Fuck YOU, Guns and Roses.

[The Curmudgeon]

So, yaaaaaay, Guns & Roses are back touring again!

But, boooooo, Axl Rose is still a complete and total prick.

Guns & Roses are touring the UK stadiums this month, and much has been made of what is now trademark Axl Rose behaviour. Namely - he's a fucking asshole who doesn't deserve an inch of the support he has.

Where to begin? Well, one show started 55 minutes late. The next show? 90 minutes late. The show after that? Over two HOURS. Now imagine you paid the (large) entrance fee to see this show. This is stadium gigs we're talking about here, so we're not talking about £10 tickets or anything. What if you have to get the last train home? If GnR played on time, you'd have seen the show and still got the train home. If you have to get the last train home you have to leave about thirty minutes into their set when they eventually stumble onto the stage. In today's economy? To see a band who haven't been remotely relevant for 15 years? Yeah. Fuck that noise.

Anyway, time keeping is one thing. How about Axl having to constantly leave the stage to go plug into an oxygen mask? Or how about threatening to walk off early if anyone threw cups onto the stage? Or how about having the security staff BAN anyone from wearing t-shirts of Slash? One guy had to walk around with no shirt on because security were told to remove any sign of Slash merchandise or ban fans from entering the arena with them on.

You know, I've never been a Guns & Roses fan, and thank Christ for that, because if had paid money to witness THIS bullshit, it would pretty much put me off going to see any other band for life. Fuck these clowns.

[trashcanman]

Yup. Rose is on my "Dead to Me" list and has been for years. And mind you, there was a time when GnR was, in my opinion, the best fucking band in the world. Those first 4 albums are always going to be fucking amazing pieces of rock and roll awesomeness, plus one of the best cover albums ever, but anybody who pays money in the hope of seeing Axl and the Axlettes fucking BUTCHER those classics while pissing all over the band's history and all of their fans is nothing short of an idiot. Even if they did the music justice, the fact that Axl almost never shows up or puts on a full concert, and often spends significant time when he does harassing and berating audience members alone should result in this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-zeuBjJ_CU

[Quillford]

In other News Slash just got a star on Hollywood boulevard and was quoted saying "As I move up in the world rose still lives in the then."

[trashcanman]

Kind of a shame that Slash hasn't been able to recapture the fire he had when he was working with Rose, though. Velvet Revolver was cool and all, but other than that Slash has largely been making a living as a "jam whore" appearing as a special guest with other artists. He's fallen far from the top of everybody's greatest lead guitarists lists where he used to sit. But at least we still respect him. I don't think anyone is willing to put up with Axl at this point.