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Well that's what you do when your a musician isn't it ? You play right ? You don't sit around for 12 years making a shit album because you think your the man. (Axlhole Rose) Slash is a fantastic if not awesome player. Great chops. His new album is great. Shades & a top hat don't take away from that unless you think it has to. It is no different than Angus Youngs school boy look. another amazing player.
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The twat was here last week I was getting texts from the venue trying to sell tickets 2 for 1 right up to the last minute so I guess he was far from selling it out.
Watched my Facebook feed fill up with people complaining about having to walk home at 1.30 am after the insanely late starting show after public transport had finished but at this point they really only have themselves to blame...Comment
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British Concert Reviewer rips Axl a new one!
Make my day, punk, and give squeaky Axl a miss
You can get away with almost anything in pop – that's kind of the point – but contempt for your fans is a cardinal sin. Asked for a reason for the insanely late hour at which Axl Rose and his "Guns N' Roses" (now featuring only long-serving keyboardist Dizzy Reed from the glory years) deign to take the stage, his PR people replied simply: "No statement I'm afraid."
Dig deeper, though, and you'll find a blog on their website by GN'R associate Del James arguing that the late stage times are about "standing against conformity" and "raising the middle finger", and that any complaints come from a "vocal minority" of "obsessive pests". That's as close to an official statement as we're likely to get. Rose thinks it's punk; that's the only possible explanation.
But there's nothing punk about ripping off your own fans. Nothing punk about making them wait around in a shed for hours while you eat your 12-course dinner. Nothing punk about forcing them to fork out for hotel rooms and taxi fares because you can't be bothered to get out of bed.
When you've been photographed strolling along the Tyne the day before, you can't blame travel (although he does try to blame the fractured shoulder he sustained at Liverpool – where he went onstage even later). It's all very well playing a three-hour set bloated by too many cuts from the turgid Chinese Democracy, wailing through the once-great "Don't Cry" and "It's So Easy" like a constipated tomcat, and allowing some plait-beard guitarist called Bumblefoot have his solo spot. Just start earlier, schmuck.
Hearteningly, not everyone is taking it lying down. Even in this metal heartland, there are banks of empty seats at the top and rear when "GN'R" arrive at a quarter to 11. A hostile atmosphere greets them, and a cup is thrown during "Live and Let Die", causing the jowly bigot to complain petulantly: "Don't fucking throw shit!"
I look around, and no one is having the time of their lives. By the time of final encore "Paradise City" (1.40am, since you ask), the arena must be half-empty. It's easy for Axl to expect us all to sack off the day job or forget about classes, but people with lives, not rock-star lifestyles, have already drifted away to get back to them.
If you're vile at 21, you can pass it off as rock'n'roll. If you're vile at 50, you're just vile. You want something punk? Then never mind "Civil War", that flatulent fart of a song that wafts noxiously around the arena at stupid o'clock. Let's have some civil disobedience. After this review is published, three "Guns N' Roses" gigs remain, in Manchester and London. Call Axl's bluff. Don't show up at all. You won't be missing much.
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Axl And Spammy Should Get A Room.:D
First Roth Army Kiwi To See Van Halen Live 6/16/2012 Phoenix Arizona.Comment
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How awesome would it be if Axl came out at 12:30 for a show and the arena was empty? By empty I mean less than say...1,000 fans in a 15,000 capacity place. A GIANT FUCK YOU to Axl's shenanigans. I bet $50 he would look out to the few people, throw a hissy, and stomp offstage and not even play for those thousand poor souls that remain ignorantly dedicated to this asshole.
He pulled this exact shit as in the review on me once. San Diego Sports Arena in around 1990/1991. I took a kid to his 1st concert and he only got to see 2 songs before we had to drive him home. His mom just wouldn't let him stay out any longer. He had looked forward to this show for months. The anticipation only your 1st concert can bring. the sleepless nights like a 6 year old on Christmas Eve.
And Axl took his money, his sleep, his dreams, and pissed all over them probably because his prime rib wasn't just right & needed a new one.
Fuck Axl Rose. What pisses me off more than Axl is the fans that continue to support his bullshit, so h has no need to stop.
Side note - that "kid" passed away about a year later from a torn aorta while camping in the desert with his family. They rode 3-wheelers a lot as a family. Turns out he had a very rare condition called Marfans Syndrome. Poor kid never had a chance to get laid, have a kegger with his buddies, pass his 1st joint, or see a concert from a band that appreciates their fans. And a billion other things he was cheated out of with a short life.
RIP Michael. You are not forgotten. Always my lil metalhead buddy. Dave Mustaine still rules dude!Last edited by sadaist; 05-29-2012, 02:44 AM.“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”Comment
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That's my home town and u wouldn't want women
Walking around there at that time of nightfuck your fucking framingComment
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Terrible story about the kid dude , sorry to hear it .fuck your fucking framingComment
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Was my longtime girlfriends little bro. He loved Megadeth and GnR (and Pepsi). But man, he lived a great 16 years. Guy was incredibly gifted in off-roading on a 3-wheeler. Everytime Axl's name comes up I think of that concert and it pisses me off so fucking much. I hate Axl for that shit he pulls. And my story....I know there are thousands just like it around the world. Axl is a punk and really needs his ass beaten and millions taken away. He has not earned it well. I'm guilty of buying Appetite...but have not ever given him a cent since.“Great losses often bring only a numb shock. To truly plunge a victim into misery, you must overwhelm him with many small sufferings.”Comment
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Tommy Stinson was interviewed before the GNR show in Youngstown last December and was asked a question about going on late:
kind of a crappy answer...GN'R has a reputation for tardiness. Why do you tend to go on late?
I don't know if we're necessarily going on late. We're coming off late, because it's a long show. That's more the issue, as far as I can tell.
As far as I'm concerned, we're on time. I'm not being cheeky about that. We've been going on pretty close to right on time . . . for most of this run, anyway.Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.Comment
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I can't believe Dimebag got shot and Axle hasn't.No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!Comment
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The real bullshit about the prick is you can't claim to be punk and then squeal like a little baby girl if someone throws a paper cup onto the stage.
At his next show I wish everyone would give him real punk and have the whole first few rows spitting on him.
I guess now he'll add this reviewer to his hate list in a new song called 'Get in the ring donut'.Comment
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