“Glenn Kotche is not your average rock-and-roll percussionist. Eighth blackbird is not your average classical music sextet. Put the two together, and the result is a vastly above-average night in the concert hall.”
original Guns N’ Roses drummer Steven Adler, estranged from the band since 1990, appears to have seen the Chinese Democracy release as a way back into the limelight and out of trouble with the law. Having long battled with substance abuse he appeared in court this week on a charge of heroin possession.