Boycott GN’R or Axl Rose Is Not Great Craic
Posted by Chris Harris on September 2, 2010 in Chicks, News, Poop, This Blows, Video
She thinks Axl is a kind of lube
That summer, I learned the expression craic (pronounced “crack”), which — to the Irish — means fun, entertainment and just general joviality. At first, when people asked me if something I was great craic, I figured they wanted drugs. Anywho, I bring all of this bullshit about a time long gone because of Axl Rose.
Continuing his European melodrama tour, the Guns N’ Roses frontman is alleged — in a post on Blabbermouth — to have stormed off stage 30 minutes into the band’s set September 1 at the 02 Arena in Dublin. Axl bolted after a bottle was thrown up on stage, even after good ‘ole Axl warned them to behave like adults.
Like previous gigs at Reading and Leeds, Guns didn’t go on until well over an hour after the support act was finished. People in the crowd booed and threw beer bottles on stage.
During the set’s opener, the every popular “Welcome to the Jungle,” a bottle was heaved at Axl. This was his response: “One more bottle and we’re going home. We’re here to have fun and we hope you are too, but one more and we are gone.” Three sings later, another bottle came whizzing by Axl’s field of cornrows. He grabbed the band and high-tailed it.
Then, at around 11 p.m., “a member of the O2 staff arrived on stage telling the crowd that there were some ‘technical difficulties’” [Edit: That’s one way of putting it] and they were trying to get Guns back on to finish. Then the bottled came fast, furious and like a flurry, as people left the arena, fed-up — like the rest of us — that seeing Guns N’ Roses has become some fucking dramatic endeavor, in which we’re forced to wait an hour for some rock hack to materialize with a bunch of dudes we could give a fuck about.
Look Axl — I know it’s your way or your way, but dude…when you delay your set by an hour, that inconveniences some of us who actually have to program our alarm clocks to go off every morning. You fuck with our evenings, and to be honest, we need to fucking boycott Guns — let ‘em know this aggression will not go unanswered.
Guns did return to the stage at about “11:25 p.m. and continued playing a set to a small but pretty irate crowd.”
Grow the fuck up, man. Its enough with the always-showing-up-late shit. You’re really tarnishing that image, Axl…tainting the legacy.
