Fire in Malibu 11/24/07...Axl's home damaged...Flea's from RHCP saved

[Malcolm]

Now that would be quite the photo shot for paparazzi...Axl outside hosing down a fire lol...good job Axl

[cyllan]

Hats off to Axl and Beta; a  truly heartwarming (no pun intended!) story.   

Nevertheless, it makes me wonder how many other altruistic acts performed by Axl over the years have gone unnoticed by anyone other than the immediate beneficiaries; left unreported because they don't fit with the media's perceived image of him.     

[November_Rain]

Hats off to Axl and Beta; a  truly heartwarming (no pun intended!) story.   

Nevertheless, it makes me wonder how many other altruistic acts performed by Axl over the years have gone unnoticed by anyone other than the immediate beneficiaries; left unreported because they don't fit with the media's perceived image of him.     

I?ve read Axl does a lot of things to help others like abused children..etc over the years and this is unnoticed because he doesn?t do it to get a good publicity, he does this stuff from the heart. Even Slash said it 15 years ago in some interviews. I guess little things like this show that he isn?t a selfish and selfcentered person like others portray him.

[Angel Down]

If you can find those articles, it would be great to post them.

[Verse Chorus Verse]

Hats off to Axl and Beta; a  truly heartwarming (no pun intended!) story.   

Nevertheless, it makes me wonder how many other altruistic acts performed by Axl over the years have gone unnoticed by anyone other than the immediate beneficiaries; left unreported because they don't fit with the media's perceived image of him.     

Like when he visited the Children's Cancer Hospital in '06? All Axl's detractors never seem to realize that he's done a lot of selfless things.

[November_Rain]

If you can find those articles, it would be great to post them.

I think I have an old interview from a magazine,I?ll look for it and try to scan it, although it is in Spanish.And if I?m not wrong I have some video tapes with interviews too

[ppbebe]

axl talked a bit about concern for kids in a rs interview.
http://www.heretodaygonetohell.com/articles/showarticle.php?articleid=56

[FunkyMonkey]

AXL ROSE HAILED FIRE HERO

Movie & Entertainment News provided by World Entertainment News Network (www.wenn.com)
2008-02-12 23:18:34 -

GUNS N' ROSES star AXL ROSE has been hailed a hero after helping to save a neighbour's home from last year's (07) California wildfires.

An unidentified woman contacted Los Angeles TV network KTTV to pay tribute to Rose, and her comments were read out during a news broadcast on Tuesday morning (12Feb08).

The woman, who lives next door to Rose in Malibu, credits the rocker and his manager Beta Lebeis with hosing down flames that threatened to destroy her home last November (07).

In a statement, the relieved neighbour told the news broadcast, "They saved our house together with the firefighters... They just hosed down whatever fire there was in the trees, in the palm trees, and they saved our house, they literally saved our house." Rose also saved his own home, which was damaged by the fire.

http://www.pr-inside.com/axl-rose-hailed-fire-hero-r434530.htm

[The_Wretched]

it doesn't surprise me. i don't believe Axl is an asshole. I never have. That is just a persona people have tagged him with. I can totally picture Axl just down to earth in a meeting situation. If you treat him like a normal person, he'll return the favor. I've met my share of celebrities (mostly musicians) and if you just treat them like people... they are nice. Once you go overboard and treat them like a "celeb" then things change.

I think Dave Draiman of Disturbed said it best : " I did't change, everybody around me changed."

[Albert S Miller]

Don't forget about the benefit he did with Michael J Fox in regards to Parkinsons Disease, I think that was last year.

[mrbucketfoot]

Axl's awesome. Seems like a great guy, it was cool to hear that story.