Axl Cancels Rock In Rio Show, Blames Buckethead

Guns N' Roses have officially cancelled their appearance at Rock In Rio ? Lisbon, citing guitarist Buckethead's recent departure from the group as the cause of the cancellation. Frontman Axl Rose's official statement on the matter is as follows:

"The band has been put in an untenable position by guitarist Buckethead and his untimely departure.

"During his tenure with the band, Buckethead has been inconsistent and erratic in both his behavior and commitment ? despite being under contract ? creating uncertainty and confusion and making it virtually impossible to move forward with recording, rehearsals and live plans with confidence. His transient lifestyle has made it impossible for even his closest friends to have nearly any form of communication with him whatsoever.

"Last time I talked to Bucket, he called to tell me he had bought a bootleg DVD off EBay and how proud he was to be in Guns and how impressed he was with everyone's performance. Then, in February we got word from Brain that Bucket had called him and said he was back in Guns!? Apparently, according to Bucket he had been 'gone' but had turned himself around and was really excited to do Rio-Lisbon and a European tour. Somewhere in the following month things changed once again. According to those who have actually spoken with Buckethead, it appears his plans were to secure a recording contract with Sanctuary Records which I encouraged my management to make available to him, quit GN'R and to use his involvement in the upcoming Guns release to immediately promote his individual efforts...Nice guy!

"There is not a member of this camp that is not hurt, upset and ultimately disappointed by this event, and more to the point ? if not this individual, certainly this individual's choices. Regardless of anyone's opinions of me and what I may or may not deserve, clearly the fans, individuals in this band, management, crew and our support group do not deserve this type of treatment. We as a whole, definitely feel that we afforded Bucket every accommodation perhaps so much so that it may be that we or more precisely, I may have done Guns a disservice and unintentionally allowed Guns to be put in this position.

"On behalf of Guns N' Roses and myself I apologize to the fans who planned to see us at Rock In Rio - Lisbon. The festival and its tradition mean a lot to me personally and I sincerely do not enjoy being robbed by one of our own of the opportunity to be the first artist to play it for the third time. I would also like to express my gratitude to those who chose to embrace Buckethead's role in Guns and support our new line up. We greatly appreciate Bucket's contributions and remain open to 'discussions' as there are obviously several issues to resolve. In the meantime rather than dwelling on the negative, Guns will be moving forward and surprisingly (without giving away any details) this unfortunate set of circumstances may have given us the opportunity to take our recording that one extra step further. Regardless we hope to announce a release date within the next few months."

Comments

[Jerk]

2nd
Half of the ***ing band wont be there anyways.

[BOYLEDF]

buckethead needs to not have such a big head..

[acecchetto]

I'd like to start off with the fact that I like G'N'R, but they're never going to get off the ground again.... their making alot of noise, but not providing. It's too bad

[Until_it_sleeps]

they can't get off their asses to start again so they're screwed. If the members won't even bother to show then thats a dead end band

[alienfingersCR]

oh hell, hey ya, did you think that "guns & roses"
REALLY was going to play in rio?

[Milos]

I smell very bad assholes

[JHKH]

guns n roses suck never the same when they were the original line up axl is a dick

[mtv2 addict]

wouldn't it be cool if slash and axl resolved thier differences and got back together on the other guys departure.

However this is never going to happen so dream on!!!

[_1LaStTrY]

ok, what the hell was that, and what the hell is this :" him, quit GN'R and to use his involvement in the upcoming Guns release to immediately promote his"
Upcoming Guns Release, when ?!?! whe've been waiting so long, just release it dammit :|

It's pretty pathetic if Buckethead was just in Guns n Roses to promote himself, but it's really no suprise that they're not doing the gig.

[Ababil_Albarn]

Ahh!!! I actually used to like G'nR but now a can graciously say FUUUiCCCKKK

[Ababil_Albarn]

Fuck GnR Fuck Axl, Slash rocks, Axl Sucks!

[Night_Soul]

What? They are NOT coming here to Portugal? Ah great... :\

[monkee]

axl is a fatass and slash.....mmmmm, he rocks dude

[zepplinmike]

I knew it

[axeman84]

who really cares that they're not playing? i mean really,,,,g-n-r w/o slash just isn't happening

[Phoenixblade]

gee, never saw this one coming.

[fft_axl_rj]

alienfingersCR:
oh hell, hey ya, did you think that "guns & roses"
REALLY was going to play in rio?
actuallt, they wouldnt play in Rio, but in Lisbon... and they played the last Rock In Rio festival (that was in Rio), and there were some chances that they would play again...

[alienfingersCR]

without guitarist,mob?

[Encore_God]

This is probably the end of Guns N' Roses...what a shame...their new stuff rocks.

[niamh]

Axl rose cancelling a show..... now there's something you don't see often

*dripping with sarcasm*

GnR are/were a good band though

[civildp1]

During his tenure with the band, Buckethead has been inconsistent and erratic in both his behavior and commitment ? despite being under contract ? creating uncertainty and confusion and making it virtually impossible to move forward with recording, rehearsals and live plans with confidence. His transient lifestyle has made it impossible for even his closest friends to have nearly any form of communication with him whatsoever.


sounds like buckethead should change his name to axl

[Nirvanaboy07]

hahaha

[Jericho_13]

And I am not suprised why..?

[sultan_d87]

I have no penis and no friends so im going to leave now.

[FatMike88]

ummm axl rose is a vaginal tissue snot..slash kicks ass...why wouldnt you fight vince neil or motley crew axl? cause your a PUSSY!!!!

[cheekymonkey]

Since when did Axl start showing dedication to tour plans, and commitments? This is the same guy who has walked off stage, mid-performance, countless times. The same guy who keeps promising the world a new G 'n R album. The same guy that doesn't bother showing up for his own shows. And HE'S insulted that Buckethead pulled out of this show?

[behn_rocker]

buckethead is an incredible guitar player, and was wasting his time in gnr. it wasn't his styl;e of music, plus, for the last little while there were no tours from gnr.... so now he'll tour on his own. yes, buckethead is incredible... listen to some of his stuf

[nasty_santa409]

get the originals back together!!

[neurotica]

*** axl

[IAMIRONMAN]

just bring back slash its that f****n easy

[Wizcid]

Slash and Duff are now rockin with Velvet Revolver.. who have a drug addicted singer.. to go from dick to addict.. a productive switch?

[behn_rocker]

slash said that he'd never play with axl again... so don't hold your breath for a gnr originals reunion. plus velvet revolver is great. it's almost the original gnr too. but yea... axl has no lost 2 incredible guitar players... Slash and Buckethead. maybe if he releases new stuff or tours or does something productive with his band, he might keep a guitarist. i have all the respect in the world for axl, but he's got to get his act together.

[Cameo]

You know, the more axl talks to himself, the more it freaks me out.

Oh yeah, and maybe he should STOP BEATING A DEAD HORSE and retire to a life of living in mansions and drinking himself to sleep every night.

[SeeinYellow]

axl the ***ing queer headed ass... the fukd up gnr from the start... VELVET REVOLVER TIME... and yes thank you SLASH!!

suck a dog's balls axl

[Jack_skelington]

hmmmmm suprise, suprise, axl cancells a show.

[DrRocknRoll88]

HAHAHA And we are supposed to belive this crap? Axl probably made it up and in a month or so he'll say "Oh, Bucket is back in the band" while the whole time it was Axl who didn't want to play the show

[masta-bs]

hahahahahahahahahahahahah
ahahahahahahahahahahahahh
ah

[masta-bs]

hahahahahahahahahahahahah
hahahahahahahahahah

[masta-bs]

hahahahahahahahahah

[masta-bs]

ok im done now

[Troy Simple]

For a band that is no longer relavent and important - there are way too many news articles about them.

There seems to be a leak in the system.

Who keeps puting these GNR articles up here.

GNR doesn't exsist any more.

[Dave_Grohl]

wat is guns and roses without slash anywayz?
they aren't guns n roses anymore.
Axl is a whiney little bitch and buckethead is a freak

[hololos]

As ^^ said, Guns N Roses are virutally nothing without Slash. Never thought they'd go to Rock In Rio anyway. Axl's just a lazy biatch, i mean get your ass together and form GnR again, they're one of the best bands in the world.

[Mr_Zakk_Wylde]

if axl pulls it ne harder its gonna fall off...

[Jaymzhetfield29]

*** man whats happening first they say thir gonna do it now axl cancells it, they tryin to loose fans or what

[Subbacultcha]

GNR is a ***ing racist assface band without any artistic talant. Axl Rose is the worst KKK ***head there is. If you are against racism don't listen to them again.

[DTKK]

Feel sorry for the guys who had tickets.

[Lost_Rose]

first time i dont think you can really blame axl can you, its that dick buckethead, how quickly do you think a new guitarist can learn all the G'N'R stuff, come on think about it how good was slash it aint possible in 2 months

[Biohazard]

this whole article/interview of axl rose could possibly be an autobiography, but replacing axl with buckethead.

either way, axl cant live with the fact that he isnt famous anymore. he's trying so hard to become number one again, but it isnt going to happen since slash left. hell, it was awesome when duff was there. poor axl. i feel sorry for him

[MadFaDa]

i think Axl rocks,
but only his voice i think he is a terrific singer, but he's an asshole a complete. i dont like slash THAT much, i think he rocks, unfortunaly i think they are all at their greatest when they are together. and duff rocks cause he pens most of the tunes, i still think Slash should have got Mike Matijevic for Velvet Revolver instead of scott.
Rok on
Hail Ronnie James Dio
*Ronnie MadFaDa*

[Jack_skelington]

For a band that is no longer relavent and important - there are way too many news articles about them.

There seems to be a leak in the system.

Who keeps puting these GNR articles up here.

GNR doesn't exsist any more.


Guns n roses are a vary important band in the history of rock biyoch!!

[Subbacultcha]

"GNR doesn't exsist any more"

Thank god!!

[deapcyfer]

hey MadFaDa, get your shit straight, Izzy was the main writer for Gn'R not Duff. That' why I'm excited about Velvet Revolver, Izzy helped write some of the songs, and Slash is playing on them, it's gonna rock...although I gotta admit Set Me Free wasn't really up to par with what Slash can do, I mean I learned the whole song in like ten minutes

[punkAdIo212]

i like ur mom

[james86]

velvet revolver is much better than you axl one man band try to look for a new guitarist curse on you pal!!!!!!1

[Sepul-Tin]

hahaha, axl talkin bout someone elses behaviour being 'erratic!'

[Jason_877]

haha.. its all a bunch of shit.... axl is a dumbass and he don't realize it.

[Bleed_On_you]

Im Gonna quote DKTT , when he said
"Feel sorry for the guys who had tickets"
I DO FEEL SORRY FOR THOSE LOSERS
GUNS N' ROSES SUCKS WITHOUT SLASH
I FEEL SORRY FOR ANYONE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY TICKETS TO GnR WithOuT slASh!!

[TheWrEcKeD]

axl's a ***in hypocrit! BUCKETHEAD ROCKS, im sorry to tell u guys slash is good and all, hes cool, but buckethead is just a better guitarist, even if he seems likea freak, at least hes being original.

[goober]

not to be totally evil but now axl knows how izzy, slash, matt and duff felt... let down

[Vantage]

i agree with TheWrEcKeD.....he could be a freak but he's a damn good guitarist

[WhiteLightning]

yea i agree also

[StratSlinger421]

monkee wrote:

axl is a fatass and slash.....mmmmm, he rocks dude

hell yeah, and Buckethead rules

[xJohnxAnarchyx]

Lost_Rose wrote:

first time i dont think you can really blame axl can you, its that dick buckethead, how quickly do you think a new guitarist can learn all the G'N'R stuff, come on think about it how good was slash it aint possible in 2 months

dude seriously. listen to buckethead. guitarists like him can learn what slash did esily. it's like saying zakk wylde can't do what randy rhoads did. so there. if you sat down and learned a song a day by guns n' roses that you knew they played on tour it would take you no more than a month. IF YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOOD AT GUITAR THAT IS.

[xJohnxAnarchyx]

oh and not to mention it has ALWAYS been axl's fault. so i don't want to hear it.

[riti]

buckethead did right

[cotton3434]

bucketheads awesome. axl is too, but only because of his voice. apart from that he's an ass.

and im sure it was axl's fault. somehow.