Muse News & Micro Muse For August 23, 2005

Muse News & Micro Muse August 23, 2005

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright August 23, 2005

‘’Slash, Duff McKagan: See You In Court Axl!’’
Former Guns N’ Roses members Slash and Duff McKagan may be enjoying their current success as part of super group Velvet Revolver. But their creative tenure and contributions as part of Guns N’ Roses was indeed considerable. Unfortunately, also considerable was all of the GNR band members’ infighting, brawls, squabbles, mud slinging, particularly by and against GNR mercurial Bizzaro world frontman, Axl Rose. Last Wednesday, August 17, the war came to an ugly head, when Slash and McKagan filed a federal lawsuit against Rose in Los Angeles claiming that Rose sold the multimillion dollar publishing rights to the GNR back catalog to Sanctuary Publishing without their knowledge and consent, and then proceeded to keep the sizable cash all to himself. The lawsuit alleges that ‘’Suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego, Rose recently decided that he is no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners and bandmates in having created some of rock’s greatest hits. Rose’s actions were malicious, fraudulent, and oppressive, and undertaken in conscious disregard of Slash’s and Duff McKagan’s property rights’’. Slash and McKagan state that they were kept out of the loop entirely and had no knowledge of Rose’s lucrative business dealings until they didn’t receive their regular royalty checks for 2005’s first quarter. Now the two are seeking damages for fraud, copyright infringement, and among other items, breach of fiduciary duty. Gee, let’s all lay bets. Which will come first? Slash’s and McKagan’s rightful royalty checks or more than just Chinese Whispers of the forever delayed, overblown, over budget, just plain over, next GNR album, ‘’Chinese Democracy’’?

Source:
http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1508091/20050822/guns_n_roses.jhtml?headlines=true


‘’Elijah Wood Bashes Coldplay!’’
Say it’s not so Frodo! In the September 2005 issue of ‘’Spin Magazine’’, doe eyed actor and ‘’Lord Of The Rings’’ star Elijah Wood dishes oh his career and then gets to play guest music critic. Regarding Coldplay’s new album ‘’X&Y’’, Wood has this to say. ‘’I’m shocked that this record is getting the attention it’s getting. Of course, they’re a huge band, and there’s a lot of money behind them, but every single publication I’ve read has given it incredible reviews, like this is a masterpiece. Chris Martin has a great voice, he’s got good facial hair, but I don’t hear any new ideas. I hear the piano refrain from ‘’Clocks’’. Someone even called it ‘’Darling’’. Darling? If this is darling, we’ve got problems’’. Chris, I bet you would just be thrilled to review Wood’s new ‘’groundbreaking’’ film, ‘’Everything Is Illuminated’’. Oh, and by the way Elijah, you’re name is SCRATCHED OFF the guest list and you can forget about that back stage pass to that Coldplay concert. Gee, and just when you were hoping to score with your groupie, movie star hanger on date, who sure as hell wouldn’t shag you for your ultra nerd looks, and now you gotta break the news to her that she won’t get to meet the band. Guess you’re not gonna get laid tonight. Damn!


Muse News & Micro Muse August 23, 2005

By Arlene R. Weiss © Copyright August 23, 2005