BREAKING NEWS: LARS ULRICH AND AXL ROSE AREN’T NICE DUDES
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 4:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
I’ve gotten multiple e-mails from peeps about this interview The Eagles of Death Metal front dude Jesse Hughes just gave to the Montreal Mirror.
Now, I should preface this by saying I’ve heard very little of TEODM’s music, and what I hear didn’t do anything for me. But, clearly Hughes is a funny guy.
But the statements everyone is harping on seem kinda… well… shrug. Read for yourself:
On Axl Rose:“Like any other Guns N’ Roses fan, I find Axl to be really insulting. He cost a lot of people their jobs, a lot of heartache and probably some mental breakdowns while he fucked around on a record [Chinese Democracy] for 16 fucking years—just because he wanted to be a dick. I firmly believe that the gods of rock ’n’ roll just chose me to kick him out of the gang for gross misuse of power. Axl still has the opportunity to do something that no one expects him to do, which is something cool. I honestly think he can do it, but first, he really needs to control himself a bit, and most importantly, get a real friend.”
On other assholes in rock:“Lars Ulrich from Metallica is somebody who just really gets my gander up. You can tell the other guys in the band are cool and used to just be serious heshers who were probably whacked out on meth and would’ve kicked your ass in the ’80s. On the other hand, you have Lars, who is just this swishy Mary who grew his hair long, put on a denim jacket and infiltrated this cool gang. The only time I met him, he was wearing a golf pantsuit and everybody was wondering who this fat golfer dude was acting like an asshole in our backstage area. He could’ve been the greatest, but I went up to him after I figured out who he was and told him how much I loved Metallica, and he just looked through me and walked away. Thirty minutes later, Josh introduced me as the dude from the band, and he didn’t even remember me from a half-hour before and went on about how he thought we were rad. The only thing I wanted to do at that point was kick his ass.
In other news, water is wet. C’mon, Jesse, can’t you tell me something I don’t know? Calling Lars a “swishy Mary” is pretty funny (although it won’t do anything to quell those “Josh Homme hates gays” stories), but at least drag Scott Ian into or something. It’s been a good day for feuds. I know you can do better than this!!!
-AR
[via Blabbermouth]
While nobody will argue with his observations, he’s still in a boring band. I’d rather see Josh Homme do more Desert Sessions and QOTSA than waste his time with a talentless, greasy, day laborer cum musician like Jesse Hughes and EODM.
When I first read “talentless” I thought it said “Taintless” and immediately thought,
“that’s a good insult. Nobody wants to shit on their balls.”
Eh, he has a cool ’stache, I dig some Eagles of Death Metal tunes, and Josh Homme does hate gays and dwarves.
sounds like someone is just a little butt hurt that lars doesn’t give a shit who he is (as he shouldn’t).
eagles of death metal make lame muisic. NEXT.
I’m sure he really couldn’t give a fuck. He was being polite, dude snubbed him when he didn’t know who Jesse was, then he kissed his ass later.
i bet if lars chatted with every tom dick and harry who come up to him on any given day he wouldn’t have time to take a shit. i give him the benefit of the doubt considering no one knows if he was really being an asshole or not, maybe it was a misunderstanding. we only go by this dudes story so…
i also would like to mention i don’t give 2 tumbling fucks about lars, i just assume other dude got butt hurt that the drummer from metallica didn’t notice him the first time.
Especially since said person is talking about Metallica. I’m sure thats the last thing on the planet Lars wants to talk about. He was probably only the 100th person that day to try and talk Metallica with him.
Jesse, it’s “dander,” not “gander.” Maybe you were misquoted, I dunno. Or, maybe you’re a huge fan of geese. Who can tell these days?
Also, that story sounds……. well, not made up, really, just kinda’ exaggerated. For effect, I’m sure.
yeah eagles suck balls BUT swishy mary is a good one.
swishy-
TEODM are a fun band. Although, the last couple of albums aren’t near as good as the first.
This. But the most fun thing about this band is the story behind how they got their name.
That’s really the only reason I bought their first album. Which I’ve almost never listened to…
Huh. I should probably give that a spin.
I dig EoDM… their name is great, considering they’re not even remotely death metal, and they’ve got some great, catchy stuff.
I’m impressed that he didn’t even mention the whole ‘Pigeons of Shit Metal’ crack Axl made when he kicked them off his tour after the first show. But hey, everyone knows Axl Rose is a douchehose by now anyway.
slow news day?
Slow couple of news days…too much feud coverage. Who gives a fuck?
Hey, fuck off. EODM are insanely fun.
EODM are party music in the best sense, When I rock their music at a gathering it brings the genders together in a positive way. Man can not live on metal alone and god knows I’ve tried.
that’s exactly how lars is portrayed by many: a self-righteous drunk asshole. however, the story above has nothing on comedian jim bruer’s tales hanging out w/ lars. months back on the stern show he was telling wild stories about other famous ppl he’s hung out w/ (including voice impressions as well). long story short bruer goes out drinking w/ lars, some kid (who doesn’t recognize him) asks lars for a cig, lars flips out and tells him how hard he works for his $ (!!!), kid leaves politely, lars takes this bookbag w/ hundreds worth of college textbooks (which bruer found on the street and intended to return to the owner) and runs outdoors throwing these books everywhere yelling at the kid saying stuff like “here’s your fuckin’ books asshole! later they are walking to a different place… lars, who doesn’t stop walking for oncoming traffic, almost gets hit by a cab. so he jumps on the hood and yells at the driver. great guy, huh? as funny as it is, it might be an exagerration. but i believe it.
Who gives a fuck about Metallica or Guns n Roses anymore?
These bands stopped being GREAT a long time ago, yet they are still talked about on an every day basis.
Yes, but it would be more useful to you to recognize this as the grieving behavior it really is. We’re all still in mourning, years later. It’s like we’re hoping it was never true and our loved ones will rise from the grave.
I’m so personally shocked and saddened. I never realized that Lars and Axl were meanies…. GOOD LORD