Guns N' Roses' Axl Rose growls about Guitar Hero
- December 19, 2008 00:00 AM PST
Shame on Activision for poaching Guns N' Roses songs in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. That's band frontman Axl Rose's testy take in a sprawling missive delivered at band fan site Mygnr.com.
Axl wants Slash to lose his identity (click for screens)
According to Rose, Activision used GnR songs inappropriately and without proper authorization. While he's doesn't lay out any legal particulars, his "it'll take some sorting" comment has bloggers in a tizzy.
In the post, Rose explains that former GnR guitarist Slash's appearance in Activision's Guitar Hero series doesn't bother him:
...unless its being done at my expense...or to keep him associated [with GnR] as in Guitar Hero. Him being Guitar Hero's fine but not when Activis[i]on i[s] using Jungle , having Yahoo use Sweet Child unauthorized, claims no involvement with Slash, his or anyone's image or VR or anyone or anyone's music in either camp in promotion or commercials etc. I wasn't broadsided. I read about it as it moved along but Activision continually denied it right up to the release. That's some low life chicanery on all their parts.
Yes Slash was in Guns and on Jungle (and the whole I came to him for his riff is as much crap as him saying he brought Locomotive and Coma in as complete songs) and he has rights to perform it but not to be represented in this context in association with Guns. And since they weren't granted the license it'll take some sorting.
Universal has Guns under contract but I own the name.
Rose and Slash don't get along. Haven't for years. Rose wants Slash to keep his mitts off GnR's namesake, and Activision to get its song-usage certification papers sorted, apparently.
As if that wasn't enough, Rose no longer wants to be a Pepper too. The singer and his band are hacked off over a botched deal with Dr. Pepper, wherein the soft drink manufacturer was to offer a free soda to every American if Chinese Democracy, the band's new album, were released in 2008. The album made it out the door on November 23, but Dr. Pepper's website reportedly malfunctioned during the 24 hour giveaway period.
via PC World
Cat fight. I stopped caring about G'n'R in the '90s after Slash left, for crying out loud. You should too.
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- Dec 19 2008 at 08:14:23:AM PST
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Let's see...I stopped caring about GnR about 10 years ago. Stopped caring about GHIII after World Tour came out....so I guess I don't care.
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No, you shouldnt stop caring. Guns N Roses is alive and well with the new lineup and the songs sound better then anything Velvet Revolver released. I wanted to like everything Slash did also cause I loved Guns, but Axl's band just stands up better.
VR was STP 2 not GnR 2, and while Axls band may be a different version of the group, all crap aside, it sounds better then VR and still sounds like GnR. You cant repeat Guns' success without Axl. I look forward to the next album so lomg as it is within a year and there is a tour...
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WTF happened to just rocking out........i used to love GNR but now it just seems they've sold out......what a shame.
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LOL Axl is such a fukin little bitch...Billjr...dude...Guns n Roses in only still alive in Axl's little brain...13-14 years..for 1 fukin album..its NOT Guns and Roses any more..it's Axl and whom ever he can find.I lost ALL respect for that loser after he walked of the stage after Metallicas Hames Hetfeild gets burned in a pyro accident on stage in Montreal.Instaed of tryin to save the night..and give the crowd somthing..he fukin gets a hissy fit and quits...Axl's a fukin coward...and the WORST singer/frontman ever..Chinese Democracy is a gd horrible album.....imo..and im not a big G n R fan at all..Slash was G n R period!..Axl is just a little bitch with absolutly NO talent or balls!..go away bitch!
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donkeykong57 wrote:
Appetite for Destruction is an amazing album. That's about it.
Agreed. That album is fcken monster, but everything after that was about as good as the new album ( which is isn't that great, ... isn't terrible, but it's not worth how many millions it cost to make, plus 13 years)
Poor Axl still thinks people care.
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I don't get it... John Lennon was assasinated, but Axl is still out and about! What is this... bizzaro world? Axl can suck it... he's DONE!
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Axl was GNR and half of y'all don't know what real rock music is. Slash was so f'ing whacked out those years he has no clue what was going on and he signed the rights to the name over. I love Slash and thinks he is one of the greatest guitarist ever, but he needs to shut the $@%& up and realize whats done is done. Axl has every right to do what he does from a business stand point. If he made up half the bull shit that Slash did, everyone might not look like the bad guy, but that's his Chinese Democracy is great album and Axl Rose des not need Slash. I wouldn't say that the other way around.
You can go back to listening to Rihanna now.
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