Originally posted by: slimrhcp
I'm not going to debate his mental status with you. How would you know if Chinese Democracy is crap? Are you privy to information that very few others are?
Bob Ezrin got involved on the project at horrible time for the band, when Robin left to go back with NIN, so to say the new GNR was a low point would be a safe assumption.
Once again, if you've heard various recordings from the current tour, you're in a lucky position considering no bootlegs have popped up on any of the GNR message boards.
Like I said in a previous post, if you read any of the reviews you would at least respect his performances of late.
I won't deny that GNR looked like crap in 02, but this year is a much different story.
Chinese Democracy IS crap. Feel free to download the "Whenever It's Done" bootleg, which is 10 songs from Chinese Democracy. It's got MAYBE 1-2 good songs. The rest are utter BS. As I said, Robin Finch was a good guitarist for NIN, but he is NOT a good lead guitarist. The songs are generic with no soul.
As far as his "performances of late" - Axl hasn't changed at all.
On June 11, 2006, Guns N' Roses headlined the Download Festival in Donington Park, England. Within the first half hour of the show; Axl had become annoyed with the quality of the sound and had also lost his footing almost causing him to fall due to the "slippery stage". After briefly leaving and returning the set mid song, throwing the microphone on the floor, yelling at the crowd for throwing a waterbottle at him, insulting a security guard and then finally exiting the stage citing technical difficulties while leaving Bumblefoot to play an instrumental of the song 'Don't Cry', he returned on stage with tennis shoes on (he was previously wearing boots), announced that he had some old friends to bring out, and was joined by Izzy Stradlin to play "Used to Love Her". Stradlin left and returned on stage multiple times, for "Patience", and the final number "Paradise City". During the night, Axl was also joined by Sebastian Bach and together they sang "My Michelle".
On July 19, 2006, At a show in Newcastle, England, Axl walked off-stage during the performance of "Nightrain" after what was alleged to be a £1 coin was thrown on to the stage directly at him. Rose addressed the crowd off-stage and informed them that any person caught throwing objects at him or any other members of the band must be ejected from the auditorium. The band returned to the stage to finish the song after which Rose declared "The show is over", the band departed and the house lights were resumed.
On June 27, 2006, Axl was arrested in Stockholm, Sweden, after an early morning altercation in his hotel lobby with hotel security. Axl is alleged to have bitten a security guard's leg and shattered an antique lobby mirror while in a drunken rage.
In May 2006, Rose had a close encounter with Tommy Hilfiger at the Plumm in New York City. Hilfiger reportedly took a couple of swings at Rose, before being carried away by his own security guards. Rose made the claim that the attack began when Rose moved the drink of Hilfiger's girlfriend so that it wouldn't spill. [7]
In March 2006 Axl Rose's lawyer released the following statement: "In October of 2005 Slash made an unannounced 5:30 AM visit to Axl Rose's house. Not appearing to be under the influence, Slash came to inform Axl that: 'Duff was spineless,' 'Scott Weiland was a fraud,' that he 'hates Matt Sorum' and that in this ongoing war, contest or whatever anyone wants to call it that Slash has waged against Axl for the better part of 20 years, that Axl has proven himself 'the stronger.' Based on his conduct in showing up at Rose's home, Axl was hopeful that Slash would live up to his pronouncements that he wanted to end the war and move on with life. Unfortunately that did not prove to be the case."
This guy is a real class act.
"Axl Rose was in trouble numerous times with the police and was arrested over twenty times on charges such as public drunkenness and assault."
"Desperately poor, the fledgling band struggled to survive in the streets of LA. Allegedly, Rose and Stradlin even sold drugs for petty cash. According to Rose, they manipulated women for their money, an example being at a party at an unnamed woman's house and while one band member had sex with the woman, the others would raid her wallet for the little cash they could salvage."
Yeah Izzy and Axl were completely clean and sober. It's been noted before that Axl was/is an alcoholic and has used drugs. I don't know about currently, but you're acting like axl is some stand up guy.
He probably hit on her or something.
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