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Axl Rose Posts Second Rock Hall Letter, Apologizes to Cleveland
- Posted on Apr 17th 2012 6:11PM by Spinner
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Just a few days before Guns N' Roses were to be inducted into the Hall of Fame on April 14, Rose released a statement letting its organizers know that he wouldn't be attending the awards, and in a move that shocked the rock world, would also not be accepting the honor in absentia.
Today (April 17), the legendary rocker took to his personal Twitter account and posted another lengthy letter attempting to clarify the entire Rock and Roll Hall of Fame debacle.
Read Rose's entire statement below.
To: Cleveland, Ohio, Guns N' Roses Fans and everyone who's shown support for my decision regarding the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
I seriously didn't plan on or expect the overwhelmingly positive response and public support for my decision regarding the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. With such a generous outpouring of solidarity from fans, media outlets, writers and other artists, I'm truly humbled, blown away and unbelievably relieved! To be honest, I thought it would go the other way and was just hoping to weather the storm. As I said, I sincerely didn't want to disappoint anyone. It gets old being the outlaw even if "it's only rock and roll".
It took a lot of focus and soul searching to be sincere and informative while making a genuine effort to be somewhat diplomatic. We made, what I feel, are real efforts to learn about the Hall and the Board, spoke as I said with the president and various members, and though I inducted Elton John and Bernie Taupin in '94 saying something to the effect of "I'm learning what the Hall's about..."
I still don't exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes, who chooses the voters and why anyone or this board decides who, out of all the artists in the world that have contributed to this genre, officially "rock" enough to be in the Hall?
This isn't an attack. These are genuine issues I don't have enough verified information on to have more than rough ideas. Certainly not enough information to make any judgments about.
I would like to apologize to Cleveland, Ohio for not apologizing to them beforehand for not attending [the ceremony] in their city. I think they know how much I genuinely love performing there. Cleveland does in fact Rock!!
Now that the smoke's cleared a little, any desperate, misguided attacks have been just that, a pathetic stab at gossip, some lame vindictiveness, the usual entitlement crap, he's obsessed, crazy, volatile, a hater. I once bought a homeless woman a slice of pizza who yelled at me she wanted soup. We got her the soup. You can get your own.
Again: HUGE thanks to the fans and to everyone for the incredible public support. My congratulations to the other artists inducted. And my apologies to the city and people of Cleveland, Ohio. I hope you'll forgive me and we hope to see you again soon!
Keep Rockin',
Axl
Unlike my open letter to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Guns N' Roses Fans and Whom It May Concern this was written for GNR's official website, Facebook account and my personal twitter account and not intended as a press release. If anyone does choose to pick this up as has been done previously I'd appreciate if you'd run in full including this paragraph so as not to give a partial picture, have things taken out of context or to imply or inadvertently give the impression this was intended for other outlets.
Thanks in advance. Peace-
[Thanks to Antiquiet for the heads up!]
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Axl rules, period!! Did you see how TERRIBLE that moron who garbled his voice trying to imitate Axl at the Hall performance of "Not GN'R" - they should have just had the crowd sing!! EVERYONE knows the words to those songs, and anything would sound better than that fool!!
October 24 2012 at 12:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAxl is and always will be a whinning punk who thinks he is the one who made GNR what it was. Now I know why Traci Gunns walked out on him. Slash, Duff and the others were just as instramental in making the band a success and should be invited. GNR isnt even a band anymore. They are just a bunch of hired musicians because Axl is too much of a jerk off to keep real members in the band. IMHO it isnt GNR anymore, it is just Axl thinking he is above everyone else in the business.
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