Here Today... Gone To Hell!

 :hihi: yes maybe its sounds stupid , but in recent articles like the one of the NY times ,Merck told the guy(that made the article) that Axl wouldnt give his opinion because they didnt knew the people that was involved in the making of the article , it appears like they have said the Axl doesnt speak because they dont give him the respect that he deserves , that they are nor interested in the real story . 

but if Merck and Axl says that this thing its not about publicity
"As one of the few people involved in the making of this album I can tell your readers the following. W, Axl Rose is not interested in fame, money, popularity or what the New York Times or any other paper for that matter might think of him. His only interest is making the best album he is capable of so that it can have a positive affect in 2005 on people who are enthusiasts of music and interested in Guns N' Roses"
why wouldnt they give an interview with the leader of the most important Guns N Roses website? where they know that the interview will be complete and how they wanted.

i know Axl said the he hates the internet , but he also knows who Jarmo is . i think Jarmo would have a chance to get an interview.

I think it would be very nice for Jarmo and all the efforts he's put in this site and into the GNR community over the years.

I agree, if you ask for an interview with Axl and he turns you down, somethings wrong.

agreed
that was what I though when I came with that 10 questions with Axl Rose... just fans talking to Axl, a fair conversation,but you know, "Axl choose not to answer those questions... oe he doesn?t give a fuck anyway" was my conclusion.

great idea, but not worth more that 1 page on this thread unfortunately... ?:-\

There's two possibilities, he could say yes or no.

And since there doesn't seem to be anything to talk about at the moment, I think the answer would be no.




/jarmo

Interesting idea, but i dont think Axl wants to give an internet site recognition. Especially where Axl is sometimes questioned openly by everyone.

what's axl gonna say? please wait?? we already know he won't tell us why we've been waiting so long.

when there's something to be told, we will be told. untill then we can wait.

This is all up to Jarmo, but i think Axl would talk to him rather then to Magazines where he cant be sure that they write what he said...

But, well.. ! HTGTH is the nearest thing close to a GNR newspaper u can get!

he could talk about the procces of getting to long to complete the album , in the letter Merck says that the article wasnt interested in hearing about the procces of the album and the time he has taken(thats why they didnt event think about Axl talking to him) , well we are interested in those things . i wouldnt have post this idea with out reading the Merck letter.

Uhhhh , I think when axl decides to talk again it most certainly wont be with a webmaster of an unoffical GNR internet fansite!  :rofl:

More likely will be either an interview with Del posted at gnronline.com or another "official" gnr site like if they launch gunsnroses.com , maybe a TV interview with Loder or simply a press release.

He wouldn't answer. He haven't updated his website for years, no way he'd give an interview. After the '10 nicest question you can ask' failure it's clear that he doesn't wish to communicate at all.

thats geffens website, not Axl's  : ok:

Since even Axl has a GN'R website that doesn't exist and BTW he should say only one sentence like 'I'd like to send some message to the fans through gnronline' and it'd happen, it's obvious that he doesn't have any intentions to update his fans. Or do you think that Axl is in Interscope's prison and they don't let him communicate?? ??? Please.

yes your probably right , but you could (Jarmo) tell his manager or whatever that you have read the NY times article and Merck letter and thet this website its inetersted in hearing the version of Axl Rose about the album . theres 90% chance that he would say no , buy you could go for that 10% , and im not saying  "do it Jarmo" im just saying that the idea its not that stupid.

Do you really think that there`s nothing to talk about at the moment?? ???      I think there`s to much to talk about in one interview at the moment. It`s not my intention to tell you what you`ve to do or not, but I think it`s worth while when you ask axl for an interview. Yeah. he could say yes or no, but that`s the point.  He could say yes and that`s what most of us want.

do you know what kills me? not hear even a "hey guys, what?s up? I?m very excite about our new record, this band is just fucking great! we?re finishing some things in this right moment... ( insert some joke here ) ... some things happened and we had to deal with those things ... ( tell something interessant here ) ... ( insert some joke here ) ...
thanks for all the suport all these years
hope I don?t let you guys down.
When something is FOR REAL, you?ll know thru us
see you soon
Axl Rose

ps: Our General Tommy-punk is saying hello, by the way, what do you guys though about his album?"

don?t take me "too serius", but things like that kills all the rumors, don?t you think?

HTGTH is viewed as more than just a fansite; I think Axl would consider answering some questions  more than an interview with  Blender, Kerrang, the Sludge, or the New York Times.

Give it a shot. Maybe hit up Merck.

Or 'soon'.  :hihi:

I think this is a very good idea.

Well Jarmo, I don't think would be cool keep saying "do it, do it" all the time, but I don't think it's a bad idea. The worse can happen is get a "no" as an answer. The better that can happen is he agree. So, the better is a good thing and the worse is not bad at all.

But, then again, I can't decide anything for nobody and respect what else poeple decide.

I think it?s a great idea, especially now when we know Axl is not interested in fame, money and that kind of things. All those other websites or mediums for communication are owned by companies or people interested in earning money and promoting themselves trough Axl and Guns N? Roses.

Conclusion: Yes! Jarmo has more chance to interview Axl than anybody else.

I disagree Jarmo. ?There are things to talk about. ?Merck almost made it sound like Axl would have particpated in the NY Times article had he been asked in a timely fashion. ?I would pursue, and if he says no, case closed (or you could re-vamp the entire website to revolve around Velvet Revolver as paypack. ?Just kidding!).

www.gnroffline.tk

all news from 2005 you need? ?;)

Well,I think you can try,Jarmo...And I don't think that you'll get No for an answer. At least You'll get some kind of info. Think a little bit,maybe what Axl needs is a chat with someone that is a GNR fan for a long time. And not just any fan but THE FAN! If he would refuse to give you some kind of answer from his own hand or mouth,well,that would be distrubing...Man,if you were my fan,I would come to your country,have a dinner with you and give you answers to every question that you'd have...And there's nothing in this world that would make you tell us anything that he wouldn't like rest of us to know...Simply,you deserved it,so it's Axl's call not yours except for giving it a try

And don't tell me that there's nothing to talk about cause when you say something like that, it seems like you wouldn't know what to ask him and that's not the case,I'm pretty sure about that as well

I think GN'R's message to everybody has been "when we have something to say, we'll say it" for a long time now.....



/jarmo

i think it's a great idea really it is,but....
will axl do it is another thing.id love him to do an interview.

Axl isn't going to be interviewed by anyone!! And he definitely doesn't give a damn about any of us!! If he did, this would have happened years ago!!

Maybe Axl has been trying to contact Jarmo for the past 2+ years but can't find him.? ????

Axl quote from August 24th, 2002:? Here Today ... Gone To Belgium for Jarmo!!!

YO, AXL!!!? HE AIN'T IN BELGIUM!!!!? ?:hihi:

I don't think it would hurt to ask for an interview., the worse that could happen is "when we have something to say, we'll say it".

I have to agree with the idea. And a "no" wouldn't hurt anyone.

So in other words, there is nothing? ?However, why don't we all take what Merck said as being a positive. ?He mentioned how in 2005, Axl wants to be a positive influence (or something along those lines). That is good enough for me. ?The way I see it, it sounds pretty promising that we will have an album sometime in the next 8 months. ?

No offence to Jarmo, but he's no special then anyone els or any GNR fan, he just happens to have a site dedicated to GNR n' everything els that comes with it.

If anything, if Axl were to do a interview with a web master, i think he would go with a site that is dedicated to todays GNR!!

Yeah but that`s the point. And its the biggest GnR Site out there. And he`s the only one that Axl mentioned of us ya knwo...

i think it would hurt to ask at an impropriate time...

I think the interview should be done after a release date has been announced. The interview would then be, imo, a lot more interesting. As for the person doing it, Jarmo really deserves it (no ass kissing intended, just reality). By the way, ask axl for some backstage passes for htgth members, pleeeeease!!.  :hihi:

I think Jarmo is right! And I think at this point, if Axl did want to do an interview. He would let Jarmo know! It would be cool in the near future. Might want to at least keep it in mind, Jarmo!

Well, maybe they dont have anything to say right "now" But maybe in two months or so, so in the request to Merck you should ask them to Contact "the interviewer" form the HTTGTH board, when they actualy got something to say, so we atleast can do a interview sometime... I think there is an posabilaty there!

I still don't understand why GN'R don't have anything to say when our last 'update' happened a year ago.  :-\

Well I guess there isnt much to update , it would be pretty lame if axl released a press release for the sake of saying this to a few hundred internet fans .... "Hi boys and girls , Uncle Axl here enjoying a diet coke ... Umm , we HAVE NOT replaced buckethead yet , we HAVE NOT finished the album yet , we HAVE NOT got a release date yet , we HAVE NOT booked any tour dates yet , we HAVE NOT rehearsed in over a year , we HAVE NOT settled various lawsuits with former friends and clear channel , we HAVE NOT finished Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas yet , we HAVE NOT updated gnronline.com in a very long time , we HAVE NOT launched a new official website yet , I HAVE NOT moved my bowels in over a week , I HAVE NOT stopped wearing braids in my hair yet , I HAVE NOTHING else to say! Blame Canada! W Axl Rose.

Like most fans I have a unique take on Guns and therfore it's highly unlikely that one interviewer could convey what I myself deem to be most pertinent. Over the years ive met many who share the same tastes of myself, sadly a shared interest is not enough. Nothing has saddend me more than fans of a subject who don't see what I see or have a completely different take. Life is about shared experience, it's imperative that we find one who see's what see 2 enjoy the journey.

I also hope 2 meet many people over the next few years, people like Axl. I don't wan't 2 meet Axl as a fan, but as an equal. The fan thing get's in the way, the shutters go down, you are related 2 as a fan. If you take something 2 the table, if you yourself are an artist or have had some success in some other feild then you play ping pong on an even table. The fan stuff is not an issue you are deemed to be a fellow artist admiring another's work, this is the only connection that i would have any interest in pursuing.

I would imagine that for the reasons expressed Axl would be quite weary of granting jarmo an interview, the fact that jarmo is also a conceited jackass with an overstated sense of self importance would not help matters. My take is it's best to leave the interviewing to the pro's, and the  fan sites to the fanatics. Chinese Democracy will be released this year, I have no doubt's, when it is interviews will be renderd obsolete the music will answer our questions.

Axl is a great artist, a talented intospective human being with depth and soul, he is also deeply insecure. I have great faith that CD will be a great success, he will deliver the goods. Someone as talented as Axl cannot invest so much time and energy for anything less, he vision will be fufilled, he will burry appetite. The new band is Axl, the new songs come accross well the old numbers seem hollow. Axl's voice is good on the new songs on the old songs his vocals are awfull. For me, Axl's genius is now belongs in the studio, it is there that he will fufill his destiny and seal his legacy, the live stuff will be a bonus.

Axl need's clarity for his vision, when your bandmates pursue questionable lifestyles this is hard to acheive. As much as i miss the old guys I think the break up was neccassary for the evoloution of Axl. We have waited long and patiently, and we will soon be rewarded.

i couldn't disagree more.

that may have been the message from gnr in the past, but just read the letter from merck and you get an entirely different message (assuming of course that merck was being honest.....which is a MAJOR assumption? :rofl:)

just look at some of the quotes from Merck....


"I explained that it was not possible for him to write such a story as he had not spoken to ..... Axl...."

"Contrary to his blatant lie that he was told by "management" that W. Axl Rose "could not be reached for comment" I made it clear that we could not consider his request for an interview with either Axl or myself until we knew who the other people involved in the article were"

"I would then contact Axl and we could consider whether to participate"

Ouch!  :o

The problem is that, In the world of entertainment, most of those "pros" are plain fanatics.   :-\

I agree with Sandman 100%.  Let's see if Merck was bullshitting or not.  Merck made it sound like Axl wouldn't participate if former members or people not involved in the recording process were interviewed too.  Therefore, I see no reason why Axl would not grant Jarmo, a guy whose loyalty to Axl is unquestionalble, an interview.  Jarmo vs. Axl one on one. 

Well, pretty hard to get people that are involved presently when they are all gag-ordered. I'd go as far to say that the gag-order remains ineffect up until 5 years have passed until they had last been involved.

Of course axl and the paper knew who would probably be involved in the article, and without a doubt it wasn't gonna be anyone current unless the article was gonna be a blank page or two.

I guess you didn't read Jarmo's excellent interview with Tommy Stinson, smart guy.

Thanks for the laugh. I'll add "conceited jackass" before "nazi" and "power hungry" to the list of personal "qualities".  :hihi:




/jarmo

What name did you used to use here, and what did you get banned for? :hihi:

I think it would be great gesture on Axl's part to grant an interview to a loyal fan who put together a great board. Besides, on an intuitive level, wouldn't one of us be perfect for reporting news without ridiculous spins or misrepresentation of the facts? GNR's story, the truth and nothing but the truth, is what Axl is about and so are we.

Man... a Jarmo vs Axl interview would be so great! I'd love for it to happen! Of course, because of all the lawyers and random authoritative personages around Axl... things would get difficult. I think all that is getting out of hand, and I think if Axl just dumped all those people (the kind of people he used to hate), he'd be able to just jam with his new buddies, and New Gn'R would be a rock n' roll band again instead of a rock n' roll band imitating a major corporation. I'm betting that Axl thinks this from time to time, only he's so caught up in it that he can't... or won't get out.
Maybe all this is spawning new songs, and the fact that there are so many, Axl could be having trouble deciding which ones would be worthy of Chinese Democracy... I don't know... I wish I did, then I'd know, and just to annoy everyone, I'd say "I'll tell you soon, but not now" XD
Anyhoo, GO JARMO!!! GET THAT INTERVIEW!!! \m/-_-\m/

simply ..if anything of that nature came to fruition, I think we'd get a damn good interview

I think it would be very cool for Axl to do this. For one thing unlike official press folks an interview with Jarmo would be more underground and 'streetish' so to speak. Jarmo would be an instant celebrity among the music world :hihi:
He would have boldly went where no one has gone ....recently,  anyways in interviewing the Axeman.

But then again as chief Jarmo has said...when Guns have something to say, they will say it.

Happy St. Pat's! :beer:

After all the years and dedication that Jarmo has put into this website (which btw is the best on the net) an interview is the least Axl can do.

Well, I never did it to get attention from the band or anything like that.

The acknowledgments I've gotten so far from them are a really nice bonus. For example, I never imagined I'd be interviewing a band member back when I started the site....




/jarmo

on one hand, this is just a fansite, so jarmo is just another guy who runs a fansite - even if it's the best gnr-site i know. so basically he just an ordinary guy, noone special (don't take this the wrong way, no offence!!!), no one from a paper whatsoever. 1:0 for no interview.

on the other hand, jarmo did a great inteview with tommy. so the general could only say positive stuff about him, i guess. 1:1.

so the final question is: does axl want to talk to anyone right now? well, i would ask, but only once. if there's a no, we know what we're on to. if it'S done the right way, asking doesn't hurt anyone.

Axl does know about you and your website though, ya know Pukkelpop and his comment about your website. I guess it's nice to be known by somebody you admire.

Don't worry about that.  : ok:




/jarmo

This is the best site on the net


 :smoking: Izzy? :smoking:

i agree that Jarmo its a regular guy , but he is also the owner of the biggest GNR community in the internet and probably in the world (how can you put more fans together in one place?)  so Jarmo its not the regular fan, he made the site and now the site its a big community where almost every GNR fan that searchs the web for info about the band gets into this site , in this time where the internet its so important to be the creator of a really succesful website its an important thing.   

Jarmo could get an interview, but now isn't the time - I agree with the earlier posts

Well I think it would be great is Jarmo could interview Axl,but to be honest does anyone really think Axl would do an interview with anyone?Has Jarmo ever interviewed any of the guys from GN'R past or present,does anyone know,just a question,but yeah it would be cool if he could do an interview with Axl and post it on the site!

He has interviewed Tommy Stinson.

The Tommy Interview is posted on the main HTGTH site page.? : ok:

http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/articles/showarticle.php?articleid=129

well the time IS right, so jarmo... I think you have nothing to lose and I don't believe you have got many good questions for Axl, so just try to reach merch and ask him about interview

Now is the time.  If CD ever got released, Axl would be doing so many interviews to promote it, it wouldn't matter at that point. 

So the bottom line question is: Are you going to try for it, Jarmo????

Please jarmo!!!

YOU CAN DO IT