Las Vegas Politician Not A Fan Of Guns N’ Roses
Posted by Chris Harris on October 31, 2012 in News
This is offensive, apparently
A Clark County politician has come out and expressed his “remorse” over the county’s decision to temporarily rename Paradise Road to Paradise City Road — in honor of Guns N’ Roses’ first-ever residency there.
That Las Vegas residency — called “Appetite For Democracy” — is coming up, and this politician doesn’t like the ads he’s seen around town, promoting the shows.
Reports describe the ad as a “cartoon-like drawing [that] depicts a robotic monster lurking over a skeletal robot, with a disheveled woman sprawled on a sidewalk, her underwear pulled down below her knees and her blouse opened, exposing a breast.”
Any true GN’R fans recognizes that imagery as the original artwork for Appetite for Destruction.
But Commissioner Mary Beth Scow clearly isn’t a GN’R fan.
Scow represented the county at a ceremony commemorating the temporary name change, but said she was unaware of the ad, which is being used in mainstream advertising, including newspaper promotions and taxicab placards.
“I hadn’t seen the advertising before the media event,” she told local news outlets. “It’s clearly inappropriate. Maybe it’s the risk of doing business with a rock band, but I guess we’ll have some remorse over this decision. It’s a lesson learned.”
GN’R’s residency kicks off tonight.
