Being Axl Rose a book

[Just_Me]

Edit: Another way to look at it: Remember the address on the cover of Lies?? The one suggesting you can write to Axl with your problems?? That wasn't genuine, the letters would never reach Axl and it was there because people already did write to him with their problems.? Was Axl taking advantage of them as well?

Wasn't that the GN'R fan club?

The whole GN'R Lies cover art is making fun of tabloids..... So I guess they put their fan club info under the Can Axl Help You? headline to make fun of similar help sections in the papers.....


/jarmo

Oh, maybe it was.  I was told it was a fake address and I didn't know they had a fan club.  Wouldn't be the first time I've gotten wrong info.

[slash-b]

No, I'm not the author, I wish i'd thought of it though... i have plenty of time to think of things like that however, with the type of work I do.

I think Just_me has something there, Axl wants his personal freedom and most fans would cross the line if able... but when the fans get their personal freedom taken away because their emails are published then people don't like it.

Who sticks up for who?

[elmir]

i searched for this on Amazon UK, and nothing came up?
how did you guys get hold of it?

[slash-b]

You can get it here...

http://www.lulu.com/wintergallery

[ChrisPittman]

interesting

[elmir]

just got this....and read the whole thing in less than a few hours.....freaked me out, to say the least!!!

it sucks being famous...and i wouldn't want to be in his shoes.....some weirdos out there....

[Chief]

what was the craziest thing that you saw in that book?

just got this....and read the whole thing in less than a few hours.....freaked me out, to say the least!!!

it sucks being famous...and i wouldn't want to be in his shoes.....some weirdos out there....

[elmir]

what was the craziest thing that you saw in that book?

1...the fact that i recognized some names....people off the boards i post on.

2...that crazy bitch at the end...and her novel (a few of them) to Axl.....that was weird, scary, psychopatic, and downright sick!....i think she was that person who eventually got arrested or something? Not sure of the whole story, but didn't he have a stalker who was found in his garden by Fernando i think?

Anyway, that was odd, but just in general, people's messages were weird....about 70% were just straight, encouraging fan kind of letters....but a few went over the cukoos nest...if you know what i mean.

[freedom78]

what was the craziest thing that you saw in that book?

1...the fact that i recognized some names....people off the boards i post on.

That's disturbing.  Um...no one named "freedom78" I hope. 

[Christos AG]

Oh, cmon, don't make us buy the damn book.

Give us the usernames... 

[elmir]

no, there were mainly names and surnames, people were sending mails from their personal accounts, so unless freedom78 is the way you call yourself when you send an e-mail, you wouldn't be there....

i think it was a great concept for a book, people always talk about fans and their devotions and obsessions, but you never give it much attention until you see what they're really thinking about, in their private time....

i liked it....if it wasn't illegal, i'd scan a few and post it here....maybe mods can advise on a possibility to do that.

[Christos AG]

I don't really know.

I'll buy the book for the hell of it...

I guess it will be funny but some will also be scary...

Kinda like watching SCREAM... 

[elmir]

its not a narrative book, other than the intro, which has been posted here on the first page, there's nothing else written in it by the author...its pretty much one e-mail per page, and its all screenshots from hotmail as well, not typed up either....

i guess they wanted the reader to join all the dots....

I've read all the gnr related books, and seen most of the documentaries on the band, and its all beginning to look and sound the same now, so i appreciate the author's effort to make this one slightly different....

its not Scream scary....more like American Psycho scary....