed a lawsuit against Lee’s Carl Stubner in a dispute over payments. As a result, Lee has said adios to the hair rockers once again.

“Mr Lee has not made any allegations against his current personal manager,” the statement continued. “Mr Lee feels fortunate to have been part of the Motley Crüe reunion tour, as well as other opportunities outside of Motley Crüe over the past several years.

“It is unfortunate that others believe that they all could have made more money had Mr Lee exclusively participated in the band that he co-founded in 1980.”

My question is how can any of them remember a single thing about the 80’s in the first place? For god’s sake, they were getting paid in blow for half of it.

If the remaining members do, in fact, win the lawsuit, they will be entitled to 54 strippers (3 of which deceased), a crashed Ferrari, the rights to the $17 Lee made off of his solo album “Tommyland” and exactly 3/4 of Pam Anderson’s breasts… split 3 ways, of course.
Details to come.