Axl Rose has once again proved to the world that he’s a massive douchebag.? We’re talking an orchestral rock, 8 minutes 57 seconds, inapproriate wedding dresses, helicopter shots of churches, epic douchebag.
But you knew that didn’t you?? Look at him, he’s a 12 year old girl that’s been doing hard drugs for 30 years.? What’s he done lately? Not much, pissed off his few remaining fans by playing diva at gigs and making them wait 15 bloody years for a lacklustre album that nobody bought.
It seems poor Rose can’t take the fact that we all still love Slash.? He’s still a rock god, still making fairly good rock, still not wearing stupid blonde hair extensions and he’s still making money.? Which Rose clearly isn’t.
Rose is heading to the courts to seek $20million from Activision Blizzard, developers of Guitar Hero III.? He’s claiming that Activision Blizzard promised him they wouldn’t use Slash in the game, or reference Slash’s involvement with Velvet Revolver.
That’s ?12.6million for using someone else in the game.
A guitar game.
Rose wants ?12.6million because Activision Blizzard used an image of the GUITARIST who wrote and played the GUITAR part, on GUITAR, in a game called GUITAR Hero. And that’s just the start, we wants them to GIVE HIM all profits from the game.
He’s also having a bitch about the use of Sweet Child O’Mine in an online version of the game.
If the game was called Narky Little Bitch Hero, we’d understand why Rose’s opinion would matter.? We know it’s all a matter of copyright and what not, but it’s still crazy.
Rose claims the developers:
“…began spinning a web of lies and deception to conceal its true intentions to feature Slash and VR prominently in ‘GH III.'”
We have no idea waht this means, or what lies were allegedly told.? But it’s going to make the court case fun.
The bit that really baffles us is the fact that Rose takes issue with Activision Blizzard’s moves to “promote the game by emphasizing and reinforcing an association between Slash and Guns N’ Roses and the band’s song Welcome to the Jungle.”
Surely it was obvious that the game was going to mention that Slash was in Guns N’ Roses? Because he was.? We’ve seen the pictures from the 80’s and compared them to Slash today.? That top hat hasn’t aged a day.
hecklerspray is by no means a hotbed of legal cleverness, but we know this case is going to be full of Axl being an egotistical man-baby demanding obscene amounts of money and, we hope, launching into a well documented sweary rant at a judge.
That may well precipitate a contempt of court charge and a night’s stay in the company of a 400lb man named Daisy who has a soft spot for ginger bitches.
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Tom J says
Activision Blizzard spend more money on bathroom soap dispensers than Axl Rose has in his entire fortune. Good luck fucking with THAT legal department.
Cookie Monster says
“Randy Figgins”? This fake name thing is getting funnier by the day.
Apologies if that is a real name (snicker… giggle…. bwahahaha). I mean, my first name is Cookie, for crying out loud, and I still find “Randy Figgins” hilarious! I am so going to name my first puppet-son “Randy Figgins Monster”. Oh, jebus, I can’t get the scene of a drag Terry Jones secretary answering a phone with “You have reached Randy Figgins Monster orrifice” out of my head.
Randy Figgins…