“From December 2007 through November 2010, Activision was offering me a Guns N’ Roses-dedicated video game, a game dedicated to music from the Chinese Democracy album, and other proposals.” “The reason I did not file a lawsuit is because Activision - through my managers and representatives - offered me a separate video game and other business proposals worth millions of dollars to resolve and settle my claims relating to GHIII,” he said in a deposition. According to documents filed in the case, Rose’s agent sent Activision an email objecting around the time the game came out.ĭuring the course of the case, Rose attempted to explain why he hadn’t filed a lawsuit right away. Rose has had difficulty claiming that he didn’t discover the problem at an early stage.
The singer’s lawsuit wasn’t filed until late November 2010 - more than three years after the game October 2007 release. The fatal problem for Rose was not moving soon enough on the allegations. Years have gone since Slash’s departure from the band, but obviously, the hatred between the two lives on.In the lawsuit, Rose claimed he was told during negotiations that the game wouldn’t feature any reference to Slash, the guitarist with whom he has been famously feuding for two decades. The fact that the other members of the band also followed Slash’s path and left the group indicates that there is some undeniable matter behind this theory.Īxl Rose did not like the face that Guns N Roses was acquiring in the mid nineties, with Slash being on the front row each time. This did not go well with the egoistic Axl, who tried to impose himself over other band members in order to establish his prominence. Another possible and probable theory suggests that the exponential rise in the fame and acclaim received by the guitarist Slash almost overshadowed the once indomitable charisma of Axl Rose, the founder of the band. Some contradictory public statements made by Axl Rose and Slash in those years seem to certify the premises. There is a section of music historians and columnists who claim that there was some discord in the band pertaining to the writing of the songs in the years from 1994 to 1996.
There is no concrete record as regards the precise reasons behind the sowing of the seeds of poison in the once harmonious relationship between the two. The demons of the past seem to have resurfaced, and as a result, the discussions regarding the currents of sheer hatred flowing through the heart of Axl Rose have picked up steam. However, it was a body blow for most to witness the disintegration of the band in 996, when guitarist Slash chose to discontinue his association with the band. Both these artists were regarded as rock icons. The reasons quoted by the legendry rocker’s layer suggest that the game makers betrayed the latter by including songs from Slash’s Velvet Revolver, despite there being a clause against such inclusions in the contract.Īxl Rose and Slash were co-members of Guns n Roses, the rock band that ruled the hearts of listeners for a good part of the 1980s and 90s. Axl Rose made uproar in all quarters when the news broke about his multi million lawsuit against the makers of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.
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