| 30th November 2006 04:26 PM |
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| Dan |
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http://www.winterdrawings.com/how-to-find-axl-rose.html
Check out the blurb for this book. Sounds like a good laugh, albeit incredibly disturbing to think people like this exist to torment celebrities:
Searching the web in 2005 Daryl Waller came across a forum called ‘How to Find Axl Rose’. Amazed to see the amount of people posting messages searching and obsessing about Axl. He posted a message saying that he was the ‘real Axl Rose’ and could be emailed at [email protected]: -
Dear fans and un-fans. I am getting tired of reading these things on-line all the time, so here is my email address for you all to write your questions to me. If it goes crazy then I'll just let it go over its limit and set up a new account. I can't say I will read everything; I'm very busy these days.
I hope to hear from you all soon.
Best Wishes,
Axl
Hundreds of emails poured into the mailbox in a matter of weeks sent from people from all over the world, and while some assumed (rightly) that the email address was phoney, they wrote anyway, just in case.
The messages ranged from the canny “If you really are Axl, what was the name of your new song?” to the downright psychotic “Dear Axl, If you don’t reply to this I’m going to kill myself!” One girl wrote that she had been hiding in the bushes outside Axl’s house, stalking him, waiting for a glimpse of him at the petrol station, this girl later sends a harrowing letter as a Word document describing in depth a theory that hundreds of years ago Axl and herself were once one complete soul, a soul that she felt needed to be rejoined. After getting no response from Daryl throughout her final email is a vicious read where, ironically, she wishes it were Axl that had killed himself, and not Kurt Cobain.
You can see, that for some, Axl has made a really positive impact on their life, but there are also some really tormented souls out there who just cannot stop thinking about this man. Some emails had obviously taken hours to compose – they were long, egocentric monologues giving their complete autobiography, sometimes writing to Axl as a psychoanalyst.
Daryl had a fascinating four months reading all the emails. He replied to the few who needed further encouragement or wanted me him ‘prove’ he was Axl. For this proof he used information about Axl that is widely available on the web, details of where he lives, what he eats, what he likes to do and where he grew up, etc.
After being was satisfied with the amount of emails he’d received he posted another message on the forum telling everyone that he wasn’t the real Axl Rose after all, and that he had posted the message as a social experiment and apologised for causing any distress or upset. He reassured everyone that wasn’t trying to ridicule anyone and that it was just an idea that needed to run its course. A few people wrote asking how the project went. They were interested in the results, or how he felt about messing with people feelings. Predictably, he also got some angry ranting. The most interesting though were the ones who went into complete denial. One girl wrote to him (Daryl) saying how annoyed and angry she was, then a few days later she wrote to him at the same address saying she believed that Daryl was still the real Axl pretending to be a guy named Daryl to stop the rest of the fans emailing him. She took Daryl’s confession as a message that Axl loved her and nobody else. After it all had died down, he edited the thousands of emails and compiled the best of them into a book.
Daryl finds the extremes sycophants are prepared to go to find their idols captivating. It reinforces a belief that when you are famous and a fan approaches you, they often want something from you. There are many other threads to this piece of work such as notions of the celebrity era we live in and where the boundaries of public vs. private life lie. But maybe the most interesting factor was the amount of pure faith and 'hope against hope' that people had, it is absolutely extraordinary. You could liken it to the search for, or the attempt to communicate with, God. Except in this case they knew for a fact that ‘their’ God, Axl, was real, alive, a recluse hiding out in his mansion in LA.
Mr Winter 2006
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| 30th November 2006 04:59 PM |
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| nanatod |
In contravention to your story about the "fake" Axl Rose, Dan, yesterday I received a (personal) e-mail from the real Delaney Bramlett, who indicates that he will be doing a few short tours after the lst of the year. |
| 30th November 2006 05:03 PM |
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| lotsajizz |
dude's old |
| 1st December 2006 07:17 AM |
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| TornAndFrayed |
Speaking of Axl Rose...
NME.com reports that EAGLES OF DEATH METAL band leader Jesse "The Devil" Hughes has vented his anger at Axl Rose, saying the singer is "fucking out of his mind" after his band were thrown off GUNS N' ROSES' U.S. tour.
The band were reportedly "let go" after getting a hostile reception from the audience at a recent gig.
However speaking to NME.com, Hughes said he was "shocked" by Rose's reaction when he branded them "The Pigeons Of Shit Metal", and then sacked them from stage during a recent gig at Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena.
"Axl Rose is fucking out of his mind," raged Hughes. "He wasn't even there when we played. He got there about 30 minutes after we got done playing. He waltzed on to the stage and went nuts.
"He had a couple of fans thrown out for pissing him off. Then when he called us The Pigeons Of Shit Metal, Tommy Stinson, their bass player took his bass off and goes: 'Fuck you, that's it'. And then he threw his bass down. But then Axl picked up his bass and fucking threw it at him dude. It was a fucking circus up there."
Despite reports claiming that his band were thrown off the tour for the poor reception they received, Hughes said by the end of the show EODM managed to win the fans over.
"When we first walked out there the crowd were jeering but it was because we weren't Axl Rose," he admitted. "These kids had been waiting there since seven o'clock for the second coming of Christ and Axl wasn't there yet. So a bunch of happy go lucky sincere and real deal rock and rollers came out and started playing. The jeers only went on for a little bit. By the end of the set we'd won those fuckers over."
Despite throwing his band off tour, Hughes claims that his tour manager then received a call later that night from Rose's management apologizing for the singer's actions and he asked them to return for the remaining dates of GUNS N' ROSES' three-week tour.
"By the end of the night that guy [Rose] had caused a giant uproar," said Hughes. "It was like a total mutiny on the part of his band and everyone. I could hear screaming in the dressing room, 'Those are our friends and you've insulted our friends.' Then at 4am in the morning our tour manager gets a phone call which essentially amounted to: 'Axl's thought about it, he thought you guys were a band getting shoved on his tour from the label. He's really sorry and you're more than welcome to finish the tour.'
"When my manager told me that, I just said, 'You can tell that motherfucker to go and fuck himself because I will never go through that again.'" |
| 1st December 2006 07:28 AM |
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| lotsajizz |
he just cancelled another show
strep throat supposedly
if it's true, well-shit, you can't sing with strep...
but his reputation makes it less than easy to believe |
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