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Me either, but I think it's pretty cool that he takes the time to sit down and answer questions the fans ask him.

Axl who?

Because People in power are Stupid: Axl who?

The guy who put out a record that in it's second week was down 78% in sales, barely selling a third of a million copies. Seeing as it cost (according to some reports) $13 million to make, looks like Axl will have to get a real job to pay for someone to keep up those cracker-ass-dreadlocks.


please! photoshop something nasty in my hands! It's what I need to do to sell my album!

RoxtarRyan: Because People in power are Stupid: Axl who?

The guy who put out a record that in it's second week was down 78% in sales,


Not surprising. Both of his remaining fans had already bought it by then.

Is it just me, or does it look like he's wearing the same wig that David Spade wore in the end of Joe Dirt?

Might as well start here... You're a little coont and since you've been posting you've pretty much always been a little coont. Blind accusations and insults by an anonymous coward and whiny shiat stirrer aren't impressive or needed by anyone. Everyone else...talk with your administrator. Who wants to chat?!!

The man's been trolling GNR fans for a decade at least.

i call shenanigans.

that response had to take at least three years to write.

RoxtarRyan: The guy who put out a record that in it's second week was down 78% in sales, barely selling a third of a million copies. Seeing as it cost (according to some reports) $13 million to make, looks like Axl will have to get a real job to pay for someone to keep up those cracker-ass-dreadlocks.

Have you listened to it? It's actually quite good.

lots of well thought out responses, and it's interesting to see some perspective from his side of the fence, but I'm still not gonna buy your CD, Axl.

/cause I know you're reading this

Wasn't this greenlit yesterday? You guys are playing with my head.

Not a GnR fan, but I have no ax to grind with them - I enjoyed the read.

By "enjoy the read", I was referring to the original "rant" not the story the headline was linked to.

I think it'd be pretty funny (although, not smart in the long run), to email a fansite of some famous musician, spoof the addy, and pass yourself off as said celebrity.

"When you said, "Lucy in the sky with diamonds", what were you referencing?"
"Well, you see, John actually murdered someone by throwing her out of his bedroom window. I happened to be passing underneath the window when she became airborne, her diamonds glittering across her neck. Having recently taken a handful of shrooms, the scene immediately inspired me to write the song."
*crickets*

"Kerry, how are you so metal?"
"I indulge in the finer things from life, such as pink Hello Kitty candies."
"WTF?!"

"Thank you, your money will be refunded"


/if only, Axl
//if only...
///bonus points to anyone who can identify the quote!

Axl Rose is the new Howard Hughes. Chinese Democracy is his Spruce Goose.

MrKraclenutz: Have you listened to it? It's actually quite good.

Yes. No it isn't.

if it were a no-name band it would be appropriately ridiculed as middling crap.

It sounds like it would be Axl Rose on the message board post...

Link (new window)

yet...

It was posted by user "Dexter", but at the bottom of the post it says:

"This post has been edited by madison: Yesterday, 11:45 PM".

/maybe it's an admin doing that

This whole thing pretty much explains why it took so long to make this album. Axl Rose seems to be absolutely obsessed with his image and what others think of him. From what I've seen, the record's been ready to go several times, but got pulled after tracks leaked and were ripped. He can't abide the thought that someone out there doesn't think he's the God of Rock.

And the album we got reflects that too. Axl is so obsessed with making The Best Farking Rock Record ever that all the tracks are far too overstuffed. It tries way too hard.

FTA:

I don't feel any reason whatsoever I should have to throw what I've not only worked for but fought and suffered for away because some hurt, angry, betrayed, misguided and lied to people with a lynch mob mentality, joined by others who could care less (especially in the media), enjoying the controversy and hate, choose one over the other regardless of what's right because they want what they want.

try diagramming that sentence. just try.

skribble: FTA:
I don't feel any reason whatsoever I should have to throw what I've not only worked for but fought and suffered for away because some hurt, angry, betrayed, misguided and lied to people with a lynch mob mentality, joined by others who could care less (especially in the media), enjoying the controversy and hate, choose one over the other regardless of what's right because they want what they want.

try diagramming that sentence. just try.

Reminds me of this:

And that goes for all you punks in the press that wanna start shiat by printin lies instead of teh things we said. that goes for you...what you pissed offf your dad gets more pussy than you? You be rippin off the kids while they be payin their hard earned money to read about the bands they wann a read about. priintin lies and startin controversy. if you wanna antagonize me, antagonize me motherfarker.

/still a fan
//not ashamed
///have not heard Chinese Democracy yet
/slashies for slash

Oh look - another GNR thread! If I mention GNR or one of its members, then I can has greenlight?

This is ridiculous.

TFA makes it sound like it's some sort of unibomber-manifesto type of rambling screed, but it's really just the answers to a bunch of questions the fans asked. Taken out of context, it's a little hard to follow, but when you realize he was probably just going down the list and answering questions as they were listed, it's not that bad.

So, FAIL to EW. There are plenty of reasons to slam Axl (some of these answers are a good jumping off point), but to paint this out of context for the clueless readers of your magazine is a disservice.

they could tell it was him because the last 3 syllables of all his posts were 'ay-ee-aye'

Not the first time he's done something like this. Granted, the previous instance was before the age of highly populated internet discussion boards.

"Hey! Take that! Take that! Now, get that guy, and take it. I'll take it, goddammit!"

(longer vid)

That was actually quite coherent. It was an important post. It was epic. I queued up Chinese Democracy while reading it. I feel complete.

I asked this in another Chinese Democracy thread...

I was wondering, does anyone know the deal with what Guns 'N Roses and Geffen Records got from Best Buy exclusivity?

How much they did they get up front/were guaranteed? (Or maybe what a deal like that typically entails with other bands?)

So, this holiday shopping season, someone is at Circuit City won't be able to pick up a copy of the CD.. that's got to a million sales right there across the country. All of the other major stores/record chains; Walmart, etc.. all of the Mom&Pop stores can't either..

Man, that seems like alot of sales to be missing out on... Would also seem to, if sold anywhere to keep it up on the Billboard charts and perpetuate itself as something to be desired from other buyers...

All this, and the music is really decent. They would have hit it out of the park if sold everywhere, it seems...

Pesky_Humans: Oh look - another GNR thread! If I mention GNR or one of its members, then I can has greenlight?
This is ridiculous.

Ha my cover is blown. i like all kinds of music.
(One of Glitchwerks links from NPR thread playing in background as i type this...)
And you get definite +1 for consistency.

Teddy Hopper: Pesky_Humans: Oh look - another GNR thread! If I mention GNR or one of its members, then I can has greenlight?
This is ridiculous.

Ha my cover is blown. i like all kinds of music.
(One of Glitchwerks links from NPR thread playing in background as i type this...)
And you get definite +1 for consistency.

Listen to him - he apparently knows WTF he's talking about! =)

It's just stupid - that NPR thread indicates that as a group, we aren't nearly as musically retarded as a group as to limit the green threads to shiat that has been discussed to death.

zvoidx: I asked this in another Chinese Democracy thread...

I was wondering, does anyone know the deal with what Guns 'N Roses and Geffen Records got from Best Buy exclusivity?

How much they did they get up front/were guaranteed? (Or maybe what a deal like that typically entails with other bands?)

So, this holiday shopping season, someone is at Circuit City won't be able to pick up a copy of the CD.. that's got to a million sales right there across the country. All of the other major stores/record chains; Walmart, etc.. all of the Mom&Pop stores can't either..

Man, that seems like alot of sales to be missing out on... Would also seem to, if sold anywhere to keep it up on the Billboard charts and perpetuate itself as something to be desired from other buyers...

All this, and the music is really decent. They would have hit it out of the park if sold everywhere, it seems...

The deal must have been enough to recoup most of the cash. Best buy bought like 3 million copies of it so at around $3 a pop thats very close to the production costs. Probably paid more than that.

Best buy's terrible marketing is what killed CD before it even came out. Had it been released everywhere and properly marketed it would have killed it.
there are still tons of people (GNR fans or not) who didn't know there was a new GNR album!

I wonder if he trolls on FARK and if so, what's his login?

echoshizzle: The deal must have been enough to recoup most of the cash. Best buy bought like 3 million copies of it so at around $3 a pop thats very close to the production costs. Probably paid more than that.

Best buy's terrible marketing is what killed CD before it even came out. Had it been released everywhere and properly marketed it would have killed it.
there are still tons of people (GNR fans or not) who didn't know there was a new GNR album!


Thanks for explaining that...

Makes sense..bad marketing. I see you're saying to cover the costs so that there is no risk involved. And, for all that the record company knew..the CD could have been a dud.

Still...it was "Guns 'N Roses" and it was a highly anticipated album.
Off the top of my head, other stores it could have been sold at (during the holiday season and after): Walmart, Circuit City, Virgin, Meijer, Walgreen, Target, KMart, independently owned record stores...

Plus all of the online retailers like Amazon, Tower Records, et al..

Even if the album did suck, which it doesn't, there would have been a bunch of people buying it as a present just because it's the new Guns 'N Roses.

/Easy to for me to say these things since I'm not investing x millions of dollars
//still...in my "professional internet guy" opinion: "They Blew It!"

Probably thought he was in the GTR forum.

/when the wallet rules the mind

I know a guy in a GnR cover band and I told him he should put one of those wooden beaded seat covers that the cab drivers use on his head at the next show.

/is that a hemp wig?

It's not selling well because:

1. You can only get it at one store (how STUPID can he be?)
2. It's not Guns N' Roses

Fark you Axl.

quick and dirty

Daraymann: It's not selling well because:

1. You can only get it at one store (how STUPID can he be?)
2. It's not Guns N' Roses

Fark you Axl.

Well they did get a lot of money for that exclusive but it was stupid, they should have allowed it at other stores where no BB were around.

Every song I hear I almost instantly wonder what slash would have done, this album would have been a lot better if slash had played on it, quite possibly the best album of the decade. There are flashes of what could have been but then the shiatty players fall back into that farking industrial sound and kills any cohesiveness of the songs. Get over it axl, that style was popular 15 years ago and is long gone, hell trent cant even get a hit with it and he made it popular!

Suck up to slash, izzy, and the rest of the band to make a good version of those songs, GnR was a blues rock band and a damn fine one.

steamingpile: Daraymann: It's not selling well because:

1. You can only get it at one store (how STUPID can he be?)
2. It's not Guns N' Roses

Fark you Axl.

Well they did get a lot of money for that exclusive but it was stupid, they should have allowed it at other stores where no BB were around.

Every song I hear I almost instantly wonder what slash would have done, this album would have been a lot better if slash had played on it, quite possibly the best album of the decade. There are flashes of what could have been but then the shiatty players fall back into that farking industrial sound and kills any cohesiveness of the songs. Get over it axl, that style was popular 15 years ago and is long gone, hell trent cant even get a hit with it and he made it popular!

Suck up to slash, izzy, and the rest of the band to make a good version of those songs, GnR was a blues rock band and a damn fine one.

You've obviously not listened to it, considering there is only one song that could remotely be considered vaguely industrial sounding.

His hair, it is terrible.

If he put a 5000 word post on Fark, some ass clown would quote the entire thing and add "THIS" to it.

I'm Axl Rose, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies....

jigoro: I'm Axl Rose, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies....

Fake - not enough words, no stream of consciousness.

dougfm: If he put a 5000 word post on Fark, some ass clown would quote the entire thing and add "THIS" to it.

OK...that made me LOL

dougfm: If he put a 5000 word post on Fark, some ass clown would quote the entire thing and add "THIS" to it.

THIS!

jigoro: I'm Axl Rose, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies....

Damn. Beat me to it.

zvoidx
I asked this in another Chinese Democracy thread...

I was wondering, does anyone know the deal with what Guns 'N Roses and Geffen Records got from Best Buy exclusivity?

Geffen is a farking idiot for doing this.

That's the biggest farking problem here. I'd buy the farking CD but there isn't a best buy within 75 miles of where I live. Most of Axl's biggest fans are small town dirt rockers. Best Buy is basically for the suburbs and college towns.

If he wanted to do an exclusive deal he should have done WalMart like ACDC did. Best Buy is too farking small.