Blackstar

8 hours ago, W. Axl Kev said:

I associate Axl with some of the most interesting quotes ever. I've read this back to front 30 times since yesterday and I cannot make any sense of it. It feels satirical because it makes no apparent sense but the way it's displayed on that website makes it look like it's some legendary, celebrated remark. Latest thing in the litany of bizarre things these musicians have done in the last 25 years.

The conclusion of the discussion about this quote on the previous pages is that it's most likely fake, taken from an AI generated "book" site/app (and whoever is working on setting up the Axl website just found it by googling).

8 hours ago, W. Axl Kev said:

This is an interesting observation. He has a pending civil suit in New York and the last think his lawyers would want is him publishing a self evaluation of his, possibly ill-advised, behavior from the early years.

I guess that in the case of an autobiography this would be taken into consideration, and the release date of the book would be set after the lawsuit issue would be resolved.

1 hour ago, lunastar said:

What generally keeps GNR at UMG? If there are any obligations and circumstances that prevent the release of the album, then why not change the label?

UMG still owns the rights to the recordings of old releases (I'm not sure about the current status of AFD and Lies, as GN'R should have retained the rights to the recordings by now due to the time passed), so it probably wouldn't be convenient to move to another label for the distribution of the "new" songs (for which the label acts only as a distributor, as they are owned by GN'R).

And given the latter fact (that GN'R owns the rights to the recordings of the four "new" songs), I don't think there are any obstacles from the label that would prevent the release of a new album.

6 hours ago, downzy said:

It all depends on whether sales of Chinese Democracy repaid the money owed to UMG.  And what kind of album commitments had (or still has) with UMG. 

If Axl repaid his debts and isn't contractually to deliver additional albums, he likely retained rights to unreleased material without payment. 

If I had to bet, all of this was renegotiated at some point since the reunion.  It's just a matter of whether any recording during the CD sessions remains the property of UMG if Axl repaid UMG of all recording costs. 

The label appears to still own the rights to the songs that are on the Chinese Democracy album, whereas the rights to the "NITL" singles are registered with the US Copyright Office as owned by Gundam (the GN'R business entity).

12 hours ago, volxluvr said:

It was a conference between the attorneys and a judge to determine if Axl is declared served or not. The result of the conference hasn't been filed yet. They wanted the issue resolved before Axl's depo which I assume will still take place( unless something comes up to change it) Friday of next week. 

The next conference/hearing (which will be the compliance conference about the progress/status of the case) is set for Sept. 24, 2024, and the NOI due date (= the filing date of the form affirming that the depositions phase is completed and the case is ready for trial or other type of judgement) has been moved from Feb. 22, 2025 to Oct. 21, 2024.

So I guess there are no service issues. The purpose of the preliminary conference was the setting of the schedule and the case is proceeding with discovery (witness depositions etc.) which should be completed by September.

42 minutes ago, megaguns1982 said:

Personally if I was Axl I would be mortified at writing my own biography. 
He would have to address so much pompous bullshit he did in the 90s.

it would be embarrassing.

He wouldn't have to address everything. An autobiography doesn't have to be a tell-all.

7 minutes ago, evilfacelessturtle said:

Interesting. Could it be that he only bought the rights to those songs, though?

Yeah, it's possible that he has bought the rights to certain songs he wants to release.

2 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

What's going on with Axl's one? Any updates? Perhaps he's got the website ready to do press releases and rebuttals...ready to do a Neverland ranch style MJ direct to cam innocent profession....😸

No updates on the Axl one since his answer was filed.

5 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

For now at least....

Is he....I've not checked in on that one for weeks...is this fairly recent? 

It was about 6 weeks ago. I tried to explain it in the lawsuit thread here (and since then everything has pointed to the answer to both 1) and 2) being yes):

11 minutes ago, colonizedmind said:

No offence to Nandos life..

 

But the lawsuit going south for him, could certainly make our fortunes go NORTH! Every rockstar slags them to shit but there's a reason credible management get shit done....mild competence 

It's not happening. He's seemingly off the hook in the lawsuit.

1 hour ago, gavgnr said:

Please clarify 

I have a few times. In short:

According to the liner notes of the recent singles, GN'R owns the rights to the recordings, which means that GN'R, and not the label, paid for the re-recording and production. Which, in turn, may also mean that Axl has bought the rights to the original masters from the label.

1 hour ago, kiwiguns said:

The creation of this website, has nothing to do with releasing any music from the past. Universal Music via the Geffen Label own the music created by Guns N Roses including the CD era material.  Universal Music poured millions in the CD era material and unless they have sold the rights to that material, you aren't going to get anyone else releasing that material apart from Universal Music themselves. 

You keep saying this, but as I have pointed out to you before, there's indication that Axl has bought the rights to the CD era material.

(I know It's probably pointless to respond to any of your posts as I reckon that, like you always do, you'll once again ignore it and just keep saying your thing without engaging into a conversation).

19 hours ago, BucketEgg said:

Interestingly, someone noticed this site before us in late March, and tried (and failed, the archiving website  couldn't get the page) at archiving it.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/www.officialaxlrose.com/

 

Yeah, I saw that.

Also when the homepage comes up in google search, it has the introduction from the wikipedia article on Axl (so it seems that the developers originally used wikipedia as a source).

13 minutes ago, Illusion1987 said:

Yep! The world throws out a single breadcrumb about something/anything that could possibly be GNR related, on a very minor scale, and this site creates 500 pages to discuss.

Remember the Spotify "algorithms" and the album that HAD to be right around the corner ?

Now, we have an Axl Rose poorly constructed website, that could be real...or fake, and we are thinking its a lead to a solo album or an autobiography!

 

 

Whatever its purpose is, the website is not fake. It's real, and it's been launched and is operated by Live Nation, so naturally there's been speculation about what that may mean.

Just now, Ratam said:

The post of JanRichmond posted about Live Nation said 3/2/2024.

Yes, the privacy policy page on the website.

But I was talking about when the TikTok account was created.

The company that set up the website:

https://theskylineagency.com/

5 minutes ago, lunastar said:

Live nation. What does it mean? Has Axl finally sold out to the corporation?

Didn't you know that Live Nation is the promoter of the GN'R tours?

2 minutes ago, Bluefish18 said:

The liner notes on AFD had a random quote as well that no one knew what it meant:"with your bitch slap rappin and your cocaine tongue, you get nothing done"...its a stretch, but maybe those quotes (Ihaven;t looked at them) are new lyrics?

The quotes on that site (not just the Axl ones) are just fake, probably AI generated. So no, they're not lyrics.

https://loudwire.com/guns-n-roses-axl-rose-launches-website/

9 minutes ago, THELINESMAN said:

Did Axl have an old website?

He didn't. It was a music site called Spinner and the interview was also on the official GN'R site:

https://www.a-4-d.com/t6-2009-02-27-axl-rose-interview-with-spinner-magazine

(We have everything and more on a-4-d, so why look further?)

7 minutes ago, MildlyArtistic said:

As much as I hope he’s finally releasing an autobiography, I can’t wait for it to be something truly disappointing like a merch line or an NFT collection 

There's absolutely nothing suggesting it's about an autobiography, since it turned out that the book related site the (fake) quote is from is irrelevant and a scam.

But even if it's just about merch, I think it's positive that he's finally doing something under his own name.

There's a Myles quote page, too. Maybe he's going to release a book as well

https://www.bookey.app/quote-author/myles-kennedy

16 minutes ago, StrangerInThisTown said:

If you think the quotes are AI generated, how does one of them appear on his official website then? Because it does, but yet no one is aware of that one, even the most hardcore fans.

As someone said earlier, it's possible that the Axl website is still under development, and the PR team or whoever has been putting it together may have just googled for Axl quotes and came across that Bookey site/app.

The Bookey app looks scam like. Supposedly provides summaries and quotes from books for people who don't have time to read, lol. And their supposed "team" of people is probably really just AI.

14 minutes ago, Rindmelon said:

Do we know when both the official site & his quote page site were created?

The quote page was created on Aug. 30 2023, according to the source code.