Axl goes Looney

GN’R man teams up with Bugs Bunny in new video.

Axl Rose has dropped his first new song since the album Chinese Democracy more than a decade ago – and, incredibly, he did it with the help of Bugs Bunny!

Fans have called for Guns N’ Roses to record new material since Slash and Duff McKagan re-joined Guns N’ Roses for the Not In This Lifetime tour in 2016, but nobody expected to be rewarded by a track called Rock The Rock recorded for The New Looney Tunes cartoon series which will air on the Boomerang network later this year.

Vulture are reporting that Axl will star in an episode of the show. An animated video preview of the series stars the singer and a backing band including Bugs on guitar as they fight off an Earthbound meteor using only the power of “Rawk!” As jaws around the globe hit the f loor in disbelief at the unveiling of Rock The Rock, Looney Tunes later confirmed that Axl did sing on the track, composed by Joshua Funk and Rob Janas, though nobody else from the Guns N’ Roses was involved.

So will there be new music from GN’R in 2019? It’s hard to say for sure, though last August Slash told Classic Rock: “I think everybody thinks it’s a good idea and would like to do it. There’s no shortage of ideas from everybody involved, but we’ve been so busy on the road there hasn’t really been time to go in and sit down and go, ‘Okay, we’re going to make a record.’”

More recently, when asked about the possibility of a new GN’R single being heard before the year’s end, guitarist Richard Fortus told a radio interviewer:

“It could definitely happen.” DL