is a hard rock band founded in 1985 in Los Angeles. His discography includes as many as 6 studio albums with a total circulation of over 100 million copies and several dozen timeless hits. The most popular ones include: “Paradise City”, “Don’t Cry” or “November Rain”. Although the band has crowds of fans all over the world, including in Poland, from time to time many accuse its vocalist Axl Rose of discrimination.
The Guns N’ Roses singer has been criticized for this statement for years. What did he really say?
The group’s fans certainly know its turbulent and difficult beginnings in the music industry. The difficult start was caused not only by the genre in which they specialize, but also by the bold statement of the band, who, according to rumors circulating since the 1990s, said that he would “never play for Poles and Jews”. The problem, however, is that such words never came from his mouth, and certainly not in the context in which they began to be prescribed. So what did this situation really look like?
The famous sentence, which was quickly picked up by media around the world, was originally “I will never play for polished jews”. The phrase used literally means “polished Jews” and referred to the nouveau riche. In most cases, these were brokers from , who were willing to pay a fortune for an artist to play for them privately. The singer was firmly against this type of practice and this is what he meant, but the incorrect interpretation of his words, which many began to repeat, cast a shadow on his career.
Legends have been circulating around this case for years. Under what circumstances did Axl Rose say these words?
It is not entirely known under what circumstances Axl Rose said this. According to Mick Wall in the book “Guns N’ Roses. The Last Giants of the Rock Jungle”, it could have been back in 1988, when the band was just taking its first steps in the industry. The musicians’ debut album “Appetite for Destruction” was gaining more and more popularity week by week, but its pace was not satisfactory. Then Alan Niven, who was the group’s manager at that time, came up with the idea that they should play a concert at the famous club “The Ritz” in New York, which would also be immortalized by MTV television cameras. He was said to be particularly outraged by this fact, and from the very beginning he opposed all attempts to “take shortcuts”, but finally, under pressure from the other members of the squad, he agreed to the proposal.
Imagine all the f***ing faces of the industry connoisseurs and assholes wasting money on the stockbrokers who were at that show. (…) Dear God, Axl was glaring at them for half the concert. Not everyone was happy, but most people consider this concert to be the best recorded Guns performance. But that’s what inspires Axl. He is inspired by confrontation. He is inspired by conflict. This is where he draws energy from
– author of a book in which he discussed in detail the band’s path to becoming rock legends.
Source: Gazeta
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