GWAR - Poor Ole Tom

Guns N 'Roses fans who spent $ 12.99 on a Best Buy CD or downloaded an iTunes album became owners of fourteen tracks, which were mostly saturated with keen self-pity and a boisterous, often hysterical atmosphere of remorse and regret balanced by Axl’s habitual aggression. In America, the disc was released on Black Frog, a previously unknown division of Geffen Records, which in turn were part of Interscope, and those were part of Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, a French conglomerate. The disk was decorated with red stars, red flags, a portrait of Mao Zedong and other communist iconography. The creators of the record were Axl Rose and Karam Costanzo. (“I never found a producer,” Axl later said.) In the booklet to the disc in small print, thanks were printed to hundreds of different people, and the names of the guitarists on each track were meticulously indicated. Sometimes up to five different guitarists appeared in one song: Bucket, Bumble and others. The authorship of the songs was distributed between the band members and various assistants.