New live photos of Guns N’ Roses in New Jersey

Check out some of these classic picks from the Guns N’ Roses New Jersey show. IZOD Center, Nov 17, 2011. Photos by Frank White

Check out the set list too by clicking here. (BTW, why is AXL performing so many covers?)

Guns n’ Roses releases promotional video for their ‘Chinese Democracy’ tour

Oh yea … “Chinese Democracy.” I almost forgot about that album. Seems like it completely disappeared from the collective consciousness.

Best Buy threw down the lofty sum $14 million for 1.6 million copies of the album. But, as blabbermouth puts it, aside from Billboard and Spinner interviews and answering a number of fan questions on a Guns N’ Roses’ message board, singer Axl Rose has done no promotion of any kind for “Chinese Democracy”.

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J.D. Salinger, R.I.P. — Even Axl Rose Loved You

91 years old, and we hardly knew you.

In 1974 Philip Roth wrote, “The response of college students to the work of J. D. Salinger indicates that he, more than anyone else, has not turned his back on the times but, instead, has managed to put his finger on whatever struggle of significance is going on today between self and culture.”

And we got a good Axl Rose song out of it, too.

Axl Rose Camp Denies That There was Ever a Ban on Slash Shirts at Guns N’ Roses Concerts

Imagine going to a Guns N’ Roses concert and being told by an Axl-powered thug that you had to turn your Slash shirt inside out? TMZ reported over the weekend that this had happened at a concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada last Wednesday.

No truth to the rumor, reports the Axl camp:

“We did not advise any security to ban any sort of apparel…. If they did, they did it on their own accord, or under someone else’s order — from within their management.”

No matter what is said, I could see some incidents taking place. There was a similar rumor in the 80s about Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine having metal kids wearing Metallica shirts confronted at his shows. When asked about this in 1987, Mustaine responded angrily to Powerline:

Powerline: A couple of kids told me that when you see someone with a Metallica shirt on, at your shows, you try to rip it off them.
Mustaine: No, I don’t! I just think that if you’re gonna come to a Megadeth show, you should wear a Megadeth shirt, or at least buy one. I mean, what the fuck?!

To read the entire Megadeth interview click here.

I can see Axl having similar angry feelings towards Slash.

One thing is for sure — if I ever go to a Guns N’ Roses show, I’m wearing a Slash shirt.

Axl Rose Complains that the Media is a Bunch of “no fun, spoil sport, communist bastards”

Axl claims that he was not the one who released a statement on the band’s MySpace page regarding the LAX incident.

Maybe that wasn’t him at the airport, either (above) — trying to beat the living crap out of a photographer. Maybe it was his clone, Asshole Rose.

And then Axl goes on to say:

“any publications running this … feel free to tack on whatever negative agenda-supporting nonsense you generally do (you know who you are). After all, it’s only someone else’s livelihood you media police state, no fun, spoil sport, communist bastards.”

‘no fun’? This coming from a guy who, in a state of rage, tried to do the tarantella on some photographer’s head. The media should have let Axl have his fun and ignored it, I guess. Fun for Axl must mean having no accountability for his actions. Call me a spoil sport, or a communist bastard for that matter, but that is what it seems.

Oooh, the Catcher In The Rye Again …

Related Link: Axl Rose as Tough Guy: Grade A+

Axl Rose as Tough Guy: Grade A+

TMZ caught it all on video. Axl Rose transformed into Asshole Rose and beat on a paparazzo the other night before boarding a plane at LAX for his Guns N’ Roses show in Taipei. A move that probably rivals Sean Penn’s former paparazzi anger, Axl at least warned the photographers about one of them touching his girlpal:

“Touch her again, I’ll break his fucking neck.”

Axl then transforms; he punches one of the photographers to the ground and was well on his way to giving the poor guy a Billy Batts beating ala Goodfellas. All that was needed was the song “Atlantis” by Donovan playing in the background.

Good thing more sober-minded people pulled Axl away in time.
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Ex-Guns N’ Roses Bassist, Duff McKagan, Describes a Time Just Before the Internet

Duff wrote in his weekly column for Seattle Weekly about being in Guns N’ Roses at the height of their fame — and dealing with that fame in a time before the internet.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Before the Internet was common knowledge, and before there was a computer in virtually every home (as there is now), playing rock shows in faraway places like Brazil was an exotic endeavor, to say the least. Flying all the way down there to headline two nights at the Rock in Rio festival was pretty surreal. We just had no idea if GUNS N’ ROSES had fans in this part of the world or not. … As our flight took us somewhere above Central America, the pilot came on to tell us the United States had just attacked Iraq in something that the Pentagon dubbed ‘Operation: Desert Storm’. It was January 17, 1991.”

Duff is one of the more pleasant voices of Guns N Roses’ past. It’s a nice change from what appears to be only bitterness and anger from the Axl camp.

Read more of Duff’s column at blogs.seattleweekly.com/reverb/duff_mckagan

A Minor Guns N’ Roses Reunion: Slash and Steven Adler Back Together Again

Even if it will be only a brief period of time … like, um, maybe one song … Adler and Slash will jam on stage for the Slash & Friends benefit concert in L.A.  The Slash & Friends concert is a fundraiser (dubbed LAYN ROCKS) for the Los Angeles Youth Network (LAYN),  a non-profit organization providing services to homeless and runaway youth.

To Adler, this is the progress of his dream of being closer to Slash, and continue playing with Slash (Yes, he can’t let go). Other guests at the show will be Andrew Stockdale, Perry Farrell, Billy Idol, Ozzy, Travis Barker, Tom Morello, Dave Navarro, Franky Perez, to name a few. This will be the first Slash & Friends gig in L.A., too.

Adler also plays on the upcoming Slash & Friends album (Slash solo project) with all the other members of GNR except Axl Rose, of course. (Note: On wikipedia someone was nice enough to add: “because he is a dickhead” to explain Axl’s absence).

The real news is LAYN, a great organization. Below is a video about them. Check it out. Good cause.

Here is Slash in a previous endoresement of LAYN:

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Metallica, Axl Rose, and Justin Timberlake Now Share the Same Stalker

Worse than sharing the same management, I guess.

A Karen Jane McNeil is who they all fear. Yesterday, Metallica filed a restraining order to, according to TMX.com, “stay at least 150 yards away from all of the members of the band, their families and the people who run the Metallica fan club.” (even the fan club people are being stalked?!)

Last week Timberlake filed (and was granted) a similar restraining order when McNeil became the guest that wouldn’t leave.

McNeil already did a stint in jail for stalking Axl Rose.

Who will she stalk next? So many celebrities, so little time. As long as it isn’t David Letterman. The poor bastard has had enough of this kind of thing.

Motley Crue’s Vince Neil: Axl Rose Let His Fans Down

Vince Neil is the latest to slam Axl Rose. This time it’s for supposedly letting down the poor Guns N’ Roses fans. And he thinks the fans are getting sick of Axl’s BS.

Take it away, Vince:

“For ["Chinese Democracy"] to fail was pretty crazy after so many years of being recorded. Then the tour got cancelled. A buddy of mine [Note: blabbermoth believes Vince is "presumably referring to current Guns N' Roses guitarist D.J. Ashba, who also plays in SIXX: A.M. with Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx] went to go play guitar for him. They rehearsed for three months and Axl never once turned up. Rule number one: show up!  He’s been doing that for many years. Finally I think the fans just went, ‘Fuck it — can’t do this anymore.’  You can’t be a fan when you can’t see the band. I heard one track and then it just disappeared off the radio. It was never talked about again.”

Vince knows how a band dedicates itself to its music. One thing you have to say for Motley Crue, they are certainly dedicated to their fans, and to their music. I had stopped listening to anything beyond their first two albums for a while now, but I’m’ starting to come around a little to their newer stuff.

But, you are wrong about one thing, Vince. If Axl tours, the fans will be there, with bells on. Kind of a sad statement of loyalty, but true.