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  • Axl Rose Cancels “Jimmy Kimmel” Appearance; Bad News For Coachella?

    Axl Rose has dominated music headlines in recent weeks after fans got a whiff of a reunion, and when news broke that Guns N’ Roses will be headlining the Coachella Music and Arts Festival this year, a renewed interest in all things G N’ R took over the Web. Now, however, fans are worried that something is up after Rose canceled his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and no explanation was given.

    The appearance was reportedly supposed to be full of announcements regarding the festival and an upcoming tour which would reunite Axl with longtime G N’ R guitarist Slash, but Rose backed out on Monday.

    “Due to unforeseen circumstances, unfortunately Axl is no longer scheduled to be on Kimmel tomorrow,” a source on the show said.

    Even Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t in on the reasons behind the cancelation, and broke the news to his audience that Axl wouldn’t be showing up on Tuesday.

    “Axl Rose was supposed to be here tomorrow, but he will not be here tomorrow…for reasons known only to Axl Rose. Or maybe he will be here…maybe he’s just trying to keep us guessing,” Kimmel said.

    There has been talk of a G N’ R tour for some time now, with rumors flying that Rose and Slash were feuding and wouldn’t be reuniting. According to the band’s former manager, Doug Goldstein, Slash left the band in 1996 but the tension began in ’91, when the guitarist was offered the chance to work with Michael Jackson. Rose, who was allegedly sexually abused as a child, was opposed to the idea due to the many charges leveled at Jackson at the time.

    “I told him not to do it because Axl was molested by his father when he was two and he believed the charges against Michael Jackson…he was devastated. He thought that Slash would support it and would be against all the abuse. From the point of view of Axl, that was the only problem. He could ignore the drugs and alcohol…but could never ignore child abuse,” Goldstein said.

    As of now it’s still unclear what Axl Rose’s no-show might mean for the announcements and Coachella, but fans are anxiously awaiting an answer.

  • Guns N’ Roses Original Band Line Up To Come Together for Coachella 2016

    Guns N’ Roses Original Band Line Up To Come Together for Coachella 2016

    After almost two decades of waiting, fans will surely be delighted to hear that their beloved rock band Guns N’ Roses will be reuniting for Coachella in April 2016.

    It seems Axl Rose and Slash are ready to set aside any ill feelings they have for each other and move forward with the rest of the Guns N’ Roses gang in a get-together concert next year. The two have had a rocky relationship that prompted Rose to not show up during their band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

    However, it looks like all is well now as rumors of the band coming together have been circulating around the web. According to various sources, the original band line up – Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan – are reuniting to headline Coachella 2016. Initial reports claimed Rose and Slash will team up for their first gig together after more than 20 years, but other sources also stated that bassist McKagan will be joining the reunion.

    The founding members will be performing on April 15-17 and April 22-24, claimed multiple sources.

    Moreover, the band is reportedly planning to do as many as 25 North American stadium tours in the summer of 2016. The lineup is also set to perform at the new Las Vegas Arena, which is scheduled to open on April 6.

    Guns N’ Roses founding members last performed together in July 1993 at River Plate Stadium in Buenos Aires. Rose is the only original member who remains in the group up to this day. The band’s most recent tour took place mostly in South America and The Joint in Las Vegas, which reportedly earned $15.2 million.

    Reports allege that the rock band is being paid between $3 and $8 million dollars per show with ticket prices ranging from $250-$275.

    Guns N’ Roses was formed in 1985 with original members Axl Rose on vocals, Slash on lead guitars, McKagan on bass, Izzy Stradlin on rhythm guitars, and Steven Adler on drums. They debuted in 1987 with Appetite for Destruction album, which carried their famous single “Sweet Child o’ Mine.” G N’ R Lies, and Use Your Illusion I and II are considered two of the most successful albums the group released in their entire career.

    Guns N’ Roses Received a Platinum Honor for this 1987 Song

    Appetite for Destruction was hailed as the biggest-selling debut with 18 million in U.S. sales. It remained at the top spot on the Billboard 200 chart for five weeks, according to Billboard. The rock band sold 44.5 million albums in the U.S. alone, declared the Recording Industry Association of America.

    The Internet has been abuzz with reports of their forthcoming reunion after the band updated their official website recently. Their original logo was also featured on their website, which further ignited the get-together concert rumor.

    Besides Guns N’ Roses, LCD Soundsystem will come together for Coachella 2016. Coachella has become a venue for reunions and band revivals in recent years. In 2007, it was able to get the Rage Against the Machine to reunite and perform together. Fans were also able to witness My Bloody Valentine to perform in 2009 and Outkast in 2014. Last year’s event attracted 198,000 people with a total revenue of $84.2 million, according to Boxscore.

    Meanwhile, representatives for Guns N’ Roses have yet to comment on the reports. Coachella producer, Paul Tollet, as well as agent Ken Fermaglich at United talent Agency have not released any official announcement with regard to the 2016 event. AEG Executives, which will be responsible for the operation of the new Las Vegas Arena, also has not aired their side yet.

  • Axl Rose Guitarist Says Two New Guns N’ Roses Albums Almost Ready

    Guitarist DJ Ashba has his fingers in some big pies. He tours with Nikki Sixx and his Sixx:A.M. band. But he is also in Axl Rose’s lovechild, Guns N’ Roses. For a while now, Sixx:A.M. has been his focus. But he says that could change very quickly.

    According to Ashba, we could get hit with a new Guns N’ Roses album very soon. Or maybe even more than one.

    “Axl, of course, has, I believe, two complete albums worth of songs already recorded and probably a s**tload of other stuff I’ve never heard,” he said in an interview with Guitar International.

    Axl Rose has taken his time releasing anything since parting with the classic G N’ R lineup back in 1994. He took until 2008 to finally release Chinese Democracy. It’s been six years since then.

    “Lack of songs is not our problem,” Ashba explained. “It’s just getting into the studio.

    “A machine like Sixx:A.M. [with three members] isn’t nearly as hard to move as a machine like Guns N’ Roses with eight guys. It just takes a little more to turn the wheel.”

    Ashba says the new material from Rose sounds like classic Guns N’ Roses. Oddly enough, that’s exactly what has been said about Slash’s latest album with vocalist Myles Kennedy aptly holding down the chair that Axl himself used to fill.

    Maybe there will be some comparison about which lineup sounds like the real Guns N’ Roses. Either way, Ashba is stoked to get into the studio and get his guitar onto the new material.

    “He’s played me quite a bit of stuff that’s phenomenal, and, hopefully, I can get my hands on it and put my little stamp on it, before all is said and done… [T]here’s been more and more talk about getting in there before the end of the year, which I’m really excited about.”

  • Axl Rose and Slash: So He’s Saying There’s a Chance?

    For a long time, the notion of getting Axl Rose and Slash back together on an album and/or onstage again fell in the same category as getting Roger Waters back onstage with Pink Floyd or David Lee Roth back with Van Halen.

    If those comparisons fill you with hope, you are not alone. Roger Waters did finally play onstage with Floyd at the Live 8 event back in 2005. And Roth reunited with the Van Halen brothers for an album and tour that reached back to the band’s early days and was well-received by fans and critics alike. Officially, they’re still together.

    Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for a full-blown G n’ R reunion?

    Well, Slash weighed in on that in a recent Guitar World interview. Since original G n’ R bassist Duff McKagan has been playing the occasional gig with Axl and his current G n’ R lineup as fill-in for bassist Tommy Stinson, the question needed to be asked: Might Slash bury the hatchet and play with Axl again?

    “People have been speculating about it for years,” Slash replied. “But I really have a hard time picturing it. There hasn’t been any communication along those lines between he and I. I have a hard time picturing it because I’m always focused on the next show. I’m one of those people who lives in the moment. I don’t look too far into the future and I don’t dwell too much on the past.”

    Slash says he lists the early days of Guns n’ Roses as among the highlights of his career, but he’s moved on.

    Axl’s former personal manager from the Use Your Illusion days has come out as saying that Duff’s recent involvement with Axl will help make a full reunion happen.

    “Duff is paving the way to open the gates again,” Craig Duswalt says. “Axl and Duff are really getting along well at the concerts, so there’s an opening.”

  • Axl Rose Can Outsing Mariah Carey?

    Okay, who has the greatest vocal range of all time? Of course, it’s Mariah Carey who is famous for her amazing five octave vocal range. But hold on there Guinness World Records, according to a study posted on concerthotels.com, Guns N’ Roses lead singer Axl Rose has the most range of any singer ever.

    Please note that the study concerns vocal range, not necessarily who has the best voice.

    So what’s with the study, and how did they come up with Axl? “To create this piece, we took the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time as compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008. To this list, we added some of today’s top singers including the nominees for top male and female artist at the Billboard Music Awards 2014. We cross-referenced the resulting list with vocal range data curated by The Range Place. We included all of the singers on the list for whom the data was readily available.”

    Basically, the study took about 50 singers from different genres and time periods and found which song featured their lowest note and which song featured their highest note.

    The research ultimately established that Axl has the biggest vocal range. According to the study, Axl hit the F1 in the song There Was a Time as his lowest note. Then, in the tune Ain’t It Fun, the frontman goes all the way up to a B6.

    The study isn’t really scientific, however. Death and Taxes Magazine points out that there is no cited source for the study’s information, and they question some of the analysis, “It is a bit odd that the chart claims his low notes were below those of the King of Lows, Barry White, and it would be quite nice if the lovely colors came with some evidence to back such claims. On the high side of the scale Rose can apparently out-pitch the likes of Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant, and those three claims are suspect at best.”

    Here’s a list of the top ten ranges, and the notes that the study claims that the singers hit:

    Axl Rose: F1 – B♭6
    Mariah Carey: F2 – G7 (Her G7 is by far the highest note sung by anyone on the list)
    Prince: E2 – B6
    Steven Tyler: D2 – E6
    James Brown: E♭2 – E6
    Marvin Gaye: D2 – E♭6
    Christina Aguilera:C3 – C#7
    David Bowie: G1 – G#5
    Paul McCartney: B1 – B5
    Thom Yorke: E2 – E6
    Freddie Mercury: F2 – E6

    What do you think of the list? Is Axl Rose the best rock singer ever?

    Image via YouTube Screenshot

  • Axl Rose Not World’s Greatest Singer

    Axl Rose Not World’s Greatest Singer

    A recent Concert Hotels infographic concerning the vocal ranges of popular singers confused some into reading that Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose has been deemed the greatest vocalist of all time. What the chart, entitled “The Vocal Ranges of the World’s Greatest Singers,” conveyed was that Axl does indeed have a large vocal range, but does not declare him as the finest singer.

    The singers on the chart can be sorted by vocal range, highest notes and lowest notes, and Rose is followed by Mariah Carey and Prince in the range department. Mariah Carey, Christina Aquilera and Prince beat out Rose in the highest notes field, though Rose can hit the lowest notes, ahead of Barry White and David Bowie.

    Several news outlets, including USA Today, initially misread the chart, and assumed Axl Rose had been deemed God of all pop singers.

    Axl Rose is a high genius, and once customized his own pair of Converse hi-top sneakers:

    Concert Hotels sourced a Rolling Stone list of the “100 Greatest Singers of All Time” while compiling their chart, which includes Kurt Cobain, Eminem (?), Roy Orbison and Miley Cyrus –

    “To create this piece, we took the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time as compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008. To this list, we added some of today’s top singers including the nominees for top male and female artist at the Billboard Music Awards 2014. We cross-referenced the resulting list with vocal range data curated by The Range Place. We included all of the singers on the list for whom the data was readily available.”

    While Rose has indeed been deemed one of the greatest singers, outraged readers took to Twitter to vent their dismay over the assumption that Axl is the all-around king:

    Vintage Axl, doing his thing:

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • Axl Rose Disses the Red Hot Chili Peppers

    Axl Rose Disses the Red Hot Chili Peppers

    By now most people have probably heard that the Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t really play their instruments during their performance at this year’s Super Bowl. The group’s bass player Flea made the admission on the band’s website a few days ago.

    So it was only a matter of time before people in the music world chimed in, to either show support for the Chili Peppers or to speak negatively about them and talk a little trash.

    Apparently, former Guns N’ Roses front man Axl Rose has taken the opportunity to talk trash and he did it in an op-ed piece and through his Twitter account.

    In the op-ed piece Rose criticized the band a little, and used a bit of sarcasm to do it. “Consider that maybe sometime before their actual performance that rather than use a guitar cord or standard wireless, that in the name of science and for all mankind, Flea courageously had a newly invented breakthrough in microchip technology installed in his ass that picked up the frequencies of his bass and transmitted them to his amplifier,” wrote Rose.

    The “November Rain” singer also called the Red Hot Chili Peppers a karaoke band. “If the band wasn’t really playing or wireless or whatever and Anthony was really singing, they may have set a new world record for the largest karaoke audience ever!”

    Within 24-hours after the Super Bowl, Flea took to the band’s website and said they had no choice but to mime their performance, because the NFL didn’t want to risk bad sound or some sort of technical issue.

    The band has done the same thing before on a TV show, Flea said, but not since the 80s. “The Red Hot Chili Peppers stance on any sort of miming has been that we will absolutely not do it,” he wrote. “The last time we did it, or tried to, was in the late 80s. We were thrown off of ‘The Top of The Pops’ television program in the UK during rehearsals because we refused to mime properly. I played bass with my shoe.”

    Image via YouTube

  • Guns N’ Roses Guitarist Gets Police Captain In Trouble

    Guns N’ Roses were well-known hellraisers back in the day, but we haven’t heard a lot from them lately. That is, until guitarist DJ Ashba asked Captain David O’Leary and Officer Ray Horsley to help him out with a romantic proposal for his girlfriend.

    The Las Vegas-based officers took Ashba and his girlfriend, Colombian actress Nathalia Henao, on a “fly along” in a helicopter back in August and arranged to land in a field near police headquarters where Ashba had set up roses and champagne. The trip isn’t uncommon for civilians, but the problems arose after it was released that the pilot had made a stop rather than ending the flight at Air Support, as is protocol.

    “A fly along and a patrol ride along are typically done for the purpose of exposing members of the community to the duties of law enforcement,” the department’s statement said. “A fly along would begin and terminate at Air Support and would not include any off site landings as occurred in this case.”

    The officers were caught after Ashba posted a photo of the trip on Instagram and thanked the pilots for helping him with the proposal.

    After an investigation, Captain O’Leary decided to retire rather than accept the demotion that was to be his punishment. Officer Horsley will be transferred out of the Air Support Detail on the 11th and will no longer be allowed to fly for Metro.

    Ashba and Henao declined to be interviewed during the investigation.

    Image via Instagram

  • Slash Joins The Cast Of Angry Birds Space

    Slash Joins The Cast Of Angry Birds Space

    Slash of Guns N’ Roses fame is no stranger to video games. The prolific rocker was immortalized in Guitar Hero 3. Now he has officially joined the cast of Angry Birds in its latest interstellar outing.

    Rovio announced today that they commissioned Slash to perform a cover of the Angry Birds Space theme after the guitarist professed last year to being a huge fan of the franchise. The cover can be heard in the latest update for the game.

    In even better news, Rovio has also created a Slash inspired bird to join the cast of Angry Birds Space. The little guy just might be the coolest avian rocker since Rock-A-Doodle.

    Grab the latest update to Angry Birds Space from Google Play, or iOS.

  • Axl Rose Said in 1994 that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was an Iconic Organization

    50-year-old Axl Rose announced yesterday that he has “respectfully declined his induction as a member of Guns N’ Roses to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame,” in a letter obtained by the L.A. Times.

    The ceremony is scheduled to take place in Cleveland on Saturday but Axl has decided to bow out of the appearance.

    In 1994 Axl Rose gave a speech at Elton John’s induction to the Hall of Fame and said, “The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honors the musicians who make the music that not only becomes the soundtrack to our lives but it actually helps us get through each day of our life.”

    Two years later Guns N’ Roses fell apart.

    After reading the letter he sent to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it seems that Rose declined the invitation because he thinks the induction ceremony would be an awkward and complicated affair. He went on to say that he thinks “the Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony doesn’t appear to be somewhere I’m actually wanted or respected.”

    He has also requested that he not be “inducted in absentia” and warned people to resist accepting any induction on his behalf.

    Towards the end of the letter he made it very clear that Guns N’ Roses will not be reunited: “For anyone to continue to ask, suggest or demand a reunion are misguided attempts to distract from our efforts with our current lineup of myself, Dizzy Reed, Tommy Stinson, Frank Ferrer, Richard Fortus, Chris Pitman, Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal and DJ Ashba.”

    While he claims he values his fans he went on to insist that he doesn’t owe them any happy endings.

    He closed the letter by saying:

    “Regardless of this decision and as hard to believe or as ironic as it may seem, I’d like to sincerely thank the board for their nomination and their votes for Guns’ induction. More importantly I’d like to thank the fans for being there over the years, making any success we’ve had possible and for enjoying and supporting Guns N’ Roses music.”

    “I wish the Hall a great show, congratulations to all the other artists being inducted and to our fans we look forward to seeing you on tour!!”

    Here are some Twitter reactions to his decision:

    (image)@danecook
    Dane Cook    Axl Rose declines induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now THAT’S being a rock star. #bamf(image) 15 hours ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    (image)@RaeMcmahon1
    Rae Mcmahon    Axl Rose Totally Can’t Comprehend this http://t.co/W8zAfz5M(image) 1 minute ago via Mobile Web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    (image)@_JessicaJune
    Jessica June Kim    @llb_yu your boy, axl rose needs to get over it already. lol! past is past. he needs to grow up & get over past drama! http://t.co/wKAI3P24(image) 1 minute ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    (image)@Henry_Mitchell
    Henry Mitchell    Ramblings of a madman: A letter from Axl Rose to The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, G’N’R Fans and Whom It May Concern- http://t.co/JZrs6Sx2(image) 16 hours ago via Tweetbot for iOS ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

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    josh groban    Lets be real here, Axl Rose’s crazy confused denial letter to the rock HOF was spawned by an ill fated attempt to button his old kilt.(image) 15 hours ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    (image)@MattGoldich
    Matt Goldich    Pretty disappointed that Axl Rose won’t get a chance to show up 3 hours late to his Rock and Roll HOF induction with 4 guys I never heard of(image) 9 hours ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    (image)@ic4vein
    † random hero †    Everyone’s saying Axl Rose is a ‘real rockstar’ because he denied entry to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. No, he’s just a massive wanker.(image) 4 hours ago via web ·  Reply ·  Retweet ·  Favorite · powered by @socialditto

    What happened between 1994 and 2012?