I’m tired of saying it and I’m tired of hearing it. Axl Rose owns the name “Guns N’ Roses“. He can tour, and write under that name as long as he owns it. Everyone knows that I’m not an Axl sympathizer but Jesus Christ I’m tired of hearing former members bitch about him.

I said awhile back that Chinese Democracy doesn’t really sound like a Guns N Roses record. It just doesn’t, but the fact remains that he owns the name. What get’s me is the former members of G N’ R bitching about him touring under the name.

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Now that Steven Adler is clean and sober, he’s back on the road with his Guns And Roses tribute band. I mean that’s what it is after all, right? I totally understand that Steven wants to play music, but should he really take pride in performing Guns N’ Roses tunes after Appetite For Destruction? I think a lot of people would like to see Steven do his own thing and write some killer tunes that are his own.

Steven was interviewed by Pennylive.com’s Patriot News. In the interview he was of course asked about G N’ R days.

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Wow, there have been some pretty harsh words thrown around lately between Axl Rose and Slash’s Wife. Axl called Slash a “cancer”, claiming that Slash has lost his musical edge. “In a nutshell, personally I consider him a cancer and better removed, avoided – and the less anyone heard of him or his supporters the better.” he told Spinner.com.

In response to Axl’s comments, Slash’s wife, Perla Hudson published on her Myspace blog; “BTW have any of you seen that angry shit that Axl had to say about Slash? I just wish he was man enough to talk shit to Slash’s face! …LOSER!”

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According to Blabbermouth.net, a “fan” asked former Guns N Roses guitar player Gilby Clark what he thought about Chinese Democracy. Here is Gilby’s opinion.

“Yes, I listened to it on a long drive to Phoenix, Arizona,” Gilby replied. “I think it’s very good and very imaginative. Axl’s [Rose] vocals sound great and there’s some creative guitar playing on it also. But there was too many slow, to mid-tempo songs on it for my taste and some of the solos are a little overdone; they don’t match the song. Some of the lyrics are a little redundant. I expected some resolution since it’s taken so long.”

That’s a quick, yet fair opinion of the album. If you think about it, everything he said is spot on. Axl’s voice does sound great, there are too many slow to mid-tempo songs in it and well…the solos? He couldn’t be more correct on this one. They don’t fit the songs well and sound a little too engineered in as if the song was completely done and they suddenly wrote up a quick solo and did an “Insert here” type thing. Other than that, I was pretty wrong in assuming that the album would suck. Musically it was a pretty decent piece of work…but it just didn’t feel like a Guns N’ Roses album.

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Wow, 94 entries for the Reckless Road Guns N Roses book. Without further delay the winner is “Ron”. Ron, I’ll be sending an email to the address you provided to get your mailing address. Thanks to everyone that entered.

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I’ve sworn off buying Guns N’ Roses Chinese Democracy and I’m kind of glad I did. A friend let me borrow a copy and I really don’t know what to day to make this sound like a great record. I’m not a Gn’R fanboy so I will never say that I love this album.

You know those jig-saw puzzles have so many pieces and every one of them looks the same? It’s kind of like that in a weird way. It sounds like the entire record was pieced together like a giant, strange puzzle. I wouldn’t call it Guns N’ Roses. If it was Guns N’ Roses with most of the original member I would be wondering what the hell happened. It doesn’t sound like a Guns N Roses Album, it sounds like an Axl Rose solo album.

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Mohib from Mindcafe.org sent me this cool video of Guns N Roses Sweet Child Of Mine coved in a commercial from Channel V, Australia’s 24 hour music channel. There’s a simple message at the end.

Rolling Stones Top 100 Singles of 2008 shows just how out of touch this magazine has become with rock music. Of course we all know that Rolling Stone Magazine has been focusing more on Pop culture and Pop Music for a long time, but after seeing their list of the top 100 singles it just proves that this magazine is geared more towards exactly what it states…singles.

With only a handful of actual rock songs, and not even many good ones at that, it shows that it’s a corporate cuddling magazine. They even go on to criticize one of their top tracks. AC/DC’s “Big Jack” is number 53. Not even the best track off of the Black Ice album and not one I’ve heard them play on the radio at all.

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Axl Rose has come out of “Hiding”…maybe. It’s been almost three weeks since the release of Guns N Roses’ Chinese Democracy and everyone has been wondering where Axl Rose is. Some rumors started saying that he might be trying to get the original line-up back together. Some said that Geffen records was highly upset with him and said that record sales would have gone better had he made some kind of appearances to promote the record and blamed the poor start on him.

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Guns N’ Roses keyboard player, Chris Pitman has just released SexTapes, a band that he sings and plays the synth guitar in. Chris is a co-founder/writer with band mate Kelly Wheeler who plays guitars. The band is based out of Hollywood California and consists of four member. Chris Pitman on Vocals and guitar synth, Kelly Wheeler on guitars, Marko Fox on bass and Ryan Brown on drums.

Sextapes released their self titled debut on Tone Riot Records and recently played a live set to test the waters under the name Freeporn. You can hear a few songs fom SexTapes’ on their Myspace site. You can also check out a pic of the band here.

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