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

rod stewart denies the semen-pumping story.

The book also clears up the urban myth about Stewart once ingesting so much semen that he had to have his stomach pumped. Stewart writes that his former publicist Tony Toon made up the tale after he was fired.

Stewart says that Toon "fed the press a story in which, as a consequence of an evening spent orally servicing a gang of sailors in a gay bar in San Diego, I had been required to check into a hospital emergency room to have my stomach pumped."

He continues: "I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor... And I have never had my stomach pumped, either of naval-issue semen nor of any other kind of semen."

Rod wasted a perfect opportunity to use a seaman pun. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that he threw away all his other opportunities at doing something cool

due to "you're in my heart" i always thought the rumor concerned his affection for manchester united

lol @ "I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor"

haha that's awesome

weirdly qualified that denial with 'orally'

Wake up maggie I think I got something to say to you - I have never orally pleasured even a solitary sailor!

omg tyler

really gives "sailing" a new lease of life

I must have heard this song 500 million times, but somehow I just heard for the first time Axl Rose saying "OH MY GOD" at the beginning. How did I miss that?

"either of naval-issue semen nor of any other kind of semen."

Well, uh, thanks for clearing that up, Rod!

What's not clear to me is why you'd need to have your stomach pumped after drinking a gallon of semen anyway. As far as I understand it, it is a perfectly healthy beverage though apparently its consistency is that of warm snot.

maybe you have your stomach pumped for other reasons and thus FIND 1 liter/gallon/hectare of semen in yr belly as a result

what's important is that i am so jealous of rod's way with the ladies that he is gay

I don't really buy the "semen is healthy! drink up, ladies, amirite?" thing

well I try to have 8 glasses a day but I struggle with that

It's full of protein, isn't it? That's why I heard Boy George named his record label 'More Protein', anyway!

The worst variant of the Guinness Diet ever.

http://alecguinness.com/starwars2.jpg

well played!

Damn, should have responded with

Brilliant!

if you suck me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine

oh god

"It's what gives a Jedi his power. It surrounds us and penetrates us; it binds the galaxy together."

ruined

everything ruined

look you started it

midichlorian necklace

boom

so to speak

look I was fine with the whole conversation until you brought in Alec Guinness

which says an awful lot about me, none of which I'm proud of

oh my distorted smile

it's a sociopsychotic state of bliss

what are you guys talking about

hahahaha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCHQwtiBbc0

guess what i'm doing now

http://www.musicradar.com/rhythm/brain-mantia-talks-guns-n-roses-chicken-coops-helicopters-and-chinese-democracy-556166/6

"We set up all the drums and I said, ‘This is the Guns N Roses album, we need a vibe’ and there was a temple upstairs that people used to do their speeches in. We went up there and it was a mini auditorium. As soon as I put drums up there and hit them I said, ‘Oh s***, this is the vibe’. They ran cords up there and eventually (then Guns guitarist) Bucket(head) set his chicken coop up there and that’s where he recorded. Bucket and I would look at each other and he’d been in the chicken coop with the wire and he brought in hay. We were up there for three years recording."

holy shit @ that twirling drums thing

We did the first show at Rock in Rio. We rehearsed for probably two or three months without Axl. Our first show’s Rock in Rio and I thought, ‘Wait, what’s it going to sound like with Axl? Where is Axl? Oh here’s his helicopter coming in.’

Axl's whole 'play this note for note exactly how it sounds on the recording' is v weird - iirc in that ClassicRockMagazine piece there's like 3 or 4 times where he did that?

it's pretty telling that Axl was obsessed with replacing all the parts from past bandmembers except the Buckethead stuff which he couldn't bear to abandon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW7Z20fJH6I

that is incredible, thank you for sharing that

beautifully looped.

GIMME SOME REGGAE!

Seen worse versions of "Pressure Drop."

haha you're aware of the "Pressure Drop" cover on Izzy's first solo album right?

Ha, I have that album and totally forgot!

Fascinatingly, this appears to be an adaptation of a real event, when Axl demanded reggae in the midst of "Knocking On Heaven's Door" at the Freddy Mercury Tribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2mzMlHmxYo

I like the looped, loopy version better.

oh yeah Axl said that regularly in "Knockin'" performances on the UYI tour, it's a well known thing. when the track was a radio hit MTV played the Freddie Mercury performance a lot as a standalone video.

So is that looped clip excerpted from a real show? No, right? It's a funny hybrid? Because that doesn't sound like any version of GNR doing the music. Sounds like Axl's demand, then synched to a goofy dance and different music. Though it would be hilarious if that was a straight-up legit clip.