Dariablue Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Sorry if it's already been posted.http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/county-leader-regrets-renaming-street-for-guns-n-roses-after-graphic-las-vegas-promo-surfaces/2012/10/31/9fe381b6-2374-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.htmlLAS VEGAS — A county commissioner in Las Vegas says she regrets the board temporarily renamed a street in honor of Guns N’ Roses after finding out about the band’s suggestive publicity artwork.Ads promoting the band’s four-week run at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino depict a disheveled woman who appears to be sexually assaulted beneath the iconic “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign.“I hadn’t seen the advertising before the media event,” Commissioner Mary Beth Scow told the Las Vegas Sun. “It’s clearly inappropriate. Maybe it’s the risk of doing business with a rock band, but I guess we’ll have some remorse over this decision. It’s a lesson learned.”Scow represented Clark County at a ceremony Monday that renamed Paradise Road to Paradise City Road, after the band’s famous 1987 song. The county prepared street signs with the new name, on a promise that the band’s promoters would reimburse the $300 cost of doing so.Scow said she’d done her due diligence before the renaming, even listening to the song beforehand. She said she liked the line in the chorus, “Take me down to the paradise city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty.”But she later learned about the graphic posters, which are a sanitized version of the much-criticized cover from Guns N’ Roses’ debut album “Appetite for Destruction.” The original artwork featured an apparently unconscious woman with a breast exposed and underwear pulled below her knees. A robot stands by, and a monstrous flying creature descends on the scene as if to avenge her.It was such a controversial image when it debuted that producers ultimately put the art on the inside sleeve and used an image of skulls and a crucifix on the cover.The versions plastered on the sides of buses and on taxicabs in Las Vegas for the residency, which begins Wednesday, have the breast covered and don’t show the underwear, although the more risque version is still on the band’s website.An advocate for domestic violence victims said the county should rescind the street name change, and the band and venue should apologize for using the image.“It functions as a mechanism to normalize violence against women, and that’s not OK,” Lisa Lynn Chapman, spokeswoman for women’s shelter Safe Nest, told the Las Vegas Review-JournalShe also said the image could re-traumatize victims of sexual violence.“When we start looking at pictures objectifying women, we say, ‘OK, this is Vegas.’ This is beyond the pale, even for Vegas,” she said. “This is something that shouldn’t be celebrated in any community.”Representatives for the band did not immediately return calls seeking comment Wednesday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Anyone that'd name a street after a band like Guns n Roses ain't the full shilling in the first place if you ask me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzygirl Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Anyone that'd name a street after a band like Guns n Roses ain't the full shilling in the first place if you ask me.In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. We fuckin' rock. (Btw, yes, there is already a similar thread) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Len B'stard Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Anyone that'd name a street after a band like Guns n Roses ain't the full shilling in the first place if you ask me.In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. We fuckin' rock. (Btw, yes, there is already a similar thread)No wonder your countrys circling the gurgler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Linguini Occurrence Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Quite embarrassing the AP reporter doesn't know the difference between a cross and a crucifix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. Are there a lot of burley men in codpieces and leather lurking around the place? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Linguini Occurrence Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. We fuckin' rock. Yeah, well in Pennsylvania there is an actual fuckin' town named after fuckin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
izzygirl Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Anyone that'd name a street after a band like Guns n Roses ain't the full shilling in the first place if you ask me.In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. We fuckin' rock. (Btw, yes, there is already a similar thread)No wonder your countrys circling the gurgler You're jealous cos we are fuckin' cool. In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. Are there a lot of burley men in codpieces and leather lurking around the place?No? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazey Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Anyone that'd name a street after a band like Guns n Roses ain't the full shilling in the first place if you ask me.In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. We fuckin' rock. (Btw, yes, there is already a similar thread)No wonder your countrys circling the gurgler You're jealous cos we are fuckin' cool.In Madrid, there is a street called AC/DC. Are there a lot of burley men in codpieces and leather lurking around the place?No? Well I can see a grown man dressed in a school uniform so it's close enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RonMexico82 Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Isn't this like the third thread about this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsguy Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Isn't this like the third thread about this?yes, here is a four page one already: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimb0 Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 I jjust love how axl.... The one guy in the band that had ne thin to do w pc didnt show up to the ceremony. so rovk n roll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard2k Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Quite embarrassing the AP reporter doesn't know the difference between a cross and a crucifix.What? Why does that matter? Embarrassing for who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Linguini Occurrence Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Quite embarrassing the AP reporter doesn't know the difference between a cross and a crucifix.What? Why does that matter? Embarrassing for who?Embarrassing for the reporter. We are not talking about just some blogger, it's the Associated Press. They are supposed to have accurate stories, fact checkers, proper grammar/spelling/punctuation, all that good stuff. Many of us still do value quality writing ya know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val22 Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 Again, politicians doing shit without checking out the whole story first.Didn' they see the rape image before they agreed to change the sign? lolEven though it was the first GNR cover, I reallly don't think even Vegas would want that image to represent their city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJones90 Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 How on earth didn't they see this before hand? That poster has been around Vegas for a good while now hasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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