Axl Rose - Is Suing Guitar Hero
Eager to become the talk of every music fans' Thanksgiving dinner today, Axl Rose has just issued his most insane lawsuit yet, suing "Guitar Hero" makers Activision for $20 million for featuring Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle" in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
Axl initially signed off on "Welcome to the Jungle" being used in the game, but on one condition: do not put any music by Velvet Revolver, which boasts guitarist Slash (Rose's former bandmate and mortal enemy) in the game. Well, not only did "Guitar Hero III" offer a bunch of Velvet Revolver songs, they crowned Slash the game's spokesperson, featured him on the game's cover and made him a playable avatar. Cue Axl's lawsuit.
"[Activision] began spinning a web of lies and deception to conceal its true intentions to not only feature Slash and VR prominently in GH III but also promote the game by emphasizing and reinforcing an association between Slash and Guns N' Roses and the band's song "Welcome to the Jungle", "Rose's lawyer Skip Miller writes in the $20 million suit. Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" featured in Guitar Hero II, and "Shackler's Revenge" from Axl's long-awaited Chinese Democracy actually debuted as a game-ending challenge in Rock Band 2, so Rose isn't opposed to the use of his songs in music video games. This comes down to, once again, Rose's undying hatred of Slash.
"There's zero possibility of me having anything to do with Slash other than by ambush, and that wouldn't be pretty," Rose said in 2009. "In a nutshell, personally I consider him a cancer and better removed, avoided." Rose also sued his former manager Irving Azoff, the CEO of Live Nation Ticketmaster, accusing Azoff of conspiring to assemble a Guns N' Roses reunion tour that included Slash. That legal tiff is likely the reason why Axl's GNR hasn't toured the U.S. on its Chinese Democracy trek (although a February tour is rumored).
Funny detail: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was already released 3 years ago.
Axl initially signed off on "Welcome to the Jungle" being used in the game, but on one condition: do not put any music by Velvet Revolver, which boasts guitarist Slash (Rose's former bandmate and mortal enemy) in the game. Well, not only did "Guitar Hero III" offer a bunch of Velvet Revolver songs, they crowned Slash the game's spokesperson, featured him on the game's cover and made him a playable avatar. Cue Axl's lawsuit.
"[Activision] began spinning a web of lies and deception to conceal its true intentions to not only feature Slash and VR prominently in GH III but also promote the game by emphasizing and reinforcing an association between Slash and Guns N' Roses and the band's song "Welcome to the Jungle", "Rose's lawyer Skip Miller writes in the $20 million suit. Guns N' Roses' "Sweet Child O' Mine" featured in Guitar Hero II, and "Shackler's Revenge" from Axl's long-awaited Chinese Democracy actually debuted as a game-ending challenge in Rock Band 2, so Rose isn't opposed to the use of his songs in music video games. This comes down to, once again, Rose's undying hatred of Slash.
"There's zero possibility of me having anything to do with Slash other than by ambush, and that wouldn't be pretty," Rose said in 2009. "In a nutshell, personally I consider him a cancer and better removed, avoided." Rose also sued his former manager Irving Azoff, the CEO of Live Nation Ticketmaster, accusing Azoff of conspiring to assemble a Guns N' Roses reunion tour that included Slash. That legal tiff is likely the reason why Axl's GNR hasn't toured the U.S. on its Chinese Democracy trek (although a February tour is rumored).
Funny detail: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock was already released 3 years ago.
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| Angelic Storm Melodious Posts: 6675  |
Axl is an amazing songwriter, but he's also a complete moron. lol If the details are correct, then I guess technically he's within his rights to sue. I still think its a really pathetic reason to do so though... 
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| RavenKing Posts: 1941  |
Poor Axl... It's a pity drugs cost so much. This moron would do a huge favor to mankind by hanging himself. Pathetic old has-been full of himself.
---- They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end But everybody's only looking out for themselves And you say who can you trust I'll tell you nobody
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| Varegan Hamranakara Posts: 912  |
After 3 years!!! he's jus in serious need of money! worse than chainsaw cunt drama 
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718  |
Written by InnerSelf on 25.11.2010 at 20:14 Chainsaw Cunt won't be a nominee.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| InnerSelf proofread free Posts: 2696  |
Written by Doc G. on 27.11.2010 at 23:08 I guess it is too offensive, or you just don't want to give the man recognition 
---- He who is not bold enough to be stared at from across the abyss is not bold enough to stare into it himself.
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| Doc G. Full Grown Hoser Staff Posts: 9718 |
Written by InnerSelf on 28.11.2010 at 17:38 Mostly the second reason. But more importantly, a no-name band that can't take criticism and decides to get their friends to troll on a forum isn't really noteworthy.
---- "I got a lot of really good ideas, problem is, most of them suck." - George Carlin
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504  |
Written by tea[m]ster on 26.11.2010 at 19:40 I guess it really must be the money, and quite possibly the stupid drugs others have already mentioned. I don't know why else my local news would report tonight on a GNR gig in Australia, where half the crowd walked out cos he was miming - after turning up, on the night, two hours late... ...drugs suck almost as much as Axl...
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=28982]wind up[/url] on Sundays
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| tea[m]ster Au Pays Natal Contributor Posts: 5266  |
Written by Syk on 03.12.2010 at 17:41 wow, talk about the bottom of the frickin' barrel, sounds like he needs an intervention.
---- rekt
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| RavenKing Posts: 1941 |
Written by tea[m]ster on 04.12.2010 at 21:06 Sounds like he doesn't have many brain cells left after so many years of drug abuse.
---- They shake your hand and they smile and they buy you a drink They say we'll be your friends we'll stick with you till the end But everybody's only looking out for themselves And you say who can you trust I'll tell you nobody
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| Boxcar Willy REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Posts: 9175  |
LMAO
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| bandido Posts: 25  |
Axl is such a freakin' asshole! Slash rocks!
---- "Rockin' every single piece of metal..."
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