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#2061 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Perla to Axl: "LOSER!" » 897 weeks ago
WTF Perla has a blog that people regularly check??? 
That would be like checking Sharon Osborne's blog or Duff's wife blog (if she had one) it's stupid. I don't get this whole celebrity thing. She is the wife of Slash - that's it. She hasn't done anything else other than try and put her own head into the limelight.
#2062 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Insists Original Guns N' Roses Lineup Is Dead and Buried » 897 weeks ago
Well after reading that interview once I'm not sure what to think.
I mean I like Axl talking but the whole thing about Slash being the devil incarnate - a cancer no less - hmmmm please that's pretty extreme.
The whole Slash took his guitar to the Hard Rock thing - I would really like to know the context of that. I mean if he turned up to the doors of the gig guitar in hand well that's pretty stupid. But if he checked into the hotel with his guitar - BIG DEAL! It's like a surfer going on holiday and taking his surfboard with him. Doesn't mean he wants to go out and catch a wave with his ex-buddies at the same break, it may just mean he wants to go somewhere else, or out by himself. Maybe Slash likes doodleing around with his guitar in his hotel room??
I also agree with a few things Axl says about Slash's post GNR work. I have said for a while that if Slash really wants back with Axl, then he needs to play some really amazing stuff. He has to get Axlto the point where he says "man I really need this guy in my band, he's awesome". To date unfortunately he has shown only glimpses of what he is truly capable of and needs to be pushed further IMHO.
As for the whole Slash wanting to take over the band, I find that hypocritical. Whilst I don't think Slash did, even if we assume for a minute that Slash actually was trying to take over. Well shit, wasn't that exactly what Axl was trying to do? Axl succeeded and Slash didn't. It doesn't change the fact when people claim that Axl was a control freak and trying to call all the shots and take everything over. Rather than admit he was trying to take control, Axl's defence was that it was Slash that was trying to. Well so what (even though I dont' believe it) just say that you both wanted control and that you (Axl) ultimately won out.
I will have to read that interview again and digest the things a bit more before I comment further.
#2063 Re: Management » Vicky Hamilton - Approx 1985 - 1986 » 897 weeks ago
Thank you for the scoop that's VERY interesting. Are you able to tell us how he faired in his audition?
On the Vicky Hamilton thing - I take it you have had the unfortunate experience of coming across her in the past?
#2064 Re: The Sunset Strip » Top 9 Bands With The Worst Fans » 897 weeks ago
"You can toss their fans in the "teeny bopper" category, but these goth-poppers actually think they’re non-conforming by listening to these dickless goobers."
Haha that quote can go for most new popular rock bands.
The whole "non-conforming" thing is laughable because they actually do it in a conforming type of way. Whether it be goths, emos, or any other stereotypical non-conforming group name you want to throw in there, they all dress, look, act in a very homogenous sort of way.
Well that's conformity in my book. 
#2065 Re: Guns N' Roses » Classic Rock Blog: We Hate Axl. We Love Him. » 897 weeks ago
Hey sums up the GNR fanbase quite well too:
Every posting on our website about GN’R is followed by postings from normal people saying, “Yeah, tell someone who cares” immediately followed by 30 posts from assorted lunatics who wrte n txt spk and thnk ChinDem is the tits and bthead is god.
#2066 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash's New Best Friends » 897 weeks ago
Slash hasn't had a myspace page for very long has he? I have never seen it before?
#2067 Guns N' Roses » Classic Rock Blog: We Hate Axl. We Love Him. » 897 weeks ago
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Here is an interesting blog from Classic Rock's editor Scott Rowley. I think it sums up the love hate relationship for Axl pretty well:
The Classic Rock Opinion: We Hate Axl. Or Love Him.
Following today’s news that Guns N’ Roses may be coming to play in Europe this summer, Classic Rock’s Editor In Chief Scott Rowley offers his viewpoint on the band’s current status.
I might love Axl Rose. It’s either that or I hate the despicable, contrary, miserable ginger twonk.
I really can’t decide but it’s definitely one or the other. One minute I’m in thrall to the genius of Chinese Democracy tracks like Better or Madagascar, punching the air to ballads like Street of Dreams and There Was A Time, and ready to argue the toss that Chinese Democracy shouldn’t just have been CR’s album of the year in 2007, it should have been album of the year in 2008 too (c’mon: it out-gunned, out-crafted, out-ambitioned, out-emoted, out, er, song-ed Black Ice by a country mile and you know it in fact we should make it album of the year every year until someone makes something better).
The next minute, I see an article about him, read his comments online, see a picture of him, or consider the Michael-Jackson-in-training freakshow his life is in danger of becoming and I realise that, actually, he’s how to put it a bit of a dick.
That’s the weird impact the former William Bailey has on the world of rock.
And as the band currently known as GN’R look like they will come out of the woodwork this summer, the question has gotta be: Does anyone care anymore?
Well, yeah. The new GN’R have the most passionate internet fan community out there. The CR office is bombarded daily with updates on every rumour, whisper, movement and he-said-she-said from Axl and his enormous guitar army. Every posting on our website about GN’R is followed by postings from normal people saying, “Yeah, tell someone who cares” immediately followed by 30 posts from assorted lunatics who wrte n txt spk and thnk ChinDem is the tits and bthead is god.
But what about those normal people? Do they care? Well here’s the thing.
Recently I heard a great story about the Steven Adler trial (Adler sued the band for wrongful dismissal). The story went that the GN’R camp offered to settle out of court for a relatively small amount. The Adler camp at first accepted but then Axl stepped in. Axl didn’t want to settle he wanted his day in court, he wanted JUSTICE! (Read: he wanted to humiliate that motherfucker.)
So the band went to court and while Adler allegedly didn’t have a very strong case, as the days worn on and especially after Axl took the stand (see footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqNW2z4kvyY) a strange thing started to happen: everyone realised that the court battle had turned, as they tend to, into a personality contest. And the cuddly, dumb-ass, shaggy-haired drummer bloke who’d been sacked was much more likeable than the horrible, arrogant millionaire rock star bloke in the pale blue suit wot had sacked him.
So before things got out of hand, the band settled out of court for a considerable amount more than had been originally offered.
And here we are. Today we’re the jury and in the big pop culture popularity contest, Axl slippery, evasive, arrogant, weird-looking old Axl is losing out. And as much as we might say that it’s not about the people, it’s about the music, when we look up to those guys onstage we want to just do
that: look up to them. And Axl is a hard man to love.But I love him. Or hate him. I dunno. It’s one of the two. So let’s hope he does make it to Europe. It’ll be brilliant. And if it’s not it’s a good excuse to chuck stuff.
Scott Rowley
#2068 Re: Guns N' Roses » Former GN'R Manager Alan Niven Counters Axl's Claims » 898 weeks ago
Axlin08 regarding the firing of Axl, Niven said:
“But the rest of the band won my heart and respect for doing that. I was prepared to do anything for them at that point. I told the band then that if they decided to find another, more reliable singer – and even if they lost their deal as a consequence – I would hang in with them. Whatever Axl says or thinks, I did not and never said: ‘Fire Axl.’
My understanding from reading that is he bascially told the rest of the band that he would stick by them regardless of what they decided to do.
The other claim Niven refuted was he had been trying to sell out his contract for a big payday. Niven then went into quite a bit of detail regarding the Geffen renegotations and how this deal was also eventually tied into the signing over of the naming rights to Axl.
I know contract details and the like are pretty boring for most fans to read about, they would rather hear the salacious juicy details of other shit that went down, but Niven pretty much left it to commentating on the couple of issues that Axl flagged about him in his online post.
I also don't think Niven's intention was to go out and assasinate the character of Axl so your expectation of a big detailed reaction from Niven may have been wishful thinking. If he wanted to do that I'm sure he could have backed the truck up and unloaded all manner of grubby details in order to cut Axl down to size. But he didn't, he put his point accross about the issues where his name was raised and that's it. I also think Niv was pretty balanced, he gave Axl credit for his talent etc, he also flagged the drug issues with the other guys and the problems it caused. I loved the quote about Slash not being able to even run a bath - lol
Also remember Classic Rock wrote the article and spun the intro the way they wanted etc. Izzy's quote of Alan being like the silent 6th member was used by them as part of the intro. Alan didn't say "I am the 6th member" etc.
Personally I would love to see Niven get pissed and just go to town "no holds barred" about anything and everything GNR related. But from my read of it, he never has and never will have any intention of damaging such a mythical legacy.
#2069 Re: Guns N' Roses » Former GN'R Manager Alan Niven Counters Axl's Claims » 898 weeks ago
Not everybody is a media whore like Slash. Just because Niven doesn't like talking to the press, doesn't mean he's a truth teller.
His argument was WEAK.
What does he get out of coming out and telling his side of a few issues that Axl threw out in the press?
#2070 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » Adler to Star in Action/Comedy Movie » 898 weeks ago
I thought Adler was already staring in an action/comedy called "This is your Life".
I used to think it was a tradgedy but after it dragged on and on for about 20 years it eventually turned into a black comedy.
