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April 17, 2012

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Axl Rose has written another letter to fans explaining his decision to not attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony and apologizing to the city of Cleveland for the snub.

Last week, Axl wrote a long letter in which he said he declined his induction into the Hall of Fame. The group performed with Alter Bridge singer Myles Kennedy, and the Cleveland crowd booed every time Axl's name was mentioned during the ceremony.

This new letter ends with a request for the media to run the letter in full, so we'll do just that:

To: Cleveland, Ohio, Guns N' Roses Fans and everyone who's shown support for my decision regarding the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

I seriously didn't plan on or expect the overwhelmingly positive response and public support for my decision regarding the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. With such a generous outpouring of solidarity from fans, media outlets, writers and other artists, I'm truly humbled, blown away and unbelievably relieved! To be honest, I thought it would go the other way and was just hoping to weather the storm. As I said, I sincerely didn't want to disappoint anyone. It gets old being the outlaw even if "it's only rock and roll".

It took a lot of focus and soul searching to be sincere and informative while making a genuine effort to be somewhat diplomatic. We made, what I feel, are real efforts to learn about the Hall and the Board, spoke as I said with the president and various members, and though I inducted Elton John and Bernie Taupin in '94 saying something to the effect of "I'm learning what the Hall's about..."

I still don't exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes, who chooses the voters and why anyone or this board decides who, out of all the artists in the world that have contributed to this genre, officially "rock" enough to be in the Hall?

This isn't an attack. These are genuine issues I don't have enough verified information on to have more than rough ideas. Certainly not enough information to make any judgments about.

I would like to apologize to Cleveland, Ohio for not apologizing to them beforehand for not attending [the ceremony] in their city. I think they know how much I genuinely love performing there. Cleveland does in fact Rock!!

Now that the smoke's cleared a little, any desperate, misguided attacks have been just that, a pathetic stab at gossip, some lame vindictiveness, the usual entitlement crap, he's obsessed, crazy, volatile, a hater. I once bought a homeless woman a slice of pizza who yelled at me she wanted soup. We got her the soup. You can get your own.

Again: HUGE thanks to the fans and to everyone for the incredible public support. My congratulations to the other artists inducted. And my apologies to the city and people of Cleveland, Ohio. I hope you'll forgive me and we hope to see you again soon!

Keep Rockin',

Axl

Unlike my open letter to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Guns N' Roses Fans and Whom It May Concern this was written for GNR's official website, Facebook account and my personal twitter account and not intended as a press release. If anyone does choose to pick this up as has been done previously I'd appreciate if you'd run in full including this paragraph so as not to give a partial picture, have things taken out of context or to imply or inadvertently give the impression this was intended for other outlets.

Identity said:

I still don't exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes

Probably into Jann Wenner's bank account.

This dude really is feening for attention. Last week it was pretty much "no I'm not showing up, don't nobody accept anything on my behalf, the Hall doesn't give a fuck about me anyway, fuck you, goodbye". Now this week its "oh I'm so sorry for my rant, I forgot about my fans, oh heavens, I'm so sorry". Please shut up Axl. Goodbye.

Whatever Axl.

I eish he would just go away

I won't lie i dug Chinese Democracy even though it wasn't the ''real'' GNR

But with that said, he gives sometimes great performance. But a lot of the time it's lackluster... he wants to make a new album but we probably won't see it for 14 years...

Axl just need's to go away, Slash, Duff, Matt, Izzy & Even Stephan have been doing shit since the 90's. All Axl did was hype CD year after year & play some concerts. Put a fork in his red ass.....

Timmy84 said:

Whatever Axl.

That's probably what the band said everytime Axl made a suggestion

He's Borderline Personality Disorder.

rdhull said:

He's Borderline Personality Disorder.

He's jumped over the bordeline & than some

" he's obsessed, crazy, volatile, a hater."

not misguided attacks

the truth Axl, the truth...

Btw this trick is not really trying to say he doesn't know what the hall of fame is all about

I still don't exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes, who chooses the voters and why anyone or this board decides who, out of all the artists in the world that have contributed to this genre, officially "rock" enough to be in the Hall?

This isn't an attack. These are genuine issues I don't have enough verified information on to have more than rough ideas. Certainly not enough information to make any judgments about.

This mofo inducted Elton John & Performed. He know's what it's about & how they make money & he probably made money off it! shut the fuck up Asshole Rose

Gunsnhalen said:

Btw this trick is not really trying to say he doesn't know what the hall of fame is all about

I still don't exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes, who chooses the voters and why anyone or this board decides who, out of all the artists in the world that have contributed to this genre, officially "rock" enough to be in the Hall?

This isn't an attack. These are genuine issues I don't have enough verified information on to have more than rough ideas. Certainly not enough information to make any judgments about.

This mofo inducted Elton John & Performed. He know's what it's about & how they make money & he probably made money off it! shut the fuck up Asshole Rose

I was about to say "didn't this twit induct Elton John?"

Timmy84 said:

Gunsnhalen said:

Btw this trick is not really trying to say he doesn't know what the hall of fame is all about

I still don't exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes, who chooses the voters and why anyone or this board decides who, out of all the artists in the world that have contributed to this genre, officially "rock" enough to be in the Hall?

This isn't an attack. These are genuine issues I don't have enough verified information on to have more than rough ideas. Certainly not enough information to make any judgments about.

This mofo inducted Elton John & Performed. He know's what it's about & how they make money & he probably made money off it! shut the fuck up Asshole Rose

I was about to say "didn't this twit induct Elton John?"

THis trick really just slays me

And there are still people that defend him & say he's misunderstood like some people do for Prince. Well prince has religions & all sorts of weird shit going on. Axl is just a twat plain & simple twat twat twat.

Gunsnhalen said:

Timmy84 said:

I was about to say "didn't this twit induct Elton John?"

THis trick really just slays me

And there are still people that defend him & say he's misunderstood like some people do for Prince. Well prince has religions & all sorts of weird shit going on. Axl is just a twat plain & simple twat twat twat.

I can see why Prince can be seen as misunderstood, even he would admit he done some stupid shit but Axl don't see fault in anything he does or says or anything. Great frontman but someone who lacks judgment.

Axl said:

To: Cleveland, Ohio, Guns N' Roses Fans and everyone who's shown support for my decision regarding the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

I seriously didn't plan on or expect the overwhelmingly positive response and public support for my decision regarding the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. With such a generous outpouring of solidarity from fans, media outlets, writers and other artists, I'm truly humbled, blown away and unbelievably relieved! To be honest, I thought it would go the other way and was just hoping to weather the storm.

Is he being sarcastic? If not, wtf has he been reading?

Axl is genuinely, deeply crazy. He needs meds.

Prince is a lot of things, but he is not seriously, seriously insane.

Random thought: I hear Courtney Love is single. Axl might wanna give her a jingle.

scriptgirl said:

Axl is genuinely, deeply crazy. He needs meds.

Prince is a lot of things, but he is not seriously, seriously insane.

Random thought: I hear Courtney Love is single. Axl might wanna give her a jingle.

Prince is just as insane. He just doesn't have quite the penchant for trolling the internet or writing open letters that Axl does.

Usually.

To me he's just making the situation more of a 'scene' that it probably would've been if he just didn't show up...

Gunsnhalen said:

rdhull said:

He's Borderline Personality Disorder.

He's jumped over the bordeline & than some

20 years ago

Dren5 said:

To me he's just making the situation more of a 'scene' that it probably would've been if he just didn't show up...

Yep, no one is making a big deal out of Rod Stewart not showing up, and MCA (Beastie Boys) is still fighting cancer I hear, so he didn't go either.

rdhull said:

He's Borderline Personality Disorder.

just on the verge of having one?

Dren5 said:

To me he's just making the situation more of a 'scene' that it probably would've been if he just didn't show up...

Just? He did that with the initial letter.

scriptgirl said:

Axl is genuinely, deeply crazy. He needs meds.

Prince is a lot of things, but he is not seriously, seriously insane.

Random thought: I hear Courtney Love is single. Axl might wanna give her a jingle.

Prince is seriously, seriously insanse. But usually not in self destructive ways.

errant said:

scriptgirl said:

Axl is genuinely, deeply crazy. He needs meds.

Prince is a lot of things, but he is not seriously, seriously insane.

Random thought: I hear Courtney Love is single. Axl might wanna give her a jingle.

Prince is just as insane. He just doesn't have quite the penchant for trolling the internet or writing open letters that Axl does.

Usually.

Why do you guys say Prince is crazy? I know he used to be a bit wacky in the 80s and 90s but what's he done lately that makes him nutty? You know something I don't??

dancerella said:

errant said:

Prince is just as insane. He just doesn't have quite the penchant for trolling the internet or writing open letters that Axl does.

Usually.

Why do you guys say Prince is crazy? I know he used to be a bit wacky in the 80s and 90s but what's he done lately that makes him nutty? You know something I don't??

surely, you're joking.....

what ISN'T crazy about 75% that stuff that he says?

errant said:

dancerella said:

Why do you guys say Prince is crazy? I know he used to be a bit wacky in the 80s and 90s but what's he done lately that makes him nutty? You know something I don't??

surely, you're joking.....

what ISN'T crazy about 75% that stuff that he says?

lol! i did read an interview with him a few years and remember feeling a bit confused. i often have no idea what he's talking about. is that what you mean when you say he's insane?

Timmy84 said:

Gunsnhalen said:

THis trick really just slays me

And there are still people that defend him & say he's misunderstood like some people do for Prince. Well prince has religions & all sorts of weird shit going on. Axl is just a twat plain & simple twat twat twat.

I can see why Prince can be seen as misunderstood, even he would admit he done some stupid shit but Axl don't see fault in anything he does or says or anything. Great frontman but someone who lacks judgment.

Remember fellow orgers, THIS is the kind of bullshit that Slash had to put up with from Axl during their time in GNR.

TonyVanDam said:

Timmy84 said:

I can see why Prince can be seen as misunderstood, even he would admit he done some stupid shit but Axl don't see fault in anything he does or says or anything. Great frontman but someone who lacks judgment.

Remember fellow orgers, THIS is the kind of bullshit that Slash had to put up with from Axl during their time in GNR.

Not just Slash but Duff & Matt to the most.

They said Axl had all these crazy ideas for music. Which can be good but he was going way overboard & wanted like 18 minute songs & 96 piece orchestras. And opera singers all kinds of shit... hell November Rai was originally supposed to be over 20 min long talk about over indulgence

dancerella said:

errant said:

surely, you're joking.....

what ISN'T crazy about 75% that stuff that he says?

lol! i did read an interview with him a few years and remember feeling a bit confused. i often have no idea what he's talking about. is that what you mean when you say he's insane?

Haven't you read that burqa comment?

Hell, the fact that he's a JW alone is proof enough.

ludwig said:

dancerella said:

lol! i did read an interview with him a few years and remember feeling a bit confused. i often have no idea what he's talking about. is that what you mean when you say he's insane?

Haven't you read that burqa comment?

Hell, the fact that he's a JW alone is proof enough.

No I haven't. Please enlighten me!

dancerella said:

ludwig said:

Haven't you read that burqa comment?

Hell, the fact that he's a JW alone is proof enough.

No I haven't. Please enlighten me!

You see the little search engine on the right top of the page? It's easy to use and you could find that topic in a few seconds. But for you I'm doing the work:

http://prince.org/msg/105/361701