Axl Rose Surfaces

Rebuffs Fan Online And Chides The Press

Hell Hath No Fury Like A Rocker Scorned

December 12. 2008

Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses

Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose surfaced yesterday when it was announced second week sales of the band's “Chinese Democracy” album bottomed out, plunging to a paltry 57,000 copies sold.

This adds to its modest first week numbers of 261,000 copies. At best this album will slowly go gold (500,000). The album cost $13,000,000 to make.

A person on the message board made the mistake of complaining to Axl that he is fan unfriendly. Who told him to do that? Rose went off and stated, “Your misconceptions and fantasies along with your misguided sense of entitlement don't dictate my actions."

Telling off the fans is never a good idea. Just ask Usher. He went from selling 10,000,000 copies of his prior CD to taking months to sell 1,000,000 copies of his newish one.

Slash

Axl also spoke of being sued by ex-member Slash over a merchandising deal he reportedly had nothing to do with. Slash is the half black one with the pretty, shiny little tendril curls in his hair that overtake his face – aww.

I have a question, has anyone ever seen Slash’s eyes. Show of hands. Anyone? Yea, that’s what I thought. Show your eyes, dude. It could be Osama bin Laden under there and we wouldn’t know (just kidding).

Axl finally surfaced from his house in Malibu...even if it was just online

Another thing, why is the black dude (Slash) rocking the euro curls, while the white dude (Axl) is rocking the African braids. I’m just teasing.

Axl Rose Pipes Up On GNR Message Boards

He's yet to grant an interview about Guns N' Roses' recently released "Chinese Democracy," but last night (Dec. 11) Axl Rose broke his silence by answering questions on the message boards of popular GNR Web sites …

"What I can say now is you've been told a lot of things in order for others to promote themselves that factually they cannot backup in regard to either," Rose said when asked for his opinion on why the original lineup fell apart. "They are complicated legally, financially and have devoured a good portion of my life."

Rose added that he was recently sued by Duff McKagan and Slash over a merchandising issue "that I was unaware and not involved in. Fortunately that was resolved but it got ugly and took a while going into arbitration."…

"For now we'll concentrate and keep our focus on this album but I will say I've always thought of it as a double," he said of "Chinese Democracy." …

When one fan took Rose to task for steadfastly avoiding the press, he responded, "What I have to say a lot of people have no desire to hear." Another fan tore into Rose for his reclusive lifestyle and what he deemed fan-unfriendly behavior, to which Rose replied, "Your misconceptions and fantasies along with your misguided sense of entitlement don't dictate my actions."

"Chinese Democracy" was finally released Nov. 23 as a Best Buy exclusive. It debuted at No. 3 on The Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 261,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, but slumped to No. 18 this week with 57,000.

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