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5 minutes ago, Sweersa said:Fernando hiding in the back across from Axl?
No, that's Andrei Gillot, king of the Pussy Posse
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2 minutes ago, Blackstar said:
Oh she's already his ex? They have a child together, don't they?
Yeah, she gave birth in June, I think. I only saw it when I googled it.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4799202/noor-alfallah-mick-jagger-al-pacino/
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Just now, Sweersa said:I'm sure she was in it for his personality.
She's from a really wealthy family apparently, but her first serious relationship was with Mick Jagger. She likes older men. I wonder if Axl is getting old enough
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4 minutes ago, Ratam said:
Who is it woman Birthday? Maybe someone of business music? Plus it guy narrate a nice story about Axl.
Apparently she's Al Pacino's ex. She turned 30
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12 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:
Why not "black haired prick" or "mustached prick"? Why focus on nationality? And yeah, I get that it is easy to point to them being part of an organization called "Team Brazil", but my counter-argument to that would then be that you should refer to him as that "Team Brazilian", although cumbersome. And referring to the Lebeis as "them Brazilians" started much earlier than "Team Brazil" was coined and founded. So yeah, I don't buy it. I certainly would find it weird if people singled out my nationality when they referred to me, like "That Norwegian prick," "that Norwegian asshole", similarly I am sure you would find it suspicious if people decided to refer to you as that "Czech fucker". Why single out nationality? It makes no sense unless you think nationality in itself makes a difference.
Black haired prick could be Slash. And I didn't even know Fernando had a mustache The Brazilians = Team Brazil. That cannot be misunderstood, it's clear communication. Brazilian isn't a slur word, is it?
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7 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:
Read the context. Not hard.
'The Brazilians' in this context seems to refer to Team Brazil. I don't see it as the whole population of Brazil.
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6 minutes ago, SoulMonster said:
Why do you not think she left exactly because of the infringement and sexual harassment reasons?
2 minutes ago, PatrickS77 said:Didn't it say in the papers she wasn't asked back?
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5 minutes ago, adamsapple said:
I don't mean this as an insult, but you have no idea how licensing works. By your logic you can go to a show and record a band to put out a bootleg you then make money off (getting paid by YouTube or streaming services, selling physical copies etc.) because with buying a ticket you already paid the band to play the music for you and now you own the music and can do whatever you want with it, right? Wrong! You paid for two hours of their service. If you want to put that service to further commercial use you might have to speak to the band management (no pun intended) and ask for licensing. This is how it works.
That is a bit skewed. We haven't paid for a private show, so we wouldn't be thinking we had the right to make money off bootlegs. That would be beyond silly. The band isn't working for us, we're just watching a show.
I am actually a freelancer myself (in Europe), and for the work I do for my clients, it is stipulated that they get the copyright too. I remember finding that really odd, as I would think it goes without saying that if someone pays me to do anything, and they buy my service, obviously they can do whatever they want with it afterwards, as it is theirs, since they paid for it. Maybe I'm too down to earth for all of that stuff. I see what Patrick means here. BUT it still is completely ignorant and unprofessional to not have any contract in writing stipulating the terms of Kat's work for GNR. So regardless of that, I still think (if there are indeed no written contracts) Fernando is to blame. It was his responsability, at least after 2016. I wonder if before that, Kat was just happy to lead a dream life as a young European girl touring the world with a rock band, but as she got older, she realized she wanted more than that, and had nothing concrete to fall back to.
It was a bit funny Jarmo stressing that HE never travelled with the band or stayed in the band's hotels
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Do you really have to be a feminist to think Fernando should go for his behaviour (if it's true, of course)? I would think being a decent human being would be enough.
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1 minute ago, Tom2112 said:
You're really having trouble reading my posts.
I didn't say it impacts the band members.
It impacts the band in terms of hiring new staff. Reputation. People especially women entering the camp now will read of this and that's a negative thing to carry around, ESPECIALLY if Fernando remains and they just sweep this under the rug with money.
I personally think there's only one answer and that's new management. If they sweep it away with hush money and go on like nothing happened then everybody looks bad and then it actually becomes a thing IF journalists decide to make a story out of it.
Will they be cancelled. Nope.
And then there are the people in the industry they have to deal with. Will they be okay negotiating with Fernando after this? This must tarnish his reputation as a businessman (). I couldn't even type this without laughing out loud, but you get what I mean.
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5 minutes ago, Jw224 said:
They'll probably try to settle this privately and we will hear nothing more about it. I'm not seeing Fernando's position changing or him leaving.
But why hasn't that happened then?
I think he'll quietly step down or be demoted, with no communication from the band. He will be able to live his life of luxury, but with a bit less bragging in public about it. Him just being out of the picture. That would be my guess.
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3 minutes ago, Voodoochild said:
They could address it with something like what they used already: “we take this accusations very seriously bla bla bla”. It works against them to not even say a word about it (and Rolling Stone should’ve made this very obvious, but that wasn’t very well written anyways).
I wonder if the sexual stuff was 'new'. Didn't the thing @Blackstar posted about the wrong filing in the Spring only mention the copyright stuff? So they were ready for the copyright stuff, but not the sexual harrassment?
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They must have known this for quite some time, so they must have some plan by now about how to tackle it. They knew this was coming. I doubt there will be a public resignation. I did have the feeling that Fernando was less visible the last year or so, but that could be my imagination. He was in the Perhaps video of course. Pity.
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Fernando will have to go from the public eye at least. I hear everyone saying of course his family won't drop him, but surely it must have some consequence? I would never drop my children, but if they've done something so wrong, there will have to be consequences. He obviously has problems. It's great that Axl is so loyal. Sadly, the same can't be said of Fernando. If he was loyal, he wouldn't do all that crap to endanger the whole 'family business' as he sees it. Even if he denies all the sexual harrassment or makes it into some consensual thing, fact remains he was at least way in over his head on the business side. He's not fit to manage GNR. Axl and Beta should have known that.
I wonder how Vanessa feels about it all. I hope they at least are the happy little family she portrays in social media. She seems to steer clear of all the drama and seems to be doing well as Axl's assistant who's always around.
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1 hour ago, Stay.Of.Execution said:
There's no way i remember all the dates, but going through my spotify playlist:
Axl/DC
Agnostic Front
Airbourne
Alice in Chains
American Nightmare
Antilopen Gang
The Atomic Bitchwax
The Baboon Show
Bad Religion (i think)
Billy Talent
The Black Dahlia Murder
Black Sabbath (last ever European show)
Body Count
boysetsfire
Caliban
Clutch
Colour Haze
Converge
Coolio (he stage dived into the crowd and got robbed, epic)
Cro-Mags
Crowbar
Danger Dan
Danko Jones
Deez Nuts
Deftones
Devil Driver
Die Ärzte
Die Kassierer
Die Toten Hosen
Dozer
Dredg
Dropkick Murphys
Earthless
Elder
Fast Times
Feine Sahne Fischfilet
Five Horse Johnson
Gojira
Good Clean Fun
Graveyard
Green Day
GNR
Hatebreed
Heaven Shall Burn
The Hives
Ignite
Incubus
Iron Walrus
KIZ
Kvelertak
Kyuss (without Josh)
Lamb of God
The Last Internationale
Liar
Life of Agony
Machine Head
Madball
Mastodon
Mehnersmoos
Metallica
Millencollin
Mobina Galore
Monomyth
Motorjesus
Muse
Neaera
NIN
NOFX
Oceansize
Opeth
Offspring
Orange Goblin
Pascow
Pearl Jam
Pennywise
QOTSA
Radio Moscow
RATM
Raised Fist
Rammstein
Red Fang
Refused (i think)
Rival Sons
Rocketchief
Sick of it All
Ska-P
Slapshot
Slayer
Smashing Pumpkins
Snapcase
Social Distortion
Soulfly
Spirit 84
Sum 41
Swiss & Die Andern
The Sword
Tenacious D
TOOL
Trial
Truckfighters
Velvet Revolver
Volbeat
Walls of Jericho
Zodiac
...and probably a few more i cant remember
I see you forgot Grace McKagan
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Just now, allwaystired said:
Some of those headlines aren't looking great either.....
"Guns 'N' Roses sued for copyright infringement and sexual harassment"
"Guns N' Roses Sued for Copyright Infringement; Band Brands Accusations False"
A causal scan reader is going to see this and draw a lot of conclusions about the behaviour of the band in general.
True, but that's how it always is. If I see any headlines like that, I try to read up more, because you know it's often not what it seems. But I'm sure most people don't bother and think: General asshole and misogynist Axl is at it again.
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5 hours ago, jamillos said:You know what, I now definitely believe you're a lawyer. Good day, mate.
5 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:You tell me, Mr. Legit Business Insider Lawyer Man
Why attack someone because he only has 5 posts and he says something you don't agree with? Bit silly. He's just giving his opinion, no need to be a bully about that. If you don't believe he's a lawyer, okay, no one cares. If you believe he's Fernando's lawyer? Fine too.
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1 hour ago, meadsoap said:
Kat had an actual job. She wasn't just hired because she's pretty, that's an awful assumption to make. Even if you meant to say it as criticism towards GnR and not her, it still has some nasty implications that cause people to not take women seriously in the workplace.
Well, it's not on us. She was picked out of front row because she wanted to show her pics, if I recall correctly. We can pretend her looks didn't matter, but I wasn't born yesterday and I don't think it benefits women in any way to put your head in the sand about that stuff happening.
Her work is widely appreciated, so even if she wasn't hired for her looks, her looks were what got her backstage to show her work to start with.
And that's exactly why it's wrong to pick out pretty girls to take backstage. It's demeaning and it leads to abuse.
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35 minutes ago, Propaganda said:
Are you seriously throwing my name around on a Kat Benzova thread? Or are you talking about another Andre?? She's really hot btw!
Anyways, Murph told me that someone was throwing around my name here, so I thought I would come here and say my piece.
I haven't been around in forums or discord groups in ages! I get my GNR news from Murph and another dude, and very rarely I come here to check out the reactions when there's new songs and make a comment on it. But I haven't been active in the forums for a very long time (since the locker leaks).
I don't know why people still dwell on stuff that happened 15 years ago (!?!), but for what it's worth, you have my guarantee that I didn't do anything wrong recently and I can guarantee that I'm not involved in any attempts to get songs or leaks or whatever you wanna call it, if that's what I'm being accused of (I didn't read it but that's usually the topic where my name gets brought up). As a matter of fact, I never leaked anything in my life, as I never had anything to begin with.
I think the stories of all the leaks are readily available online for everyone to read anyways, so go read it, and anyone knows the real characters in those stories.
My time in the public forums or discords is over, and I have no intentions of changing that.Furthermore, since I'm not active in the forums anymore, and if it makes you feel happier, mods you can go ahead and ban me from the forum, if you wish to do so.
I hope everything's well with the few people I know from here. Cheers!
As far as I know, Andrei Gilott was talked about, not you.
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4 minutes ago, Axl_morris said:
Why was she really hired in the first place?
Are job interviews usually conducted backstage? Was she really a photographer or was it cause she was pretty.
The whole appointment seemed seedy, like alot of the backstage models who were brought in to watch the shows at the time 2010-2012
I was just thinking that. That was kind of an omen.
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1 minute ago, James Bond said:
I think I missed this. What shows did Melissa miss? I do recall reading she was ill but only checked out the Hollywood Bowl footage and she was there. And did anybody fill in for her at the shows she missed?
She had pneumonia. I think her tech guy replaced her the shows she couldn't do.
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2 minutes ago, jamillos said:
I mean, she certainly would have found a way (DM in social media?), but as said above, it may have been more complicated.
She wasn't held captive. She obviously thought that she would get more out of it by not making trouble then, with his promising coffee table books and such. He also told her he loved her for years, she might have believed it at some point. We will never know that, of course, but for some reason, she only decided to go to court when she was thrown out.
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She should have left seven years ago.
Shame on everyone that must have had at least an idea about this. Seems we were right about Fernando. Little useless incompetent show off who thinks he's the man, given far too much power.
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12 minutes ago, jamillos said:
I'd say you've done quite a leap there. I mean, "The General is a monster" vs. "The General is Monsters". I don't know, man. Gramatically, it doesn't really quite click.
I don't think it's a leap. Do you think it's mere coincidence he called it a monster? If he'd called it straight out Monsters, it wouldn't have made any sense at the time. Now everyone just thought he meant it was a monster of a song. It sounds like the thing Fernando would find funny.
Right now, I'm going with the theory that Monsters was to be the hidden track, not one song with The General. Hopefully we'll still get it at some point. I'm still wondering about who leaked it all though. It must be someone very close to the band. As I believe it's Slash on it, I don't think it's something the hoarders have had for years. I think if they had, we would've heard of the Monsters title before this. No one had it. And it wasn't until Blackstar found the credits that we first heard of Monsters at all. And lo and behold, a few days later, everything leaks, right after the delay, on the day we should've gotten The General (and Monsters?) and a week later, they do The General live. I know people have been called morons on here for thinking the band was involved, but until further notice, I still believe it's someone associated with the band who leaked it. Just because I think no hoarders had it, and I don't see a random studio guy leaking it.
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Matt Sorum's Autobiography
in GUNS N' ROSES - DISCUSSION & NEWS
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I tried to look that up in this very thread. Except the Sheila Kennedy story (we keep repeating ourselves every few years!), I found that a rock reporter tweeted that the book was canceled, and it disappeared from the publisher's website. It did resurface afterwards in the edited version, I would imagine some people sounded the alarm after reading it.
Matt's book proves to me that most of what the band and their groupies were doing in those days, would be completely unacceptable now. I'm sure women, and especially Penthouse Pets, were treated like sexdolls back in the day. Not just by Axl or GNR, but by many bands. I mean, what are groupies? They offered themselves up to those young guys who had turned into rock stars overnight. I don't think all those guys would ask them what they liked or if they were okay with doing it this or that way. And I'm sure many of these girls 'were okay with it', because they dreamed of a life of partying and luxury, and were drugged/drunk for most of it anyway. Probably only (much) later on they realized that they were being used and abused and it wasn't all that much fun after all.