A couple hundred people got a preview of Guns N’ Roses’ long-awaited “Chinese Democracy” Tuesday night at the Fine Line.

Without any liner notes or even song titles, here’s some thoughts after one listening on a big-ass sound system: some really cool guitar work, Axl Rose is in good voice (or at least studio technology makes it sound that way), three or four of the 14 songs have major radio potential, one song sounds like classic GNR, there’s an interesting piano ballad near album’s end, a couple of songs have hip-hop rhythms.

 This is unquestionably a GNR album — or, more accurately, an Axl Rose album billed as GNR.

We’ll have a full review and more about “Chinese Democracy,” which goes on sale Sunday at Best Buy, this weekend in the Star Tribune.

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