Was Axl Rose the biggest asshole in music of all time?

>>126890769 (OP)
He's mentally ill. Not a genuine asshole. Gotta be worse than that.

Axel has all the money. We do it when we wanna...

>>126890769 (OP)
Why are you calling him an arsehole?

>>126890769 (OP)
That would be Ian Watkins or Van Morrison

>>126890843
Van Morrison is hardly an asshole. What are you on about?

>>126890769 (OP)
possibly yes.

He sure looks like a total buffoon on the "Estranged" video.
>uh look at me, i am all sad and lonely and shit

John Lennon beat his wife

>>126890769 (OP)
You can't be the biggest asshole if there was a time when you were genuinely great and he was

>>126890769 (OP) Axl rox. A real showman, not only a singer.

Axl became infamous for showing up hours late to concerts or canceling them altogether—sometimes walking off stage mid-show. That kind of behavior angered fans, promoters, and bandmates alike. The most infamous was the 1991 St. Louis riot, where he jumped into the crowd, then left the stage, sparking chaos.

He was known for being controlling, especially as GN’R became more successful. Many blame him for the original lineup falling apart—especially his clashes with Slash. Some saw him as manipulative, using legal control over the band name to push others out.

Axl allegedly made decisions unilaterally, replacing bandmates without group consensus, demanding control over creative and business directions. He turned GN’R from a collaborative band into a one-man machine during the Chinese Democracy era.

Fans waited over a decade for an album that was constantly promised but never delivered. When it finally arrived in 2008, many thought the years of secrecy, perfectionism, and wasted money ($13 million+) weren’t justified.

Axl often came off as arrogant or aggressive in interviews. He refused Rock & Roll Hall of Fame appearances and burned bridges with journalists, calling out critics and refusing to play the industry game.

>>126890769 (OP)
mustaine

Mike Love or Roger Waters

>>126890856
He's a notorious dickhead. What are you talking about?

Axel is different terms. Always has. Fuck you

>>126890867
But his wife was Yoko Ono

>>126892284
He was beaten and raped as a kid. He was no mere asshole. His behavior could be extremely bizarre.
Example: When they were younger, he used to spend time at Slash's family house to crash because he didn't anywhere else. One time Axl lost his shit and was extremely rude to Slash's mom. Later, Slash and him were in a car and wanted to confront him.. but you know how Slash is: he's kind of lowkey and chill. He just wanted to correct the situation and get Axl to learn. And Axl didn't even say anything.... he opened the door and jumped out of the fucking car. lol

>>126892349
Are we talking about Van Morrison or Axl?

>>126892364
I don't know anything about Van Morrison.

>>126892383
lol... Oh, shit.. I asked that question hours ago. Hopped in again and assumed I was being asked about Axl. He's obviously mentally ill.
I'm just asking about Van Morrison. I've never heard anything Axl-tier.

>>126892404
Mentally ill? Nigga, I Want my money

>>126892413
>money
Were you at one of those shows that he ditched?

>>126890769 (OP)
>the biggest asshole in music of all time
Gary Glitter, Ian Watkins, and Pete Townsend.

>>126892404
I was confused for a second and feeling really bad for talking shit about Van Morrison for a second

>>126892455
You know it's bad when Ian Watkins makes Gary Glitter seem like a very respectable citizen

>>126892461
My bad. I need to pay attention.

>>126892505
Wipe the cum outta your eyes next time before talking to me, sissy bitch.

He was until he fronted Guns N Roses AND AC/DC at the same time. The biggest asshole in music is Kanye

>>126890769 (OP)
You hear two things about Axl:
He's a raging asshole
He's very sweet

Now that he seems to have his mental health issues in check, he's more on the sweet side

>>126890860
Holy shit, the dolphins are the worst part lmao

>>126890860
Axl dragging the whole band with him onto a tanker cause he wanted to jump into the ocean and swim with dolphins is one of the most based powermoves in music.

>>126890867
>>126892324
Have you ever seen my John Lennon wallpaper?

>>126890769 (OP)
I mean, Gary Glitter exists.

“I don't want any more beautiful girls in my videos; I'd rather have a dolphin.” - Axl Rose

>>126892349
Is that part in Slash’s book? I got it on my shelf and have been wanting to read it. Anyways, there’s a whacky story about Axl beating and being an abusive cunt to his fiance/ex-wife cause his personal spiritual advisor told him that they were native americans and married in a past life, and she ended up killing him.

>>126894291
I forgot where I heard it. It's told in a lot of places now, I think. It's almost like he reverted to being a little kid and ran in his room...except here, he jumped out of the car.

>>126890867
Yeah like one time. Meanwhile James Brown regularly beat his wife so savagely that people thought she wouldn't survive and no one gives a shit.

>>126891074
You chatgpt posters are worthless spergs.

It's kind of sad, but it seems like you almost have to be fucked up to be a great frontman. Someone with their head on straight isn't going to be that interesting (and that's a good thing..you probably shouldn't want this).

>>126895544
here's one example of slash telling the car story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucm205_urJk

>>126895651
There's another funny story from Izzy where he thought he'd make amends with Axl after years..and then when they got to talking, Axl started bringing up shit from all the way back in the 80s. Like he had a notebook or some shit of every offense and grudge he had that Izzy had to apologize for.
Contrast with him not being able to even accept Slash wanting him to treat his mom better.

>>126890769 (OP)
You had to have seen the vision though

I bet Kurt would have liked Axl if he just knew how fucked up he was. Axl saw a kindred spirit, but he was in the wrong band and got shat on.

>>126895742
Axl liked Nirvana until Kurt started flinging shit at him. Axl really was the victim here

>>126895651
What's the story, axl had a nap on slash's grandmother's couch and then awoke and got told to not sleep on the couch anymore and axl got upset and has a persecution complex? Am I following this right?

>>126895874
He didn't mention in the part on that show where Axl called his mom a bitch or something like that.

>>126895700
https://www.a-4-d.com/t2673-2001-06-dd-classic-rock-in-too-deep-izzy

He says his last face-to-face contact was six years ago. "I'd moved back out to LA. I bought this old Norton Commando 850 and was riding around one day and I thought, fuck it, I'll go by his house. Bastard, he lives up in the hills, in this big house. I'll go and see what he's up to, what he's doing, you know?

"And I go up and he's got security gates, cameras, walls, all this shit, you know. So I'm ringing the buzzers, and eventually somebody comes and takes me up and there he is. He's like, ''Hey, man! Glad to see you!' Gives me a big hug and shows me round his house. It was great.

"Then, I don't know, probably a month later, one night he calls me [and] we got into the issue of me leaving Guns N' Roses. I told him how it was on my side. Told him exactly how I felt about it and why I left. And man, that's the last time I've talked to the guy!

"But, I mean he had a fucking notepad. I could hear him [turning the pages] going, 'Well, ah, you said in 1982... blah, blah, blah...' And I'm like, what the fuck - 1982? He was bringing up a lot of really weird old shit. I'm like, whatever, man. But that's the last time I talked to him.

"Every two or three years I'll put a call in to the office and say, 'Hey, tell Axl gimme a call if he wants to'. But I mean... the weirdness of his life. To me, I live pretty normal. I can go anywhere. In 2001, I don't think people really give a shit. But for Axl, I knew for the longest time, because his face was all over the television, and stuff. I don't think he could really go anywhere or do anything.

"And I think because of that he kind of got himself in a little hole up there in the hills. He kind of dug in deeper and deeper and now I think he's gone so fucking deep he's just... I mean, I could be completely wrong. But I know he doesn't drive [unheard of in LA] and he doesn't... he doesn't do anything. I've never, never seen him in town.

>>126895962
one of the newer band members posted a birthday post for Axl
https://www.instagram.com/p/DFviTvQSU7J/

she wrote
>#ElephantMem

>>126895962
Just the fact that he left at the height of their success shows how hard Axl was to deal with. And he was rhythm guitarist a partial songwriter. Not too much pressure..but he still noped the fuck out.

>>126891915
>Roger Waters
The only "hero" antifatards have that isn't from a shitty punk band.

>>126895579
>I don't like information. get this out of here because of 'reasons'
okay retard. fuck off then, I guess

Not even close

>>126895874
yes

>>126890769 (OP)
There are far worse people in music history than Axl Rose. A lot of them. He also seems to be a good boy these days by all accounts, some musicians have remained total cunts into old age.

>>126890769 (OP)
That's not Jerry Lee Lewis.

>>126890769 (OP)
The most famous and successful? Yes.
Overall? Not even close.

>>126896207
>retard
I think you mean bloody bastard benechod, saar!

>>126890769 (OP)
No, Lou Reed was.

>>126892324

That still doesn't mean the first one deserved it. Her only crime was being fool enough to reproduce with John Lennon.

>>126892349
Axl was also a prostitute before his music career took off. He was probably raped all the time during said period.

>>126897505
Lou Reed was a troll to the press. Plenty of other people liked him.

>>126897763
wait, what!? is that why he has a track called Prostitute on Chinese Democracy?

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>>126890867
>beats wife
>forms band called the Beatles
It was a different time

>>126894224
He knows

>>126890769 (OP)
No. Pic related are. They bullied Jason Newsted relentlessly just because he wasn't Cliff Burton until he had enough and left and have been running over Kirk Hammett for 42 years now. They mocked Layne Staley's drug addiction from stage then turned up front row on Alice in Chains' unplugged concert as fanboys a year later. And ss soon as Metallica started to headline they didn't let the openers have a proper soundcheck. And when they toured with The Cult they saw Ian Astbury's gf walking around with a goldfish so they decided to drop hundreds of living fishes on The Cult during their last song to watch the gf run up on stage trying to save them.

And their trend chasing shit from trying to do prog metal on Justice to slow hair metal on Black Album, to alternative on Load/Re-Load to nu-metal on St. Anger.

>>126895962
my favorite piece of axl trivia is from the gnr fan forum where they somehow found out that axl has his own list of people he gives christmas presents to every year

>>126890769 (OP)
For sure.
Never heard of anyone else getting a 100k bail for being a retard.

>>126899434
They pranked us all with Load Reload St Anger and whatever else trash they decided was worth recording for the last 30 years.
I bet their set list is like 2 new songs and all their old classics slowed down and dumbed down so Lars can keep up.

>>126900818
do you happen to have the source for this? i want to see the list!