GnR – who cares any more

/ hsoi

Can someone please explain to me why anyone still cares about “Guns N’ Roses”?

It’s not GnR any more… it’s “The Axl Rose Show”. That which made the band great is no longer there. Granted, Axl’s behavior back in the day is what generated a lot of free press for the band, but the songwriting and musicianship came from elsewhere. Once you lost Izzy and Slash well… it really wasn’t GnR any more.

Then there’s the 27 Aug 2010 performance at Britain’s Reading Festival. Curfew was 11:30 PM and they even let them go on a little longer than that, but then the plug was pulled. People bitching about the festival organizers sucking, the local officials that enforced the curfew sucking (even saw some video footage of “fans” booing and bitching and even talking about rioting). But you know what folks? GnR brought it on themselves for one simple reason: they went on stage over an hour late. If after all these years Axl can’t learn to show up on time, then it’s his problem and he’s the one screwing what fans he has left. Why people still give him a pass on this behavior is beyond me. You try constantly showing up late to your job and see how long you keep that job. If you “fans” are upset at the concert being cut short, you should put the pressure on Axl to show up on time so you get what you paid for.

But if you keep supporting this sort of douchebag behavior well…. you reap what you sow.

2 thoughts on “GnR – who cares any more”

  1. My theory is that GnR was really never GnR. After reading Slash’s autobiography I still suspect that what really happened is that some balding, fat, sober, 50+-year old studio aces cut the tracks on the first GnR record, and Axl came in and sang on the tracks. The playing and arranging and writing on that first record was too good to have been accomplished by the severely medicated burnouts those guys claim to have been at that time. I’ve always thought of them as the metal version of “The Monkees” – because there’s simply NO audio evidence available from any live recording indicating that they were ever actually as good as their studio work.

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