Guns N ‘Roses, the former manager: “Axl takes 50% of the earnings”
During a recent episode of the “Appetite for Distortion” podcast dedicated to the Guns N ‘Roses, the former manager of the band of “Welcome to the Jungle”, Alan Niven, said the frontman Axl Rose now collects 50% of the group’s earnings.
Guest of the audio series conducted by Brando Weissle, Niven – who will publish the book “Sound N ‘Fury: Rock N’ Roll Stories next June 24 – he said:
“It is a question of control for Axl. Here here is another small snapshot that helps to get a clearer and more correct idea of the situation. Axl takes 50% of the guns guns n ‘Roses, ok? 50%. For me, this thing is an anatema. He is not the Guns n’ Roses. It was five individuals. There was chemistry. It was a moment. But Axl wants to have control over everything. boring solo album and a stuff of punk cover.
Although there are no explicit references, as Loudersound points out, in all likelihood, Alan Niven referred to the last two albums released on behalf of Guns N ‘Roses: the 1993 cover album “The spaghetti incident?” And “Chinese Democracy”, released in 2008 after a very long gestation.
Already in the past Niven, manager of the US training from 1986 to 1991, had criticized Axl Rose. In an interview for “Classic Rock” of 2022 he said: “I have no hope or interest for a new album of the Guns N ‘Roses. The whims of youth make people laugh on a sixty year old. It is a shame that they have been creatively impotent since 1991”.
