Axl going to get political on tour?

[gnr_12]

wow this is a gnr forum.. enuff about politics im dun with this

[KeVoRkIaN]

why not? thousand of people have died in iraq and one of the main themes of guns n roses deal with is 'war'.

Actually most was about Cocaine, Sluts. Alcohol, Assholes and the Press.. war was hardly touched

[Eric]

Things are so much more tense in the world, even more than in 2002, if that's possible-I would like to hear his views, I would guess Axl is more liberal? I have no idea-I always thought it would be neat if Axl had a web site like Moby (daily posts about a movie he just went to, restaurant he ate at, politics), or Robin Fink's site, which really donen't discuss music-I realize that would be impossible with Axl, everyone wants to know about the misic first, but it would interest me to know his views on things that happened while he was out of the limelight-it was intersting to hear his thoughts on the day of the Oklahoma (did I spell that right?) city bombing

[Sparksry]

ya really interesting 

[JimMorrison4]

look people against attacking countries that shouldn't have been attacked support the men & women in the military..........what they don't support is the morons who treat them like pawns in a chess game without any regard for the troops lives (evident by the great planning) and send them to attack a country they had no business attacking.........i.e.......Bin Laden still alive.......I hope Axl does Bash Bush........cause with the speed at which he is taking away our liberties.........you might as well add American Democracy to the wishes of Chinese Democracy......"feed the rich while it buries the poor".........how many more billions & oil does halliburton want?

What part of the country do you live in where you lost your liberties?

[godiva]

I do have to agree with GFortusR here. I think people will loose more and more liberties over the years to fight terrorism. A friend of mine was in NY at 9/11 and he was practically forced to wear a little American flag. If you're not for us..... I have visited the States a lot over the recent years and things have really changed. Same happened in Europe. The atmosphere is more grim these days and governments try to scare citizens into handing over their rights to privacy in order to 'get the bad guy'. It's a worrying trend, reeks of cencorship.

But back on topic..... what was that again?

[LeftToDecay]

And I'm sorry to say, but those are some of the worse lyrics in a GNR song, ever.  Beyond cheesy.  The chorus might have been written by Axl (it sounds like more his style of writting) but the main song is definately Duff's bad, junior high writting style.

Here's Junior High writing style for ya.

And don't you cry tonight
An don't you cry tonight
An don't you cry tonight
There's a heaven above you baby
And don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry tonight
Baby maybe someday
Don't you cry
Don't you ever cry
Don't you cry
Toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight



    'Cause you could be mine
     But you're way out of line
     With your bitch slap rappin'
     And your cocaine tongue
     You get nuthin' done
     I said you could be mine


So now I wander through my day
Trying to find my way
Still these feelings that I felt
I said to you and no one else


No idea who wrote Civil War lyrics but i never thought they'd stand out in negative way from average gnr lyrics.
And I really hope Axl realizes to stay the fuck away from politics.
Nothing is more irritating than a celebrity who spends few hours watching Moore documents or Fox "news" and suddenly  turns into self proglaimed mother Theresa for 2  months.And then forgets all about it.

[Pandora]

Please stay away from strictly political discussions and personal opinions about what's going on in the world. Those debates are not even allowed in the Jungle, let alone here.

[godiva]

You're right Pandora. Sorry

[mikegiuliana]

I do have to agree with GFortusR here. I think people will loose more and more liberties over the years to fight terrorism. A friend of mine was in NY at 9/11 and he was practically forced to wear a little American flag. If you're not for us..... I have visited the States a lot over the recent years and things have really changed. Same happened in Europe. The atmosphere is more grim these days and governments try to scare citizens into handing over their rights to privacy in order to 'get the bad guy'. It's a worrying trend, reeks of cencorship.

But back on topic..... what was that again?

I was a half mile uptown watching 9-11 unfold while working on a new highrise being built, quite a sad day and even shittier to have watched..

I don't know if axl will get political... Seems like he might be a bit late...?? It feels like it's all been done already.. He may just say  get the troops out.. I have no idea really where he stands on iraq, I only know where most celebrities stand

[DeN]

i hope he'll sing Sweet Neo Con  in intro to sweet child o'mine

You call yourself a Christian
I think that you're a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit

[Big Gun]

I THINK HE SHOULD EXPLAIN GNR FUNS WHY IS TAKING SUCH A LONG TIME TO PUT OUT THE ALBUM. SHOW HIS FUNS THE RESPECT THEY DISERVE AND NOT TO LOOK AT THEM AS HIS CASH FLOW.

[Jonathan]

I THINK HE SHOULD EXPLAIN GNR FUNS WHY IS TAKING SUCH A LONG TIME TO PUT OUT THE ALBUM. SHOW HIS FUNS THE RESPECT THEY DISERVE AND NOT TO LOOK AT THEM AS HIS CASH FLOW.

Please, would you stop using all capslock.

[gator]

I do have to agree with GFortusR here. I think people will loose more and more liberties over the years to fight terrorism. A friend of mine was in NY at 9/11 and he was practically forced to wear a little American flag. If you're not for us..... I have visited the States a lot over the recent years and things have really changed. Same happened in Europe. The atmosphere is more grim these days and governments try to scare citizens into handing over their rights to privacy in order to 'get the bad guy'. It's a worrying trend, reeks of cencorship.

But back on topic..... what was that again?

Very ill-informed post. I work in the financial district, 2 blocks from Ground Zero. Outside of having to go thorugh a metal detector to get into our building, nothing has changed since before 9/11.  Certainly none of my liberties have been lost.  In fact, people commonly protest all sorts of things in that very area. Ironically enough, one of the groups you see protesting nearly every day is the Fallun Gong (sp?) rallying for religious freedom and Chinese democracy. 

[gandra]

Axl have some attitude about polical,but he isn't stupid Bono from u2 to talking about things which he don't know very well!!!

[DCGNR2006]

Guys, I'm the one who started this thread for the sole reason of getting people's opinions on whether I am going to have to listen to AXL discuss things in concert when we all just want to hear the tunes. But given his fondness for speaking out while on stage, and how the likes of Eddie Vedder, Springsteen and Audioslave just can't seem to leave politics out of their shows, I can't be the only one who has thought about this topic. By the reactions of people , I guess I'm right. BUT, I do apologize if people think I wanted to start some kind of Political poll here. If you go back to my opening lines, that is not what I was saying. I never wanted to divide this GNR army of ours for one second!  I do believe myself, that he is going to get into it, and many thanks to everyone who responded, because I got some pretty cool insights into everyone's thinking on this-

[gandra]

it's verystupid and sad when some public person,in this case one big rock star have very strong politacal atitude.For example Bono Voks,that stupid poser,sad a lot of bad thing about some nations,he said what uk and us govermant sad,and on the other side he have a many many fans in that nations.And what we have then,one big apsurd.

I song "civil war" gnr introduced their "peace atitude"and nothing else.In this great song they didn't sang about nation or polical,they sang about "how war is bad"

And axl man you rule

[gilld1]

Gandra, learn how to fucking type, spell checkor something.  So it's stupid for people (rock stars) to voice their opinion?  Bono is stupid for working to aid Africa when so many govts around the world have done nothing?  GNR saying that war is bad is making a political statement.  You , my friend, are an imbicile.

[lastroots]

Axl will leave the liberal biast up to Springsteen and other hollywood types I hope.  Jesus, am I sick of that crap.  Not everyone in America feels this way by the way.  I have 5 of my good friends in Iraq and they are proud of what they are doing.  Am I am proud of them. 

I'm proud of your boys as well, my friend. I hope you're right and he will leave the liberal crap out as well -

Didn't read the whole thread, just saw this. Sorry, Jarmo, I just have to answer on this. I would feel bad if I wouldn't.

Guys, if you feel offende, feel free to PM me, so not to ruin this thread.

What are you proud of? Proud of some boys who kill innocent people, who mess a up a country of peaceful human beings? Do you still believe the propaganda?
It's so sad...

And this has nothing to do with "liberal", just with being realistic and seeing facts. What the hell do you know about Iraq? Nothing, I guess. Did you ever speak to people from the arabian countries?

/lastroots

[MR W,AXL ROSE]

i can see some politically based rants on the horizon about the war and stuff goin on in the world today.