Axl should be happy someone remembers them.
Long washed up now, I can't remember the last time I heard one of their songs.
Crap band sues crap beer maker: Hair-metal rockers have an Axl to grind over Guns N' Rosé
Aged rockers Guns N' Roses are suing a Colorado brewery which has been flogging Guns N' Rosé beer. The fruit beer is flavoured with hibiscus and prickly pear, according to RatemyBeer – reason enough for legal action, we reckon. The 6 per cent brew gets a 3.1 out 5 by users of the site. It seems like Oskar Blues Brewery has …
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Saturday 11th May 2019 00:25 GMT The Nazz
Re: Axl should be happy someone remembers them.
Re Robbie Williams
I recall the press were quoting the deal at £80m.
For any novice collector who wishes to build a complete RW collection may i suggest your nearest, or indeed any charity shop, they will oblige as a one stop shop.
Back in my youth, as part of an admittedly amateurish and crap "punk" band, we had a band Anna. Nice girl and ever so obliging.
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Monday 13th May 2019 09:31 GMT werdsmith
Re: Axl should be happy someone remembers them.
Robbie Williams is lately in the news for upsetting Jimmy Page.
Jimmy lives in a posh house previously the home of John Betjeman and Richard Harris. He feels that his boyband neighbour is endangering the foundations by excavating his basement for a swimming pool.
Williams objects to Page's planning objections by being a neighbour from hell and doing bad Robert Plant impressions.
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Monday 13th May 2019 14:24 GMT Killing Time
Re: Axl should be happy someone remembers them.
@GruntyMcPugh
I fully agree with you. I wouldn't pay top dollar for a nostalgia trip. I would rather see a number of up and coming bands in their acendancy for the same money.
Personally I think Appetite is a good album which was just elevated by the poor Hair Metal which was around at the time, however that doesn't change the fact that GnR shifted a shed load of albums and clearly retain a lot of fans prepared to shell out to see them again.
Perhaps it's just a reflection of the state of rock music in the late eighties and that generation of fans highlights.
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Tuesday 28th January 2020 22:45 GMT IceC0ld
Re: Axl should be happy someone remembers them.
also AXL isn't exactly the same sylph like silhouette he once was either, more an AXXXL infact :oP
but I DO like the Guns n Rose' play
are there any other items with closely matched names out there ?
I know the music side of things was always rife with the tribute bands carrying clever plays on names
Oasis - No Way Sis
and so on
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Monday 13th May 2019 05:34 GMT Killing Time
Re: Decent enough?
'Rating music by the number of copies sold pretty quickly has you trying to defend Katy Perry or even Kiss.'
Actually I was pointing out that an act which has sold a truly significant amount of albums is just not going to be a support band to someone else. Additionally, as it happens, Appetite for Destruction didn't receive much acclaim or sales when first released.
If you are going to contribute you really should check you facts before exposing your prejudices.
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Monday 13th May 2019 14:47 GMT JoMe
Re: The brewery should take a tip from Apple
Eh some people like to blow off steam. Not like they had a number one album on the top 200 billboard (Appetite for Destruction, 1987), have any member of their band in a "top 100 of all time" list (Slash, 65), has a singer with decent range (Axl Rose*), or get inducted into the Rock n Roll hall of fame (2012 I believe), and hey Elton John didn't even know who they were (oops, he played piano onstage for November Rain).
Nope, I guess to some people who wouldn't know rock if it bit them on the bum, they're just an unknown bunch of rockers that did nothing of note, had nobody of note, or played anything iconic to the genre like Sweet Child o' Mine or Welcome to the Jungle. Sigh.
* Axl is near the top of the list for range, 5 octaves with a 2.5 note range. Yes there are more out there, but he's somewhere around 6th in the top ten of history.
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Monday 13th May 2019 01:48 GMT skeptical i
Re: The brewery should take a tip from Apple
Or call it "Fat Axl" -- it would have to be a blond, full-bodied ale -- and serve it in a glass with a bandana wrapped around the base instead of on a coaster.
Then he'd have the admirable job of claiming to a court that yes, it is some sort of trademark infringement because, yes indeed, he is the Fat Axl namesake.
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Friday 10th May 2019 19:40 GMT Alistair
Sounds like a reach to me.
Both the beverage and the band.
And if my recollection stands correct, one would want to have consumed quite a few of the Guns and Rose before attending a Guns and Roses concert.
(Yes, I get the copyright/trademark defence, but I'd be asking them to stop brewing crap in my name, it would be more about defending the palates of their victims than the band's trademark)
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Monday 13th May 2019 10:23 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: Sounds like a reach to me.
I like a fruit beer every so often. I blame the Belgians. Dangerous stuff though, if you're sitting outside a bar, the sun is shining and the beer is 8% - the only thing that can save you from falling into a drunken stupor is the slow service that you get almost everywhere in Brussels.
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Friday 10th May 2019 20:02 GMT Malcolm Weir
I think it's dodgy, and probably inspired by lawyers thinking to bill some hours.
First of all, the logos are very different. Second, the words are different. Third, beer is not music or clothing (which is what the band has a trademark about), So fundamentally is 'Guns 'n' Rose' likely to confuse anyone into thinking this is a product associated with 'Guns n' Roses'? of course not!
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Saturday 11th May 2019 10:36 GMT TheProf
I'll not have one of those
I'll stand with the band on this one.
It's not nice to be hoodwinked and that's what this brewery is doing. Selling beer and 'pretending' it isn't anything to do with Guns N' Roses when all the imagery surrounding it is carefully designed make the buyer think it's connected with GNR.
It's a false association with a well known brand name and it's dishonest.
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Sunday 12th May 2019 17:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: I'll not have one of those
Quite right. And I strongly disapprove of the obvious attempt by these new fangled "popular" musicians to capitalise on the reputation of the Great Northern Railway.
OK so it disappeared in 1923. But before that my grandfather had returned from the War hoping to return to his home in London and was promptly posted up to Lincolnshire to refurbish signal boxes, which he hated. For him there was only one GNR.
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Monday 13th May 2019 05:48 GMT Dave 126
Duff Beer
The beer in The Simpsons, Duff McKagen, was named after Guns n Roses' bass player. Before Duff ended up in intensive care and stopped drinking, Axl had introduced him as "Duff, King of beers" on a US talkshow.
Source: Saturday Live - @bbcradio4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004mz6
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Monday 13th May 2019 09:50 GMT Big_Boomer
Try it before you diss it
No, not GnR, I mean the beer. Typical lager/bitter drinkers narrow minded comments w.r.t. to the Guns & Rosé Beer. Yes, the idiot brewers are in breach of copyright, yes a fruit beer can be quite nice (try Hoegaarden Rosé or Bellevue Kriek). I grew up in Beer Heaven (Belgium) so have quite broad tastes in Beer ranging from a nice crisp IPA or a fresh Triple, to a dark Trappist or a fruity Lambic. I also had a very pleasant Blueberry Wheatbeer microbrew in Florida a few years ago.
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Monday 13th May 2019 14:19 GMT A. Coatsworth
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I'll side with the band on this one. Other acts have created their own beers (Iron Maiden with its decent Trooper and rather good Red and Black) or endorsed a third party (like AC/DC with some truly horrid canned p*ss), and given that Guns N Roses clawed back from the grave a couple of years ago, it is very reasonable to think this is a sponsored product.
Besides, what's the deal with a brewery selling bandannas?
Not that I care fro GNR very much, but copyrights and names must be protected...
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