Spurred on by Gone Country rock-star pal Sebastian Bach, rock icon and lead singer of Guns n’ Roses, Axl Rose, has begun work on an epic country album. In a nearly-coherent blog diatribe directed at some unnamed assailant in the Nashville press, Rose announced his plans in maniacally honest detail.
Here is an excerpt from that post:
“Despite this uneducated m*****-f*****’s baseless claims and slander against me, I will persevere and this album will see the light of the day in a few short months or possibly 17 years. I have already hired some of Nashville’s finest musicians and plan to alienate and fire them one by one until I end up with a band that in no way resembles the one that is intact at this moment. However, I will keep each person’s contribution and use them in multi-multi-tracked songs that are rich with sound the way a pizza burger stir-fry with chocolate ranch taco sauce is rich with taste.”
He continued: “I expect to go through somewhere between $2 and 25 million dollars of Curb Records’ money and have several label heads fired during the laborious recording process. I will spend my down-time: 1) hanging with Baz (Bach) and John Rich, 2) punching Nashville celebrities at charity events and 3) suing people. After finishing this record, I will resume recording of Chinese Democracy 2 which will come out posthumously. And hey, you scum-sucking, onerous piece of crap, you’ll never say that s*** about me again!”
The already mythical Arkansas Literacy album is expected to be an exclusive one-album deal with Target. Industry insiders predict it will sell around 150,000 the first week before tanking, after which Axl will make another rambling, curse-filled blog post blaming Target, Slash and the Jehovah’s Witnesses for weak sales.
Reported by “Trailer” Parkman of Farce the Music
Such a great one, Trailer.
Is it a bad sign that I initially thought this was true before remembering which site I’m on?
If Axl decides to tour Australia to support this album, he can enlist Catherine Britt to be an opening act as she has been known to cover “Sweet Child O’ Mine” in her concerts down under….
And do a far better job of it than Mr Rose and Co.
This is awesome!
Evidence: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y608d_gkYA
Carrie Underwood would like to call and raise…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVGzG26ezao&feature=related
The audio is better here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0KzHlbEk5c
a reply to steve harvey, you musnt listen to much of guns n roses then considering what words you have just uttered as you see AXL ROSE was the origional singer of those songs on every album, so you see that because appetite for destruction went to being one of the best recording and selling album of our time was due to not only the band but AXL ROSE’s brilliant high pictched screeching voice, so if you don’t like what hes doing with the new mixed lineup, chinese democracy or anything he wishes to do in the future then just dont listen and dont look upon news regarding any such thing as why bother when you will only slag him of and his material, but i wonder mate who is sleeping in a mega bucks mansion in a mega bucks bed and never worried about working another day in his life if i no axl and he was reading this i think hed laff at you !!!ha ha
Axl Rose is one of the most atrocious vocalists in popular music – his singing makes most GnR records unlistenable. Underwood and Britt are both far superior, and I’m by no means a huge Underwood fan.
I think the original is the superior version, but I like Underwood’s version better than Britt’s. I think Carrie does the crazy voice part better than Catherine does and I don’t like the reverb stuff at the end there.
You know, I saw Underwood live (opening for Randy Travis, incidentally) and her Guns n’ Roses covers were about the only thing that made much of an impression on me. She does them well.
Slightly off topic: Catherine Britt’s Too Far Gone album is fantastic.
You know I take your recommendations very seriously, but it seems that that album is difficult to come by now. Couldn’t find it on itunes, amazon or emusic. Well…I found used import copies on Amazon for like $44. I’m assuming you’re not recommending it quite that highly.:)
Actually, I found one for around $20 on Amazon.
I think I paid $25 or so for my Amazon import copy. Not usually one to spend that much on a CD, but I was desperate. I think it was worth it.
Paid a similar amount for Dusty Smiles & Heartbreak Cures. Good album, but not quite as worth it. Still haven’t checked out her latest, Little Wildflower. (Cough… if some smart publicist would like to send a review copy to receptive ears…)
Well, I guess I should be happy with the $20.90 copy then.
All her records are great. Dusty Smiles she cut when she was about 16, so it’s good, but up to the standard of her later work. Nice version of ‘Big Rock Candy Moutain’ though. Too Far Gone was produced by AJ’s producer (Keith Stegall) and is fantastic. Little Wildflower was produced by Brett Beavers (Dierks Bentley) is slightly less awesome, but features her best vocals by far. But all three records are worth having.
I don’t know why I skipped this one originally. One of the best!