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November 12, 2006
W Axl Rose's Pathetic Petulance Axl Rose canceled a Guns N Roses concert in Maine at the Cumberland County Civic Center scheduled for Monday (11-6-2006) because the state fire marshal's office forbade drinking on stage per state law.
W Axl Rose's official explanation:
It was important for us to play there and it is a shame that what should have been a great night for all of us was not possible due to the actions of two people.
I agree with, and ultimately take responsibility for, the end decision not to jeopardize the safety of the fans, the crews, the bands and myself as a result of the methods of these particularly draconian authorities. We hope to find another way to play for you in the future.
I'm all about some good rock and roll rebellion. I don't necessarily consider it a bad thing if a bad boy rock star gets into occasional fisticuffs, or raises hell making some kind of social protest. You can respect Sinead O'Connor tearing up that picture of the pope on SNL, even if you think she was misguided. She herself later said that she was engaging in childish rebellion.
Still though, that was an immature protest from a young woman about something real. Whereas Axl Rose is 44 years old, and canceled his show because The Man wouldn't let him drink alcohol on stage. I don't particularly think that's any business of the government, but it's not "particularly draconian" by any stretch of an adult imagination. A stupid teenager might think that something like this was a cool act of rebellion, but a 44 year old man doing this is two steps past pathetic.
Boy howdy, W Axl Rose stuck it to The Man! Oh wait, I bet the fire marshal didn't give a fat rat's ass about Guns n Roses canceling out. That just saves having to fool with him.
To state the obvious- since it apparently didn't occur to Axl- the people who lost out were Axl's long suffering fans. But screw them, who are they anyway? Axl figured he'd get off more on his little act of defiance than out of playing music for his paying ticket holders.
Robert Anton Wilson summarized part of his philosophical outlook in the title of a play called Reality Is What You Can Get Away With. Part of the perks of being a rock star is being able to get away with a lot of nonsense that lower beings couldn't. Hey, Axl Rose wrote "Sweet Child O Mine," so I'm glad to see him make a lot of money. But what kind of ignorant white trash loser would pick ridiculous behavior like this as what they would choose to want to get away with?
Anyway you look at it, Jim Beam is more important to Axl Rose than his fans are. This Maine episode underscores that point.
Note how Axl presents the bottle of Jim Beam in the photograph as if it were his big hard dick. But really, he seems to mostly be interested in keeping his lips to that bottle. You might say that Axl Rose spends a lot of time sucking his own dick.
This probably also explains how he's not quite managed to get a new GnR album actually made in ten years. It goes a long way toward explaining his deteriorating physical appearance. But the truly disreputable thing is that he's apparently proud of it. That's SO ghetto.
Still, Guns N Roses were a great band till he threw it away, and they wrote "One in a Million" and "Paradise City." In recognition of such greatness, please visit the MoreThings Guns N Roses page.
