The truth about 'Better' (straight from Axl Rose Yes Man #1, Dizzy Reed)
March 12, 2007
By Doug Miller / GunsNRoses.com
The song "Better" has been receiving airplay across the country, but there is no official single release. No one seems to know where the song came from or how it got out. Did Guns N’ Roses purposely leak the track?
"Here’s what I know," keyboardist Dizzy Reed explains to GunsNRoses.com. "We were doing a commercial with Harley-Davidson. Harley was going to do a version using 'Paradise City' and another version using 'Better.' Their Web site even had a version up for like one day with 'Better,' but the version of 'Better' that they had was an unfinished, unapproved demo. That’s why it was removed. The version that’s getting airplay is that same demo.
"Our understanding of how that happened is that an experimental edit using 'Better' in place of 'Paradise City' was somehow accidentally mislabeled as the 'Paradise City' Harley-Davidson video/commercial and was inadvertently released on the internet. We believe the 'leak' came from this source tape and someone with access to it.
"For the record, absolutely none of the songs that have been leaked have come from the band or our organization. None of the songs that have been leaked are anything more than demo versions, works in progress. No final mixes.
"It’s really frustrating working on something as hard as we have and then having it wind up on the Internet before it’s finished. Hearing a demo on the radio really sucks."
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Someone leaked our demo onto the Internet!!!! And we've only had the last ten years to work on it!!!!!! It's not done yet!!!!!
Sorry,
Diz', you'll receive no sympathy from me. Since Halloween-time, when those naughty, naughty people at Harley Davidson leaked your song onto the evil internet, my favorite band Wilco went into the studio, recorded an album, mixed it, and just previewed it, in full, on the internet, to anyone who wanted to listen to it, for free, over two months before it's due in stores. And this ****-for-brain's bitching about one lousy leak of one lousy demo of one lousy song from one lousy album from one lousy "band."
Not buyin' it, fella. You guys have a lot more to worry about than what the mean internet people did with your demo. Give me a ******* break.