Jane M.

I need a gif of Axl giving the mic stand a hand job. He did it again last night during Mr. Brownstone, iirc or one of the first songs. 

Please?

26 minutes ago, Blackstar said:

...and the best looking member of the band

(I stole this from the Philadelphia thread)

Yeah, seems like it. It may have been something Slash said in that incident that brought up a traumatic memory from Axl's past and stroke him. When I read about it in Slash's book, I imagined it as a scene in a movie : Slash starts telling Axl gently to apologize to his grandmother, Axl looks outside, gradually Slash's voice becomes his stepfather's voice saying something like "apologize to your mother", Axl starts rocking back and forth and then jumps out.

In early April 1986, Music Connection, the L.A. weekly magazine, sent reporter Karen Burch to interview Guns. The band had been promised the cover of the magazine. (...) She found them still living at Vicky’s place, amid wall-to-wall amps, guitars everywhere, brimming ashtrays, garbage. (...)

Izzy would break in with sarcastic asides, cynical jokes, and open hostility. He would deflect her questions with: “Ask another,” “We don’t care about that,” “That’s a stupid question,” “No one gives a fuck about that,” “Next,” “Fuck you and your magazine.” (...)

She started by asking their ages, and it went downhill from there.

AXL: “Sure, we’ll reveal our ages.”

DUFF: “Yeah, we don’t care. I’m nineteen.”

AXL: “I’m twenty-four.”

SLASH: “No, Duff is twenty-two and I’m nineteen.”

IZZY: “This really does not fucking matter.”

SLASH: “Just fucking tell her.”

IZZY: “Axl isn’t really twenty-four. He’s a million years old! He’s seen fucking everything!”

VICKY: “C’mon—go with the real ages here.”

IZZY: “What’s the bullshit with the ages? That shit doesn’t matter to us.”

SLASH: “Izzy is twenty-three and Steve’s twenty-one.”

IZZY: “Just print that for the Rainbow so they’ll let us all in.”

SLASH: “Please—just don’t ask us where we’re from.”

IZZY: “Yeah, fuck that. There’ll be no shit in there about me being from Indiana, which deserves fucking nothing. It was a worthless fucking city. It’s shit.”

SLASH: “Can you print, like, ‘Indiana sucks’?”

IZZY: “The fact that I’m from Indiana has no business being in my career.”

(...)

She asked about songwriting. “We all write,” Axl answered. “I write the majority of the melodies, and we work on everything else.”

Slash said that Axl wrote all the lyrics and they all collaborated on the rest.

Axl continued: “We write in vans on the way to shows. We write songs when we’re hanging out on the corner waiting for someone to buy a bottle. Yeah—waiting for alcohol.”

“If I can speak for everybody,” Slash said, looking around at his already bored bandmates, “the whole point is that we want to reach a lot of people. We want to be a . . . worldwide exhibit! We don’t have to be accepted, we just wanna be a band that’s fucking out there.”

Slash’s inspiration sent Axl into a self-defining soliloquy: “I live for the songs,” Axl said. He paused. His tone changed, darkening. He seemed in a trance. The rest of the band woke up and leaned in to listen. “If I go through a bad time . . . well . . . anything I have to go through is worth it if I can get a song out of it. If I slept in a parking garage, and I hated it, and I wanted to give it all up . . . but I just kept going . . . and I got a song out of it, from the experience . . . then I’m so glad that I had to go through a ton of shit. . . . “When I’m onstage, that’s when I take what I’m worth to the public. I bring out everything I’ve worked on for the past month, show the people my songs, and give that feeling to them. “When I’m singing a line, I’m thinking of the feelings that made me come up with the song in the first place. At the same time, I think about how I feel singing those words now, and how those words are gonna hit the people in the crowd.”

Axl described the toll these feelings took on his body and mind. The band had all noticed how he would tremble after good shows. “I usually have to have someone stand beside me when I come offstage, because I can’t even tie my own shoes. I’ve gone through so many thoughts onstage.” He described looking out at a crowd of 700 and knowing 300 of them. He loved some, hated others, was in debt to this one, had slept with that one—ten times. “You see all this stuff, plus—you’re thinking about the feeling in the music. I put every possible thought I can, into every performance and every line.”

The room was quiet. They were listening carefully. Time stood still. “And that’s why I might be known as . . . histrionic . Because I go all out.”  (...)

Vicky came up with some cash and Steven and Duff left on a Marlboro run. Karen Burch went to the bathroom. While she was out of the room, they recorded some vulgar sexual suggestions on the tape for her to discover later. When she returned, she was shocked to find that Axl had broken her cassette recorder. He explained that he was going to leave a message on the tape, but he pushed the wrong buttons and the thing is fucked. Sorry. Vicky came up with another machine, and the interview continued.

DUFF: “We’re doin’ what we wanna,” glug glug, “and we’re pulling it off.”

IZZY: “We sell out every fuckin’ club in L.A. that we play.”

SLASH: “Listen, I don’t care if you think I’ve got a bad attitude, or if I’m being big-headed about it, but this is the only fuckin’ band that’s come of L.A. that’s real —and the kids know it.” Karen asked how the band got along with each other. Slash said that they didn’t have many friends outside of the band.

AXL: “We’re a family.”

DUFF: “When we go out, there’s nobody else we would have more fun with. If someone’s not there and then they show up, it’s like . . .”

AXL: “Great—you’re here! Let’s go! Rape! Pillage! Destroy!”

IZZY: “That’s our motto.”

Axl said that he thought the band would stay together as long as there was a spark between them.

IZZY: “Till we die, and then some.”

Steven said that even after they died, they would still be together.

SLASH: “Yeah, I mean . . . I loved my dog. . . .”

IZZY: “But then he died, and now you have Steve.”

STEVEN: “Hey—fuck you!”

AXL: “And we don’t share girlfriends.”

This set Slash off. He explained that they had girlfriends, somewhere in the past, but they had gotten rid of them when the band started to happen. “They’re a pain in the ass,” he opined about the girlfriends they’d had. “They take up too much fuckin’ time, and they have their own ideas which they’re constantly throwing in your face.”

Asked if they were as “bad” as people said they were, Slash replied, “We are.”

Duff added, “We have no choice.”

Axl concurred: “Trouble? All the time.”

The reporter gave everyone one wish.

Steven wished for peace of mind. Izzy said he wanted a Maserati. Slash wanted an endless supply of Marlboro cigarettes. Duff just wanted to have the GN’R record out, and to be on the road.

Axl was more prophetic. “I think that . . . I don’t like that question. It’s ridiculous because we are working on getting everything we want. If I had my wishes, I’d want all the money there is. I’d want power and control over everything there is, and third, I’d want all the wishes there are to have.”

Slash summed this up. “Axl is just another version of the Ayatollah.”

The other version of the Ayatollah then tried to spike the interview. He had hated the whole thing. He tried to sabotage the photo session for the promised cover story. He began calling Karen Burch. (...) When the story was published on April 14, 1986, it carried a disclaimer: “This issue’s cover [photo] and cover feature are running against the wishes of Guns N’ Roses, according to W. Axl Rose.”

Work it Duff!

Everything is so boring these days, we need another interview like that, ASAP.

Axl: "We're a family". LMAO

A very dysfunctional one that is. The way they talk shit, insult and sue one another, fight, don't talk for decades then make up and then everything goes to shit all over again....very love/hate relationship. Crazy mofos.

15 minutes ago, Frey said:

Yeah, that's a completely different woman obviously and that picture is clearly from the 80s. I hate how shit constantly gets mislabled and then spread around until everyone believes these things to be fact.

It's the same with all the pictures that are supposedly Axl's mother or father. The ONLY picture of Axl's mother that exists is the yearbook one dalsh posted here in this thread (and probably the woman in the blurry ones Lumikki posted). And the only picture of his father is MAYBE the yearbook one also posted here in this thread by dalsh, and even that's not sure.

I don't know why misinformation getting spread around pisses me off so much, but it does. And it gets so ridiculous at times. A while ago I saw a picture labeled as "baby Axl with his mom" somewhere. A happily smiling woman holding a happily smiling baby. That picture was clearly not a picture from the 60s, but a picture of a modern day baby with his mom, but no one seemed to realize that apparently

 

I know, it's crazy. 

2 hours ago, Lanna said:

 

and his ex-wife:

She doesn't look very well here /neither does he/.

Oh HELL NO! That ain't Annica. She wasn't around in the '80s when they "dated" that bunch of groupies/whores. LOL

Annica came into the picture after he got sober. 

Sorry was amazing! OMG.

25 minutes ago, Frey said:

I don't think I've ever seen pictures of her. But I'm willing to look at them if you've got some 

Annica used to be Izzy's wife and just like him there's almost nothing out there about her. Although I've never taken the time to do some serious stalkerish CSI detective on her so who knows.

You can see her in this video from 1991.

1 hour ago, Frey said:

Erin   By far the loveliest GNR lady of them all (although Susan was stunning as well when she was younger and less fake looking).

Annica Kreuter was very pretty too,  she still must be.

Certain type of medications can make you bloated, could be Axl's case. 

About Slash's sex life...I think he likes to make up a lot of shit to stir the pot. 

3 hours ago, ThermoNuclearWarrior said:

 

 

1:01:39 Poor Duff always trying to resolve everything and keep the peace Great show. 

The "I almost got butt fucked in Rio" rant was funny. 

1 hour ago, Mandy123 said:

 One of my fav Duff gifs. I told my husband to just play it on loop at my funeral lol. You just get hypnotized 

 

My God...what a sexy bitch

Steven is a cutie but not sexy material. Sorry about that.

I wanna be in the middle of these two

That HOF cartoon is too much for me. Everything that happens while Duff's talking LMAO!!! 

"Whatever, thanks".

It's so easy, Get in the ring, So fine....Duff is the man

Love his book too.

4 minutes ago, Billsfan said:

Back in Cali Steven must be then... Wonder when we will see him next?!?!

I mean I guess it'll be cool that they'll keep us guessing right...?

No.

Just now, Billsfan said:

So mean...I hate you all.

J/K

2 minutes ago, KeyserSoze said:

That's right now? Geez.

5 minutes ago, metalms said:

Seeing Steven out there, leads me to believe that initially they wanted a classic lineup reunion.  the Rigors of a full stadium tour/his fragile sobriety probably proved too much for Steven but the fact that he is THERE playing with them speaks volumes..IMO it is Izzy who refuses to do it for whatever the reason.  What leaves a bad taste in my mouth is Izzy's actions since the reunion, teaming up with "ex" gnr members.  He seems to be more concerned with promoting his new material via Twitter and latching on to the GNR machine without whom he would be working "a regular guy job"  No disrespect to the Izzy fans out there, but I would have more respect if Izzy just stood by his decision, instead of suddenly becoming Blabbermouth and twitters " media darling" very un IZZY like...

Agreed.

2 minutes ago, cremefraiche said:

hate to be the cynic, but gotta admit its gonna be a little bit funny when Izzy doesn't play tonight

Shut up. Lol

July 12, 2016: Izzygate Day!

7 minutes ago, smoking guns said:

Her and her friend were excited to meet Izzy and she was kind of bouncing up and down and he told her to stop bouncing lol. She said he was glued to Duff... Maybe Duff was being extra nice since Izzy was being cold?!? I will dig more. 

Glued to Duff? Lol Was he alone? Maybe he was missing Axl

7 minutes ago, smoking guns said:

Just asked her about dude with had behind them, she said  "No he had not come down yet".... 

You're such a good person and your friend too for keeping up with us. 

Yes he was wrongly fired. 

All of them were addicts, it's like hello pot, met kettle. It was unfair.

IMHO.

11 minutes ago, KeyserSoze said:

Duff RULES! As always.

1 minute ago, Slash787 said:

You are saying as if he always responded to your messages. He doesn't responses anyone, he just tweets what he likes. 

He tweets and deletes a lot too. Very annoying.

57 minutes ago, Padme said:

Hey girls can any of you be so kind and ask Izzy in twitter about that wierd ass story about him being pissed off with Adler? I don't use twitter otherwise I would've done it myself

 

Waste of time. We'll be ignored, as always or he'll have a nervous breakdown and close the account.

5 minutes ago, killuridols said:

This is what happens when you pick "fans" to go hang out backstage or whatever just based on their look and gender. You end up with a person who is clueless about the members of the band, making up stories and confusing the real fans. Now, we'll see this story spreaded all over the Internet, with headlines like "Izzy Stradlin reunites with GNR but doesn't want to go onstage" or "Grumpy Izzy Stradlin refuses to perform with reunited GNR" 

LOL

Grumpy Cat has some serious competition now.

4 minutes ago, Slash787 said:

How do you know they said that? 

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/ug_exclusive_gnr_deny_ordering_to_destroy_wheres_izzy_sign_izzys_family.html