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Rolling Stone linked to the document too: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/axl-rose-sexual-assault-lawsuit-1234892817/ https://www.scribd.com/document/686469629/Sheila-Kennedy-v-W-Axl-Rose

https://www.tmz.com/2023/11/22/axl-rose-denies-sexual-assault-claim-penthouse-model-lawsuit/

Axl is getting sued twice. Let's not forget that other lawsuit from the woman that got hurt by Axl's mic. Three times actually, if you count Kat's claim regarding hostile work environment against GNR. I doubt he signed the name and control back over to Duff and Slash, so he's gonna have to deal with that one as well - as an employer. I'm sorry for Frank, getting divorced sucks. If the accusations against Fernando and Axl are true I guess it's a case of fucked around and found out. I hope no one has to go to jail and all supposed victims get proper compensation if so applicable. Get ready for the "We're FN Bankrupt" residency - streamed live from Folsom Prison.

Try this: https://www.thedailybeast.com/axl-rose-sued-over-alleged-1989-rape

Good stuff! Once you read past the Slash worship and his usual "we have no setlist" routine he's actually saying something in this interview. Thanks for sharing!

To begin with? Everything.

Bon Jovi and GNR should do a double headlining tour, much better fit than GNR/Metallica these days. Prettier women in Bon Jovi's audience than GNR so that's another big plus.

Only thing I like about IRS is the vocals, that moment where he holds that note for eternity is awesome. But the lyrics just don't do much for me. HS is a better song to me overall, better lyrics, catchy chorus and I like the montage/credits rolling vibe (in lack of a better word) of it. They should have pitched HS to a movie production, it's cinematic, good stuff.

I didn't even know there was another version. The leak and live performance didn't do much for me yet, gonna wait for the official release and hopefully a proper mix to give the song another chance.

Maybe there's people on here who actually met and interacted with Fernando and observed him interacting with others on one occasion or another? Just a thought, not saying the poster you refer to did because I don't know.

Sort of, in like getting him a muse, but I'd go a different route, have him throw a party and invite a boatload of nice and pretty single women all as rich and famous as him. There's a nut for every bolt.

https://content-files.shure.com/Pubs/BETA58A/beta58a-specification-sheet-english.pdf Wireless version might differ, but these are usually about 300 gram.

I wasn't there that night, but I believe every word of that "story".

That's why I'm all for offering helmets at the merch stand. Maybe print a warning on each ticket "Incoming! Duck and cover at the end of Paradise City!"

I suppose some things are just common knowledge but I might be wrong about that. I mean it's not like Axl is intentionally hurting people at shows, it was clearly an accident. The damages that woman claims read as if she was beaten up by Mike Tyson. She got hit by a Shure Beta 58. Once. That thing weighs about 300 grams.

m. is my favourite: "...failing to instruct Axl Rose to use a microphone" Say what you want about Axl, but I'm sure he knows how to use a microphone. You go to a GNR concert you know Axl throws his mic at the end of the show - it's tradition! Never heard of Axl getting sued for throwing his mic or anyone getting hurt by it until recent tours. I guess that happens when 90% of your audience is "casual" fans having no idea what they are in for. Maybe they should start selling helmets instead of t-shirts.

I slipped last weekend, had a panic attack so it was basically medicine to calm me down, only smoked half a gram and didn't go on a full bender this time. Kicking cigarettes is tough, I'd say even harder than weed. If you can do without cigarettes I think you can do without weed too! But yeah, two weeks downtime and weed in the house is a recipe for disaster, at least for me. I try not to have too much around, so once I used up 5 or 10 grams max it's a reminder I already overdone it again and need to stop. I'll let you know when I figured that out

Fire Team Brazil. Get Axl a wife. All else will fall into place from there.

I understand both parties speak through their lawyers at this point, but I really can't see Axl treating this as a professional matter only, not at all. He went public about being abused sexually and his mother not stopping it. Now his surrogate mother Beta is being accused of doing nothing about her son sexually harassing a woman despite knowing about it first hand from the supposed victim. Innocent until proven guilty, yes, absolutely. However, if it turns out the things Kat said about Fernando and Beta are right, could we be looking at a mental health emergency for Axl and in that possibly the end of the band?

No, it's not. Your primary source of income is photography you will be taxed and insured as "artist". You play chess for a living tournaments and all, tax and insurance will file you under "athlete". Whether or not that makes any sense to you might be debatable, but the reality of that being legal facts is not.

Photography is an art form as much is chess is a sport.

Copyright applies to intellectual property, which can not be transmitted in any shape or form by the very nature of intellectual property. Licensing applies to the use of an end product of intellectual property, i.e. a picture, a song, a poem etc. Anyone who ever actually dealt with licensing of intellectual property will tell you the same. People tend to mix up a "service" of say a plumber with the "art" of a photographer. Both are contractors, both provide a service of some sort. But it's not the same thing. You hire ten plumbers and get more or less the same result. You hire ten photographers and get ten entirely different results. Why? Because a photographer aside from the "service" of taking a picture also provides the "art" of intellectual property - which can not be replicated exactly the same way by anyone ever. It's unique.

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.

When a photographer is hired/contracted, he or she is paid for their services like availability, commitment, taking pictures (usually with their own gear and sometimes even staff), post production of those pictures, providing the contractor with pictures etc. Copyright itself can not be sold, bought, rented, licensed or whatever - it remains with the photographer forever. The photographer usually licenses their work for a limited amount of time and space/use to the contractor. The contractor then has the legal right to use the work of the photographer according the license that was agreed on. The copyright claim is not bullshit, it's pretty serious actually. Here's why: If they used her work in commercial context without crediting her or even altered her work for commercial use without her agreement and/or no credit given to the photographer, they basically claimed/implied her work not to be hers and in worst case to be their own work, which is a severe breach of copyright, resulting in significant financial damages for the photographer at the time and later on. Example: Let's say some merch dude, promoter or a record company wants to license a picture Kat made to put it on a t-shirt, a poster, a CD cover or a magazine. They contact management to get proper licensing for the picture and Fernando then licenses the picture to them, not crediting the photographer despite better knowledge, claiming ownership of the work for himself despite better knowledge, negotiating prices and eventually taking the money fully aware it's not a legal thing to do. This would leave civil law right there as such practices are usually considered a criminal offenses named theft and fraud.

I would not underestimate the situation. Had her claims been filed before the start of the tour, gigs like Glastonbury might not have happened. Kat is not some groupie with a camera. Whether people like her style or not, she is a professional photographer who worked for acts bigger than GNR. Haven't heard of her making any claims towards those artists or any of their managers.