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W Axl Rose
12-01-2011, 04:11 PM
DEC 17th 2011 - Vancouver, BC @ Pacific ColiseumDEC 11th 2011 - Denver, CO @ 1st bank centerDEC 8th 2011 - Indianapolis, IN @ Conseco FieldhouseDEC 7th 2011 - Youngstown, OH @ Covelli CentreDEC 5th, 2011 - Southhaven, MS @ DeSoto Civic CenterDEC 4th 2011 - Nashville, TN @ Bridgestone ArenaDEC 2nd 2011 - Cincinnati, OH @ U.S. Bank ArenaDEC 1st, 2011 - Auburn Hills, MI @ The PalaceNOV 28th 2011 - Hamilton, ON @ Copps Coliseum (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=53024.0)NOV 26th 2011 - Camden, NJ @ Susquehanna Bank Center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=53023.0)NOV 25th 2011 - Worcester, MA @ DCU center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52999.0)NOV 20th 2011 - Wilkes Barre, PA @ Mohegan Sun Arena (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52938.0)NOV 19th 2011 - Hartford, CT @ Comcast Theatre (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52937.0)NOV 17th 2011 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod Center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52919.0)NOV 15th 2011 - Rosemont, IL, USA @ Allstate Arena (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52926.0)NOV 13th 2011 - Minneapolis, MN, USA @ Target Center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52844.0)NOV 12th 2011 - Kansas City, MO, USA @ Sprint Center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52835.0)NOV 9th 2011 - Norman, OK @Llyod Noble Center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52793.0)NOV 8th 2011 - Omaha, NE @ Qwest Center Omaha (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52775.0)NOV 5th 2011 - Dallas, TX, @ Gexa Energy Pavillion (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52745.0)NOV 4th 2011 - Houston, TX @ Toyota Center (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52736.0)NOV 2nd 2011 - Atlanta, GA, @ Phillips Arena (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52708.0)OCT 31st 2011 - Greenville, SC @ Bi-Lo Center Arena (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/concertreviews/31102011.html)OCT 29th 2011 - Miami, Florida, USA @ AA Arena (http://www.newgnr.com/forum/index.php?topic=52685.0)OCT 28th 2011 - Orlando, Florida, USA @ Amway Center (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/concertreviews/28102011.html)

botley
12-01-2011, 04:14 PM
Didn't even realize there was a show on Monday less than an hour's drive away from me. Who the hell is promoting this? Are people supposed to find out about these shows via smoke signal?

EDIT: To add insult to injury, they played "Estranged", "Patience" and "Don't Cry"... fuck!

Kid Charlemagne
12-01-2011, 04:20 PM
Most of these shows were announced near the date. The Houston date wasn't announced till two weeks before the show and tickets went on sale the same day. Not sure who's promoting these gigs. It's not like these guys are Radiohead or anything.

Kid Charlemagne
12-01-2011, 04:26 PM
I guess nobody had the "patience" to wait for the shows, that's why they went on sale so late.

Totally
12-02-2011, 01:50 AM
Sup, Pepper

Presideo
12-02-2011, 02:55 AM
As always, thanks for the constant GNR info - you're doing Gods work Mr Pepper!

Any news on Chinese Democracy II: Rebellion in Hong Kong?

aggroculture
12-02-2011, 06:21 AM
I saw "GNR" in 2006, and would never go again. But I'd be interested in a new album, Chinese Democracy rules.

LaneSax
12-06-2011, 09:26 AM
GN'R will be inducted to the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame according to Eddie Trunk!

Interesting to see who actually turns up...

october_midnight
12-06-2011, 09:44 AM
Apparently the show last night was cancelled due to 'safety concerns with the stage set up'. If you still consider this "GnR" and not just a fat washed up has-been trying to cash grab with a group of hired musicians, you're delusional. Safety concerns for the stage? Gee, why?

http://images.thegauntlet.com/pics/axlrose-cananda.jpg

dogsipod
12-06-2011, 10:11 AM
How do you go from arguably the best debut album ever to this...

Wretchedest
12-06-2011, 10:53 AM
I feel like "safety hazard" is their most common excuse... wuat exactly do they do up there thats so dangerous?

NotoriousTIMP
12-06-2011, 03:34 PM
ROFL - Groupon has an offer today for up to 53% off on GnR tickets for the Seattle show

http://img.tapatalk.com/aefddaa7-8a34-25fc.jpg

I *might* go just because of this deal


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Halo Infinity
12-06-2011, 08:23 PM
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/images/dunkin-donuts-9-21-11-1.jpg
I'm sure that you must've seen this already. I immediately thought of this video after seeing the doughnuts in the Guns N' Roses thread. :p


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53K2KO5Bmgo

As for Guns N' Roses, Appetite For Destruction, G&R Lies, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II will always be my favorite releases from them. Chinese Democracy was okay though, but I did end up liking a couple of songs from it. As a cover album, I thought The Spaghetti Incident? was okay too, but I didn't really listen to it that much. It was also nice to hear Michael Monroe from Hanoi Rocks on Bad Obsession and Ain't It Fun too.

bobbie solo
12-07-2011, 01:46 AM
wait, im not sure if youre all being sarcastic or not. you're aware that the safety concerns excuse is BS and shows are getting cancelled bc of low ticket sales right?

W Axl Rose
12-14-2011, 02:18 PM
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=167241
GUNS N' ROSES Frontman Presented With Key To West Valley City - Dec. 14, 2011

GUNS N' ROSES frontman Axl Rose was presented with a key to the city about one hour into the band's concert Wednesday night (December 14) at the Maverik Center in West Valley City, Utah. Right before the group launched into its cover version of Paul McCartney's "Live And Let Die", Mayor Mike Winder walked onstage and greeted Rose, congratulating the singer on this past week's announcement that the Los Angeles-based act will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
"How long do you stay open?" Rose asked the mayor after being presented with the key.
"All night for GUNS N' ROSES," the mayor replied.
Axl: "I'll use the key to get out of jail"

GUNS N' ROSES reportedly played a three-hour set last night consisting of more than 30 songs, ending just after 2 a.m. with the band's classic track "Paradise City".
As previously reported, it has been confirmed that ex-GUNS N' ROSES bassist Duff McKagan's band LOADED will open two shows for the latest version of GUNS on that band's current North American tour. LOADED will warm up for GUNS N' ROSES on December 16 at the Key Arena in Seattle and December 17 at Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia.
McKagan made worldwide headlines in October 2010 when he joined GUNS onstage for four songs at a concert in London, England, marking the first time he had set foot on a stage with GUNS N' ROSES in 17 years.
GUNS N' ROSES will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame next April in Cleveland, prompting speculation about whether the event could lead to a reunion of the band's original lineup.
McKagan admitted last month in an interview that he had a hard time imaging such a possibility, saying, "I can't. I can't picture it. Your guess is as good as mine. There is no picture."
Rose was ambivalent in a recent interview about the Hall Of Fame, and told Billboard.com in 2009 that he could never see himself playing with original GUNS guitarist Slash again, saying, "One of the two of us will die before a reunion. However sad, ugly or unfortunate anyone views it, it is how it is."

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/soulflypremiere/axlkey.jpg

NotoriousTIMP
12-16-2011, 07:17 PM
Got my tickets for tonight's show!!! Thank you groupon!! Haha...


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W Axl Rose
01-03-2012, 06:17 PM
Bumblefoot (http://www.facebook.com/bumblefoot)
At the studio, mixing & mastering rapper Scarface's next album... preview here: http://itunes.apple.com/album/cold-blooded-single-single/id480869250

onthewall2983
01-03-2012, 06:28 PM
GN'R will be inducted to the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame according to Eddie Trunk!

Interesting to see who actually turns up...

I think what's going to happen is Slash and everyone else will show up, and Axl is going to accept via satellite. What I hope happens is they all go on stage with Slash's new singer and blow the crowd of suits and fans (it's in Cleveland like it was in 2009).

W Axl Rose
01-11-2012, 02:43 PM
bumblefoot Bumblefoot
@NAMM Sat Jan 21, 2-3pm @engl_amps Booth 5824 Hall B Signing with @DuffMcKagan @insertfartnoise & @bumblefoot

W Axl Rose
01-14-2012, 01:42 PM
January 13th, 2012
Axl Rose Performs His Civic Duty

By Marisa Laudadio
Friday January 13, 2012 08:20 AM EST
Welcome to the legal jungle, baby!

A source tells PEOPLE that Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose has been serving jury duty on a civil trial in Santa Monica, Calif.

The rocker's rep confirms that Rose, 49, indeed has been performing his civic duty – having completed jury duty service on Tuesday "after serving four days of the trial process," says his rep.

"It was relatively painless," says Rose, who just completed a U.S. tour with his band last month. "I was fortunate that everyone in the courthouse and jurors were all really great, plus I got to see daylight from a different prospect."

Guns N' Roses will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, along with other artists including the Beastie Boys and Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Source(s): http://www.people.com/

W Axl Rose
01-14-2012, 03:25 PM
He serves Jury Duty? Who gives a fuck. Seriously, why even bother posting useless info I could give two shits about?

P.S. I love how all 6 of your posts are nothing but in this thread.

This is a GUNS N ROSES THREAD,BROHAM. Axl serving jury duty is Guns N Roses news.As is Bumblefoot appearing at NAMM. If ya don't like it, don't read/post in the GnR thread.Pretty simple, Chief.
Dj Ashba:I wrote 12 songs for Gn'R and Axl liked it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... uTbmVuPuk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6huTbmVuPuk#)

Space Suicide
01-14-2012, 06:30 PM
This is a GUNS N ROSES THREAD,BROHAM. Axl serving jury duty is Guns N Roses news.As is Bumblefoot appearing at NAMM. If ya don't like it, don't read/post in the GnR thread.Pretty simple, Chief.
Dj Ashba:I wrote 12 songs for Gn'R and Axl liked it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... uTbmVuPuk# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6huTbmVuPuk#)

I like moderate GNR but the news was irrelevant to any music news really.

aggroculture
01-14-2012, 06:38 PM
Breaking news: DJ Ashba Still Not a DJ.

Wretchedest
01-14-2012, 09:02 PM
If you guys don't want to read news about GnR... then why the fuck are you in the GnR thread?

There's dozens of other crappy threads floating around. I for one enjoy hearing whatever Axl might be up too, if only for it being amusing...

dolemite
01-14-2012, 09:14 PM
People bitching about the GNR thread getting brought up is ridiculous. If this was a Radiohead thread and Thom Yorke was doing his civic duty or whatever they do in England, people would be pissing themselves and patting themselves on the back over how awesome Thom was. Axl's a douche, and people get pissed when his name is even brought up.

For my part, I think Axl doing jury duty is hilarious. It sounds like the plot to some comedy movie. Also, can you imagine the poor bastard who had Axl Rose on his jury? Guilty or innocent, I damn sure wouldn't want Axl Rose in control of my fate.

Also, a GNR reunion of some sort will likely happen at the R&R Hall of Fame. Axl mentioned in a recent interview that if a reunion did happen, he could only see it involving Slash, Duff, and himself. I found this to be a bizarre statement, but that's what he said.

The thing is, neither Slash nor Axl want to admit that either of them is "wrong", and the R&R hall of fame gives them an excuse to do something together without it being a full blown tour, and this way, neither of them as to admit any wrongdoing, they can just do a show and save-face without either one of them coming back "begging" the other for a reunion. I think that's the real problem - they've both got huge egos and neither of them wants to admit that the other person is "right" about what happened in the past. The RR HoF reunion would let them sidestep that issue, which is why I think it will happen.

Kid Charlemagne
01-14-2012, 11:55 PM
I don't get the "why are you posting if you don't care attitude?", these are what forums are for. Just as much as Dr. Pepper has a right to talk about Tons o' Fun Rose doing jury duty, we can sure as hell wonder why there's posts. I wonder if Axl said "I WANNA WATCH YOU BLEED" when figuring out the verdict, or if he was upset that they weren't treated to an all you can eat buffet.

thevoid99
01-15-2012, 12:53 AM
Man, hearing about Axl doing jury duty brings me back a few memories of my own jury duty experience. It wasn't so bad. Boring to do but you still had to show up. I got to be an alternate juror for a case for 2 days. At least I got paid. I wonder how much gas/grocery money Axl got for his jury duty service.

Halo Infinity
01-15-2012, 03:31 PM
I don't get the "why are you posting if you don't care attitude?", these are what forums are for.
Because to really not care would mean that you wouldn't even want to bother posting in the thread, let alone click on it or even mention it. I'm not undermining you either, it's just what I've always thought about such things.


Just as much as Dr. Pepper has a right to talk about Tons o' Fun Rose doing jury duty, we can sure as hell wonder why there's posts. I wonder if Axl said "I WANNA WATCH YOU BLEED" when figuring out the verdict, or if he was upset that they weren't treated to an all you can eat buffet.
However, I don't get the "Why are you posting if you don't like it?" attitude. That's what it really looks like to me, and I'd agree with you in that case because forums are obviously not about everybody loving/liking the same exact things at all times, and like any other Guns N' Roses/Axl Rose jokes I've read, those were pretty funny.

W Axl Rose
01-21-2012, 02:24 PM
At the Guitar World Zakk Wylde roast, Sharon Osbourne had this to say:
Asked who she'd like to see roasted in 2013, she replied, "I think Axl Rose, and I’m the woman to fuck him."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/zakk-wylde-roasted-by-corey-taylor-and-sharon-osbourne-20120120#ixzz1k7YzqkZb

butters
01-21-2012, 04:10 PM
People still give a shit what Sharon Osbourne says?

W Axl Rose
01-22-2012, 11:36 AM
The band gets together again in 2 weeks!!! Tommy Stinson is promising some major news!

http://www.nba.com/sixers/video/2012/01/20/120120stinsonmov-1972955

W Axl Rose
01-24-2012, 09:59 PM
I occasionally listen to a sports podcast called, The Sports-Casters. Usually it has nothing to do with anything that would be relevant on this board, but much to my surprise, one of their guests today was Duff. Duff appears with SL Price and Michael Farber. If you aren't interested in the sports stuff you can skip ahead to the Duff interview at the (02:05:27) mark.


Duff directly responds to the hall of fame, the Velvet Revolver reunion, and there is some sports talk mixed in there.


Check out the most current interview with Duff out there:


http://www.sports-casters.com


The podcast is also on stitcher, iTunes, and I sometimes listen to it on my iPad with an app called instacast.


What do you guys think of the interviews. I don't want to give any spoilers so I will save my opinion until more people have had the chance to listen.

W Axl Rose
01-30-2012, 02:47 PM
GUNS N’ ROSES PLAN NEW YORK TAKEOVER
WITH HISTORIC RETURN TO THE RITZ

LOS ANGELES, CA (January 30, 2012) – Seminal rock icons, Guns N’ Roses, are set to invade New York during fashion week with a series of intimate shows then continue with additional stops through the northeast, announced today. Six shows confirmed so far including the historic return to The Ritz (now Webster Hall), 24 years after the filming of their heralded “Live At The Ritz” – the MTV concert continues to be one of the most sought after trades in bootleg circles. For the Webster Hall date, GN’R will celebrate their return by reclaiming the venue as The Ritz with signage and the name appearing on the marquee. The New York takeover in February marks the first time the band will appear at Roseland and Terminal 5, beginning on February 10, 2012. Full list of dates below.
Ticket presale on Tuesday, January 31 at 10:00am ET for the NY run, public on-sale is Wednesday, February 1. Chicago, Silver Spring and Atlantic City presale is Wednesday, February 1 at 10:00am EST, with public on-sale Friday, February 3. Tickets and VIP packages for all six dates will be available at gunsnroses.com.
Guns N’ Roses have just come off their sold-out global 2011 arena tour, with more than 30 shows in the US, visits to Latin America and multiple festivals, having played to millions of fans around the globe.
Celebrated worldwide as one of the most important rock acts in musical history, Guns N’ Roses are Axl Rose, DJ Ashba (guitar), Dizzy Reed (keyboards), Tommy Stinson (bass), Richard Fortus (guitar), Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (guitar), Chris Pitman (keyboards) and Frank Ferrer (drums). Founder Axl Rose started Guns N’ Roses over 25 years ago and since that time, they have become one of the biggest bands in music history, selling more than 100 million albums worldwide. GN’R’s major-label debut, “Appetite For Destruction,” has sold over 28 million albums in the United States alone. The ground-breaking album changed the course of music with such classic hits as “Welcome The Jungle,” “Paradise City,” and the chart-topping single, “Sweet Child of Mine.” The band’s third studio release, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, was the first double album release in history to nab both the top spots on the Billboard chart and went on to remain on the charts for more than 108 weeks while the band spent more than 2 years on the road to support. The ‘Illusion’ releases found the band charting new territory in the video arena with the theatrical trilogy, “November Rain,” “Don’t Cry” and “Estranged.” The band’s most recent release, Chinese Democracy (Black Frog/Geffen Records), released in November 2008 and debuted #1 on the charts in thirteen countries, going platinum in 15 countries!

Tour Dates:
February 10 Roseland Ballroom New York, NY
February 12 Terminal 6 New York, NY
February 15 The Ritz (Webster Hall) New York, NY
February 19 House of Blues Chicago, IL
February 23 The Fillmore Silver Spring, MD
February 24 House of Blues Atlantic City, NJ

botley
01-31-2012, 04:37 AM
Uhh...pretty sure no one, and I mean NO ONE will care. Post all the spoilers you want, champ.
Nothing at all surprising about the Duff interview, except that they didn't mention Jane's Addiction even once.

neorev
01-31-2012, 04:32 PM
Where's Terminal 6?
Is it the bastard child of Terminal 5?

GoodSoldier333
02-01-2012, 11:39 AM
It'll be exciting to watch on youtube. If you're going, please bring a camera.

Space Suicide
02-01-2012, 05:57 PM
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e360/VHsRunninwithdevil/OddnEnds/CotieEditAxlMugshit.jpg
I shittily photoshopped this in 10th grade. Oh the years have gone by.

W Axl Rose
02-01-2012, 07:19 PM
You mean other than having the most annoying fuckin' voice on the planet? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbW3ZUj4L_E) as your voice?

Oh, and uhh...yeah I'm the one obsessed here. Quick, let me find some other forum where literally no one gives a shit about a certain washed up band and fuck it. I'm gonna just post there incessantly! That's the ticket!

I have very few posts,Brosef. Shocking as it might be to you some fans of Robin Finck became GNR fans when he was in the band for ten years.Some of them even stayed on board when he left. Axl Rose has a four octave vocal range and it rules.That is far from annoying.If you are a man (I'm not sure if you are) and you spend this much time posting about his looks, I worry for you Broham.

Kid Charlemagne
02-01-2012, 07:27 PM
I doubt people care that much about Robin Finck.

Space Suicide
02-01-2012, 07:28 PM
No ill will towards you but I knew for a fact you were going to mention something about Robin Finck at some point as justification for any reason. For the record,

Aaron North > Robin Finck

W Axl Rose
02-01-2012, 07:31 PM
No ill will towards you but I knew for a fact you were going to mention something about Robin Finck at some point as justification for any reason. For the record,

Aaron North > Robin Finck


Has this Aaron North fella written anything as close to awesome as Better?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AnNxgrlGI4

W Axl Rose
02-01-2012, 07:32 PM
I doubt people care that much about Robin Finck.
I do.He was in my favorite band for ten years.

Kid Charlemagne
02-01-2012, 07:42 PM
I don't, I mean he's not better than Adam Jones of Tool, and everyone knows Tool is the greatest band in the world.

Space Suicide
02-01-2012, 07:48 PM
Aaron North is leagues better and wilder than Finck could ever dream. As far as new Guns go, I found Better a bit lame. Madatnascar is the best.

W Axl Rose
02-02-2012, 06:36 PM
I don't, I mean he's not better than Adam Jones of Tool, and everyone knows Tool is the greatest band in the world.

I don't know about that. Guns N Roses are better in my opinion.Tool must be GNR fans though since they had Guns drummer Frank Ferrer do a drum off with Danny Carey last night:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/417157_10150749820812586_691557585_12398244_759161 470_n.jpg
Drum off with Danny Carey of TOOL!!! 2/1/12 Izod Center NJ!!!!

frankie teardrop
02-03-2012, 11:03 AM
Uhh, he was being sarcastic broham. If you ventured out in to the scaaaaary world of...ANOTHER THREAD ON THIS FORUM...you'd have probably realized that.

Oh, and the reason Tool had Ferrer drum with them is because he's an accomplished session drummer. Look up 'session musicians' if you're not sure what they are. (don't be surprised if you see most of the current GnR lineup on the wiki page when you do...)

*facepalm*


yeah, i saw ferrer drum with tool back on the lateralus tour, when he was also playing with psychedelic furs. they're old friends, i reckon.

botley
02-03-2012, 11:40 AM
Yeah... at the last two Tool shows in Toronto (2009 and 2012), Chris Chartrand did the drum-off in "Lateralus". Does that mean Tool are big fans of Crystal Castles? No; that's just one of the bands Chris happens to play with.

Kid Charlemagne
02-03-2012, 01:30 PM
Looking back on this, I have no idea why I mentioned Tool.

Space Suicide
02-03-2012, 09:58 PM
Looking back on this, I have no idea why I mentioned Tool.

Because Frank Ferrer is part of Guns and Tool has a connection with them, silly.

To be honest, the only thing I could hope for or look forward to from this new Guns is their release of a studio version of Silkworms. But we know that won't happen anytime soon.

W Axl Rose
02-05-2012, 02:03 PM
Good news Brothers.Tomorrow is W.Axl Rose's 50th Birthday! How do you plan to celebrate?

W. Axl Rose (born William Bruce Rose, Jr.; raised as William Bruce Bailey; February 6, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He is the lead vocalist and only remaining original member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he enjoyed great success and recognition in the late 1980s and early 1990s, before disappearing from the public eye for several years. In 2001, he resurfaced with a new line-up of Guns N' Roses at Rock in Rio 3, and subsequently played periodic concert tours, before releasing the long-delayed album Chinese Democracy in 2008. Rose has been named one of the greatest singers of all time by various media outlets, including Rolling Stone and NME.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bkFIPLIOGL8/Sl3ukMB_0gI/AAAAAAAAh_0/E0L6RcTZBSE/s400/axl-rose.jpg
http://cahiersdufootball.net/blogs/pourisiens/files/2009/03/axl-rose.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2010/2/15/1266227953229/Axl-Rose-of-Guns-N-Roses--001.jpg

dolemite
02-06-2012, 01:20 AM
You know how Elvis got all fucked up and fat? This is what this reminds me of.

Except Elvis could still sing when he was fat. Axl gets all out of breath and sounds like crap.

If you look over shows from the past decade, there is almost a direct correlation between how poorly or good Axl sounds and how much he weighs. At least, that's how it seems from the youtube clips that I have seen.

Get ready for a load of GNR news in the mainstream media too. I'm getting the feeling that everybody will at least show up for the Rock N Roll HoF show. They may not play a song, but I think they are at least going to show up and accept the honor together.

Totally
02-06-2012, 11:10 AM
Axl's lost his weight, seen him recently

botley
02-06-2012, 11:42 AM
I'm getting the feeling that everybody will at least show up for the Rock N Roll HoF show. They may not play a song, but I think they are at least going to show up and accept the honor together.
Be ready for a disappointment. Everything Axl's said for years indicates that he will NOT pick up the award if Slash is present. Furthermore, why are they only inducting the 1991-era band members if the award is for a band that's existed for 25+ years? Makes no sense.

Totally
02-06-2012, 12:32 PM
I assume the minute they were announced for the HOF he lost the appetite. Seriously lookin 90's thin right now. Helluva Vancouver show w Duff in on it

W Axl Rose
02-06-2012, 04:33 PM
"Duff's bday yesterday, the redhead's today, Happy Birthday fuckers! iiiI; )'"
https://twitter.com/slash

Leviathant
02-07-2012, 10:11 PM
I get that some of you don't like Guns n Roses. I don't really like Guns n Roses. I am also not a particularly funny person. Having said that, it's not prudent to do a shitty job honing my comedy craft in a thread on ETS about Guns n Roses. I am a fan of the absurd, but this is just dumb. Please keep it on topic.

Hazekiah
02-09-2012, 05:00 AM
Personally, on-topic humor about the latest updates or whatever is perfectly fine, funny or not (tastes vary and all that), but assholes telling someone they're out of line for simply posting on-topic news updates in the pertinent thread is going too far and SHOULD be put to a stop.

I don't care enough about G'n'R to hunt for info or post in here much, but I DO like them enough to enjoy being kept up to date by threads like this.

If you don't like something then just click something else, ffs.

W Axl Rose
02-11-2012, 12:54 PM
http://www.metro.us/newyork/entertainment/article/1093452--dizzy-reed-of-guns-n-roses-shows-a-little-patience
The only person who has been in Guns N’ Roses longer than keyboard player Dizzy Reed is Axl Rose. Reed joined the band in the early ’90s, shortly before the “Use Your Illusion” albums, and stuck through the historically long waiting period for the follow-up that was “Chinese Democracy” in 2008. Although he wasn’t in the picture for the band’s club days, Guns N’ Roses is returning to these roots this week, with a series of club shows to coincide with Fashion Week. These intimate Fashion Week gigs have become a bit of a tradition for GnR, one which Reed says he finds a little baffling.

Why Fashion Week?
I don’t really know the answer to that question, but I ask myself that question sometimes. It’s a cool thing to be a part of it, but from my perspective it’s a bit of a quintessential New York experience. And rock ’n’ roll and fashion have always sort of been intertwined.

You’re also returning to the Ritz, which although it’s now called Webster Hall, is where Guns N’ Roses performed a classic show that ran on MTV for a long time.
I think that was one of the moments out here [in Los Angeles] where we all sort of realized that Guns were gonna blow up.

Walk me through a little bit of the waiting period, wondering if “Chinese Democracy” was ever going to be released.
We’ve only got 15 minutes! [Laughs] I went through the ga-mut of emotions on a daily basis, depending on what was going on in my life. From a financial standpoint, and from every-thing, it was just emotional. We had so many things tied into that record and so many things went down, and so many people came and went. We had been touring already for so long, playing those songs and I’m just really, really happy and thankful that it came out and I think it’s one of the best re-cords I’ve ever .

[B]You talk of people coming and going. How have you stayed in the band so long?
I think coming into the band as I did, I just had a different perspective on it. I was pretty grateful to be called up to be a part of what was such a huge thing at the time, and if I ever start drifting off into any sort of place where maybe I want to do a little more for myself I just try to remind myself that I'm pretty darn lucky.

Axl gets a bad rap for the ways he has led this band, but you’ve worked with him for so long.
He’s a great, great man. He’s done a lot for me and my family and for so many other people. And people don’t know that about him. And you know what? He’s always got some great jokes, man.

So what do you know about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Um, it’s in Cleveland.
But do you know what’s going to happen with GnR’s induction into the Hall in April? There are rumors of a reunion of the original lineup.
I haven’t gotten any details. I spoke with the people of that institution. They gave me a call and told me to mark it on the calendar, to be there. As far as the details of what’s going to happen, I haven’t received any sort of itinerary or schedule. It’s something I’m just trying not to think about until it gets closer. It’s not that I don’t appreciate it. It’s a great thing, and it’s great for all the people who supported the band over the years.

I understand that you’re still friends with everybody who has been in the band through the years, is that right?
Friendly, I’d say. I haven’t talked to a couple of the guys at all since they left. But Duff got up and jammed with us in Seattle and Vancouver last year. His band Loaded opened up for us, which was fantastic. Izzy came and did a few shows with us, and sat in, in 2010, which was cool.

Weren’t you and Izzy kind of like ships passing in the night?
No, we played together. When I actually joined the band, it was still the original five guys. With Steven, we recorded “Civil War,” and then I didn’t see him again, and then we had a new drummer. But Izzy toured with us right up to when the “Use Your Illusion” albums came out.

I just remember the video that featured a sign that said, “Where’s Izzy?”
Oh yeah. That was on my jacket.

And you’ve been immortalized, by making it onto the Guns N’ Roses pinball machine as well...
Yes I did. I’m on the pinball machine, and I can’t remember what it was that triggers it, but you can get the “Dizzy ball,” and it starts going crazy and you can score a whole bunch of points. I think it was patterned after me after too many vodkas or something.

Space Suicide
02-11-2012, 01:08 PM
I'm surprised you didn't mention that a remix of Better leaked last night. Let me down!

W Axl Rose
02-11-2012, 01:21 PM
I'm surprised you didn't mention that a remix of Better leaked last night. Let me down!
If this was one of the remixes that Brain mentioned, cool. For all I know, it's fan made though. I guess I like it. I wanna hear these other songs like The General.

W Axl Rose
02-14-2012, 02:47 PM
Whether the group plays together or not remains to be seen, but it appears there will be some sort of reunion of Guns 'N Roses' original lineup at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on April 14 in Cleveland.

"I know that all the original band is going to be there," keyboardist Dizzy Reed, the longest-standing member of the current GNR and an inductee that night, tells Billboard.com. "I don't know exactly what's going to go down. It's one of those things I'm sure will all come together and be really cool. I'm just going to go in with a good attitude and a clear head and a grateful heart."

Fans have been abuzz about whether the GNR crew -- which will also include continuing frontman Axl Rose, guitarists Slash, Izzy Stradlin and Gilby Clarke, bassist Duff McKagen and drummers Steven Adler and Matt Sorum -- would put aside well-publicized differences at the ceremony and pick up their instruments together. Nobody has said for sure what will happen, and Adler has even expressed open doubts about the possibility. Reed, meanwhile, says it's not even been a topic of conversation between he and Rose since the Rock Hall's class of 2012 was announced in December.

"Honestly, we haven't spoken about it," Reed says. "I don't know when or why or how to bring it up. It's not an every day sort of thing. So we haven't really talked about it -- but I'm sure we'll have to at some point."

Reed calls the Rock Hall honor "pretty cool...especially when you think about all the people who are already in and helped make rock 'n' roll what it is. It's a real who's who of great musicians." The keyboardist adds that he's also excited "for the people that have supported Guns 'N Roses over the years. It's really cool for them more than anyone else. To me, that's the most important thing."

The current GNR, meanwhile, is playing more than celebrating. Following an arena swing in 2011, the group is playing seven club and theater shows, including three in New York City and in Chicago, Detroit, Silver Spring, Md. and Atlantic City. At the group's Feb. 10 show at New York's Roseland Ballroom, Rose and co. tore through a 150-minute set that included their "Appetite for Destruction" hits and some deep cuts from "Chinese Democracy," leaving the small crowd delighted.

"It's always cool to change things up like that and be a little more intimate with the crowd," Reed says. "Obviously we have to scale things down a little bit. The stage won't be quite as big. Hopefully there won't be as much pyro -- I always feel safer when there's not."

GNR will return to bigger spaces in mid-May, when it begins a European tour of arenas and festivals -- including the Gods Of Metal weekend in Milan, Italy -- although Reed notes that "if they throw in some club shows here and there, I've got no complaints. I'm totally into it."

And how about for work on a follow-up to 2008's "Chinese Democracy?" "There are some clamoring and rumors that we might be getting some material together here after we do this little (theater) run, so we'll see what happens," Reed says. "I just go with the flow. I'm always recording and stuff. If it happens it will be really fun and cool. I love creating stuff with all the guys. And there was so much material that didn't make it onto ('Chinese Democracy'). From what I remember there were a lot of really cool songs; I can only hope that some of that stuff does resurface and get worked out."


http://www.billboard.com/news/all-original-guns-n-roses-members-will-be-1006185362.story#/news/all-original-guns-n-roses-members-will-be-1006185362.story

W Axl Rose
02-22-2012, 06:22 PM
Interview! Whet Your ‘Appetite’ 
- Guns N' Roses Head to Atlantic City

Bassist Tommy Stinson 
talks new GNR album, his old band the Replacements and what Axl Rose is really like.

Feb. 22, 2012

Tommy Stinson is asking some questions about the fashionable Paleo diet since he’s hoping for some extra energy. That’s understandable since the Guns N’ Roses bassist is working around the clock. 


When the former member of the seminal 1980s alt-rockers the Replacements isn’t on the road with Guns N’ Roses, Stinson is working on solo material or touring with Soul Asylum. At the moment he is caring for his four-year old, who has walking pneumonia.


“There is so little time for everything,” Stinson tells Atlantic City Weekly while calling from his home in New York’s Hudson Valley. “I need more energy.”


The busy performer talks about Axl Rose, the future of Guns N’ Roses — which just finished off a five-night New York City run and will perform Friday, Feb. 24, at the House of Blues in Atlantic City — and why a Replacements reunion is unlikely.


How difficult is it to juggle all of your musical obligations?


It’s not easy. Guns tends to book a lot of things fairly last minute. I’ll have solo stuff booked and I’ll have to cancel it.



Is there a backup for you with Guns N’ Roses?


I’m not going to miss anything with Guns since it’s been my main gig for the last 14 years, but if I had to miss, the person I could call is [original Guns N’ Roses bassist] Duff [McKagan]. He would do it and the old fans would get a kick out of it. But I’m good with all the Guns dates.



One album in 14 years isn’t much of an output. Any chance that Guns N’ Roses will put out anything since Chinese Democracy finally was released?


I really hope so. I would like to put out more than one album in 14 years. But people don’t know how much trouble we had with Interscope [Records]. They didn’t make it easy on us. But there’s a good chance something will be out. We’re writing and Axl really likes some of the stuff [guitarist] DJ [Ashba] has come up with. Guns has a future and I think it includes an album. I’m fine with playing the old Guns songs I had nothing to do with when they were recorded. I’m all about Chinese Democracy, too, but I want new Guns N’ Roses songs.



What’s Axl Rose really like?


First of all, Axl Rose is part of a dying breed, a real rock star. There just aren’t rock stars anymore. He’s a really good guy, great to work with. If that wasn’t so I wouldn’t be working with him for the last 14 years.



When we last spoke a decade ago, you told me that there was an 80-percent chance that the Replacements would never reunite and if you did, it would be only for the money. Is that still true?


[Laughs] I think it’s less than a 20-percent chance we’ll get back together. I think there is a much better chance that there will be another Guns N’ Roses album than there will ever be a Replacements reunion.


But it’s not as if you had an ugly breakup.


Not at all. We just walked away from it.



What if Coachella offered the Replacements $5 million, which they dangled in front of the Smiths, to reunite?


We would have to consider it. I don’t know if we’d do it. But it’s not like we’re on bad terms. Every couple of years we talk about what it would take for us to come back, but we’re not doing it.



Music culture has chanced a great deal since you were with the Replacements. It appears that most fledgling artists are desperate for wealth and fame and the Replacements were the antithesis of that.


I would agree with that.


It’s all over the Mats lyrics, such as “I Don’t Know.” You could almost see Paul Westerberg sneering as he sings: “one foot in the door/ the other one in the gutter/the sweet smell that you adore/I think I’d rather smother.” If that doesn’t say I’ll pass on the brass ring, I don’t know what does.


Yeah, we didn’t go for the brass ring, but we didn’t think it was reachable anyway. 



I always thought I missed the mythic great Replacements show since the Mats were often a drunken mass, which angrily stopped midway through songs. But I realized years after you called it a day that those were the great shows since each show was different. It was happening in front of everyone.


We were genuine and Paul is like no one else. It was great to be in a band with him.


When Chinese Democracy was just some Flying Dutchman of a project, did your old pal Westerberg ever call you to see what was going on?


He called and joked and said, “Maybe I should produce the album.” He didn’t. He won’t produce the next Guns album either. I’m looking forward to the next album. It’s a good time to be in Guns N’ Roses.



You’re squeezing in a date at Philly’s MilkBoy following the Atlantic City Guns N’ Roses date. [Wednesday, Feb. 29, at MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. $10; 9pm.] 


Yes. I’m really looking forward to that. I’m only going to be on for about 35 minutes. It’s a Pete Donnelly [NRBQ, Figgs, Soul Asylum, Graham Parker] show and it’ll be fun. I just don’t know exactly what I’ll do yet. I’m just glad I have the chance to do it.

http://www.atlanticcityweekly.com/arts-and-entertainment/features/Whet-Your-Appetite-guns-n-roses-head-to-atlantic-city-tour-concert-house-of-blues-140029973.html

Space Suicide
02-22-2012, 06:28 PM
New GN'R album: 2018

Fixer808
02-22-2012, 06:49 PM
New GN'R album: 2018
For 2018 read 2035. Axl probably wouldn't be to make it if nature were allowed to take its course, but that's the downside of the advance of medical technology.

Sporadic
02-24-2012, 04:20 PM
$101 for one ticket to see them at the House Of Blues in Orlando? Fuck that. I would love to see them live but there is no way I'm paying that much.

W Axl Rose
02-27-2012, 12:43 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcAinRfpxUs
New Slash Featuring Myles Kenndy and The Conspirators single "You're A Lie"

W Axl Rose
02-29-2012, 04:10 PM
Guns N' Roses tour dates 2012

Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/atlanta_35067)
Thursday, 01 March 2012
Atlanta GA
The Tabernacle, United States


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/orlando_35068)
Saturday, 03 March 2012
Orlando FL
House of Blues, United States


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/miami-beach_35069)
Monday, 05 March 2012
Miami Beach FL
The Fillmore Miami Beach At Jackie Gleason Theater, United States


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/los-angeles_35348)
Friday, 09 March 2012
Los Angeles CA
Hollywood Palladium, United States


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/los-angeles_35349)
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Los Angeles CA
The Wiltern, United States


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/los-angeles_35350)
Monday, 12 March 2012
Los Angeles CA
House Of Blues, United States


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/dublin_33369)
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Dublin
The O2, Ireland


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/nottingham_35177)
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Nottingham
Capital FM Arena Nottingham, United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/liverpool_35178)
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Liverpool
Echo Arena, United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/newcastle-upon-tyne_35179)
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Metro Radio Arena Newcastle, United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/glasgow_35180)
Friday, 25 May 2012
Glasgow
S.E.C.C., United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/birmingham_35181)
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Birmingham
LG Arena, United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/manchester_34654)
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Manchester
MEN Arena Manchester, United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/london_35182)
Thursday, 31 May 2012
London
O2 Arena, United Kingdom


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/rotterdam_34156)
Monday, 04 June 2012
Rotterdam
Ahoy, Netherlands


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/paris_33370)
Tuesday, 05 June 2012
Paris
POPB / Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/munchengladbach_34157)
Friday, 08 June 2012
Munchengladbach
Warsteiner HockeyPark, Germany


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/lyon_33371)
Sunday, 10 June 2012
Lyon
Halle Tony Garnier, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/strasbourg_33372)
Monday, 11 June 2012
Strasbourg
Zénith Europe, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/toulouse_33373)
Thursday, 14 June 2012
Toulouse
Zénith, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/clisson_34160)
Saturday, 16 June 2012
Clisson
Val de Moine, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/montpellier_33374)
Monday, 18 June 2012
Montpellier
Park&Suites Arena, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/toulon_33375)
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Toulon
Zénith Omega, France


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/milan_33376)
Friday, 22 June 2012
Milan
Arena Fiera Milano, Italy


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/milan_35184)
Friday, 22 June 2012
Milan
Arena Fiera Milano, Italy


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/dessel_34158)
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Dessel
Festivalpark de Boeretang, Belgium


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/basel_34162)
Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Basel
St. Jakobshalle, Switzerland


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/graz_34163)
Friday, 29 June 2012
Graz
SFZ - Schwarzl Freizeitzentrum, Austria


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/tel-aviv_34652)
Tuesday, 03 July 2012
Tel Aviv
Gane HaTa'arucha, Israel


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/sofia_33462)
Saturday, 07 July 2012
Sofia
Bulgarian Army Stadium, Bulgaria


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/rybnik_30791)
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Rybnik
Stadion Miejski w Rybniku, Poland


Guns N' Roses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/concert/guns-n-roses/castellon-de-la-plana_34653)
Friday, 20 July 2012
Castellon de la Plana
Benicassim, Spain

bobbie solo
03-01-2012, 12:36 AM
what a clown.

Wretchedest
03-01-2012, 02:00 PM
Wow those are mostly small clubs in the US! I figured theyd still hit arenas...

W Axl Rose
03-01-2012, 02:33 PM
Wow those are mostly small clubs in the US! I figured theyd still hit arenas...


They finished a 3 month US arena tour in January. These are shows to keep them warmed up before they head overseas.

Wretchedest
03-01-2012, 02:43 PM
If slash and duff were on board i would make a trip to see a small venue show at wiltern or palladium...but cant bring myself to see just axl and his x men. Whatever happened to velvet revolver? That was solid.

Sporadic
03-01-2012, 05:21 PM
They finished a 3 month US arena tour in January. These are shows to keep them warmed up before they head overseas. More like they had trouble filling arenas and figured it was more profitable to gouge whatever gullible idiots fans would show up to a small venue instead of trying to groupon a bunch of unsold tickets. (Can you tell I'm bitter I missed their Orlando arena show only to find out they want 100 fucking dollars for a ticket to their next show?)

october_midnight
03-01-2012, 05:29 PM
They Groupon'ed the hell out of the shows here and in Seattle, the Vancouver show was half full (via news reports and my friend who works at the venue), of our 3rd biggest arena.

W Axl Rose
03-01-2012, 05:32 PM
Courtesy of Moggio at Metal Sludge:

What most of you don't understand about The Up Close & Personal tour, is that A) they've already played arena shows in ALL of these markets a few months ago. B) ticket prices for this particular tour are much higher than the aforementioned arena shows in the fall. So of course attendance isn't going to be arena-sized. :rolleyes: And C) as far as these three LA shows are concerned, they make sense to me now. Because when GNR only played one arena show in LA at the Forum two months ago, I knew they didn't meet demand. So these three shows at the House Of Blues, Wiltern & Palladium meets that extra demand not captured by the sole Forum show in December. And of course, a small percentage of fans who attended the Forum show will return to see these three new shows...

W Axl Rose
03-01-2012, 05:34 PM
If slash and duff were on board i would make a trip to see a small venue show at wiltern or palladium...but cant bring myself to see just axl and his x men. Whatever happened to velvet revolver? That was solid.

If Slash and Duff were on board, GNR would be selling out the same size venues here in the US that they do overseas. VR is on hiatus. They did a one-off reunion show to benefit one of Weiland and Dave Kushner's friends a few months back. Other than that Slash is focusing on his new solo album with Myles Kennedy. Scroll up a few posts to hear their new song.

Sporadic
03-01-2012, 06:02 PM
Courtesy of Moggio at Metal Sludge:

What most of you don't understand about The Up Close & Personal tour, is that A) they've already played arena shows in ALL of these markets a few months ago. B) ticket prices for this particular tour are much higher than the aforementioned arena shows in the fall. So of course attendance isn't going to be arena-sized. :rolleyes: And C) as far as these three LA shows are concerned, they make sense to me now. Because when GNR only played one arena show in LA at the Forum two months ago, I knew they didn't meet demand. So these three shows at the House Of Blues, Wiltern & Palladium meets that extra demand not captured by the sole Forum show in December. And of course, a small percentage of fans who attended the Forum show will return to see these three new shows...

That's a special kind of delusion.

poinoup
03-02-2012, 10:25 AM
It's sad really...I did like Chinese Democracy because I took it as an album by The Axl Rose Experience (starring Axl Rose), instead of GNR. It was pretentious in a Meat Loaf way.

However, until I hear some new songs or new album news (insert joke here), I could care less about them as a whole. I know four years is nothing compared to the ChiDem waiting period, but you'd think there would be some semblance of a new track or two instead of just trotting out the same old songs over and over.

W Axl Rose
03-06-2012, 04:07 PM
Premier Guitar recently caught up with Dj and Richard to get a tour of their respective guitar rigs that they use on tour: Dj Ashba and his tech Chris Whitemyer talk about Dj's guitar rig:




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YjkOzwnN1E&feature=player_embedded#!


Richard Fortus talks about his guitar rig:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5xN2UuwUk8g

botley
03-06-2012, 05:08 PM
DJ Ashba's customized guitars look so fucking cheesy; honestly, who on earth would buy miniaturized replicas? Clown heads, Balinese hats and clothing lines... c'mon, bro.

I want to like the latest Guns lineup, truly. I liked Chinese Democracy and support Axl doing whatever he wants with the band he started. That said, he could've picked someone who doesn't embody the WORST aspects of braindead L.A. culture to replace Robin Finck.

W Axl Rose
03-06-2012, 05:19 PM
DJ Ashba's customized guitars look so fucking cheesy; honestly, who on earth would buy miniaturized replicas? Clown heads, Balinese hats and clothing lines... c'mon, bro.

I want to like the latest Guns lineup, truly. I liked Chinese Democracy and support Axl doing whatever he wants with the band he started. That said, he could've picked someone who doesn't embody the WORST aspects of braindead L.A. culture to replace Robin Finck.


I have no problem with Ashba. Someone is buying his shit. I bet he makes more money from this than he does from Guns right now: In 2003 Ashba founded Ashba Media, Inc. This creative agency was announced the Agency of Record for Virgin Entertainment. AMI designs the look and feel of every Virgin Megastore (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Virgin_Megastore). They also have other clients, such as Ovation guitars (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Ovation_Guitar_Company), Royal Underground (http://www.royalunderground.net/) and many more. Daren owns two corporations, Ashba Media, Inc. which handles the art side of things and Ashbaland, Inc. which handles the music side of things.[26] (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/#cite_note-25) Ashba contributed to Mötley Crüe (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Mötley_Crüe)'s 2008 album Saints of Los Angeles (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Saints_of_Los_Angeles) penning all tracks with the exception of This Ain't a Love Song.[27] (http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/#cite_note-26) The title track Saints of Los Angeles (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Saints_of_Los_Angeles_(song)) was nominated for a Grammy (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Grammy) the same year.


Anyway, he is one of the only "new" guys in Guns that has written a hit (SIXX:A.M./Motley). I would like to hear the rest of the ChiDem material first. Knowing Axl he will let Frank and Dj record over Brain and Bucket's parts and Lord knows how long that will take. No way the record company puts anything else out without having some kind of promotional plan in place with an agreement from Axl to do some show/interviews/tv performances etc.

I will say that this new managament team of Beta/Fernando etc. has accomplished more than anyone else in the last 15 years with GnR. Maybe it's because Axl trusts them and considers them like family. Now we have a running website (http://gunsnroses.com) a fan club,live streams of shows,The UCAP club tour and a massive Summer Tour already in place. Not to mention the RNRHOF which I am sure will end up being an endless source of amusement for the GnR haters on here.

the duder
03-06-2012, 05:23 PM
That's a special kind of delusion.

Use Your Delusion?

botley
03-06-2012, 11:09 PM
I have no problem with Ashba. Someone is buying his shit. I bet he makes more money from this than he does from Guns right now: In 2003 Ashba founded Ashba Media, Inc. This creative agency was announced the Agency of Record for Virgin Entertainment. AMI designs the look and feel of every Virgin Megastore (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Virgin_Megastore). They also have other clients, such as Ovation guitars (http://www.echoingthesound.org/wiki/Ovation_Guitar_Company), Royal Underground (http://www.royalunderground.net/) and many more. Daren owns two corporations, Ashba Media, Inc. which handles the art side of things and Ashbaland, Inc. which handles the music side of things.
I own two "corporations" myself, and that doesn't make me qualified to walk in those shoes, either (I guess Ashba pissed on those shoes when he walked in and kicked them out the door). You can pay one for interactive multimedia design and copywriting, the other for my audio consultation services, and then I'll give you my professional opnion on the matter: he looks like a fucking poseur with no credibility, and his Grammy nomination can go fuck itself.

bobbie solo
03-07-2012, 12:43 AM
it's brutally obvious that dude is a huge poseur. it doesn't just look that way. The nerve to try and pull off Slash-esque headgear on stage is...there are no words.

WorzelG
03-10-2012, 02:17 PM
I like the TR Robin Finck / Aaron North reference in Botley's post!

On the one hand I'd like to say that if Axl lost the ego and got back together with the original line-up everything would be hunky dory, but I was fed up with Guns live even when Slash was still in the band - I saw them in 1991, 1992 and 1993 and by the third time in the pissing rain at Milton Keynes I was so bored by the indulgent soloing, boring meandering November Rain, I was determined never to see them again. However, I think I'd change my mind if I got the chance to see them in a club or something and they played all of Appetite for Destruction.

They did introduce me to NIN though so props to that

botley
03-12-2012, 03:03 AM
I actually feel this is a pretty tight set — if they were to tweak the mix a bit and add a few more camera angles, it'd make a decent official live release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DiaFLGX9l4

W Axl Rose
03-13-2012, 02:49 PM
3/12/12 show @ House Of Blues in LA:

Intro
Chinese Democracy
Welcome To The Jungle
It's So Easy
Mr. Browstone
Sorry
You're Crazy
Rocket Queen
Estranged
4tus Solo
Live and Let Die
This I Love
Used To Love Her
Dead Flowers (Cover)
Motivation (Tommy on Vocals)
Shackler's Revenge
Dizzy Solo
Street Of Dreams
You Could Be Mine
Ashba Solo
Sweet Child O' Mine
Another Brick In The Wall
November Rain
Ron Solo
Don't Cry
Better
Civil War
My Michelle
Knocking On Heaven's Door
Mama Kin
Jam
Nightrain

Jam
Madagascar
Whole lotta Rosie
Jam
Patience
Jam
Paradise City

Events :
First Dead Flowers performance in 19 years
First Mama Kin performance in 20 years
Axl Piano is white.
Brain played bongos.
Robin Finck played lead guitar on Better.
My Michelle w/ Sebastian Bach.
Eddie Trunk in the building

butters
03-13-2012, 04:05 PM
That actually looks pretty entertaining. I just sincerely wish I cared about this group as "GN'R." I saw Slash and Myles last year (it rocked) and a few VR shows, but I just can't help feeling I wouldn't be into this one. Thanks for the setlist though, quite interesting.

theruiner
03-13-2012, 04:39 PM
Say what you will about GNR, but they do play a LOT of songs, which is commendable. You can't say you don't get your money's worth song-wise.

WorzelG
03-13-2012, 04:43 PM
I actually would enjoy most of that set - although I'd get rid of November Rain and add Coma, Locomotive and Double Talking Jive from Use Your Illusion. Scrap the solos, they're session musicians for fuck's sake, I never liked the soloing from Slash. and does Axl think doing a song with Sebastian Bach adds credibility in 2012 or is LA really still an insulated bubble?

Wretchedest
03-13-2012, 04:56 PM
Thats quite a set!

W Axl Rose
03-13-2012, 05:22 PM
I actually would enjoy most of that set - although I'd get rid of November Rain and add Coma, Locomotive and Double Talking Jive from Use Your Illusion. Scrap the solos, they're session musicians for fuck's sake, I never liked the soloing from Slash. and does Axl think doing a song with Sebastian Bach adds credibility in 2012 or is LA really still an insulated bubble?


Playing a three hour show w/Axl's style of singing as well as all the running he does on stage (at 50 years old) requires breaks during the show. The solos are a neccessary evil and at least during some of them, we get songs with vocals (Tommy sings My Generation). As for Baz, he is a friend of Axl's that Axl takes on tour sometimes. I am sure Axl knows Bach isn't selling many additional tickets. Pretty cool that Brain and Finck came up and played last night.

WorzelG
03-13-2012, 06:08 PM
^^^fair point about Axl - I never looked at it that way

botley
03-13-2012, 06:14 PM
Plus some of the solos are entertaining (see: the LA Forum gig video I posted).

Great to hear Robin returned, if only for a one-off! What song(s) did Brain play?

W Axl Rose
03-21-2012, 04:45 PM
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/21/rock-hall-nod-not-exciting-slash
Legendary guitarist Slash really didn’t want to talk about the April 14 induction of the classic Guns N’ Roses lineup into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame while in Toronto Wednesday, growing increasingly uncomfortable at questions about the event.

But he was willing to say, at least, it was “an honour.”

Clearly, he has mixed emotions.

“Either it hasn’t hit me yet or maybe it’s been so long since I had anything to do with Guns N’ Roses that I just don’t really get it,” the former GNR guitarist told QMI Agency on Wednesday while chatting about his second solo album, Apocalyptic Love, due May 22.

“And we’re not playing. I would imagine that they asked us to play but I know that we’re not playing.”

Still, Slash, 46, said he’s definitely attending the event in Cleveland, despite no fondness for dressing up.


“It’s a formal, I hate formals,” he said.

The guitarist also expects former GNR drummer Steven Adler, with whom he recently played with on a ballad off Adler’s new band’s upcoming album, to be there too.

“I could be positive Steven will be there. Steven wouldn’t miss it,” said Slash.

He just couldn’t speak to the attendance of the rest of the GNR classic lineup, specifically GNR lead singer Axl Rose.

“I don’t know. I would assume so but we haven’t talked about it,” he said

Slash is in Toronto for Canadian Music Week, running March 21-25, and will give an interview on Friday afternoon at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel ballroom to TV news couple John Roberts and Krya Phillips.

He’ll also perform what he’s calling the first warmup show of the year at the Phoenix on Friday night before a sold-out crowd to lead up to a May tour in the U.S. with a Canadian theatre trek expected in July.

“It’s actually a mirror of the show that we did in L.A. at the Roxy when we first started that 2010 tour,” said Slash. “As long as we’re tight you know? We had a couple of days rehearsal.”

And finally, he’s performing the Canadian national anthem at the Monster Energy Super Cross event at the Rogers Centre on Saturday night.

“I’ve done it before,” said Slash. “I did it here for a (Toronto) Blue Jays game in 2006 or ‘07. We did both (the Canadian and American national anthems) ‘cause it was the Blue Jays against Boston.”

W Axl Rose
04-03-2012, 10:30 AM
Since the minute they were announced as possible 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees (http://loudwire.com/guns-n-roses-chili-peppers-beastie-boys-2012-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-inductees/), the hot topic in the world of rock has been the potential for a Guns N’ Roses (http://loudwire.com/tags/guns-n-roses/) reunion. In a recent interview, Slash (http://loudwire.com/tags/slash/) reveals that he is sick of talking about whether it will happen or not and explains that vocalist Axl Rose (http://loudwire.com/tags/axl-rose/) hates his guts.
The relationship, or lack thereof, between Slash and Axl Rose has always been the largest obstacle in the oft-rumored Guns N’ Roses reunion. Constant clamoring for the pair to bury the hatchet and reunite for the April 14 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony — where GN’R will be inducted — has apparently gotten under the skin of the top-hatted guitar icon.
“This is a subject I’m dead sick of talking about,” Slash tells Rolling Stone (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/slash-axl-rose-hates-my-guts-20120402). “Everyone has been asking me what’s going to happen, and they know as much as I do. I feel you’re totally obligated to be present and I would love to f—ing play (http://loudwire.com/slash-reveals-he-would-love-to-play-with-original-guns-n-roses-lineup-at-rock-hall-induction/), but it’s just something that’s not gonna happen for whatever reason.”
The well-known bad blood between the guitarist and Axl Rose has prevented most previous reunion offers from coming to fruition, which according to Slash, hasn’t changed. “He hates my guts,” says Slash. “It’s over a lot of different stuff; I don’t even know. There’s just no communication between us. I talk to Duff and Steven, but when it comes to old Guns N’ Roses, there really isn’t anybody that makes decisions.”
Almost all original Guns N’ Roses members have been confirmed to be attending the much-hyped ceremony — the odd man out being former guitarist Izzy Stradlin, whose intentions are unknown at this time. Whether or not he attends, the prospect of any type of reunion is looking more and more grim.
http://loudwire.com/slash-on-relationship-with-axl-rose-he-hates-my-guts/

W Axl Rose
04-06-2012, 09:05 PM
I met former GnR lead guitarist Buckethead last night:
http://i1082.photobucket.com/albums/j371/gunsnroses2011/bucketheaderic.jpg

fillow
04-07-2012, 04:04 AM
which one is you?

october_midnight
04-07-2012, 12:23 PM
What the fuck, it only allows me to like fillow's post once? Is there another level where I like, donate money or something?

october_midnight
04-09-2012, 10:37 AM
As much as it pains me to bump this turd of a thread back up, I just had to post this.

Lana Del Rey seen leaving hotel with Axl Rose. (http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/09/del-rey-leaves-hotel-with-axl)

I mean come on...LOOK AT THAT PICTURE OF AXL.

Kimka
04-09-2012, 11:35 AM
THAT was unexpected. Still reeling.

BlueCalx
04-09-2012, 04:21 PM
Axl is looking like my girlfriend's ne'er-do-well dad these days. Ah well, get it how you live, boy. And Lana, don't let him force you to pee in a litterbox like he did with Steph Seymour.

Space Suicide
04-09-2012, 04:57 PM
Axl is looking like my girlfriend's ne'er-do-well dad these days. Ah well, get it how you live, boy. And Lana, don't let him force you to pee in a litterbox like he did with Steph Seymour.

LOL. Im not a huge fan of her but they wouldn't be a good couple.

W Axl Rose
04-11-2012, 04:23 PM
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2012/04/axl-rose-pens-open-letter-to-rock-hall-will-not-attend-asks-to-not-be-inducted.html
Early this morning, Pop & Hiss received a letter from Guns N' Roses co-founder Axl Rose, through his publicist, announcing his decision to not attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday in Cleveland. Written under the greeting, "To The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Guns N' Roses Fans and Whom It May Concern," Rose explained specifically why he was declining his induction into the Cleveland music institution.

The band, born in Los Angeles in 1985, was announced as an inductee in February alongside the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys and Donovan, among others, leading to instant speculation whether the five core members of Guns N' Roses circa "Appetite for Destruction" would appear together for the first time since 1993. Guitarist Slash officially departed the band in 1996, followed soon thereafter by other members Duff McKagen, Izzy Stradlin and Matt Sorum (original drummer Steven Adler had left a few years earlier).

Rose retained the rights to the band's name, and over the next decade devoted his time to creating the album "Chinese Democracy," touring with a revived Guns N' Roses, and defiantly dismissing any suggestion of a reunion with the original members of the band.

Since February, Rose has remained mum on his plans, even as guitarist Slash has spoken out in favor of a Rock Hall reunion -- and acknowledging Rose's antipathy. "He hates my guts," Slash told Rolling Stone in early April. "It's over a lot of different stuff; I don't even know. There's just no communication between us. I talk to Duff and Steven, but when it comes to old Guns N' Roses, there really isn't anybody that makes decisions."

In the letter below, Rose specifically criticizes comments by Adler, who speculated to Billboard magazine in 2007 that the band might reunite. Those comments were given by Adler while promoting his own Adler's Appetite tour, which was timed to support his book, "My Appetite for Destruction." "I want to finish what we started," Adler told Billboard then (parentheses and elipses theirs), "and ... with the love and support I got from those guys, I think we can (reunite). I'm gonna leave it up to Axl. That's gonna be Axl's call, and I love Axl and I know he'll make the right call." Below, Rose calls Adler's comments "reunion lies." Continuing attempts to reach Adler have not been successful.

During a December 2011 sit-down interview with Rose after a Guns N' Roses concert in Seattle, the singer had yet to decide his plans, but was uninterested in making a scene at the induction ceremony if he did decide to attend. "I think about it in terms of Marlon Brando getting up at the Academy Awards and talking about Indians ... or when Michael Moore got up at the Academy Awards and said whatever about George Bush. People don’t want that associated with their awards shows, even if you have a big audience. In one way it might be right, but it usually backfires on whoever does it. So I really don’t want to spoil it for everybody else -- and take the beating."

Notably, Rose then laughed and cursed Jann Wenner, the founder, publisher and executive editor of Rolling Stone magazine -- who also co-founded the Hall of Fame in 1983.

Rose's open letter is printed in its entirety below.


To: The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Guns N' Roses Fans and Whom It May Concern,

When the nominations for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were first announced I had mixed emotions but, in an effort to be positive, wanting to make the most of things for the fans and with their enthusiasm, I was honored, excited and hoped that somehow this would be a good thing. Of course I realized as things stood, if Guns N' Roses were to be inducted it'd be somewhat of a complicated or awkward situation.

Since then we've listened to fans, talked with members of the board of the Hall Of Fame, communicated with and read various public comments and jabs from former members of Guns N' Roses, had discussions with the president of the Hall Of Fame, read various press (some legit, some contrived) and read other artists' comments weighing in publicly on Guns and the Hall with their thoughts.

Under the circumstances I feel we've been polite, courteous, and open to an amicable solution in our efforts to work something out. Taking into consideration the history of Guns N' Roses, those who plan to attend along with those the Hall for reasons of their own, have chosen to include in "our" induction (that for the record are decisions I don't agree with, support or feel the Hall has any right to make), and how (albeit no easy task) those involved with the Hall have handled things... no offense meant to anyone but the Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony doesn't appear to be somewhere I'm actually wanted or respected.

For the record, I would not begrudge anyone from Guns their accomplishments or recognition for such. Neither I or anyone in my camp has made any requests or demands of the Hall Of Fame. It's their show not mine.

That said, I won't be attending The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction 2012 Ceremony and I respectfully decline my induction as a member of Guns N' Roses to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

I strongly request that I not be inducted in absentia and please know that no one is authorized nor may anyone be permitted to accept any induction for me or speak on my behalf. Neither former members, label representatives nor the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame should imply whether directly, indirectly or by omission that I am included in any purported induction of "Guns N' Roses".

This decision is personal. This letter is to help clarify things from my and my camp's perspective. Neither is meant to offend, attack or condemn. Though unfortunately I'm sure there will be those who take offense (God knows how long I'll have to contend with the fallout), I certainly don't intend to disappoint anyone, especially the fans, with this decision. Since the announcement of the nomination we've actively sought out a solution to what, with all things considered, appears to be a no win, at least for me, "damned if I do, damned if I don't" scenario all the way around.

In regard to a reunion of any kind of either the Appetite or Illusion lineups, I've publicly made myself more than clear. Nothing's changed.

The only reason, at this point, under the circumstances, in my opinion whether under the guise of "for the fans" or whatever justification of the moment, for anyone to continue to ask, suggest or demand a reunion are misguided attempts to distract from our efforts with our current lineup of myself, Dizzy Reed, Tommy Stinson, Frank Ferrer, Richard Fortus, Chris Pitman, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and DJ Ashba.

Izzy came out with us a few times back in '06 and I invited him to join us at our LA Forum show last year. Steven was at our show at the Hard Rock, later in '06 in Las Vegas, where I invited him to our after-party and was rewarded with his subsequent interviews filled with reunion lies. Lesson learned. Duff joined us in 2010 and again in '11 along with his band, Loaded, opening in Seattle and Vancouver. For me, with the exception of Izzy or Duff joining us on stage if they were so inclined somewhere in the future for a song or two, that's enough.

There's a seemingly endless amount of revisionism and fantasies out there for the sake of self-promotion and business opportunities masking the actual realities. Until every single one of those generating from or originating with the earlier lineups has been brought out in the light, there isn't room to consider a conversation let alone a reunion.

Maybe if it were you it'd be different. Maybe you'd do it for this reason or that. Peace, whatever. I love our band now. We're there for each other when the going get's rough. We love our fans and work to give them every ounce of energy and heart we can.

So let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.

But hey if ya gotta then maybe we can get the "no show, grandstanding, publicity stunt, disrespectful, he doesn't care about the fans" crap out of the way as quickly as we can and let's move on. No one's taking the ball and going home. Don't get it twisted. For more than a decade and a half we've endured the double standards, the greed of this industry and the ever present seemingly limitless supply of wannabes and unscrupulous, irresponsible media types. Not to imply anything in this particular circumstance, but from my perspective in regard to both the Hall and a reunion, the ball's never been in our court.

In closing, regardless of this decision and as hard to believe or as ironic as it may seem, I'd like to sincerely thank the board for their nomination and their votes for Guns' induction. More importantly I'd like to thank the fans for being there over the years, making any success we've had possible and for enjoying and supporting Guns N' Roses music.

I wish the Hall a great show, congratulations to all the other artists being inducted and to our fans we look forward to seeing you on tour!!

Sincerely,

Axl Rose

P.S. RIP Armand, Long Live ABC III

october_midnight
04-11-2012, 04:34 PM
Shocking news. Next.

botley
04-11-2012, 04:46 PM
It's a bold statement, actually. I can't think of anyone else who's turned down an induction.

Space Suicide
04-11-2012, 04:54 PM
I knew he wouldn't swallow his pride or pony up for just one night just to meet up with the old band.

october_midnight
04-11-2012, 04:56 PM
No kidding. How is any of this 'news'? Egomaniac can't let go of a grudge. In other shocking news announced today, farts stink.

W Axl Rose
04-11-2012, 05:01 PM
It's a bold statement, actually. I can't think of anyone else who's turned down an induction.

You got that right. Gotta give Axl props for sticking to his GUNS.
October Midnight, good to see ya back buddy! I knew you couldn't stay out of the Guns thread! Please give us more of your insight on Guns n Roses or at least post more pics that make Axl look fat.

Fixer808
04-11-2012, 05:10 PM
Low-hanging fruit.

october_midnight
04-11-2012, 05:12 PM
How could I resist? Like Marilyn Manson, it's more of a joke than a real band anymore and hasn't been for years. When any act reaches a certain point, there will always be crowds of cougars and other older people that refuse to just move the hell along and come to the realization that the band they dug is over. It's a joke at this point. THE GUY HAS A FUCKING KFC BUCKET ON HIS HEAD. The minute that Axl Rose isn't the one of the biggest jokes in music today, I'll eat my hand. There have to be a pantload of Guns N Roses forums around. I'm going to go there, make a thread on a band that almost nobody there gives a shit about, and post solely in that one thread.

It's not trolling to say that this is uneventful, unsurprising news that will be forgotten in a few hours. It's fact.

botley
04-11-2012, 05:42 PM
It's a bold statement, actually. I can't think of anyone else who's turned down an induction.
Nvm, someone reminded me that Johnny Rotten did too.

BlueCalx
04-11-2012, 06:55 PM
You got that right. Gotta give Axl props for sticking to his GUNS.
October Midnight, good to see ya back buddy! I knew you couldn't stay out of the Guns thread! Please give us more of your insight on Guns n Roses or at least post more pics that make Axl look fat.

Haha. Look​ fat. :p

Jinsai
04-11-2012, 07:02 PM
How could I resist? Like Marilyn Manson, it's more of a joke than a real band anymore and hasn't been for years. When any act reaches a certain point, there will always be crowds of cougars and other older people that refuse to just move the hell along and come to the realization that the band they dug is over. It's a joke at this point. THE GUY HAS A FUCKING KFC BUCKET ON HIS HEAD. The minute that Axl Rose isn't the one of the biggest jokes in music today, I'll eat my hand. There have to be a pantload of Guns N Roses forums around. I'm going to go there, make a thread on a band that almost nobody there gives a shit about, and post solely in that one thread.

It's not trolling to say that this is uneventful, unsurprising news that will be forgotten in a few hours. It's fact.

Well, to be fair, the guy also posts in threads about Green Day and The Goo Goo Dolls.
I don't mean to pile on here, but I have to agree with pretty much everything you've said... except the part about Buckethead. I used to think he was awesome (before he joined Guns and Roses).

And yes, on the topic at hand, a hall of fame isn't very rock and roll, and if I thought Axl was rejecting his induction for the same reasons Johnny Rotten did (because it's a fucking joke), then I'd give him props. It just seems like he's having a tantrum as usual though.

butters
04-12-2012, 03:11 PM
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's response:

We are sorry he will not be able to accept his induction in person.

You know, his response to all of this makes sense. It's one thing to have many many people pissing on the project he's devoted himself to for well over a decade, but it's another thing to have it officially pissed on by the Hall of Fame, only inducting a line-up that hasn't existed in 20-some years.

To be fair to Axl, he shouldn't be happy about this all, as he's obviously supporting his current bandmates and product. BUT... to be fair to the world of music fans, he should have named it "The New Guns N' Roses," "GN'R II," "Axl Rose's GN'R," etc. in the first place, (something Big Audio Dynamite and a few others did successfully,) and every discussion like this wouldn't matter.

Leviathant
04-12-2012, 03:14 PM
No kidding. How is any of this 'news'? Egomaniac can't let go of a grudge. In other shocking news announced today, farts stink.

Are we going here again?

botley
04-12-2012, 05:32 PM
You know, his response to all of this makes sense. It's one thing to have many many people pissing on the project he's devoted himself to for well over a decade, but it's another thing to have it officially pissed on by the Hall of Fame, only inducting a line-up that hasn't existed in 20-some years.
I raised this point earlier in the thread but no-one was talking about it. Not those frenzied media hacks who only bay for a reunion whenever the subject comes up, not the HoF officials, nobody. All anyone who isn't pointing and laughing at Axl wants to talk about is the events of that era. Which leads to weirdness like this:


... to be fair to the world of music fans, he should have named it "The New Guns N' Roses," "GN'R II," "Axl Rose's GN'R," etc. in the first place, (something Big Audio Dynamite and a few others did successfully,) and every discussion like this wouldn't matter.
This is absolutely bullshit. He'd still face ridicule, and essentially make a totally redundant statement (because the band as it exists will be portrayed like that anyhow, whether that is "fair" or not) while crippling his personal commitment to and continuity with the band that he started and has every right to continue.

No one who is attempting to tear Axl down a peg has been able to actually convince me why he's at fault for "destroying" the old band, for forcing anyone out of the picture, or anything of the sort. Does he make ridiculous public displays and behave like a child? Yes, frequently. But is he performing the iconic music he helped create as he sees fit with the integrity and support of the people he chooses? Yes, absolutely.

Is the HoF's induction of the band from 25 years ago, while completely ignoring the current one, a hypocritical and condescending move? You bet your ass it is. Why is it 'news'? Well, rock bands do still matter, to an admittedly dwindling and aging audience. They are an important pillar of American culture and the people supposedly curating that history are FAKERS AND COWARDS, that's still the real story here.

onthewall2983
04-12-2012, 05:58 PM
I don't have the time of day to defend what Axl Rose does, but botley raises several good points. Most important of which is the last one, that the HOF is a sham and a treehouse club of the critical intelligentsia that quite deliberately ignores certain acts and scoffs at the idea of any kind of input from regular joes that aren't in the industry. That acts like Guns 'N Roses and RHCP get in, and so many bands from the 60's and 70's haven't boggles my mind.

BTW, Van Morrison rejected them long before Lydon did.

butters
04-12-2012, 06:16 PM
This is absolutely bullshit...

To be clear, even though I wrote that, I agree with you - it would be weird, but so is everything he seems to do. To also be honest, I don't hate Axl and actually purchased the Chinese Democracy physical CD. I just listen to it as if it's a different band. Personally I love Slash, VR, and his current project with Myles so I can't help but see it as they've all moved on to different/other/new bands, including Axl. Just in point-of-view, certainly not in fact.

onthewall2983
04-12-2012, 06:23 PM
So much of this could have been avoided if Axl just abandoned the name and went out as a solo artist. He could still go out and play the GNR material to his heart's content, just not use the name. If you listen to it as a different band, I would imagine a lot of people did. So then what's the point of keeping the name, if just to keep the record label happy? Axl Rose himself is a household name and part of that pillar of American culture botley spoke of. It's a name that would sell as many records as Chinese Democracy did, maybe more because people tend to take the chance with a solo artist and not attach much of the stigma of their old band to it.

W Axl Rose
04-12-2012, 07:26 PM
GnR's first official band photo in 20 years!
http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-at-night/files/2012/04/Full_Band_still_lo_res1-624x475.jpg

Space Suicide
04-12-2012, 07:32 PM
GnR's first official band photo in 20 years!
http://www.chicagonow.com/chicago-at-night/files/2012/04/Full_Band_still_lo_res1-624x475.jpg

I love how you ignored the whole discussion and posted a photo. In about 2007 or so I remember a band photo being posted elsewhere. It's not a first in 20 years.

Out of the bunch I only fancy Chris Pittman these days. SexTapes is grand.

BlueCalx
04-12-2012, 07:50 PM
Lookit those rude dudes with attitude! I actually really like that picture, and I do have a big old soft spot for Chinese Democracy, but I recently passed up seeing them live when they hit Van and I can't imagine ever really getting invested in or excited about this band. They do a lot of things that I really like to see in rock (big spacy, wanky epics, frontman with tons of personality and killer pipes, maximalist production), but, unfortunately, the drama between Axl and G&R version 1.0 and the angry, entitled press releases that read like transmissions from some alternate universe where Axl is still a star on the level of Bono or Jay-Z or Thom Yorke command way more attention than the music. It doesn't make for an interesting narrative, it makes the band an annoying pain in the ass to follow. It's not a unique opinion but it bears repeating: if Axl spent half the time writing music that he does raging at windmills, he might actually be as great as he thinks he is.

As for the whole hall of fame thing, I actually thought his response was mostly fair and well-thought-out. Axl doesn't owe it to anyone to show up to Cleveland to hang out with dudes he hates and make out like everything's ok - his analogy of "staying together for the kids" was very apt. The hall of fame is a farce anyway, it always has been, it contributes nothing, and saying "thanks but no thanks" is more than Wenner and his cronies deserve.

Harry Seaward
04-13-2012, 10:30 AM
I don't know anything about Guns N' Roses.

Why the fuck do they need eight members?

Cameron
04-13-2012, 10:45 AM
The guy on the far right looks like Aldous Snow

W Axl Rose
04-14-2012, 02:03 PM
I love how you ignored the whole discussion and posted a photo. In about 2007 or so I remember a band photo being posted elsewhere. It's not a first in 20 years.

Out of the bunch I only fancy Chris Pittman these days. SexTapes is grand.


It's the first OFFICIAL photo,Chief. As in released by GNR. There may have been a photo in 2007 of all of the dudes but it wasn't released by GNR. I have said my piece on the induction. It's Axl's right to not show up/decline induction and he has always been his own man,regardless of what the masses wanted him to do.It's Chris Pitman,one T.Mother Goose himself told me so.
Nobody owes you,not one goddamn thing. You know where to put your "just shut up and sing"

Fixer808
04-14-2012, 04:44 PM
As much as it pains me to bump this turd of a thread back up, I just had to post this.

Lana Del Rey seen leaving hotel with Axl Rose. (http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/09/del-rey-leaves-hotel-with-axl)

I mean come on...LOOK AT THAT PICTURE OF AXL.
I'm going to go ahead and speculate that after just having been spotted with Marilyn Manson, she's either working the has-been circuit known to groupies, or she's attempting to weaponize a strain of "Super Herpes".

W Axl Rose
04-19-2012, 10:41 AM
http://www.contactmusic.com/news/sorum-working-on-guns-n-roses-screenplay_1319267
Guns N Roses - Sorum Working On Guns N' Roses Screenplay

17 April 2012 21:56

Former GUNS N' ROSES drummer Matt Sorum is working on a screenplay about the band.

The rocker, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame alongside former G N' R bandmates Slash and Duff MCKagan at the weekend (14Apr12), has revealed he thinks there has never been a better time to revisit the band's heyday for a movie.

He tells Vh1, "I've talked about doing a screenplay and that's actually something that I'm in talks about with a couple of pretty big people. The only problem with that is figuring out how to work out the music situation.

"If you look at rock and roll movies, they've never been done right. The only ones that I actually thought were decent were The Doors movie, (which) I thought was decent and I liked the Johnny Cash film (Walk The Line). If you look at any of those other kind of traditional rock flicks, like Mark Wahlberg and Rock Star and all those, they're all kind of dumb.

"If there was a film about Guns N' Roses, the thing about Guns N' Roses that was different than all the butt rock bands in Hollywood was that it was down and dirty and punk rock and real. As much as anyone wants to say they want to try to lump it in with hair metal, it never was because it was a different kind of energy.

"There was a much sort of more street, dark undercurrent happening that could be great on film."

Jinsai
04-22-2012, 04:55 AM
with all this talk about whether or not Axl Rose is going to deign to accept his award, I think it's worth noting that it's about time that this "hall of fame" acknowledged The Small Faces

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkQpZpFLpv4

W Axl Rose
04-23-2012, 02:58 PM
http://www.glidemagazine.com/UserFiles/2010/Image/fortus.gif
You’ve been out a long time with GNR, haven’t you?
Yeah and I was out with Thin Lizzy last summer. Then I came back and did three months with them in Europe, came straight back and I’ve been out with Guns since then. We went straight in to rehearsals and recording and down to South America for six weeks and then started in the US and we’ve been gone the whole time. So I just got home
So what else do you have going on for the rest of the year?
In May, I go back to Europe with Guns and luckily, Thin Lizzy is going to be out with us, which is going to be awesome. They’re going to be supporting us so I’ll be able to play a couple of songs with them every night. But I’ll be out with Guns in May, June and July and then we have to finish up some more recording and hopefully get the record out and be on tour in the fall in the States I’m hoping.
http://www.glidemagazine.com/articles/58387/richard-fortus-of-guns-n-roses.html

botley
04-24-2012, 06:30 AM
New record? That would be great... if it happened. Hopefully they'll get some more Robin Finck material out there soon. Then again, a fall release this year of all-new material would pretty definitively close the pro-Axl ranks against the Hall of Fame reunion debacle.

W Axl Rose
04-25-2012, 02:13 PM
Exclusive: Slash on 'Closing the Book on Guns N' Roses' at the Hall of Fame'In my heart of hearts I wanted to have the whole original band get together and actually perform'


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Like most Guns N' Roses fans, Slash hoped that the original line-up of the band would have been able to put aside their differences earlier this month at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and perform one last time. Needless to say, that didn't happen. A few days after the event Slash jumped on the phone with Rolling Stone's Brian Hiatt while on a train between Holland and France to share his feelings about the evening.
Did you ever consider just not going to the induction ceremony?
My whole thing was that I really, in my heart of hearts, wanted to have the whole original band get together and actually perform, which I sort of knew was wishful thinking. When the whole thing first came up, that’s basically what I wanted to do. It became apparent that that wasn’t going to happen. I was like, "Oh fuck," and I was sort of disillusioned with the whole thing, but there was that commitment that was sort of made that I was going to go, and I thought Axl was still going to go, and it wasn’t until the last minute that I heard that he wasn’t coming, and that’s when we all decided we were just going to go ahead and play anyway. Early on, when it was probably more confusing than necessary, I have to admit, I was like, "Oh fuck, I don’t really want to go to this if we’re not going to play," though I never said, "No, I’m not going to go." But it was sort of a black cloud for a few months there. Before that I thought we were just going to show up and not play, which is what I was resigned to.
At what point did you decide to play?
It was literally two days before the actual ceremony. The day that the press release came out and Axl said he wasn’t coming, we had the Golden Gods awards, and it was in the dressing room there that Duff and I talked. We said, "OK, we’re just going to fucking get together and play," and Duff goes, "We should get Myles." I was talking to Duff about who was going to sing, I thought Duff would sing, him and Gilby, but Duff said, "What about Myles?" It hadn’t occurred to me, really. I talked to Myles about it, he was apprehensive about getting put in that position, so at first, he turned it down, but finally he said, "OK, I’ll do it." We got it all together and we put together a little rehearsal the night before and did our thing.
What was it like rehearsing? Watching it, it’s not that different from Velvet Revolver, but it felt super different.
I hadn’t played with Gilby in a long time, and I hadn’t played Guns N’ Roses songs with Steven in fucking 18 years or something like that. It was all sort of a little bit foreign at first, the first five, 10 minutes of whatever the first songs were we were playing, it took a second, and after a couple of minutes, it started to fall into place. It was fun, I had a really fucking good time.
This had been weighing on Steven for a long time, and he said he feels like the chapter is closed and he can move on.
Yeah, I think it did that for all of us. I didn’t have any illusions or delusions of GNR getting back together for anything. I maybe tried to see it happen for this one particular event, I didn’t have high hopes for that, I didn’t feel confident it was going to happen, but having done this one gig, and for the event itself, when it was all said and done, it really felt like closing the book on the whole thing.
The other way of looking at is that with Myles, you sound good doing those songs. That could be a thing.
No, I don’t think it went that way. It’s way too complicated an idea at this point, but it was fun doing it. It was definitely a special moment for everybody involved, going up there and jamming those songs. I wasn’t totally sure, you’ve probably heard this a million times, the sort of whole concept of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction prior to doing it, it was like there’s so much bad blood that’s gone on over the last 25 years, it was hard to appreciate it. So it was hard to get excited about it, but once we were actually there, it was a really, really cool event, and there was a sense of accomplishment at that point, doing the actual acceptance and going out and playing.
Some people could say you played so well because it was a fuck you to someone who wasn’t there, but it sounds like it came from a more positive place.
Yeah, it had nothing to do with that. It might have come together because basically we felt a sense of loyalty to the enthusiasm from the fans. We’re proud of this moment, and I’m talking about legions of Guns fans who are really excited about the prospects of something happening so we can accept this fucking acknowledgement or whatever. I think that was really the glue that held us all together to get past whatever the differences were and just go up and be there. So it was a really good feeling for all the right reasons. It wasn’t because we were trying to wag our finger at anybody or try to be vengeful in any way. It was an homage to the fans, and then standing there and individually accepting the honor, you really felt we’d arrived at a certain place, the band as a whole, the records that we’ve made and all that stuff.
It’s what you were setting out to do from the beginning, you were aiming for that brass ring, you wanted to be one of the all time great bands. You weren’t trying to be a big hair metal band.
All things considered, yeah, we did sort of set out to be fucking the shit. We knew above all and any other bands around of our peers at the time that we were the baddest fucking rock & roll band around. I don’t know if we aspired to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, that was years later. One of the big issues about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and something that sort of gave me personally mixed feelings was how come Guns N’ Roses gets nominated and consequently inducted when a whole slew of other bands haven’t? That was always a really big issue, I think that was the only personal bias I had, was how we could beat out a band like Deep Purple? What is the criteria for getting inducted?
There was something about the event itself where the thing that stuck out to me the most was when they had the Blue Caps and Crickets and the Fabulous Flames and Comets and all those guys get up there and get inducted. That was a heavy moment for me. I was like, "Wow," all these guys in their 80s and 90s, some in their wheelchairs, some not even there because they’re dead, all lined up getting this honor, this recognition. That really pulled at my heartstrings. That sort of erased for me all the questions that I have. I was like, "I guess everybody gets it in due time."
Between that and the fact that Rod Stewart and your guy wasn’t there, it felt like rock was bigger than lead singers that night.
All things considered, most of the groups that were there were incomplete, from the Beastie Boys to the Chili Peppers to the Faces, and for us, as well, so it’s very interesting, that this whole thing goes on regardless. That was one of the things that came to me. We’re inducted already, it’s happening regardless of whether we show up or don’t show up or who shows up. It’s bigger than all of us.
Myles is in your band, could he also be in Velvet Revolver, or is that too complicated?
Initially, Myles came up in Velvet Revolver a couple of times. Once in 2002 and another time in 2008. The first time around, we sent him a demo and we never heard from him again, and in 2008, he was in Alter Bridge, and it would just be sort of a betrayal of his band to entertain the idea of performing with Velvet Revolver, which is actually the first thing, even though I’d never met him before. I didn’t know him, but the thing I admired about him then was his loyalty. Working with me, it’s a little bit more flexible, we juggled the whole Alter Bridge thing, but with Velvet Revolver, it would have been one or the other.
Seeing you play those songs so well, there’s a sense that you’re reclaiming your rights to these songs, reminding people that you have as much right to these songs as the singer does.
Yeah, it was never a question in my mind, because I know how much I had to do with those songs, so I just do them. It was really gratifying to meet Myles when I did, when I was starting to put a band together to support my first solo record, the last record I put out, then he came out at the very tail end and I thought, "This guy’s amazing," we recorded a couple of songs on that record, then I asked him to do the tour, because I had a gut feeling he could handle the diversity of all the material I was going to do on the road, and that turned into a really successful tour, which turned was what prompted the record that we just completed that’s coming out next month.



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Space Suicide
04-25-2012, 02:49 PM
Like most Guns N' Roses fans, Slash hoped that the original line-up of the band would have been able to put aside their differences earlier this month at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and perform one last time.

Everyone was on the same page besides the same member. Guess who?

fillow
04-25-2012, 03:06 PM
DJ Ashba? Robin Fink?
I've no clue

Wretchedest
04-25-2012, 07:25 PM
Wait so they ended up playing? The REAL GnR?

botley
04-25-2012, 08:39 PM
No — Izzy and Axl were not there. Which is kind of like inducting the Stones without Mick & Keith present. Gilby Clarke doesn't count as an "original" line-up member, he was only around for a couple years in the early nineties.

@Harry Seaward: they've had at LEAST that many people on stage for 20 years now... even more on the Illusion tours with a horn section, backup singers etc.

W Axl Rose
04-27-2012, 12:39 PM
Steven Adler Premieres "The One That You Hated" Music Video. Adler consists of Steven Adler (drums), Jacob Bunton (vocals), Lonny Paul (guitar) and Johnny Martin (bass). The band has been recording in Los Angeles with producers Jeff Pilson (Dokken, Foreigner) and Jay Ruston (Steel Panther, Anthax, Adrenaline Mob). The album will feature guest appearances from guitarist John 5 (Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson) and Steven's old Guns N' Roses band mate Slash.

http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new- ... z1tAYpG6rf (http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/adler-the-one-that-you-hated-20120426#ixzz1tAYpG6rf)

W Axl Rose
05-03-2012, 12:34 PM
http://www.noisecreep.com/2012/05/02/richard-fortus-re-lists-house-guns-n-roses/
Good news for Guns N' Roses super fans: It's probably never been more affordable to live in a home formerly owned by one of the band's members. This is bad news, however, for Richard Fortus -- or perhaps more correctly, for his mortgage company. According to the San Fernando Valley Blog, the guitarist has re-listed for $429,000 a Woodland Hills, Calif., home he bought for $700,000 back in 2006.

Fortus was originally asking $549,000 for the single-story, three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot contemporary house, and the new price represents an approved "short sale." As Blabbermouth.net explains, a short sale is what happens when a property owner owes more than their home's market value and, facing some sort of hardship, gets permission from the lender to sell for less than is owed.

The 43-year-old veteran axeman is reportedly selling the pad because he's moved back to his hometown of St. Louis to be near family.

By all indications, the house is a steal -- and not just because the flat-screen TV hanging in the living room was a present from Axl Rose. There's also a pool, an outdoor living room, stainless-steel appliances and a covered patio.

"Based on nearby similar listings, this home appears to be the cheapest so there is a good chance that it sells relatively quickly," reads the San Fernando Valley Blog post.

botley
05-05-2012, 08:22 AM
Izzy and Axl were not there. Which is kind of like inducting the Stones without Mick & Keith present.
Speaking of which, check this shit out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZXXCDakjY

I guess it's only fair 'cause John & Paul weren't at the Beatles' Hall of Fame induction either.

W Axl Rose
05-16-2012, 03:26 PM
http://www.dv.kp.ru/daily/25883/2845548/
Guns was on afterparty in Premier Lounge club after second gig in Moscow, Axl danced on the table and fall down from it. He hit his hip. When band were about to fly to Dublin it was found that Axl can move only with pain, so he stayed in Moscow with doctor.
Head of press service from Stadium Live (they are organisators of Moscow gigs) said: "Indeed, Axl Rose is still in Moscow, due to small health problems. A good doctor watching for him, so we are confident that he will soon be able to continue his tour."
Additionally on the afterparty someone from the band's crew set on Axl's favourite hat and broke it. But now it's finally repaired!

Axl Rose ‏@axlrose
Can u say HemaToma?!! http://img.ly/ijtI

http://s3.amazonaws.com/imgly_production/4364782/large.jpg

neorev
06-01-2012, 02:20 PM
I have completely lost any bit of respect for this guy...
this is the most pathetic thing that I have ever read and if you can defend this guy, you're a schmuck just like him...
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/64110

Space Suicide
06-01-2012, 02:23 PM
I have completely lost any bit of respect for this guy...
this is the most pathetic thing that I have ever read and if you can defend this guy, you're a schmuck just like him...
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/64110

Rose is the only one whining about anything, as usual.

october_midnight
06-01-2012, 02:26 PM
I have completely lost any bit of respect for this guy...
this is the most pathetic thing that I have ever read and if you can defend this guy, you're a schmuck just like him...
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/64110

Of course his 'people' will deny it but at this point, is anyone really surprised. What a prick.

WorzelG
06-01-2012, 03:53 PM
that story sounds like bullshit to me, NME are notorious for blowing things out of proportion for a story, and I just don't believe a band member would be allowed to dictate what people wear to a venue. Also plenty of lads go bare-chested when they're in the pit so why would someone 'ask' someone why ?

EDIT - I knew I saw this story somewhere else, someone posted on this forum a rant Axl had made at a fan called 'Madison' who was spreading just these rumours last year - personally I think NME got wind of it, or its a general rumour doing the rounds and put their own spin on it. I'm not generally an Axl defender, but I hate disinformation going unchallenged. As people on the forum say, there are Slash shirts at GNR gigs, so can it really be true?
(Link to forum posts about Axl rant - http://www.gunsnfnroses.com/index.php?/topic/3601-wtf-did-axl-really-write-this-to-madison-ex-admin-of-mygnrcom/ )

neorev
06-02-2012, 12:38 PM
I was a fan until Axl started really being a complete douchebag to fans the people buying their music and paying to see them live.

Showing up over an hour late, making people take off their Slash shirts or be denied entry, not showing up at the Hall Of Fame...

it's all a big middle finger to the fans honestly

I have lost respect for him.

botley
06-02-2012, 01:08 PM
I always laugh when people say that because he behaves no differently now than he did in 1989. Where was this respectful, passive, kind, gentle Axl you're hallucinating about?

LaneSax
06-02-2012, 10:14 PM
EDIT - I knew I saw this story somewhere else, someone posted on this forum a rant Axl had made at a fan called 'Madison' who was spreading just these rumours last year -
Madison wasn't the most popular Mod on mygnrforum but wow, some of the words Axl used on her was unnecessary.
That was the only time, Axl came off as an ass to me. (yes you read me right!) ;)

neorev
06-03-2012, 12:25 AM
these shirt incidents seem like the real thing... and not some rumor mill
workers for the venue were asked about it as well. this seems pretty legit.
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/64110

a sad and desperate move by Axl... and not surprising either.

yes, he was always a dick... but now he's gone off the deep end. and he's reached full on pathetic territory.
and if people knew he was such a dick from the get-go and disrespectful to the people buying his music and purchasing concert tickets to see them, how could you even defend him or go out and support him?
i don't know what's more pathetic... Axl or people who can support him with a straight face anymore
if he is so blatantly disrespectful, then the fans must really be complete suckers to keep giving him money when he really doesn't even give a shit nor deserve the support anymore

i love how i'm getting shit for the guy being a piece of shit to his fans and you even admit yourself that he is a dick to his fans...
you guys got some whacked standards I must say

i didn't mind Chinese Democracy, though 10 years too late. but his ego and actions are overshadowing any talent he has left.
i was a Guns N' Roses fan... but now he's gone too far

He's too old and washed up now to still be doing the "I'm an angry teenage girl" routine.

botley
06-06-2012, 08:50 AM
these shirt incidents seem like the real thing... and not some rumor mill
workers for the venue were asked about it as well. this seems pretty legit.
http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/64110

I'm no great lover/defender of Axl's, but these stories are just lies, hearsay and bullshit rumours. Local security has far more pressing matters to deal with at GnR shows than fucking T-shirt logos. The same stories almost verbatim circulated in shitrag pop music papers last tour, and they were just as false then. As long as you're not clad in gang colours you can wear whatever the fuck you want to a rock concert.


you guys got some whacked standards I must say
I'm not the one who's swallowing this fabricated garbage hook, line and sinker.

W Axl Rose
06-06-2012, 03:42 PM
French police on Wednesday arrested a woman in connection with the theft of gold necklaces and diamonds worth around $200,000 (160,000 euros) from Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose at a concert in Paris.

Police sources said the woman, a young model, was placed under formal arrest after she returned the items to a police station in central Paris.

She said she had attended a private concert with around 100 people after a public performance by the group at Bercy stadium and was not sure how she had come to leave with the jewellery, the sources said.

Police sources earlier said officers were called in to calm the situation late Tuesday after the 50-year-old singer became enraged over the theft.

Rose is the only remaining member of the original line-up of the rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1985 and whose best known songs include "November Rain", "Patience", and "Sweet Child o' Mine".

http://www.thejakart...ls-theft/522769 (http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/afp/woman-arrested-over-axl-rose-jewels-theft/522769)

botley
06-07-2012, 10:53 PM
I love that bro "became enraged".

Sutekh
06-08-2012, 03:50 AM
200 grands worth of chains... His cock must be microscopic

W Axl Rose
06-18-2012, 03:39 PM
4h (http://www.echoingthesound.org/gunsnroses/status/214744758541750274) http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/568909403/image_normal.jpg Guns N' Roses ‏@gunsnroses (http://www.echoingthesound.org/#!/gunsnroses)
"@bumblefoot (http://www.echoingthesound.org/#!/bumblefoot) Happy birthday Dizzy F'n Reed :) @DizzyReed (http://www.echoingthesound.org/#!/DizzyReed)" catch the Dizziness on STREET OF DREAMS in LA last year http://bit.ly/s8bbZD (http://t.co/mqBUuaiA)

W Axl Rose
08-03-2012, 04:32 PM
http://www.ashbaauto.com/

W Axl Rose
08-09-2012, 03:44 PM
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/assets_c/2012/08/Buckethead+bh1-thumb-500x346.jpg
Q&A
Buckethead on His Time in Guns 'N' Roses: "No Answer."
By Glenn BurnSilver
Thu., Aug. 9 2012

In the world of eclectic guitarists, Buckethead stands out.
With his face hidden by a hockey mask and long dark hair cascading out of a KFC bucket perched on his head, and using guitars shaped like human torsos and other visages of the macabre, he is not easily missed. And, yes the man born Brian Carroll can actually play the guitar too, having spent time with assorted out-of-the-mainstream acts like Praxis, Cobra Strike, Giant Robot and El Stew, as well as enduring a short, but turbulent two-year stretch with Guns N' Roses (a topic he avoided in our interview). He's primarily recorded instrumental records, but with in 2005 (when this interview took place), he released Enter The Chicken, his first to feature vocals (not his).
Buckethead claims to have been raised by chickens and thus would only agree to an email interview--maybe the bucket makes his words unintelligible, maybe he only clucks--"communicated" via-email through his trusty hand puppet Herbie.
Up on the Sun: Ozzy Osbourne wanted to recruit you for Ozzfest one summer but he couldn't get past the bucket and the mask and gave up. Does it bother you when people seem to be hung up on the physical appearance of your alter-ego or do you expect it?
Buckethead: You know, he used to work at a slaughterhouse. I really like him a lot and I liked meeting him. I guess if things are meant to be then they happen.
Did the decision of the KFC bucket come about because you happened to be eating chicken when you came up with the idea, or is there something deeper behind it? There seems to be a fascination with chickens.
I feel I can help bring them back to life.
If you have such a deep empathy for chickens, why do you continue to wear the KFC bucket? That seems a touch ironic.
Well the bucket is a tomb for dead chickens.
You're known primarily for your guitar playing and until 2005's Enter The Chicken, everything was instrumental (as are the bulk since). So, why add voices? Is it like Chicken Kung Fu?
It is the year of the rooster. There are many [guest] vocalists. Usually I play with no vocal cords. It was fun to hear people sing on songs I helped write.
Do you have any aspirations, professional, musical or otherwise that you have yet to pursue?
Well, building Bucketheadland [a theme park] still is the most time consuming and inspirational thing I have got going. Building the rides and making the music for them. Looking after the chickens and maintaining the skunk farm. That takes up most of the time. Just keep building it up.
A lot of your fascinations, like Disneyland, horror movies, and your alter-ego were formulated when you were young. Is there anything else you were fixated on at a young age that you haven't gotten to work into your persona and career?
Holding my head in my hands while it looks like my head has been cut off. I finally got to do that recently.
Continued from page 1
Being that you obviously enjoy being a mysterious, anonymous figure in the music community and appear to be fairly reclusive, was it difficult working with Axl Rose, someone who seems to be fairly over the top and in love with the spotlight (at least in some twisted way)?
No answer.
Did you get frustrated with the fact that you were a member of Guns 'n' Roses for four years and nothing really ever came of it besides a few concerts?
Again, no answer.
You've collaborated with a wide variety of people over the years that range from funk-master Bootsy Collins to Primus' Les Claypool. Who was your favorite person to work with and why?
I have been very lucky. Les was one of my heroes when I was younger and he helped me a lot. It has been great working on music with him. I love working with Bill Laswell. He is a tremendous man and thinker. I love working with Viggo Mortenson we have a great time and it is very inspiring to be with him. I love Bootsy. He is definitely someone who really understands me. He has looked out for me for years and spotted things coming a mile away. I am very lucky.
If you could choose anyone to work with dead or alive, who would it be and why?
Michael Jackson. I would like to see how he works, how he writes, what inspires him.
Do you think that by having such an out-of-the-box alter-ego, and being able to back it up by being such a virtuoso on the guitar, you maybe have paved the way for other hopeful musicians that are camera shy?
I don't know. I think if someone has something in them and they feel strongly they should try to find an outlet for it. Sometimes if you keep that stuff in you can go bats. I hope it would help.
Buckethead is scheduled to perform Saturday, August 11, at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/uponsun/2012/08/buckethead_interview.php

Jinsai
08-09-2012, 04:21 PM
in this week's Guns N Roses news, Buckethead does an interview and doesn't talk about Guns N Roses.

slave2thewage
08-09-2012, 04:51 PM
How does this thread have six pages?!

october_midnight
08-09-2012, 04:56 PM
Maybe because every post by our buddy is a giant wall of text that literally 2 people here probably bother reading? see: the Marilyn Manson thread.

W Axl Rose
08-13-2012, 03:12 PM
Guns N' Roses have announced their impending takeover of The Joint venue at Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for a 12-date Appetite for Democracy residency, with setlists spanning the band's catalog from their 1987 debut Appetite for Destruction to 2008's Chinese Democracy.

The Axl Rose-helmed lineup includes DJ Ashba, Richard Fortus and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on guitars; Tommy Stinson on bass; Chris Pitman and Dizzy Reed on keyboards; and Frank Ferrer on drums.

Appetite for Democracy kicks off October 31st. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. ET on August 17th and will be available on The Joint's website.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-taking-over-las-vegas-with-appetite-for-democracy-residency-20120813

Space Suicide
08-13-2012, 06:37 PM
Why is there so much touring for one album? Fucking a, since 2001 they've been on Chinese Democracy support.

LaneSax
09-13-2012, 10:34 PM
so the Better music video leaked...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ArQBODEPe0

Space Suicide
09-13-2012, 10:37 PM
Meh, 4 years too late.

botley
09-14-2012, 09:55 AM
I heard they are playing Neil Young's Bridge Benefit shows this year, heheh. Should be kinda fun... maybe Axl will guest on "Old Man".

botley
10-21-2012, 12:19 PM
Holy shit, this is great!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9eZ-7_XpeU

NotoriousTIMP
10-21-2012, 12:39 PM
Jesus, Axl is so stuck in the late 80s early 90s. A jean/leather jacket mash up? C'mon man.....that shit was NEVER cool.....

botley
10-21-2012, 12:43 PM
You can't deny he's rocking the SHIT outta that fedora though. I have one just like that except the patch is a little less, er, ostentatious.

october_midnight
10-22-2012, 01:54 PM
Greatest live performance...ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEy6Zs7KL7k

Jinsai
10-22-2012, 02:04 PM
Greatest live performance...ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEy6Zs7KL7k

Hahahaha... For a second I actually thought this was real...

It's a fake "shreds" thing, right?

........ right?

onthewall2983
10-22-2012, 02:11 PM
Not to put a pall on this but you know what's going to be awful about the negative comments, and I can see it coming a mile away because it's YouTube, is insults towards the shots of the handicapped portion of the audience.

frankie teardrop
10-22-2012, 02:13 PM
was just coming here to post that. i think i peed a little.

an ex of mine dates the band's current drummer. while he does a fine job in general, knowing that she's dating someone who plays with this clown pretty much vindicates things for me.

onthewall2983
10-22-2012, 03:02 PM
Beside the obvious red flags this sets off, there are just some songs not meant to be heard acoustically.

Jinsai
10-22-2012, 04:16 PM
NO! They took it off youtube! fuckers...

This is the most entertaining thing Guns N Roses has ever done, it needs to be preserved

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Gm06C04U0

neorev
10-23-2012, 01:42 PM
hey, i'm all for Axl and co doing this as a benefit... props for that
but man, was that a god awful performance

Kid Charlemagne
10-23-2012, 02:37 PM
This is still my favorite thread of all time. Thank you for posting from the Bridge School Benefit. The legend continues.

henryeatscereal
10-23-2012, 05:10 PM
The acoustic version of "Welcome to the jungle" is gone, i really wanted to listen to that mess... :(

october_midnight
10-23-2012, 05:15 PM
Look up like 3 posts, brah.

Wretchedest
10-23-2012, 07:12 PM
Holy shit!

Somehow I've managed to go all of these years looking at photos and not man aging to actually see any video of the would be Axl in motion. Its like a walking parody of myself.

My god...
there's like not even anything to say about it, it does it all for the viewer.

onthewall2983
10-23-2012, 07:31 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=qNfIAReCexY#!

I gotta admit, this is infinitely better. Mostly because of Neil, but the band sounds halfway decent too behind him.

Highly Psychological
10-23-2012, 09:56 PM
That video is really sad. Band is officially a demented freakshow now. He even attempted a lil pervy dance with 'ma ma serpentine'.

didn't realise he had totally lost his voice. future of this band is just going from beyond bad to worse.

botley
10-23-2012, 10:33 PM
No, they mostly did fine. That video with Neil is awesome, and I watched the rest of the set on Ustream; it was nowhere near as shitty as "Jungle" (yikes, not a great choice for all-acoustic). See also the "Patience" video I posted. Just because they trainwrecked on one song... no big deal. Every rock band does it from time to time; if it's live, anything can happen.

Jinsai
10-23-2012, 11:23 PM
No, they mostly did fine. That video with Neil is awesome, and I watched the rest of the set on Ustream; it was nowhere near as shitty as "Jungle" (yikes, not a great choice for all-acoustic). See also the "Patience" video I posted. Just because they trainwrecked on one song... no big deal. Every rock band does it from time to time; if it's live, anything can happen.

to be fair, sure, but you have to admit that's a pretty extreme "moment" of Axl turning into an out-of-tune Elmo and forgetting what the words are (despite the teleprompter).

october_midnight
10-24-2012, 12:31 AM
To me it looked like it could've been either that, or a case of him not being able to hold that high, nauseous note he needs to hit there. Still not as good as the 2:00 mark with HERMADERP DABOPPIDYBOO INDAJUNGLEWHEREWEPLAAAYYY

Space Suicide
10-24-2012, 01:57 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnP8FuUmnw0&feature=relmfu

Should be the singer of GnR. No joke. Legit.

Watch.

Conan The Barbarian
10-24-2012, 02:11 PM
Aww man, Im hearing him tear it up on you could be mine, not bad.

Space Suicide
10-24-2012, 03:28 PM
This is funny and was when I first seen it last year:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2NSK1EoC7Y&feature=related

"And when you're gdfkhdfhjskhgkfubjfnjhm and there's no one left to blame."

W Axl Rose
12-06-2012, 07:38 PM
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Music/I-have-always-wanted-to-play-in-India-Axl-Rose/Article1-968621.aspx
Ahead of the Guns N’ Roses Mumbai concert this Sunday as part of their debut tour of India, the band’s iconic frontman Axl Roses talks about life, music and more.

Your concert is going to fulfil the dreams of many diehard Guns N’ Roses fans. What took you so long to get here?
I’ve always wanted to play in India. We’ve tried to make it happen, but for whatever reasons, it just wasn’t working out. We’re all very excited and looking forward to performing for everyone.

It’s been four years since your last release, Chinese Democracy. Are you working on something new now? When can fans expect your next release?
Yes, in the future! Ha!GN’R has been in business for almost three decades. Like many other bands, it has also seen many line-up changes.

How challenging is it for a band to stay united despite such creative differences?
In order to simply survive, make a living and to be able to tour and do shows like these, creative differences aren’t the only differences that are challenges. I don’t feel most of the differences or challenges with Appetite’s (GN’R’s debut album Appetite For Destruction, 1987) or other lineups had anything to do with musical differences or GN’R’s music. In my opinion, our issues had to do with control, public perception or misperception and who’s in the lineup’s music, and not the particular style, sound or genre.

Any advice to upcoming bands on how to stay a cohesive unit?
I’d say we all learn the hard way, whether we want to or not, that you have to protect yourself individually in business and then you can work at being as fair and democratic as possible. But without having your house in order first, you won’t have the tools or foundation to make things work between each other when the going gets tough.

Since this is going to be your debut concert here, what are you looking forward to the most?
Giving a successful show, having the fans feel good about the concert and their time there and... I love Indian food!

Any cultural experiences you’d like to indulge in while you are here?
I’m sure the rest of the guys and crew will visit some places. If I’m lucky, I’ll be able to. Mostly, I’ll focus on the shows, but if I have time, I’m excited to explore India.

Are there any Indian artistes you follow or would like to collaborate with in the future?
It’s something I want to explore.

Yesterdays Band vocalist Axl Rose is the only remaining member from the original line-up that comprised Slash (lead guitarist), Izzy Stradlin, (rhythm guitar), Duff McKagan (bass) and Steven Adler (drums). This 1986 line-up was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame this year. While the other members reunited and even jammed at the event, Axl chose not to attend it.

W Axl Rose
01-22-2013, 04:38 PM
"Appetite For Democracy" 3D Concert Film is scheduled for worldwide release in Cinemas,TV Broadcast and DVD release in 2013 . GNR's first Live Concert Home Video -DVD release in over 20 Years ! Produced by Barry Summers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9QYBhRAw0&feature=player_embedded

W Axl Rose
02-07-2013, 05:56 PM
http://i1111.photobucket.com/albums/h465/markingout2012/250713_529045850450884_2046855759_n_zps24c07ab7.jp g

W Axl Rose
02-13-2013, 01:52 PM
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/535815_10151490162147152_1481040452_n.jpg

W Axl Rose
04-05-2013, 04:02 PM
Mark: Hi, Richard, it’s Mark from The Rockpit in Australia. Thank you for talking to us, how’s Abu Dhabi treating you?

Richard: Thank you for calling. It’s good! It’s always fun here.

Mark: Are you playing tonight? It should be a good show.

Richard: Yes, it was great here last time, the hotel we’re in is just so opulent, and everything’s just over the top, it’s crazy here!

Mark: So soon after playing here in Australia, you are coming back, you’ve already played a few dates with The Dead Daisies, but you are coming back to be part of the Aerosmith show. Is that a break in the Guns ‘n Roses tour for you?

Richard: Yes, we are doing some dates sporadically, but we are trying to focus more on getting the next record ready, the next G ‘n R record. So, the touring has not been steady, and it won’t be for a while.

Mark: How’s the new album coming along?

Richard: We are working on it! Hopefully within the next year we will have something out.

Mark: That’s great news, obviously you were heavily involved with Chinese Democracy, but there are a lot of people waiting to see what the follow up to that is going to be like. So, how did you get involved with The Dead Daisies?

Richard: I came in to it through Charley Drayton, whenever Charley calls!! For my money, he’s the greatest drummer on the planet, and whenever I work with him, I walk away with better vision.

Mark: There are some great musicians involved, were you familiar with Jon Stevens before the project?

Richard: Yeah, I knew the stuff he did with Noiseworks, and he was a presence in LA for a little while, and I knew people that had worked with him.

Mark: He has a great voice, and it’s always good to see him out there with a new project. Hopefully this will create a bit of interest, and be something a bit more long term.

Richard: Yeah, that’s what I’m hoping. He has an amazing voice and he’s a really great guy too. Everybody that is involved is wonderful to be around.

Mark: The songs that you are sampling on the web site are amazing. I grew up with Free, Bad Company, and The Faces, and you can definitely hear that influence in the songs. Were they the sort of thing you listened to growing up?

Richard: Absolutely. Free, The Faces, Humble Pie, Thin Lizzy, all those bands were just huge to me!

Mark: Yes, we miss that sort of music that had real warmth, soul and depth to it, so it’s great to hear that sort of sound again. If we could talk about some of the songs, that would be great. “Lock and Load” is an interesting one, written by Jon and Slash, it was written a while ago, but it’s going to be the first single from the album. To me, listening to the other stuff, it’s not hugely representative of some of the material that’s on there.

Richard: Yeah, I think what it’s developed in to live is, it’s evolved in to a really classic sounding band.

Mark: “Washington”, has that seventies vibe to it, it reminds me of what The Black Crowes did with “Hard to Handle”, do you get that?

Richard: Yeah, totally!

Mark: “Can’t Fight This Feeling” is one of those classic blues fuelled, sing along ballad! My favourite, is “It’s Gonna Take Time” which starts out as a “rocker” and then mellows out to a real Bad Company vibe.

Richard: Yeah, I really like “Yesterday” as well. I think that’s the best Faces song I’ve heard in a long time!!
Mark: That’s right! There was talk of The Faces reforming a while ago.

Richard: You always hear that!! Without Ronnie Lane, though, no!

Mark: I loved some of the work he did with Steve Marriott.

Richard: He is one of the greatest singers that ever lived in my opinion!

Mark: He is my all-time musical hero, so you are preaching to the converted here!! I met him a couple of years before he died; he was playing some pub shows in England, and he stood next to me at the bar, a pint in one hand and a cigarette in the other, and he smiled, and it was the first time I have ever been star struck in my entire life! What a legend that guy was!


Richard: Jon had a great story about meeting him when he was like 14 years old, in New Zealand. It was a little tiny bar, and he’d been staying with his sister, and he’d had an argument with her and left and he went to a bar, and Jon had just been playing a gig, and he got to meet him.

Mark: As far as music is concerned, you have obviously been involved in a lot of projects over the years; you’ve done a range of things, and played with some very interesting artists. Is the music you’ve done with The Dead Daisies, something you always come back to, the seventies vibe?

Richard: That’s where I sort of started as a kid. When I was young I wasn’t really in to the bands that were out at the time, it was the metal thing, like Motley Crue, Def Leppard, which were popular when I was a kid. I was in to the older stuff like The Faces, and The Stones, and then I heard The Clash, and my whole life changed! Everything just shifted, and I was all about that for years, and through my time with The Psychedelic Furs, and Love Spit Love, I was just so in that world. Then everything changed and took a big turn, with the GnR call, and I got in to them because Tommy Stinson was a friend, and Robin Finck, that put me in a different world and reconnected me with my roots.

Mark: How would you summarize your time with Thin Lizzy? That would be one of my dreams to play with a band like that!

Richard: It was! That was totally the zenith of my career, just because that band was so important to me growing up. To be part of that guitar legacy was an honour. It was a wonderful experience, and amazing people, it was such a great vibe every night, and those guys are still like family to me.

Mark: I met Scott Gorham a few weeks ago, before they played here in Perth, a great guy, and I got to hear The Black Star Riders stuff.

Richard: That’s a great record, it’s really good. I think it’s the best Thin Lizzy record since Chinatown!

Mark: I also liked The Psychedelic Furs, growing up, are you going to be working with Richard again in the future?

Richard: We’ve been talking about writing a new record for a while now, and whenever I can, I play with those guys. I spent so much time with Richard, I was with them every day for so many years, and we are still very, very close. I love working with him, in my opinion, he is a great singer with such a distinctive voice, and a great friend. But you know he is doing so well now with his painting, it’s like music has become a hobby! But I would love to make another record with him.

Mark: If you could have been a fly on the wall for the recording of any classic album, what would it have been for you and why? This will be interesting for me, as we have similar tastes in music!!

Richard: If you’re serious, that’s a very good question!! Wow! I think “Exile” (0n Main Street), or “Pet Sounds”, that would’ve been fantastic!

Mark: Both of those would have been very different kinds of crazy, I think!

Richard: Yeah, but to witness the genius of that, and how it was stitched together, that would have been fascinating!

Mark: Our easy question, to finish with, is what is the meaning of life?

Richard: I don’t necessarily know that life has a meaning; it doesn’t need to have a meaning does it? I think our goal is to be connected with the universe, and to realise the essence of being one.

Mark: I like it! I think I’m with you on that; personally speaking is there a meaning to life? I think it’s all about defining you, and finding a place for yourself, Thank you for taking time out of your day to speak to us, it’s been a pleasure, I hope you have a blast tonight!

Richard: It should be good; Beirut’s going to be interesting!! Last time we were there it was an interesting experience!

Mark: Yes, it will! What happened there?

Richard: We had a wonderful time there, the audience was fantastic, the people were beautiful, and then we went to leave, and they took our passports and told us to return to our hotel. We weren’t going to get on the plane, and they weren’t going to tell us anything. It turned out that somebody wanted us to meet their daughter!! We weren’t allowed to leave until that happened!!

Mark: Hopefully she won’t want to meet you again this time!! Anyway, we’ll see you on the Aerosmith tour, thanks again and take care.

http://www.therockpit.net/2013/INTERVIEW%20Richard%20Fortus%20Guns%20n%20Roses%20 Dead%20Daisies%202013.php

Kid Charlemagne
05-27-2013, 04:36 PM
I had the (mis)fortune of seeing Alice in Chains with Guns N Roses last night and man my head still hurts. The band was 20 minutes late to start it off and then began with a song off Chinese Democracy. This isn't to say the show was all bad, certainly they have songs that I still enjoy (You Could Be Mine is still a banger), but Jesus, they played for two and a half hours, with 30 minutes of the show being wanky solos from everyone. DJ Ashba solo'd for 10 minutes, not to mention he dresses like a tool and wears Confederate garb despite being from Indiana. I honestly wanted to punch him because he looked like a shit bag. Axl changed shirts a whopping eight times, each one with a design of a woman either shirtless or in a provacative position. He has more costume changes than any pop star out there. The band sounded good for what they are, but Axl can't sing anymore, dude sounds horrible. They also think that fireworks are necessary to pop out during "Live and Let Die" which got really fucking old. There were about six solos and like five Chinese Democracy tunes that made the crowd smaller. By the end of the show when the band started "Paradise City", about half the crowd had already left. This could have been a very good show, but it's packed with so much cheese and wankery that makes it really hard to enjoy yourself.

SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY
05-29-2013, 12:33 AM
I saw GNR the last time they were in Dallas at The Starplex (or whatever it is called this week) and it was INCREDIBLE. Axl is such an intense singer it is hard for him to be dead on all the time. Very few people can run around the stage like he does for over 2 hours and perform 1/2 as good as he does! I would go see the Axl 5000 band over Slash and Myles Kennedy any day!

On another note, I just had some dental work done and my girl had a baby just 2 months ago so I am SUPER broke but I am going to Dallas HOB show with a set of balls and getting in! Even if I can't get in I am bringing my Chinese Democracy vinyl and trying to get it signed!

bobbie solo
06-03-2013, 12:30 AM
well, then you are a clown.

W Axl Rose
07-02-2013, 06:25 PM
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peter
07-04-2013, 05:46 AM
http://www.musiker-board.de/attachments/f4-musik-machen//f737-genre-diskussionen//f21-rock//222625d1339145089-slash-fanclub-axl-rose-canada-boris_menkevich.jpg

SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY
07-04-2013, 10:02 PM
So you know how a show was that you were not at?

marodi
07-12-2013, 09:56 PM
I just heard G&R play November Rain, on les Plaines d'Abraham at the Festival d'Été de Québec. Thing is I'm very very far away from the place but then again, I've always been able to hear the loud performances from the Festival. And boy, G&R are loud. I must say that it sounded good and that from what I've heard, Axl's voice wasn't bad at all.

W Axl Rose
08-06-2013, 06:32 PM
Guns N' Roses ‏@gunsnroses (https://twitter.com/gunsnroses)2m (https://twitter.com/gunsnroses/status/364842620876369920)
Generally speaking, we have no information on tours, albums, or DVDs. When things get confirmed we'll let you know. Thanks for your patience

Space Suicide
08-08-2013, 07:31 AM
I know I shouldn't comment but I seriously laughed my ass off when I saw this on my Facebook feed.

http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/guns-n-roses-thank-you-for-your-patience-trolololol/:


Guns N’ Roses have released a statement confirming that they have no idea when they’ll be doing anything any time soon.

“Generally speaking, at this time, we have no information on tours, albums, or DVDs,” reads the band’s statement. “When things get confirmed, we will let you know. Thank you for your patience.”


So that’s that. Presumably that thank you also extends to the maniacs who still buy tickets to Guns N’ Roses shows in 2013.

poinoup
08-08-2013, 08:32 AM
I don't get it... After seeing some of the live clips, and the screw ups on this page, you'd think a guy with control issues like Axl would want a better live product. How many delays did ChiDem get because it had to sound "perfect"? How many overdubs and re-records? And live it can be absolute shit?

As for the band's statement... I love shoot comments that aren't meant to be shoot comments...

W Axl Rose
08-08-2013, 06:02 PM
Dj ASHBA™ (https://www.facebook.com/ashbaland?ref=stream&hc_location=stream)
A hearty congratulations is in order for Guns N’ Roses (http://loudwire.com/tags/guns-n-roses) / Sixx: A.M (http://loudwire.com/tags/sixx-a-m). guitarist DJ Ashba (http://loudwire.com/tags/dj-ashba). The musician just got engaged to his actress/model girlfriend Nathalia Henao.
Before joining Guns N’ Roses, Ashba embarked on a solo career along with joining Motley Crue (http://loudwire.com/tags/motley-crue) bassistNikki Sixx (http://loudwire.com/tags/nikki-sixx) for the project Sixx: A.M. Ashba performed on Sixx: A.M.’s debut, ‘The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack,’ in 2007. He’s continued on with the band even after becoming a full-time member of GN’R, playing guitar on the Sixx: A.M. releases ‘This is Gonna Hurt’ and ’7.’ Ashba hasn’t lent his talents to any Guns N’ Roses recording, but he’s toured with Axl and co. since 2009.
Ashba announced the news of his engagement through his Twitter account. Ashba tweeted:
https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/378800000137564740/9cbac23479949b9e387a065a9a937c72_normal.jpegA S H B A ✔ @DjASHBA (https://twitter.com/DjASHBA)
She said yes!!! http://instagram.com/p/cvaVE4n6eD/ (http://t.co/wKhKoBvDSy)

1:42 AM - 8 Aug 2013 (https://twitter.com/DjASHBA/statuses/365347235594125313)She said yes!! @nathalia henao
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LaneSax
08-09-2013, 04:56 AM
not expecting any album soon but I would be irritated if the Vegas Appetite for Democracy blu ray gets postponed further.

SIR.LONDONCLEANLILY
08-20-2013, 11:44 PM
Does anyone know where to get this song? http://loudwire.com/new-guns-n-roses-song-going-down-surfaces-online-gets-taken-down/

Space Suicide
08-21-2013, 12:07 AM
Does anyone know where to get this song? http://loudwire.com/new-guns-n-roses-song-going-down-surfaces-online-gets-taken-down/

Song sucks so don't bother.

LaneSax
08-21-2013, 12:09 AM
Does anyone know where to get this song? http://loudwire.com/new-guns-n-roses-song-going-down-surfaces-online-gets-taken-down/

try gunsnfnroses.com Bad Apples section.
I believe you have to register first though but its worth it. I am really enjoying the Better remixes that leaked.

Going Down is a good track too, if you enjoy stuff from the Illusions. The mix is pretty bad though while the leaked remixes are in good quality

ericy210
08-30-2013, 09:49 PM
I remember trent commenting on axl around TDS time, saying use you illusions would have been great if the best songs were made into one album. Either trent or axl said they'd be interested in doing something together, can't remember. Going to lollapalooza and having HM makes me wish axl had Trent's vision and passion.

botley
08-31-2013, 10:21 AM
I, for one, think that Axl does know what the fuck he's doing when it comes to record production. He plays to his own strengths, and has generally good taste when it comes to finding other talented people (Buckethead and Finck were inspired choices, the live band didn't really work with them for various reasons but the current dudes do a good job playing their parts). Do I regularly spin Chinese Democracy anymore? No, but I enjoyed it when it came out, and its best moments belong in the GnR live show. Sure... there are non-musical bullshit reasons for taking so fucking long to record new shit, but also Axl takes his time getting it right.

ericy210
09-01-2013, 10:24 PM
So, setting jokes to the side, how could Axl get back on top? The time and money to make Chinese Democracy made him a joke. He's drifted off most people's radars. Many will never accept nuGNR as really being GNR. But the classic tunes are indeed classics.
i think he needs a solo album, perhaps with great guest musicians. Write a book explaining the last 20 years. Do some interviews. And don't forget great new music.

Pillfred
09-02-2013, 12:10 AM
Maybe him and Manson should get together, I'm only half kidding. I don't think it's really possible at this point. So much of what made old g-n-r, good was their lack of focus on anything but being the band, imo a very punk attitude, and at his age and ego I don't think it's gonna happen. I do agree a solo album may be a better option but I don't see a comeback in the near future.

thefragile_jake
09-02-2013, 08:02 AM
So, setting jokes to the side, how could Axl get back on top? The time and money to make Chinese Democracy made him a joke. He's drifted off most people's radars. Many will never accept nuGNR as really being GNR. But the classic tunes are indeed classics.
i think he needs a solo album, perhaps with great guest musicians. Write a book explaining the last 20 years. Do some interviews. And don't forget great new music.

I think at this point they're done, they don't appeal to a larger audience as much as they did in their heyday but the name is extremely marketable so they still attract big crowds based on nostalgic value.

ericy210
09-12-2013, 07:37 PM
The world of musicians seems small. For those who care about NIN/GNR overlap, short lived live drummer Alex carapetis is/was in dead daisies with nu-GNR guitarist Richard fortus.

ericy210
09-12-2013, 07:40 PM
Don't know if it true or not, I heard manson used to sound check with one in a million. Still haven't found it....
youtube GNR 1987 or 1988. Those old club days were the best. I'd love to have been at the troubadour seeing them, Crüe, all the l.a. Bands coming through

onthewall2983
09-12-2013, 07:55 PM
So, setting jokes to the side, how could Axl get back on top?

He should have ditched the GnR moniker once Slash & co. left. He would have had a leg up on having a successful solo career because his name was as much in the headlines as the band's was. Whether or not the records would have sold is one thing, but he'd have more respect from the critical community and fans for not dragging his old band's name through the mud.

This option is always on the table as long as he's still around, but he seems pretty stuck in his ways.

hobochic
09-12-2013, 08:45 PM
So, setting jokes to the side, how could Axl get back on top?

It's a shame that most people aren't aware that the original "heart and soul" of GNR never stopped making music. For some reason, the media and the fans forgot to follow the "fountainhead" of Guns n' Roses: Izzy; and instead followed Axl-Circus/KFC and Velvet Audio Revolver Slave (same shit).

While Axl and Velvet Revolver continued to milk the little that was left of them to celebrity-hysteria and rock-clichés, Izzy went back to the blues, southern rock and punk mentality. IMO it's only been Izzy who's been releasing material on par with original GNR quality.

What Axl really should do, if he even has a voice these days, is write a couple of songs with Izzy, just the two of them, release a couple of acoustic-electric demos, and then an EP. Keep it simple, and do it Izzy's way. That's where anything could happen, if it were to happen. Forget the books and the celebrity game, it always has to start with the music.

In a lot of Izzy songs you can already almost hear what Axl could have done. Izzy does it perfectly and doesn't really need Axl at all, but if they would sing together it would work.

Like in this song:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jposMrZhHrc


Or in this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6yt4X4vqs

Wretchedest
09-12-2013, 09:11 PM
So, setting jokes to the side, how could Axl get back on top? The time and money to make Chinese Democracy made him a joke. He's drifted off most people's radars. Many will never accept nuGNR as really being GNR. But the classic tunes are indeed classics.
i think he needs a solo album, perhaps with great guest musicians. Write a book explaining the last 20 years. Do some interviews. And don't forget great new music.

He hasn't drifted off of anybody's radar. It's just that his role on the radar has shifted from "baited anticipation" to "disastrous puddle of shit."

If he did all those things where he started making (good) music, making deadlines, not standing up fans, being honest about the last 20 years (all of these are an insane stretch by themselves) then, it would take another 20 years to shake his well earned reputation as a talentless idiot, and maybe the least self aware person ever to grace the planet.

W Axl Rose
10-24-2013, 06:22 PM
Fernando posted this on Nightrain:

Hi there community, I know that you guys have been looking for an update for some time now; I am sorry that we haven't been able to share any. And this is not one that makes up the time that has passed since I last reached out.

We have spent some time getting our bearings back in tact after many moons of touring and we are putting together a game plan to give you what you need the most, information.

Thanks for your loyalty and know that there will something coming up soon.
Fernando Lebeis

LaneSax
10-24-2013, 10:32 PM
Fernando posted this on Nightrain:

know that there will something coming up soon.

Thanks for the update.
Hope the something is more than just the Vegas blu ray...

ericy210
10-27-2013, 05:24 PM
A gameplay to get information together. I don't even know what to say.

GulDukat
10-28-2013, 04:53 AM
If Axl Rose cared about getting "back on top" he would reunite with Slash and Duff, who would likely get back on board. Izzy might also agree to rejoin the group, at least in the studio (he doesn't like big tours).

A GN'R reunion would be huge, at least as big as the KISS reunion from 1996. A new GN'R album with Slash, Duff, Izzy,etc. would probably go platinum, which is not easy for rock bands to do in 2013.

That said, it won't happen. Axl seems to be happy doing his own thing, even if it means softer ticket sales and no hit songs. I just wish that he would release new music. There must be 2-3 albums worth of material from the Chinese Democracy sessions, it would be great to hear it. Not sure what the hold-up is. Might be the label, might be do to the fact that few of the musicians from that era are still in the band now, or maybe it's just because Axl is such a perfectionist. I loved Chinese Democracy and am sure I'd love the unreleased songs too--it's a bit frustrating know that they're in the vaults and won't be coming out soon.

W Axl Rose
12-07-2013, 09:59 PM
MYGNR EXCLUSIVE: BREAKING NEWS ON GNR PLANS FOR 2014

Contrary to the feeling of frustration enveloping MyGNR, the Media Crew can exclusively tell you that things will be hotting up for GNR in 2014.

As previous reports have loosely alluded to, the band will once again embark on a period of touring. Starting in Mexico during mid-March, GNR will pursue a full South American Tour.

If you're elsewhere in the globe however, fear not, because Guns N' Roses will also be hitting parts of the US. This will include a highly-anticipated return to the location of last year's residency - VEGAS.

Furthermore, hold off on labelling this as further pointless touring. We can also exclusively reveal that the band are planning to present 2 to 3 new songs during next year's touring.

But there's more...

A lot more. While we aren't at liberty to divulge any further, MyGNR encourages you to approach 2014 with a clear sense of optimism.


http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/204298-mygnr-exclusive-breaking-news-on-gnr-plans-for-2014/

GulDukat
12-08-2013, 07:20 AM
MYGNR EXCLUSIVE: BREAKING NEWS ON GNR PLANS FOR 2014

Contrary to the feeling of frustration enveloping MyGNR, the Media Crew can exclusively tell you that things will be hotting up for GNR in 2014.

As previous reports have loosely alluded to, the band will once again embark on a period of touring. Starting in Mexico during mid-March, GNR will pursue a full South American Tour.

If you're elsewhere in the globe however, fear not, because Guns N' Roses will also be hitting parts of the US. This will include a highly-anticipated return to the location of last year's residency - VEGAS.

Furthermore, hold off on labelling this as further pointless touring. We can also exclusively reveal that the band are planning to present 2 to 3 new songs during next year's touring.

But there's more...

A lot more. While we aren't at liberty to divulge any further, MyGNR encourages you to approach 2014 with a clear sense of optimism.


http://www.mygnrforum.com/index.php?/topic/204298-mygnr-exclusive-breaking-news-on-gnr-plans-for-2014/
If we just get another tour with a few live songs, my reaction is "eh." If the band is going to release a new album, why would they only be playing 2-3 sons live? Maybe they are just going to slap a few new tracks on some kind of best-of album? On another note, why would GN'R's management release news via MYGNR, which is filled with mostly trolls who do nothing but complain? You'd think that Axl's team would release news via Jarmo's site, which is a sort of de facto official site.

mfte
01-07-2014, 02:05 PM
Full story from the guy who leaked Chinese Democracy


http://www.antiquiet.com/truth/2014/01/full-story-behind-chinese-democracy/ (http://www.antiquiet.com/truth/2014/01/full-story-behind-chinese-democracy/)

W Axl Rose
01-18-2014, 02:59 PM
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/interviews/interviews/robin_finck_ive_been_very_blessed_with_the_opportu nities_and_ive_enjoyed_saying_yes_to_them.html

How did you get involved with Guns N' Roses and the "Chinese Democracy" album?

I didn't know Axl. I was no longer playing with NIN at the time and I had jumped on a tour with a touring show from Cirque du Soleil, which at the time was not everywhere in Las Vegas like it is now. It was a North American tour under a blue and yellow big top (tent). What I'm telling you now is after this all happened. Axl had come to simply see the circus (laughs) and he and I had never met and he didn't know I was there. One of the guys Axl was with in the grandstands pointed and said (in hushed excited voice), "Axl, you see that guitar player down there? That's Robin from Nine Inch Nails."

The way you said that makes it sound like Axl did know who you were.

Axl was telling me this after the fact. And he just kind of scratched his head and was sitting there thinking, "What is he doing here?" Hah hah hah. At that time Axl was no longer playing with Slash but the rest of the original guys were still together. I was in my Oakwood apartment with the rest of the circus. This was before cellphones and I had the curly-cabled telephone hanging on the wall in the kitchen. It rang and someone said they were a representative of Axl Rose who wished to speak to me - "Would I be at the number in 15 minutes?"

Very official sounding.

It came out of the clear blue. I kinda jumped to all kinds of conclusions. I skipped holding hands and first kiss and went straight to making babies. I said to the guy, "Ahh, can I take your name and number and I'll call you back in 15 minutes." I kinda clammed up.

But you eventually talked to Axl?

We ended up talking that day and he invited me to play with he and the rest of the Guns N' Roses guys at the studio space they were kind of housed in. It was a welcomed opportunity just to play that one day. I was doing this circus thing for a year or more by then and that was a blast and I really enjoyed my time there. But I would have been over the moon if even an usher from the circus show told me, "Hey, I got a drumkit in my garage. You wanna go play some AC/DC?" I would have jumped at the opportunity. So the fact it was Axl and Guns N' Roses, I wasn't mad at that.

What was that like first playing with GNR?

I went and we played Guns songs and some cover songs and eventually I was bringing my ADAT tapes I was working on in my apartment.

You started bringing in your own music?

We started playing some of those songs. This was only on Mondays because Mondays were the dark days for the circus. The circus was only in town for I think four months or maybe it was three months. So eventually the circus was gonna pack up and go north and Axl said, "Don't go. Stay here. I wanna do a record. I wanna do a tour with Guns N' Roses." A few other details and that's eventually what we all intended to do. At that time I never ever would have dreamed it was how many years - 10 years on and off - in the making.

Was playing with Axl a completely different experience from working with Trent Reznor?

There was certainly more differences than similarities. It was a very different dynamic to the band; rehearsals were different; and it was like a whole other life I'm really grateful to have been able to experience two such vastly different music worlds. Sometimes we're playing in some of the same halls, same rooms, same arenas and that's kind of a trip.

You knew about Axl's history going in?

Sure, of course. One thing that was kind of present to me but I had to make a conscious choice not to allow it to direct me was not the fact I was playing with Axl but the fact I was playing with Axl and I wasn't Slash. That woulda been the death of any real play and any sense of fun or freedom.

You just tried to put that out of your mind?

Well, I wouldn't say I tried to ignore it. I just kinda let it be and I got to understand real well firsthand that the two of those guys presenting those songs to the world probably wasn't gonna happen (laughs). But sometimes it was difficult to be in that place - literally standing in that space - in front of a lot of other people who maybe didn't know how sincerely those two (felt about) probably not gonna playing these songs.

You talked about eventually bringing in your own song ideas. Did those ADATS full of ideas turn into songs like "Shackler's Revenge" and "Better?"

Umm, yeah. There were so many. Some of them were picked for parts and some of them were recorded to the finish line and still exist somewhere. I don't know where.

Some of the songs from "Chinese Democracy" like "Shackler's Revenge" do have an industrial feel. Was that your input?

Umm, not necessarily and not all the time. I think especially with Guns, I was more of a soul player than a soundscape artist. Playing the original catalog songs kind of directed me to what I thought I wanted to hear Axl sing over and so I probably wasn't alone in that. So that kind of directed me to present the material I did.

Axl worked with multiple guitarists - Buckethead, Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, Paul Tobias and Richard Fortus - at various times. Why did he want so many guitar players involved?

They came in waves and all those names were not present all at the same time. We did so much writing, rehearsing and recording before we ever played live as a group. It was like, hah hah hah, a bit of a circus. I sometimes had to just really let go of what it is I would have hoped this song or this presentation of a batch of songs would be. And just really get in the flow of what was happening because there was something bigger going on than anything I was going to direct. They're all great players though.

Amazing musicians. Was Axl looking for lots of guitar textures in the music?

Well the summation of so many guitar players happened through so many years that each kind of phase had its own organic necessity that had arisen. Maybe that was a bit wordy to say.

I know what you mean.

Guys came and went (laughs). Originally it was gonna be a two-guitar player group. I split forever so I thought and went back to Nine Inch Nails. In my absence they were looking to replace me and Josh Freese, the drummer at the time, had brought Buckethead in to essentially fill the slot I had left. They really liked him but he's kind of a stunt guitar player. He does a very specific thing and he has a real genius sensibility about him. But he rarely plays the same thing twice ever and when you're trying to cruise through "Nightrain" that just makes it a little (laughs) too different. So they needed someone to anchor the songs. They kept Buckethead to do what Buckethead does and they needed someone else to play alongside.

You played a great solo on Street of Dreams.

We had played that as a live and loud band. When I say live, I mean we had rehea-sed them (songs) in a room at top volume so many times and it was also the way it was recorded (laughs).

"Chinese Democracy" was recorded loud?

The recordings were loud and I was standing in the control room or in the live room. They (solos) kind of came pretty quick and then we'd just kind of hone in on what the first impression was and I don't know, kind of hammered away at it until we got it. I didn't really have a method.

Do you remember doing any of the solos on that album?

When I knew I was gonna go in and record one of the lead parts on "This I Love," I would listen a few times without playing. I would listen to the track without playing guitar and just kinda try to hear what comes natural as far as starting low or starting high or where to begin and where to end up. I've always liked guitar players that play in phrases maybe like a horn player who needs to take a breath. I don't think about it - I'm thinkin' about it more now because you've asked me than I have ever thought about it (laughs). There wasn't a lot of thinkin' going on to be honest.

What are your overall thoughts about working with Axl on the 'Chinese Democracy' album?

It's hard for me to summarize. It's happened over such a long period of time it's summarizing high school into college. Some of my favorite moments as a guitar player were some nights that didn't even make it to that record. I was tight with the recording team and tight with the band. We were a close knit bunch of guys and we just really had a blast. We didn't have a blast every night for nine or ten years but in hindsight those are the times I remember most.

october_midnight
01-18-2014, 03:15 PM
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marodi
01-18-2014, 03:21 PM
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You're aware that it's an interview with Robin Finck, right? I've always found the Finckster to be interesting no matter who or what he talks about. And he always avoid speaking badly about anyone or anything.

He's a true gentleman.

GulDukat
01-18-2014, 04:22 PM
Good interview. I really hope that Axl releases the other songs from the Chinese sessions and doesn't just bury them.

Space Suicide
01-19-2014, 09:38 AM
I wish the interview was more about Robin Finck than more about what he thought, did and knew of Axl Rose. Missed opportunity.

W Axl Rose
01-31-2014, 05:29 PM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BfUDJmYCAAEtAqJ.jpg

kas23
01-31-2014, 06:42 PM
My guess: another tour. Can hardly be classified as news anymore. Either that or nothing. It'll come and go and we'll hear nothing. And what's with the #GNRVegas?

Santos L Halper
02-01-2014, 10:02 AM
My guess: another tour. Can hardly be classified as news anymore. Either that or nothing. It'll come and go and we'll hear nothing. And what's with the #GNRVegas?

Maybe another residency in Vegas?

GulDukat
02-01-2014, 10:15 AM
I'm a huge Axl Rose fan, but another tour/Vegas residency is nothing that I'd get excited about. It's time for GN'R to release another album, and hopefully promote it this time around--go on Fallon (who is a huge GnR fan), The Daily Show, etc. and do interviews.

kas23
02-01-2014, 04:00 PM
Maybe another residency in Vegas?

Probably. This isn't big news though. A big yawn actually.

W Axl Rose
02-06-2014, 04:20 PM
Duff McKagan ‏@DuffMcKagan (https://twitter.com/DuffMcKagan) 4h (https://twitter.com/DuffMcKagan/status/431499733748572160)
Happy Birthday to @axlrose (https://twitter.com/axlrose). I hope the wind is at your back my friend.

W Axl Rose
02-28-2014, 11:08 AM
Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose will be honored with the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2014 Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles on April 23.Rose will take his place in the Golden Gods Hall Of Fame alongside previous honorees Metallica, Rush, Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead.
The Revolver Golden Gods event will take place at Club Nokia in Los Angeles. Among this year's nominees are Black Sabbath, Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Korn.


Read more at http://www.antimusic.com/news/14/February/27Axl_Rose_To_Receive_Ronnie_James_Dio_Lifetime_Ac hievement_Award.shtml#Ffg8CvuKsL3FsPvK.99ETS ON SALE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28 VIA AXS.COM

LaneSax
02-28-2014, 12:47 PM
glad the GN'R Vegas concert will be hitting theatres in April too!

cannot wait to get the blu ray

http://gnr3dmovie.com/

W Axl Rose
03-22-2014, 04:18 PM
HSBC Arena
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Thursday, March 20th, 2014


Chinese Democracy
Welcome to the Jungle
It's So Easy
Mr. Brownstone
Estranged
Better
- 4tus solo
Live And Let Die
This I Love
- Tommy Solo (Teenage Kicks)
- Dizzy Reed Solo
Catcher In The Rye
You Could Be Mine
- DJ Solo (La Bella Vita)
Sweet Child O' Mine
November Rain
- BBF Solo (Abnormal) / Brazilian National Anthem
Don't Cry
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Nightrain

ENCORE:
Patience
Paradise City

***********************
Joe Perry ‏@JoePerry 20h (https://twitter.com/JoePerry/status/447187867253485568) It's official- we just talked,
AEROSMITH/SLASH USA tour confirmed!!
Tickets on sale next few wks Soon as dates confirmed.LET ROCK RULE !

GulDukat
03-22-2014, 10:36 PM
C'mon Axl. Play some new songs and release a new album already.

HurtinMinorKey
03-23-2014, 03:10 PM
Full story from the guy who leaked Chinese Democracy


http://www.antiquiet.com/truth/2014/01/full-story-behind-chinese-democracy/ (http://www.antiquiet.com/truth/2014/01/full-story-behind-chinese-democracy/)

This was a fucking awesome read, I can't believe this guy went through all this. Fucking guns in his face at a 7:00 am wake-up call by the FBI.

W Axl Rose
04-03-2014, 09:35 PM
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-to-reunite-with-original-bassist-duff-mckagan-for-tour-20140402

Founding Guns N' Roses (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/guns-n-roses) bassist Duff McKagan will reunite with the band for a run of South American gigs this month while the group's current four-stringer, Tommy Stinson, plays his own reunion shows with the Replacements (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-replacements). Stinson called McKagan "a good buddy" to Billboard (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6029516/duff-mckagan-reuniting-with-guns-n-roses-to-help-axl-out-says-tommy-stinson) and offered up his thanks for "covering my ass on this one." Both bassists had been rehearsaing with the band last month.
10 Things Duff McKagan Learned on the Summer Festival Circuit (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/10-things-duff-mckagan-learned-on-the-summer-festival-circuit-20130523)
McKagan had tweeted out a hint (https://twitter.com/DuffMcKagan/status/450733002645970944) to the reunion on Monday, listing the countries he'd be visiting – Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil – along with a snap of some GN'R set lists and the teaser, "See y'all in the next few weeks, Si?" Stinson is due back in the band for GN'R's May 13th gig in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
"I didn't want to fuck anyone up in Guns by saying, 'Hey, I can't do this tour' or anything like that," Stinson said. "Luckily someone was able to reach out to Duff and he was amenable to the idea and was into doing it. It's Duff being the kind of good sport he is, trying to help Axl (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/axl-rose) out."
McKagan said he was just happy to be involved. "It's pretty great to play these songs again, and looking forward to playing some gigs with my pal again," he said. "South America is always a radical place for rock & roll, and I'm honored to be doing this thing, in that place."
McKagan was a member of Guns N' Roses between 1985 and 1997 and played on all of the groups' albums other than 2008's [I]Chinese Democracy (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/chinese-democracy-20081127). After he quit the group, he stayed friends with Rose and reunited with the band (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/video-duff-mckagan-reunites-with-axl-rose-onstage-20101014) in 2010 in London to play the Use Your Illusion II (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/use-your-illusion-ii-19911017) track "You Could Be Mine." When his band Loaded open for GN'R in 2011, he played the same song with them at two different shows, as well as a rendition of "Civil War." He also performed with former members of the group – with the exceptions of Axl Rose (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/axl-rose-apologizes-to-cleveland-for-hall-of-fame-snub-20120417) and guitarist Izzy Stradlin (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-guitarist-izzy-stradlin-says-gracias-over-hall-of-fame-induction-20120413) – at the band's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2012 (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-chili-peppers-bring-magic-to-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-20120415).
"I don't know that Duff and Axl ever even had bad blood," Stinson said. "I don't really know the whole story. But he came up and played with us a couple years back, and they got along great. Whatever their history is, they're certainly fine now – I mean, as fine as you can be after knowing someone for 30-plus years."
In other Guns N' Roses news, the group will be headlining the Revolver Golden Gods Awards (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-to-headline-revolver-golden-gods-awards-20140226) later this month, when Rose accepts the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award in Los Angeles. The group is also playing the Sands Bethlehem Event Center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and headlining the Rock on the Range festival on May 16th. Later that month, the group will begin its second residency at the Joint inside the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Stinson also expressed hope to Billboard that the band would record some new music soon. "I hope we would fucking throw ourselves in the studio and make another record," he said. "A bunch of us have been writing stuff, so hopefully we'll get something going."


Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guns-n-roses-to-reunite-with-original-bassist-duff-mckagan-for-tour-20140402#ixzz2xshFmai3
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GulDukat
05-08-2014, 07:58 AM
Axl Rose’s insane solution for exterminating moths By Larry GetlenMay 3, 2014 | 4:49pm


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Axl Rose shooting at a moth in his Malibu home.

Modal Trigger (http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/rio-1.jpg)http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/rio-1.jpg?w=231Axl Rose performs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1991.Photo: WireImage

During a break in Guns N’ Roses’ years-long “Use Your Illusion” tour, singer Axl Rose was at his Malibu home with his two assistants when a moth got into the house. The assistants tried shooing it out, but it refused to leave, hovering instead by Rose’s dining-room chandelier.
Fed up, Rose told his first assistant, Craig Duswalt — Rose’s life was busy enough that his assistant required his own assistant — to “keep a close eye on it.” Rose ran upstairs and returned with “a long gun … a rifle maybe, or even a shotgun.”
Rose instructed Duswalt to bring him a chair and “positioned himself under the chair, lying on his back.” He then told Duswalt to “make [the moth] go into the corner” so that Rose didn’t shoot out the light.
Duswalt stood on a chair and batted the moth. He mentioned that he could probably reach it with a flyswatter, but Rose just laughed, saying, “Not going to happen.”
Blam!
Extermination, the Axl Rose way.
The new memoir “Welcome To My Jungle” features many of Duswalt’s road stories from 1991-1993, when Guns N’ Roses were the biggest band on the planet and Axl Rose was the world’s most worshiped rock star.
One of Duswalt’s main responsibilities was making sure that Rose got to the band’s shows. This was never easy, as Rose was infamous for being hours late to his own concerts, and sometimes for bailing altogether at the last minute if even the slightest thing upset him.
Modal Trigger (http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/194634.jpg)http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/194634.jpg?w=231Axl Rose went to great lengths to give then-girlfriend Stephanie Seymour the perfect present on her birthday.Photo: WireImage

Just before a show in Buenos Aires for 80,000 people, Rose was already late — the rest of the band was at the venue — when he asked Duswalt to order dinner for him from room service.
Specifically, he asked for chili and cheese.
Duswalt quietly freaked out. Rose needed to leave within minutes, and chili and cheese was not a room-service menu item. Duswalt was aware that if Rose failed to get his exact order, he could bail on the show.
Duswalt called room service and, despite the language barrier, spent several minutes trying to describe “chili and cheese” to the man on the phone. The order took over an hour to arrive, with the road manager frantically paging Duswalt wondering where Rose was.
Finally, the meal arrived. The waiter brought it inside, ceremoniously lifted the lid, and presented to Duswalt “a block of cheddar cheese surrounded by six whole red-hot peppers.”
Terrified of the ramifications, Duswalt grabbed plates and glasses — including the incorrect order — and hurled them against the wall, “smashing them into a thousand pieces.”
Rose ran out of his room and asked, “What the hell is that?” Duswalt explained that the waiter had screwed up the order and said that he had become so enraged by the mistake that he “threw the plates at him in disgust.”
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The singer, distracted from the screw-up with an explanation he could relate to, forgot about his dinner and left for the show.
Guns N’ Roses was one of the biggest rock bands of all time, and Rose quickly became used to the money and privilege that entailed.
While in France for a show, Rose bought then-girlfriend, supermodel Stephanie Seymour, who was then in New York, a stuffed elephant for her birthday. Rose had a crew member book the stuffed elephant its own seat on the Concorde — at an estimated cost of $10,000.
Such was Rose’s power that he didn’t even need to speak to get his way.
For a time, he became enamored with photography, carrying a camera everywhere. Following one show, his limo pulled out of the backstage area — thousands of fans clamoring for a peek inside — when Rose spotted one especially attractive fan and invited her back to his hotel.
The girl jumped in the limo and, “after an awkward moment of silence,” Rose began silently taking the girl’s picture.
She smiled for the camera, innocently at first, then progressively sexier and removed her clothes until she was naked. Rose never said a word. He just kept clicking the shutter, despite the fact that cameras back then held no more than 36 exposures. Duswalt estimates that Rose clicked the shutter around 300 times.
Public nudity was a common theme around Guns N’ Roses.
Modal Trigger (http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/6b6945d1d5f79e85e6aa1e2e765f083b_original-700.jpg)http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/6b6945d1d5f79e85e6aa1e2e765f083b_original-700.jpg?w=231Craig Duswalt’s “Welcome to My Jungle” (BenBella Books).

While on the road, crew members were required to keep their walkie-talkies on 24/7, in case a band member needed something. One night in Venezuela, Duswalt had his girlfriend with him — they’d been having problems due to her fears about his crazy rock ’n’ roll road life — when the walkie-talkie squawked at around 2 o’clock in the morning.
“I thought to myself it was probably [bassist] Duff [McKagan] wanting someone to get him a drink because he ran out of vodka,” he writes. But instead, and to his and his girlfriend’s dismay, they heard a man’s voice saying, “Gentleman, the ladies are here. Let the games begin.”
He jumped to shut off the walkie-talkie, but his now pissed-off girlfriend told him to leave it on.
The next sound they heard from the walkie-talkie was giggling; then, from the hallway, what sounded like a stampede.
Duswalt opened the door and saw “about 50 naked women right outside my door, walking down the hall.” The next day, he learned that “the promotor … thought it would be really cool and impressive to empty a whorehouse out and bring them all to the hotel via bus … naked.”
Nudity seems to be a theme of Guns N’ Roses lifestyle.
In Buenos Aires, Rose offered a few hundred dollars to any crew member who would “run naked in the streets in front of our hotel” — where hundreds of the band’s fans were camped out, hoping for a glimpse of their idols — and then “shake the hand of an Argentinian police officer.”
Tour photographer Gene Kirkland negotiated the fee up to $1,000, then accepted the offer.
After returning to his room to prepare, Kirkland emerged in the lobby wearing nothing but “a white bath towel and a tie.” Rose gave him the money, then pointed to a police officer stationed across the street — “the meanest-looking one,” writes Duswalt — as the one Kirkland should approach.
With the band, crew and hundreds of fans watching, Kirkland “pulled off his towel and ran naked across the hotel parking lot to the pre-chosen police officer. He approached the officer, smiling the entire time, reached his hand out and waited for a handshake . . . amazingly, [the officer] reached out and shook hands with Gene.”
Modal Trigger (http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/13222974.jpg)http://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/13222974.jpg?w=300Axl Rose and SlashPhoto: WireImage

Seconds later, though, two officers grabbed Kirkland’s arms, put him against the wall and began to frisk him — which was strange, since he was naked. After a few seconds, the officers could no longer contain their laughter. It had all been a set-up, and Rose was in on it — someone in the crew had paid the officers to go along with the charade.
Guns N’ Roses imploded in 1993, and so too did Duswalt’s job. He went into advertising and is now a motivational speaker. He looks back fondly on his days with the band and even hopes to one day get them to reunite for charity.
“My dream is to have the original lineup of Guns N’ Roses put their differences aside and get back together, even if only for one day, and play a set,” he writes. “I believe, with all my heart, that they will get back together again. I just have to ask nicely.”

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LaneSax
05-14-2014, 09:55 PM
looks like the new blu-ray/dvd could be out July 1st!

http://www.amazon.com/Appetite-For-Democracy-3D-Casino-/dp/B00K6D1HSK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1400122466&sr=8-2&keywords=Appetite+For+Democracy%3A+Live+at+the+Har d+Rock+Casino-+Las+Vegas

GulDukat
05-20-2014, 02:40 PM
Axl Rose named "greatest singer of all time"

http://www.digitalspy.com/music/news/a572325/axl-rose-named-greatest-singer-of-all-time-beats-beyonce-prince.html#~oEPVpZtdH85Fuq

onthewall2983
05-20-2014, 07:52 PM
He's not even the greatest singer from Indiana.

onthewall2983
05-20-2014, 08:53 PM
I was thinking Michael Jackson, but whatever floats your boat.

Charmingly Miserable
05-20-2014, 09:07 PM
I just think Axl is a dumb choice. My picks are Jeff Buckley and Chris Cornell.

thevoid99
05-21-2014, 12:08 AM
At least he beat Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and Smiley Virus. Then again, he could barely sing these days.

Jinsai
05-21-2014, 01:01 AM
The criteria revolves entirely around vocal range, and the chart shows how low and high they can hit.

This is a strange way to judge the greatness of a singer. You can can hit quick notes in a high falsetto (especially with inflective screeches) that are not indicative of your actual range. For example, you might be able to hit a high note for a fraction of a second, but if you tried to actually sing a phrase in that range you might potentially sound ridiculous.

Additionally, I'm just confused where Axl is hitting "the lowest note ever" here. I listened to the song "There Was a Time" and I waited for the moment where he hits this super low note. Can someone point to where this is happening in the song?

Also... this list is being silly on a technical level. You're taking Axl's lowest note from later in his career, and his highest note from earlier? After a couple decades of smoking and wearing down your vocal chords, your voice will naturally cover a lower range.

I'm additionally suspicious of the omission of Minnie Ripperton in a discussion primarily centered around vocal range. Not to mention that this is talking about studio recordings, and not accounting for the magic of auto tune.

tl;dr: this list is bullshit.

Louie_Cypher
05-21-2014, 02:05 AM
Preach it bother, AMEN!, damn where is Bill or Dr Pepper when you need them?
-Louie

botley
05-21-2014, 05:01 AM
This is a strange way to judge the greatness of a singer. You can can hit quick notes in a high falsetto (especially with inflective screeches) that are not indicative of your actual range. For example, you might be able to hit a high note for a fraction of a second, but if you tried to actually sing a phrase in that range you might potentially sound ridiculous.
Um, yeah. That's Axl's whole shtick. He is a natural baritone with a very piercing falsetto tone, which we all know from his most famous and flamboyant performances — but for better or for worse he holds those notes (see: "Don't Cry").


Additionally, I'm just confused where Axl is hitting "the lowest note ever" here. I listened to the song "There Was a Time" and I waited for the moment where he hits this super low note. Can someone point to where this is happening in the song?
It's in the backing vocals in the chorus, I believe. Could be a technology-assisted low note, but it's there.

GulDukat
05-21-2014, 05:17 AM
The criteria revolves entirely around vocal range, and the chart shows how low and high they can hit.

This is a strange way to judge the greatness of a singer. You can can hit quick notes in a high falsetto (especially with inflective screeches) that are not indicative of your actual range. For example, you might be able to hit a high note for a fraction of a second, but if you tried to actually sing a phrase in that range you might potentially sound ridiculous.

Additionally, I'm just confused where Axl is hitting "the lowest note ever" here. I listened to the song "There Was a Time" and I waited for the moment where he hits this super low note. Can someone point to where this is happening in the song?

Also... this list is being silly on a technical level. You're taking Axl's lowest note from later in his career, and his highest note from earlier? After a couple decades of smoking and wearing down your vocal chords, your voice will naturally cover a lower range.

I'm additionally suspicious of the omission of Minnie Ripperton in a discussion primarily centered around vocal range. Not to mention that this is talking about studio recordings, and not accounting for the magic of auto tune.

tl;dr: this list is bullshit.

I agree with you that this list is silly.

RE: "There Was a Time," I don't know if Axl hits the lower notes on that track. Songs like "It's So Easy," and "Mr. Brownstone" are examples of Axl singing baritone.

onthewall2983
05-25-2014, 02:20 AM
tl;dr: this list is bullshit.

Applying things such as lists to art is bullshit in general. They're good for discussions on forums like this, but that's about it. Same can be said for awards too.