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Just how much of a tool is Axl Rose?

without

even watching it, I can tell you it will be: heinous, bogus and extremely non-non-non awesome

Dude!

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James Blast | 28 August 2010 - 11:17pm

a similar question

referring not to Axl but a former Autralian leader of the Labour Party was asked of the current Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard during the recent election campaign.

Her response was "some things are immeasurable"

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Mousey | 28 August 2010 - 11:20pm

okay

now I've watched it and read the article, what the fu... was all that about?

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James Blast | 28 August 2010 - 11:27pm

This much

back in 1991

which led to this

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DogFacedBoy | 28 August 2010 - 11:48pm

Full story in the NME:

http://www.nme.com/news/guns-n-roses/52736

Amusingly, I note that if you look at the setlist 5 tracks consist of instrumental jams and extended solos from each band member including a piano solo from Axl....groooo!

How is this whining, irrelevant and tedious bunch of hasbeens anywhere near a headline spot at a major festival anyway?

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Dr Volume | 28 August 2010 - 11:58pm

It's a well-known fact

That Axl Rose is actually an anagram. Of useless tosser.

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drakeygirl | 29 August 2010 - 9:10am

He is a pure

fecking idiot. He has always treated his audience with disdain and this proves he hasn't changed. Good luck to those who have shelled out to see them later this year.

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GunsOfBrixton | 29 August 2010 - 9:45am

How many times can an "artist"

commit career suicide before they actually die?

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Sam Fiddian | 29 August 2010 - 10:23am

Oh dear...

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Paolo Meccano | 2 September 2010 - 10:10am

Ooh...

That's horrific. He can still do a good screech, mind.

That poor announcer.

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Art Vandelay | 2 September 2010 - 11:21am

It is genuinely such a shame...

...that a band capable of such monstrously good hard rock as "Appetite For Destruction" should a) piss every drop of their talent up a large wall (presumably built out of heroin-flavoured bricks) and b) squander all the goodwill still afforded them by people who remember what they used to be capable of.

I can live with them making exclusively shit records since their debut: nobody stays good for very long. I can't live with how dreadfully that little arsehole treats absolutely everybody else who has a stake in his career: band members, security guards, managers, even record companies - and most of all, fans.

What a prick.

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Bob | 2 September 2010 - 10:23am

not sure...

how Guns 'n' Roses seem to have had such a critical rehabilitation, as theirs was the sort of rock that was surely best left in the 80s: huge hair, needless guitar solos and crap posturing.

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peterthecook | 2 September 2010 - 11:23am

Nah

Their big hair period was over by the time Appetite came out, and I'm with Idiotbear on this - one of the best in it's genre. It all got a bit overblown live, but Appetite on cd is the mutts nuts.

The tribute band that Waxl is toting around now is but a pale shadow and a vanity project.

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fortuneight | 2 September 2010 - 11:39am

Misconceptions.

Guns n' Roses in their artistic pomp were definitely not part of the Poison/Bon Jovi hair-rock scene at all. There were some daft haircuts there, to be sure, but just *listen* to Appetite for Destruction with an open mind. It's lean, perfectly produced, and has a rough edge to it which sets it apart by miles from the groups with whom they get routinely lumped together.

Lyrically, too, they were brutal: that first album is essentially the diary of an urban, disenfranchised, drunk, stoned, forgotten bunch of white-trash kids with absolutely no prospects. In the context of the album, songs like "Sweet Child O' Mine" become rather touching - that whole "roses growing in concrete" school of love song.

The one thing they weren't was lazy, in any sense. Lyrically, musically and in terms of just plain old touring work ethic, they were the real thing.

And Slash was actually a rather concise soloist at this point in their career.

Then they got massive and produced a load of old shit. But in 1987, they were coruscatingly exciting, and a real blast of fresh air.

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Bob | 2 September 2010 - 11:41am

Nah! its just

scruffier huge hair, grungier needless guitar solos and grittier crap posturing!

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Gramsci | 2 September 2010 - 1:32pm
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