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Re: Slash on Piers Morgan
I would like to hear what old Doug Goldstein has to say about all this. Axl's boy when all this went down. Something tells me we will never hear that tale!
I believe Axl, or rather his "camp" (Axl's lawyer, then Beta, then Del) attempted to get Goldstein involved asking him to side with Axl's version of events a few years ago. But Dougie had a different version of events from both Axl's as well as Slash N Duff's.
Doug recollects that John Reese the UYI Tour Manager had called him saying that Axl had said he wouldn't go onstage during the UYI tour unless they signed off the name. Doug also disagrees with the assertion by Slash and Duff that he told them to sign off on the name.
Besides Doug at the time didn't care too much to go out of his way to help Axl. He was still smarting over missing out on a $1,000,000 payment when Axl left Sancuary with Merck. Axl and Merck did that deed 2 weeks prior to Doug getting the back end of the deal he did with Sanctuary for the said sum of money.
Also before anyone (or one person in particular) asks, no this information is not recorded anywhere on the public record that I can provide a "link" to for proof. So feel free to take it with a grain of salt.
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Re: Slash on Piers Morgan
selection of an article featuring John Reese
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gen … _roll.html
A tour manager’s job should be simple: Get your band to the gig and make sure their needs (drugs, girls, bail money) are met along the way. Naturally, with Guns N’ Roses, nothing is simple. “As far as trouble goes, mainly it’s dealing with Axl,” says John Reese, who comanaged and tour-managed the band between 1988 and 1997. “He walks to the beat of his own drummer. He’s not real aware of the stimuli around him.” Reese bribed customs officials and once shuttled GNR out of Bogotá, Colombia, on a private plane to escape the clutches of a drug cartel. More recent tour managers have endured their own headaches: riots resulting from canceled dates in Vancouver and Philadelphia, when Axl failed to turn up on time, and springing Axl from a Swedish jail after the singer allegedly bit a hotel security guard’s leg. “Every single night there’s a possibility of a riot,” Reese says. “Axl would go on an hour and a half late, on average. Every travel arrangement, every hotel consideration everything’s centered on 'How am I going to get Axl Rose onstage tonight?’”
Fuck all about 'nerves' there....very like the hassle Slash talked about with Scott.
Maybe there is a mental disorder that grows in certain people who achieve huge fame? We call it being a fucking DIVA but maybe its not that simple..
By the way, I think the lateness has come up in sharp relief again because Axl has talked about his desire to push his new band in his RRHOF letter.
People seemed to feel it is now at last time for him to finally quit the bullshit and DO HIS JOB PROPERLY. he's in the business 30 years so he should be able to get the nuts and bolts right at this stage.
Re: Slash on Piers Morgan
Yeah i seen this there too GN'R Plan Late Shows In Advance http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/gen … vance.html
