BREAKING NEWS: Axl Rose insults someone
Posted by 3D on November 29th, 2006How to win friends and influence people, by W. Axl Rose:
Guns 'N' Roses have lost the support act for their fifteen-date tour after only one night.
The Eagles of Death Metal reportedly walked out of the tour after a run in with both the audience and Guns 'N' Roses frontman Axl Rose.
At their opening performance in Cleveland the band were apparently booed by the crowd. Then, during the main act's set, Axl Rose referred to the band as "The Pigeons of Shit Metal".
First, has he walked by a mirror lately? Let's just say he shouldn't really be comparing anyone else to a pigeon or any kind of poultry in general.
"I'm supposed to have three pounds of breadcrumbs backstage. It's in my rider, motherfucker. CAW! CAW!"
Second, no offense to the EODM, but you kind of deserve what you get when you voluntarily go on tour with Axl Rose, without having lost a horrific bet or something. The guy can't tour without beating up fans, starting riots by showing up 90 minutes late, or feuding with the opening band. I don't get why he doesn't just tour solo, and do a 2 hour show, or whatever. The delusional, bald-mulleted, middle-aged section of their fan demographic are likely to boo whatever comes on first anyway. You might as well be Carrot Top doing warm-up comedy for Deicide.
EODM certainly had a sense of humor about the whole thing.
In a statement by the Eagles of Death Metal, lead singer Jesse Hughes said: "At first the audience refused to welcome us to the jungle, but by the time we took our final bow it had become paradise city.
"Although Axl tried to November rain on our parade, no sweet child o' mine can derail the EODM night train. We say live and let die."
To which Axl responded, "Hey, it's been 14 Years since I did anything relevant. It's not So Easy to get attention anymore." (rimshot)
I haven't seen Guns 'n' Roses live since they put together a completely new lineup of guys no one wants to see since they reformed, but I heard that he has his voice back and is playing covers and the whole thing sounds pretty good. I still wouldn't go see them because I'm not a sucker. I saw the Guns 'n' Roses/Metallica show years ago and he decided to show up 2 hours late. I'll stick to YouTube, where I can fast-forward the 90-minute gap where no one is on stage and the audience starts rioting.
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I saw them a few times now (had to since they played a few times in my city). They were 30-40 mins late, did an absolutely great show, the original guitarist showed up, Axl was in a great mood and pulled jokes. Probably the best live show I've ever seen (and I've seen GnR in the 90s and seen many of the big ones).
I feel everything is just a big reputational thing… I've heard of a few riots, I've heard he beat up one fan (or was it a fan??), but I can't say I heard of any other opening act being kicked off. Basically the truth is that Axl Rose is an asshole, yet when I saw him he was in a great mood… twice! Strange.
First up, Eagles didn't leave the tour - they got kicked off it. Kudos to them for taking the high road with the funny press release, but fact is they were booed off the tour. Axl announced later from the stage that they were off the tour. You can find clips of it on YouTube. And GNR has been absolutely great on this tour, I saw them a week ago. Too bad unlike the poster above Izzy didn't show up, but he played half the shows on the European tour this summer (I guess he's semi-retired), and if you know anything about GNR, you know Axl and Izzy started the band and were the main songwriters.
yo who ever wrote this article is a bitch axl rose rocks you fagget i saw him chicago and he hit every note of each song so fuck ur self pussy, eodm suck ass its not axls fualt the crowd hates them
i too have seen the new gnr 4 times, once in 2002, twice this year in NYC and last week in Cleveland, the night the eodm were "fired". i actually didn't see their set, but was told it was "horrendous", and it was a good thing I arrived too late to have to suffer thru them. the gnr shows i have seen were phenominal also. axl sounds great, and the band is awesome. i also had the privilege to catch a show in nyc with izzy. the nyc shows were by far better then cleveland, but considering axl was in a bad mood, and sick with an ear and throat infection cleveland was way better then it probably should have been. as for the ragging about the show starting late…..you don't go to a guns n roses concert and expect to be home, tucked in bed by midnight!!! plan on making a night of it, a very late night at that. It's a known fact that you more then likely aren't gonna see mr rose on the stage till at least 11 pm, most likely later. don't go expecting him at 9 or 10 either, not gonna happen.
marc i feel that you should realize that gnr are past their prime, the should have broken up instead or 'reforming', anyway as a performer axl is great but he is a proven sexist, not to mention he got so drunk he bit a security guard in the leg
There was 10 times more entertainment value in Axl Rose's one line insult than there was in your entire article. *yawn*
PLEASE.
the eagles of death metal put on a KILLER show, they always rock no matter how hard they've partied. those boys EMBODY rock n' roll and the LIVE it.
they're fucking COOL people.
won't read about them fighting with… who was it… TOMMY HILFIGER? nope.
oh no! your jeans are more tailored than mine?! something along those lines, right axl?
people who cling to bull shit 80s rock ought to move over. gnr had ONE good album.
More like gays 'n roses, lol.