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i expected more of the video... just live performances, seing the beggining of axl in the car i tought it would be cool

I think its real, but it should stayed private, like when axl talked about slash in paraguay 2011

If you know about it, how is it private?

they talked on the tour bus, its a private conversation but the girl just made it public

I think its real, but it should stayed private, like when axl talked about slash in paraguay 2011

http://www.radiometal.com/en/article/behind-the-scenes-the-other-axl-rose,78375

Here’s her story :

« After Black Label Society’s show, while getting me a beer, an american guy (whose name is Andreï) stops me :

A: Hello, do you work here?

L: No…

A: Do you have a VIP pass?

L: No… (?!)

A: Do you want one?

L: … Are you serious? Yes of course!

A: Do you like Guns N’ Roses?

L: Are you kidding!

A: Ok, so meet me 15 min before the show at the VIP space, and I’ll bring you on stage.

L: (taken aback, asking myself if I really had understood everything and if my English was still correct) Ok, no problem, thank you so much!

Here I am, with a red VIP Press bracelet and a Cheshire Cat smile. 20 minutes before the end of Machine Head’s show, I go to the VIP area. I now enter the hidden part of the festival, decorated magnificently. I realise that this VIP area is just a nice place to chill out, without any access to the stages or the artists’ dressing rooms. I must confess that I’m a bit disappointed, even if I see some musicians who have played today. Thereupon, Andreï pops up, catches my arm and says :

Him : It’s you I saw this afternoon, isn’t it ?

Me : Yeah, it’s me !

Him : All right, follow me.

We now go behind the press area and take a stairway before getting to the side of the stage. He tells me to stay quiet, to switch off my cell and not to take photographs. Apart from Loïc (the sound engineer) and Benjamin Barbaud (Hellfest’s big boss), there are only women with me : an english one (who had arrived like me), two spanish girls who had been “recruited” during Sebastian Bach’s show and two other ladies accompanying Benjamin Barbaud.

The show begins. Andreï takes us beyond the “Do not cross” banner, so that we can see better. We have therefore the same view as Axl Rose, in front of a seemingly endlessly audience. During the show, DJ Ashba give us twice some Jägermeister shooters between the songs. Andrei comes back to give us the picks of Guns N’ Roses’ three guitarists and suggests to wait him here for an ‘after party’. We’re just close to Axl’s dressing room in which he changes himself after each song (he’s so concentrated that he looks angry).

After the show, Andreï takes us backstage : three french and two german women, the two spanish girls, and me. While we’re asking ourselves why we’re here, one of the French girls says disdainfully : “All right girls, don’t get nervous : the guys are on holiday tomorrow and they need girls from 2 to 7 a.m, that’s all !” She tells us she knows what this kind of “after party” is all about, having had an “affair” with Rammstein’s singer, Till Lindemann. Two of the French girls leave, afraid of getting soon knocked up. The two spanish women turn to me with a ‘What are we going to do now ?” look in their eyes. After having said to ourselves that this was a unique opportunity that couldn’t be missed, we decide to stay together, to see what happens and to leave if anything goes wrong : yes, we couldn’t leave like that without regretting it.

Andrei takes us next to a subdued lighted room with its huge “all you can eat” buffet (there is more than 15 pizzas, among other things !). He tells us to help ourselves while a cool DJ Ashba arrives, dragging on his electronic cigarette (yes, he has decided to quit smoking). Axl Roses comes a bit later, barefoot, with his dressing gown, a bottle of Champagne in his hand saying a loud “Champagne !”.

Here we are clinking glasses with Axl Rose and DJ Ashba. A little bit intimidated, we spend nearly two hours talking with DJ Ashba before Axl Roses suggests that we finish the evening in his tour-bus. Seeing us hesitating, he begins to tell us that sex, drugs and alcohol aren’t his thing anymore : he is now chaste, pure and goes to mass (how believable this is !). He says in a teasing way that he doesn’t want to kidnap us and have problems with the French police. We therefore accept and so we are six girls finishing the evening in Axl’s tour-bus with him and Andreï. We talk about tonight’s show and when Axl hears that “Live And Let Die” is my cell’s ringtone, he says to me : “Hey, that was Slash’s idea to make ring tones out of our songs. I wasn’t for it at the beginning, but I must admit he was right”. During the whole evening, Axl doesn’t stop telling us stories about Slash, about their childhood like when him and Slash had a new song and both jumped on his grandmother’s bed so happy, before being given a roasting. He goes on saying that it’s been very difficult to find an other guitarist after Slash, who was unique, and goes on praising DJ Ashba as a very nice human being. Clearly, Slash is still very much present in Axl’s life, even though he’s supposed not to be a part of it anymore…

He tells us his meeting with Tom Cruise, a great fan of the band : both him and Tom Cruise couldn’t meet for a long time because of their respective heavy workloads until one day, in Australia. Tom Cruise was so happy that, it has been said, he was jumping on every sofa he could find !

But Axl Rose seems nostalgic and regrets a lot of things : he tells us that he’s lost almost all his childhood friends because of his success and that their relationships changed when they started getting interested in him because of his relations.

He also deeply regrets the image that the press has made of him, making its profits of a megalomaniac, temperamental and erratic Axl, before making excuses to him, without doing it publicly. If Axl insists on the fact that he always tries to be direct and serious with the press, he’s unlike Zakk Wylde who can tease more without having a bad reputation in the press.

Likewise, says Axl, Slash is considered as an angel by many journalists but can be much less nice in private.

We are listening to Muse on the radio, “By The Sword” on Slash’s solo album is now on air. While Andreï stands up to switch to another station, Axl stops him and says “No, leave it. I love this song”.

It’s six a.m : it’s time to go home. After one – even two- big cuddles to Axl, we come out of the bus, still not realising what has just happened to us. Here we are, three girls in the middle of the festival area, completely deserted. After having walked a bit and enjoyed these last moments, we go back to the camping site to finish our night…”

Edit august 17, 2012 : On Twitter, Andrei Gillott refutes this story saying it’s “Complete Fabrication. Just someone hungry for some attention.” Let’s add that before putting this account online, we saw Andrei Gillott’s business card, the VIP pass given to our witness, guitar picks from all the band members that had been given to her too, not to mention the picture at the beginning of our article showing our witness and Axl Rose. Besides, we got in touch with two other girls who were at this party through Facebook to see if their side of the story was matching, and that was the case. For all of these reasons, we consider this account credible.

Andrei Said this was fake but in his twitter you can see the girls that saw this saying why is he lying about this.

Motivation is annoying

band member or related (like beta) not fans or forum members lol

That's, they only chek HTGTH but that page is boring as hell with boring topics, is it because Jarmo tells them to only go to htgth and no other forum?

That was great. Post the others!!!

Thanks! :xmasssanta:

Did you use the same audio track for the whole thing? That was really good.

Please let me know when and where you upload it, I'm looking forward to seeing the rest.

No, Different videos but "joined" the different audios for making 1 non stop video

Thanks for the interest ! going to upload it somewhere!

Awesome video man. Where's the rest of it?

Don't mind Broski. He hasn't been suspended for a week so I think he's getting pissy.

I'm going to upload the .iso but dont know where, thinking on a Torrent.

We don't like your kind here.

can you explain yourself?

Hi! I've made a pretty cool dvd, pls check this november rain video, Chile 2011 05.10.11

DJ: hi Axl look this songs ive made

Axl: cool, yaya, very fine, pls get me some coffee

this is not going to happen, axl is in spain ¬¬

What "near TX shows" at the end of the year?

fernando said that theyre playing near texas before the end of this year

So the band is just mind fucked if they do more shows with no reason, "near tx" means like not too much shows or fernando would have said: usa tour or east coast tour, something like that. There must be a reason for this shows, the 2009-2012 tour was for chinese democracy and for gaining the money the cd did not make

What do u think of new "near TX" shows at end this year? Maybe new songs cause it will be stupid for just making few shows with no reason, maybe its like rio 2001, a show to introduce new songs, but now Axl is taking is largest vacations since between 2010-2011 so maybe he comes back with killer 2010 level voice, Fuck theres alot to think

Do you really trust axl!??!?!

Chile 2011, First time Riff Raff played, 2nd time Estranged, 1st Estranged+November Rain+Dont Cry ever live since 93 and Axl in a very good mood, Tommy Stinson Birthday sing along lol, in Paradise City Axl weared everything the crowd was trowing to him

I shall now refer to him as "Fernando of Guns N' Roses fame". If I'm lucky he'll sign my copy of Appetite

There was a time when Axl fought his own fights, for right or wrong. Bumblefoot said what he felt and good on him, at least he didn't get his wife or somebody else to convey his thoughts for him

:rofl-lol: :rofl-lol:

Seems like forever...and a day

So did people pay for this shit and just get ripped off, or was nobody charged for receiving nothing?

money was gived back so nobody charged

They replied me about the show....