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Re: GUNS N' ROSES Agrees To Pay Fine If It Hits Stage Late At ROCK IN RIO
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GUNS N' ROSES singer Axl Rose — who is notorious for his late arrivals onstage — has reportedly agreed to pay a fine if his band shows up later than scheduled for its headlining appearance at this year's Rock In Rio festival, on Sunday, October 2 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
When GUNS N' ROSES last performed at Rock In Rio in 2001, the band turned up almost two hours late. Luckily, the crowd patiently waited for their idol to come on stage and didn't create any problems for the festival organizers.
Rock in Rio's vice president Roberta Medina tells Época, Globo's weekly news magazine, that GUNS N' ROSES' appearance at the 2011 event was "the hardest to arrange on the history of the festival." She admitted that no other artists performing at the festival have had a "late" clause included in their contracts. "Bands are usually on time, but GUNS is a different case," she said. "Latenesses like the one in 2001 one can make the public feel uncomfortable and cause them to possibly start a riot."
In August 2010 radio interview, former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach, a close personal friend of Axl Rose, offered an explanation for why the GUNS N' ROSES frontman is persistently late going on stage.
"Everybody has all these theories as to why he acts the way he acts, and there's no big mystery," Bach said. "He tells me the source of all of the insanity — it's his voice. It's his job to sing like that, and sometimes that sound is hard for him. And a lot of singers, you know... To sing in that range is just not an easy thing to do. And he does what he can, and it takes him 45 more minutes to warm up his pipes so he can sing 'Sweet Child O'Mine'."
In the band's only U.S. appearance of 2010, at the Sturgis Bike Rally in South Dakota, GUNS N' ROSES missed its 11:00 p.m. start time by nearly two hours — leading many attendees to either leave or throw things at the stage. A festival official later explained that the delay was apparently due to a technical issue and not Axl Rose's well-known tendency to start shows hours behind schedule.
- tejastech08
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Baz is full of shit, haha.
- dave-gnfnr
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if it takes Axl that long to warm up his voice here is an idea. show up EARLIER to the venue.
- metallex78
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if it takes Axl that long to warm up his voice here is an idea. show up EARLIER to the venue.
Maybe no-one thought to actually tell Axl that...:laugh:
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Baz is full of shit... Axl himself said that he's gotta get in the mood, and basically played it off that Zeppelin used to do it, so that's why he does it.
The bottom line is, the guy is a procrastinator. It's a common trait in perfectionists, whether they are perfecting or fucking up, it's just there.
Simple as that, and frankly at this point - he's infamous for it. If you don't want the potential for having to deal with it, don't buy a fucking ticket, or on the day GN'R headlines, see the openers in the festival, then fucking leave before Guns.
Maybe when the Rio organizers see about 100 people out there for a festival show, and they never call him or offer their money to him ever again due to his unprofessional behavior, he'll get a fuckin' clue.
And those late fines by the way... have been levied on Guns since 1991. Just because Axl agrees to pay it, doesn't mean he's still not gonna come out until 1am.
- metallex78
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I also think it's just Axl's arrogance "I'll come on when I'M ready to perform, not when someone else tells me to"
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Oh yes, the more people bitch, the more he'll keep doing it.
Baz is so full of shit though...that was the lamest explenation in the history of exeplenations. Only beaten by "snow on the roof" I think.
Don't wanna deal with it? Don't book him, don't buy a ticket. Stay home. But until that happens, and 150 000 people show up in Rock in Rio, waiting for two hours time, he CAN keep doing it and he won't get it until 200 people show up, or everyone leaves before showtime.
As long as the profit goes his and the venues way, it will stay the same. And there is a profit. No one would book him if there wasn't. I think it's almost part of the profit now...
"Lets buy a ticket and see if Axl shows up late"
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The band should go on stage at showtime and just stand there with the fans until Axl decides to get out of bed of travel to the gig. I wonder if he would have the nerve to join them on stage when he finally gets there.
I hope the fine is as big as their appearance fee, thats the only way you'll get him onstage on time.
Its quite funny how at the show in Abu Dhabi, in a country with pretty strict decency laws and hefty punishments for breaking them, GNR were onstage bang on time 
- metallex78
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I get the whole "building anticipation" before going on thing, but making your fans wait 3 hours, is just stupid. But to Axl it isn't, it's just HIS way.
