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Title: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: FunkyMonkey on February 27, 2007, 09:28:16 PM From Rolling Stone
2/27/07, 4:52 pm EST Live Chat With Executive Editor Joe Levy: The Complete Transcript Ray: Is it likely that once ?Chinese Democracy? is released, Axl Rose could once again grace the cover of your mag? Joe: That would be nice. I talked with Axl at the VMAs. When I asked if the record would be out by Christmas, he just smiled and said, ?You know I can?t talk about these things.? But when he left, I was completely convinced it would be out by Christmas. Still waiting. hey: Do you think that the direction popular music is heading in is a good thing? Joe: My answer to this question is always the same: there are still great bands making great records. Case in point: Of Montreal. Another: Arcade Fire. I could go on. Granted neither of these bands is in the mainstream of popular music, but the point is, they?ve made great records, and they?re out there playing great shows. As for the direction of popular music as a whole: I am dismayed by its disorder at the present moment. But there is still good to great work to be heard there. Case in point: that track with the Game and Kanye, which is way better than it has any right to be. Case in point: Justin Timberlake?s ?What Goes Around.? And Axl is putting out Chinese Democracy soon. Isn?t he? Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/imfromrollingstone/index.php/2007/02/27/live-chat-with-executive-editor-joe-levy-the-complete-transcript/ Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Axlfreek on February 27, 2007, 09:30:33 PM i cant wait until axl is on the cover of rolling stone
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: snead hearn on February 27, 2007, 09:47:48 PM I can.
Rolling Stone today doesn't mean today what it meant when Appetite and UYI came out. Rock journalism is deader than grunge, and has been for quite a while. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: DunkinDave on February 27, 2007, 09:52:09 PM Axl would probably only agree to do it if the rest of the band was on the cover as well.
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: BBF Rocks on February 27, 2007, 09:53:10 PM i cant wait until axl is on the cover of rolling stone he will take over once again :drool: Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: BaDoBsEsSiOn418 on February 27, 2007, 11:03:29 PM Why can't Axl talk about it? Why can't BBF or Frank talk about it? THIS IS YOUR OWN FRIGGIN ALBUM! I'm so sick of being left in the dark. We get an vague "update" every few months if we are lucky. This is stupid.
Sorry, my rant is over. Now back to your regularly scheduled program. : ok: Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Danny on February 27, 2007, 11:21:15 PM Quote Why can't Axl talk about it? Why can't BBF or Frank talk about it? THIS IS YOUR OWN FRIGGIN ALBUM! I'm so sick of being left in the dark. We get an vague "update" every few months if we are lucky. This is stupid. I aggree. I'm admittedly in a sort of sour mood with this whole process right now. I've just been thinking about other bands that I like and all that they have done and released in the time since Axl released his last studio album, TSI. I am a Nine Inch Nails fan. Trent Reznor is known for taking too much time between albums. Since TSI, NIN has released The Downward Spiral, The Fragile (a double album, no less), With Teeth, and Year Zero comes out in just over a month. This along with a bunch of singles and extras and DVD's. I am also an Oasis fan. ALL of the Oasis albums have come out AFTER Axl's last studio album was released. And they are now widely considered to be omewhat like "statesmen" in the music biz. It just boggles the mind. I couple this with the fact that we have been getting these few and far between "updates" that are more often than not proven false later and I can't help but get frustrated. Axl has wasted his thirties. The decade in a man's life where he should be at his prime, and Axl just threw it away. It's depressing. I am convinced that when we get CD, IF we get CD, it will be the final Guns N Roses album ever. I'm starting to get the feeling that this is Axl's plan the whole time. He knows it's going to be the last thing he does before retiring from "rocking" and he's just sort of delaying the process. Ok...now MY rant is over. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: flicknn on February 27, 2007, 11:24:35 PM This goes back to my first belief , thinking that does this album even exists or has everybody and thier mamma fooled each other
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: grog mug on February 27, 2007, 11:36:33 PM It means a LOT if he is on the cover. I know several people with a subscription to this mag AXL PUT OUT THE ALBUM AND GET ON THE COVER OF RS!
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: SLCPUNK on February 27, 2007, 11:38:10 PM Axl has wasted his thirties. The decade in a man's life where he should be at his prime, and Axl just threw it away. It's depressing. Who are you to decide if he wasted it? Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Danny on February 27, 2007, 11:54:41 PM Quote Quote from: Danny on Today at 11:21:15 PM Axl has wasted his thirties. The decade in a man's life where he should be at his prime, and Axl just threw it away. It's depressing. Who are you to decide if he wasted it? Well, it was just a rant...but it does SEEM like he wasted it by, oh...I don't know...not releasing anything the entire decade. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: muffinass on February 27, 2007, 11:57:37 PM Ok...now MY rant is over. Danny...how could you possibly compare Trent w/ Axl? Dontcha know that Axl is a demi-God, an electric sintar? Why hasn't CD come out yet? Because Axl didn't want it to...no questions or irritations allowed on the part of fans (or non-fans as we're liked to be called). ?Can you possibly compare, let's say, ( for futility's sake) the past numerous releases that you mentioned to CD? ?Is CD going to be the biggest mind-fuck of music history? No. Will it be amazing? Yes. Mathematical logic would thus have it that 5 NIN albums = 1 GNR album. Correct? To some yes, to others...no. ?Too many things have been put aside JUST because it's GNR and it's Axl...nobody takes responsability for anything, shit gets passed around to other people like some PR hot-potato...it's felt like child's play for a while now. Why the secrecy? The answer doesn't matter, again, because we're supposed to take it like it is. ?So on that note, i'll retire once again and wait patiently...in the meanwhile, everybody here (especially Axlgurl et al.) should put on some Monster Magnet - Take It...(any way you can...oh how well the lyrics fit the situation methinks)... ?oh...i forgot, flame away ?:rofl: Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: novrain91 on February 28, 2007, 12:42:56 AM I don't respect or even really like Rollingstone, but it would help make GNR seem relevant again in "younger" peoples' eyes. Plus how could Axl pass up being on the cover right after Fall Out Boy and before Fergie???? :smoking:
Oh and if Axl is on the cover I wouldn't be suprised if it was just him. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: dENIS on February 28, 2007, 12:58:20 AM I can. Rolling Stone today doesn't mean today what it meant when Appetite and UYI came out. Rock journalism is deader than grunge, and has been for quite a while. You`re wrong. Journalist is a mirror of today`s rock music. They can survive only if rock artist produce good music. Justin`s :Whats come around" is i think the best pop track from years. MJ is not dead after all. : ok: Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: saint seiya on February 28, 2007, 01:05:15 AM Rolling Stone is a piece of shit magazine that believe it or not did not like zeppelin and pink floyd.
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: GNRfan2008 on February 28, 2007, 01:08:29 AM Rolling Stone is a piece of shit magazine that believe it or not did not like zeppelin and pink floyd. Damn right. In fact they despised Zeppelin. In hindsight, turns out the fans were right and Rolling Stone was way off the mark in giving every one of their albums a scathing review. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: novrain91 on February 28, 2007, 01:11:59 AM Yes we all know Rollingstone sucks balls, and everyone knows they didn't respect Led Zep. But you can't deny that Axl or GNR being on the cover would be great promotion for the album.
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: GNRfan2008 on February 28, 2007, 02:21:58 AM Yes we all know Rollingstone sucks balls, and everyone knows they didn't respect Led Zep. But you can't deny that Axl or GNR being on the cover would be great promotion for the album. Yeah I would agree it'd be great promotion, as long as Axl doesn't load up on the mascara like he did with that Italian magazine cover he did last year. He looked like a badass with the suit and cigar, but the fuckin' makeup almost ruined the image he was trying to portray I think. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: gandra on February 28, 2007, 04:15:41 AM rolling stone magazine was talking a lot of bad things about gunsnroses
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: NicoRourke on February 28, 2007, 04:35:55 AM i cant wait until axl is on the cover of rolling stone That would be something :yes: Though I'd like the whole band to be on it :peace: Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: whiny on February 28, 2007, 04:50:31 AM rolling stone magazine was talking a lot of bad things about gunsnroses basically rs always was pretty respectfull when it came to reporting about gnr. they always brought them back to the public, as soon as? anything happened in the gnr world. they considerer "better" as one of the best tracks axl and gnr had ever written. irs, they said, is already better than vr.? appetite got 5 stars out of five when it came out. uyi got four and even spaghetti got a great review. they also had a nice and friendly review from the cd-tour 06. why are you so pissed abour rs? i always had the feeling that they are doing nice pr work for axl... Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: vicente on February 28, 2007, 07:59:56 AM They would be too small in the cover if it is a picture of the whole band...
Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Crowebar on February 28, 2007, 08:31:23 AM Axl would probably only agree to do it if the rest of the band was on the cover as well. I think that would be a nice gesture on Axl's part but I doubt it will happen. :no: It'll probably only be Axl on the cover with a big writeup and pics of him and the whole band on the inside. :smoking: Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Bartlet on February 28, 2007, 08:43:45 AM Axl would probably only agree to do it if the rest of the band was on the cover as well. I think that would be a nice gesture on Axl's part but I doubt it will happen. :no: It'll probably only be Axl on the cover with a big writeup and pics of him and the whole band on the inside. :smoking: Rolling Stone is a piece of shit magazine that believe it or not did not like zeppelin and pink floyd. I dont believe for a moment axl would insist on the rest of the band being in photo shoots of any kind. altho i think he should really make sure they are percieved as a band in every possible sense once the album is out/when promo starts - but dont necassarily believe every effort will be made to do that. zeppelin and floyd were/are shit. a few people probly like 'em, most just listen to 'em coz they think they should, coz of the exalted status they undesevedly have. imho, of course. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: JDA on February 28, 2007, 09:34:28 AM They would be too small in the cover if it is a picture of the whole band... BS, get the whole band on the cover of RS. That would probably be the coolest thing in the last 15yrs. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: JDA on February 28, 2007, 09:37:18 AM Axl would probably only agree to do it if the rest of the band was on the cover as well. I think that would be a nice gesture on Axl's part but I doubt it will happen. :no: It'll probably only be Axl on the cover with a big writeup and pics of him and the whole band on the inside. :smoking: Rolling Stone is a piece of shit magazine that believe it or not did not like zeppelin and pink floyd. I dont believe for a moment axl would insist on the rest of the band being in photo shoots of any kind. altho i think he should really make sure they are percieved as a band in every possible sense once the album is out/when promo starts - but dont necassarily believe every effort will be made to do that. zeppelin and floyd were/are shit. a few people probly like 'em, most just listen to 'em coz they think they should, coz of the exalted status they undesevedly have. imho, of course. Zeppelin and Floyd are shit? Wow! Where did you get your musical taste from? They're both great bands. Be respectful of the past. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Verasa on February 28, 2007, 10:12:49 AM Axl would probably only agree to do it if the rest of the band was on the cover as well. I think that would be a nice gesture on Axl's part but I doubt it will happen. :no: It'll probably only be Axl on the cover with a big writeup and pics of him and the whole band on the inside. :smoking: Rolling Stone is a piece of shit magazine that believe it or not did not like zeppelin and pink floyd. I dont believe for a moment axl would insist on the rest of the band being in photo shoots of any kind. altho i think he should really make sure they are percieved as a band in every possible sense once the album is out/when promo starts - but dont necassarily believe every effort will be made to do that. zeppelin and floyd were/are shit. a few people probly like 'em, most just listen to 'em coz they think they should, coz of the exalted status they undesevedly have. imho, of course. Zeppelin and Floyd are shit?? Wow!? Where did you get your musical taste from?? They're both great bands.? Be respectful of the past. Yeah I don't get that.. I know there are alot of Zep fan boys and just the name gets dragged thru alot and there #1 at everything but, Zeppelin was the greatest Rock N' Roll band ever. I can't even call them overrated, they deserve their legendary status A full band pic on the cover of RS would solidify this lineup for me. I don't think Great music magazines? exist anymore but? Rolling Stone does it's thing and is read by lots of casual fans Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: Bartlet on February 28, 2007, 10:16:24 AM Axl would probably only agree to do it if the rest of the band was on the cover as well. I think that would be a nice gesture on Axl's part but I doubt it will happen. :no: It'll probably only be Axl on the cover with a big writeup and pics of him and the whole band on the inside. :smoking: Rolling Stone is a piece of shit magazine that believe it or not did not like zeppelin and pink floyd. I dont believe for a moment axl would insist on the rest of the band being in photo shoots of any kind. altho i think he should really make sure they are percieved as a band in every possible sense once the album is out/when promo starts - but dont necassarily believe every effort will be made to do that. zeppelin and floyd were/are shit. a few people probly like 'em, most just listen to 'em coz they think they should, coz of the exalted status they undesevedly have. imho, of course. Zeppelin and Floyd are shit?? Wow!? Where did you get your musical taste from?? They're both great bands.? Be respectful of the past. Thats the thing i dont get - the respect for the past obsession. i have no respect for the past present or future, just my musical taste. you may disagree with it but its just my taste. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: ppbebe on February 28, 2007, 04:07:10 PM Thats the thing i dont get - the respect for the past obsession. i have no respect for the past present or future, just my musical taste. you may disagree with it but its just my taste. Snap! ones dislike of some music means no disrespect to the people who made it. I live in democracy. I have equal respect for everyone. Title: Re: Interview w/Rolling Stone executive editor Joe Levy - Axl mention Post by: November_Rain on February 28, 2007, 04:16:29 PM Why can't Axl talk about it? Why can't BBF or Frank talk about it? THIS IS YOUR OWN FRIGGIN ALBUM! I'm so sick of being left in the dark. We get an vague "update" every few months if we are lucky. This is stupid. Maybe because people and/or fans tend to overanalyze things and take them to heart. Or maybe because things don?t work the way they are planned,shit happens and that causes delays, or maybe because they want to wait untill the record is out to speak freely and without the risk of their words to be taken out of context,who knows?Sorry, my rant is over. Now back to your regularly scheduled program. : ok: |