Did you really feel "welcomed" to the jungle by axl rose, or do you think that was sort of just insincere, halfhearted graciousness?

apparently it always surprises his current band, too

guys, i'm legitimately really sad! 12-year-old me thought he was so cute and rebellious!

Our 8th-grade English teacher asked us, who's the next James Dean, the live-fast, die-young icon that will serve as the tragic face of our generation?

And we all said AXL!

yeah get bent otm - I've had a hard, hard time letting go. It's only since Chinese Democracy that I've stopped expecting anything good from him. I was always so hopeful, you know?

at least pplains' class got the "tragic" part right.

its weird how he lost his ability to dance and sing, are we sure the real axl didnt die young

he must have pressed a button of some kind.

but there's no denying he's always been a shitty person. it took me a while to fully come to terms with that.

I am mystified that anyone would have ever had the impression he was NOT a shitty person. being a shitty person was his whole persona!

yeah but teenage fandom doesn't really allow for realities of 'shitty person' to filter in, or at least it didn't for me

I had no idea til I was older that Slash was wasted 100% of the time, that they were all junkies etc

I mean I was 12, it's not like you're scouring the newspapers and magazines for THE REAL STORY

it's called denial. i really did not want to acknowledge that "one in a million" existed. la la la la can't hear you, etc.

this is like when friends of mine (primarily women) say they had no idea Boy George was gay

xp

I mean I was 12, it's not like you're scouring the newspapers and magazines for THE REAL STORY

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 4:08 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speak for yrself lady *tilts fedora*

encyclopedia lagoon on the case

this is like when friends of mine (primarily women) say they had no idea Boy George was gay

hey, my first rock star crush was george michael. no one's born with gaydar.

I guess boys schoolyard gossip covers different topics than girls'

when I was in elementary school it seems like EVERY SINGLE pop star was rumored to be gay - Michael Jackson, Motley Crue, Boy George, George Michael, all the guys in Duran Duran etc

I still love that there were dudes in my high school who were CONVINCED Poison was an all-female band

oh, they're female? who plays their instruments for them?

xpost Shakey that was me! George Michael too. I didn't know Freddie Mercury was gay til well after he died! I just liked their music and wasn't party to that information that other ppl knew. I had no older siblings or male friends or anyone that would ever think to clue me on that (which at the time would have also had to entail explaining what it was)

I led a very naive childhood/teendom, what can I say

tbf they do look like some fugly women here
http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/637/7242637.jpg

xpost DJP - Mr Veg has a story from college where he was hanging out with friends in their dorm room, and talking about cute girls. One of the guys in the group was all "I think those girls are SUPER hot" and pointed to the Look What The Cat Dragged In album-flat hanging on the wall

lol

what did Freddie Mercury have against Jaws and Star Wars? (I feel history has vindicated Freddie on the Star Wars front but this is a weird beef to have in a song about cycling.)

lol little boys are (were?) such vicious little homophobes it probably just got discussed amongst us more

xp

actually one time a guy I had a crush on told me that urban legend about Jon Bon Jovi getting his stomach pumped and them finding a litre of cum or whatever. and it wasn't til years later that I figured out that was supposed to imply he was gay. I was like, 14 or 15 and I was all, why would he drink semen? LOL :/

i totally remember that urban legend. but i heard it about rod stewart too.

yeah apparently there's a whole bunch of variations?

I know we all mourned MCA earlier this year, but every Beastie Boy fan knows that it was King Ad-Rock who was the first to die when he O.D.'ed in 1987.

my fave was the kid who told me an MTV film crew had, on live TV, interrupted Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil in the act of coitus

wow

was there peanut butter involved?

one the one hand, i have a horrible mental picture in my head
on the other hand, i'm glad it's not tommy lee and mick mars

haha as soon as i saw this post:

I guess boys schoolyard gossip covers different topics than girls'

― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 3:12 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...i was gonna say, in schoolyard gossip every single famous man has had a gallon of cum pumped out of his stomach. and here we are

marilyn manson was the last guy i recall that seemed to attract the gallons of cum/having rib removed to suck his own dick type rumors...i wonder who took up the mantle after he wasn't relevant anymore?

its weird how he lost his ability to dance and sing, are we sure the real axl didnt die young

― --bob marley (lag∞n), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:00 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

His voice sounded pretty darn good in 2006 believe it or not

macaulay culkin, one/all of the new kids, etc etc

xp hahah AAAAAND i was gonna say that the marilyn manson rib-removal story was kind of the industrial-goth variation on this thing

yeah get bent otm - I've had a hard, hard time letting go. It's only since Chinese Democracy that I've stopped expecting anything good from him. I was always so hopeful, you know?

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 7:58 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think CD is great. Axl can still write good music. Releasing it is a big hurdle.

i wonder who took up the mantle after he wasn't relevant anymore?

skrillex?

I first heard the rib removal story as an explanation of how Janet Jackson lost all of that weight between Rhythm Nation and janet

Janet Jackson had a rib removed so she could suck her own dick?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XOX_juLtAXU/T-OXGYgvIbI/AAAAAAAAAa8/s8ZyJS-ccqQ/s1600/hugh+marlowe.jpg

"I like that Axl, that quality of quiet graciousness."

are the rivers cuomo leg lengthening procedure and queen's dwarf cocaine party rumors still true?

Janet Jackson had a rib removed so she could suck her own dick?

puts "If" in a whole new light, doesn't it

hmm.

... as far as I know the Rivers Cuomo story is true?

Cuomo was born with his left leg 44 mm (13⁄4 in) shorter than his right leg. After the success of The Blue Album, Cuomo underwent a procedure to correct the condition. This involved the surgical breaking of the bone in his leg, followed by several months of wearing a steel brace which required self-administered "stretching" of the leg four times daily; Cuomo likened the ordeal to "crucifying [his] leg."[31] An x-ray of the leg is part of the album art for "The Good Life" single, and the experience inspired him to write the song. Cuomo can be seen wearing the brace on an episode of the Late Show with David Letterman, which can be found on their DVD Video Capture Device.

urban legends about pop stars are alive in the twitter era, lady gaga has a penis etc

i wonder if we can lend credibility to the manson story if we edit wikipedia to say he donated the rib to be ground up and incorporated in rivers leg.

lol @ "Cuomo was born with his left leg 44 mm (13⁄4 in) shorter than his right leg" -- i think the bigger issue would be a newborn baby with a leg that's over a foot long!

ah yeah gaga! she's got the juice it would take to have a fake dick rumor, props

I really want to make a Mailboxes Etc joke but it's totally inorganic and it would date me