VR On Howard Stern Today, Monday - May 24...

[dave-gnfnr2k]

The reason axl was out of breath is because he had to run past security because they wouldnt let him through. They didnt think it was really him.

[madagas]

Top, Axl was clearly overly excited at the VMA'S. Also, that performance was at the end of the mini tour and his voice was great for those six shows-at least on the boots I heard from London, Leeds, and Japan. I thought his voice was incredible for those concerts. Oh well, everyone only remembers the VMA'S and that is too bad because I simply think he was just nervous and too high strung, coupled with possible monitor issues. Back on topic, safe to say there will never be a reunion. These Velvet boys seem very happy together. The bridge has completely burned.

[Top-Hatted One]

but how do you explain the girly voice?

It did get better. I was at the MSG show but it didn't get that much better. It was still a little girly and in the old days you had no problem hearing Axl. He was amazingly loud over Slash and Duff's loud as fuck instruments. I actually had a pretty tough time hearing the vocals. I hope that he was just saving up his voice so that he could finish the vocals for CD. Hopefully he can go all out on the next tour with CD already in the stores!

[jarmo]

I actually had a pretty tough time hearing the vocals.

Isn't it the mixing engineers job to make sure everybody's heard?




/jarmo

[AXL DEMOCRACY]

I was the one who called in to the Stern show this morning and asked Slash and Duff about suing Axl.

I'm sure the interview will be posted eventually online. I was sitting there in my room listening to the interview -trying my best to just "enjoy it" and not pick up the phone. But after hearing a lot of trash being talked -by Gary (Howard's producer mostly) I just had to call.

Was able to get through to the guy Will I know and worked with on the show, and he put me right through. I started out saying how I had a lot of respect for Slash and Duff and loved Guns N' Roses and that I'm rooting for the new Guns N' Roses also, but simply asked Slash and Duff "If you guys are moving on like you keep saying, then why are you suing Axl?" Slash didnt want to talk about -so he handed it over to Duff, who in return talked about Axl not allowing them to use the songs for "good movies." Slash then made his cock block statement. Before I was going to be cut off by Howard though I made sure to defend Axl at the MTV Awards -something that Gary and Howard were making of again -and point out that what happened to Scott during his performance of "Slither" earlier on in the show (headphones werent working and he couldnt hear the music) had happened to Axl. Howard said "Oh he (Axl) couldnt hear himself." Then of course had to be a wise ass and said "Yeah, but Scott sounded good."

That was that. I felt a little better at least getting through and asking a serious question instead of the moronic callers who got through before me with nothing to say.

I am supposed to go to the show Wednesday, and may even be able to meet the guys, but I am not sure if I will. I would never disrespect Slash and Duff in front of their faces. I mean I love those guys -even though I am against what they are doing and disagree with a lot of what they have to say regarding G N' R. But I would never argue or debate them face to face -it is just disrespectful and I would never do it. If they asked ME what I thought about the new G N' R and my views on the situation I would definitely tell them, but you wont see me bringing it up. Very similar to when Slash was on the Stern Show when I was working there in summer of 2001. I was in the office defending Axl when Slash was talking and making my points in the office to the other people there, and the producers were begging me to go in -and debate Slash on the air and say my piece. I declined. I couldnt and wouldnt do that, especially in front of millions of people. When it comes down to it, I am just a fan -and though I had and have so much love invested in this band (old and new) -it isnt my place to say my opinion on the subject in their company.

[younggunner]

The reason axl was out of breath is because he had to run past security because they wouldnt let him through. They didnt think it was really him

lolllll dude you need to pay attention. When Axl said that in an interview he was talking about goin to the vma rehearsals.

We all know Axl didnt have his best voice that night. It still was a magical moment. The opening to jungle, all of maddy, and the end of pc was incredible. Axl was fukin nervous. Simple as that. Being out of the spotlight for a decade then closing one of musics biggest shows in front of all of your peers will get the butterflys goin. Its was a great moment though. I watch it all the time.

[ppbebe]

Who do you think is offering (ex gunners) money to do a reunion gig? Is it some corporation like CC or what? Anybody know about that kind of stuff.

:oMaybe Ax..

Seriously I guess (from what I heard) the industry (labels) people (big wigs) and their large shareholders, whose main concern is not their music, have been putting both sides under pressures.

[Booker Floyd]

I was the one who called in to the Stern show this morning and asked Slash and Duff about suing Axl.

I'm sure the interview will be posted eventually online. I was sitting there in my room listening to the interview -trying my best to just "enjoy it" and not pick up the phone. But after hearing a lot of trash being talked -by Gary (Howard's producer mostly) I just had to call.

Was able to get through to the guy Will I know and worked with on the show, and he put me right through. I started out saying how I had a lot of respect for Slash and Duff and loved Guns N' Roses and that I'm rooting for the new Guns N' Roses also, but simply asked Slash and Duff "If you guys are moving on like you keep saying, then why are you suing Axl?" Slash didnt want to talk about -so he handed it over to Duff, who in return talked about Axl not allowing them to use the songs for "good movies." Slash then made his cock block statement. Before I was going to be cut off by Howard though I made sure to defend Axl at the MTV Awards -something that Gary and Howard were making of again -and point out that what happened to Scott during his performance of "Slither" earlier on in the show (headphones werent working and he couldnt hear the music) had happened to Axl. Howard said "Oh he (Axl) couldnt hear himself." Then of course had to be a wise ass and said "Yeah, but Scott sounded good."

That was that. I felt a little better at least getting through and asking a serious question instead of the moronic callers who got through before me with nothing to say.

I am supposed to go to the show Wednesday, and may even be able to meet the guys, but I am not sure if I will. I would never disrespect Slash and Duff in front of their faces. I mean I love those guys -even though I am against what they are doing and disagree with a lot of what they have to say regarding G N' R. But I would never argue or debate them face to face -it is just disrespectful and I would never do it. If they asked ME what I thought about the new G N' R and my views on the situation I would definitely tell them, but you wont see me bringing it up. Very similar to when Slash was on the Stern Show when I was working there in summer of 2001. I was in the office defending Axl when Slash was talking and making my points in the office to the other people there, and the producers were begging me to go in -and debate Slash on the air and say my piece. I declined. I couldnt and wouldnt do that, especially in front of millions of people. When it comes down to it, I am just a fan -and though I had and have so much love invested in this band (old and new) -it isnt my place to say my opinion on the subject in their company.

Good post...

The only thing I would say to you is that I think you can believe Slash and Duff when they say "its a long story" and theres a lot at play that nobody here would understand.  So to "disagree" with what theyre doing is sort of presumptuous because of that fact.  Thats their business, literally.  Moving on or not, theyve got rights to those songs, or at least believe they do, and assuming their case is true, you certainly cant blame them.  

But it is cool that you got through and asked the question, Im sure we all wanted it to be mentioned.  Glad you got to defend Axl a little too.  

[dave-gnfnr2k]

The reason axl was out of breath is because he had to run past security because they wouldnt let him through. They didnt think it was really him

lolllll dude you need to pay attention. When Axl said that in an interview he was talking about goin to the vma rehearsals.

We all know Axl didnt have his best voice that night. It still was a magical moment. The opening to jungle, all of maddy, and the end of pc was incredible. Axl was fukin nervous. Simple as that. Being out of the spotlight for a decade then closing one of musics biggest shows in front of all of your peers will get the butterflys goin. Its was a great moment though. I watch it all the time.

I am not the one who needs to pay attention, I think you are.
Unless I am reading this wrong axl said they wouldnt let him pass the day of the show
he told them he has to sing
here are the quotes


Interviewer: yeah, so you must have been pretty fired up. How did you feel going back out there on stage, live TV and all that stuff - you must have been a nervous wreck all that day.

Axl: Well, no .. I wasn't that .. but everything tends to go wrong in my world .. like even going to soundcheck, the police wouldn't let me down the street to go to the building... And then the day of the show, they didn't let us go down the street, and I had to get out of the car, run past the police, they're telling me I have to stop .. and I'm like 'I gotta sing' .. and the best part was, as I'm running down the street, I had to run past all the people lined up to get in the building.. and they're going 'HEY, THERE GOES KID ROCK!!!'

Interviewer: Now, why wouldn't the police let you on? I'm kinda lost on that one.

Axl: You know, just, they're lost .... just confusion...lost .. don't know what's going on .. people not having people's names on the list .. not knowing what passes to check .. all that kinda crap .. so ... just usual stuff going wrong for no reason...

Interviewer: So what you're telling me is, Axl Rose had to sneak into the MTV Video Music Awards!!

Axl: yeah, basically .. I had like police chasing me down the street ... and then our security and MTV had to, like, clear it with them .. yeah it was very interesting...

[younggunner]

i stand corrected. But thats not my point. Its not liek he ran directly from the street to the stage. He had time trust me. He was fine it was just nerves nothing more nothing less.

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

"to "disagree" with what theyre doing is sort of presumptuous"

by your reasoning, to agree requires as much presumption

[Booker Floyd]

"to "disagree" with what theyre doing is sort of presumptuous"

by your reasoning, to agree requires as much presumption

I know...Which is why I dont necessarily agree with it.  I reserve any opinion on whos right and wrong because I dont know the half of it, and dont pretend to.  I know that if the suit is true, then I agree.  If not, then I dont.  But Im certainly not going to assume that theyre lying, or doing it for publicity.  

[Jive]

Right
Axl was out of breath on Jungle and Paradise, the difficult ones, the ones he used to nail when he was younger.
On mad, he nailed it....BECAUSE IT WAS IN HIS 2002 RANGE....

he had to run to get to the show
unbelievable

[tomass74]

Right
Axl was out of breath on Jungle and Paradise, the difficult ones, the ones he used to nail when he was younger.
On mad, he nailed it....BECAUSE IT WAS IN HIS 2002 RANGE....

he had to run to get to the show
unbelievable

You have to realize Dave reads through all this shit looking for any negativity twards Axl and feels the need to defend it no matter how ludacris it is.  

[Doc Emmett Brown]

"to "disagree" with what theyre doing is sort of presumptuous"

by your reasoning, to agree requires as much presumption

I know...Which is why I dont necessarily agree with it.  I reserve any opinion on whos right and wrong because I dont know the half of it, and dont pretend to.  I know that if the suit is true, then I agree.  If not, then I dont.  But Im certainly not going to assume that theyre lying, or doing it for publicity.  

Looking at both sides of the coin... that was very objective of you, Booker  

[SLCPUNK]

The reason axl was out of breath is because he had to run past security because they wouldnt let him through. They didnt think it was really him.

He was out of breath from running on the stage dude. He ran out of breath, human, and no big deal.

No need to make it more than it really was and make up this defense.

[D]

right, he blew himself up by sprinting, shit anybody sprint and sing without properly warmin up the ole lungs and see how much u huff and puff, im in excellent physical condition and when i take off like a bat outta hell i huff and puff like a motherfucker till i get my wind, actually  he's lucky he didnt pass out