It’s true
he had no-one.
I remember
the day we met
Ed, class for drunks.
like,
who are you?
“Jeffrey Dean Isbell.”
name,” he said.
“You need
A new one.
something rock ‘n’ roll
yours. I mean
what do
you like to do?”
“I guess I
like to fuck.”
you’re ‘Izzy Stradlin’.”
was born right there, man.
I, Axl: An American Dream is a book-length fictional re-imagining of William Bailey's journey from smalltown boy to internationally famous rock star W. Axl Rose, frontman with “the world’s most dangerous band”, Guns N’ Roses.
It ran from June 2008 - March 2009 and is archived here.
Using the medium of poetry, writer/journalist Ben Myers follows Rose from 1970s obscurity through LA’s hair metal scene of the '80s; from stadium rock nerk of the early 90s to the Nero-esque, pre-Chinese Democracy 'wilderness years'.
Controversial, volatile and defiantly strawberry blond, Rose becomes muse in this unique take on the rock biography, a place where fact collides with fiction and the American Dream is exactly that – a dream. By extension this is the tale of a country that got so big, so quickly, it went a little bit crazy and put cornrows in its hair.
'I, Axl' is available for print publication. Please contact ben_myers@btinternet.com
Or visit the main blog: www.benmyersmanofletters. blogspot.com
5 comments:
these are ace. Im obsessed with axle rose. Actually my best friend is more obsessed. He said to me he thinks about him at least three or four times a day. im going to direct him this way.
also im linking to this! not only cause the title is similar!!
I think about Axl Rose between 6 and 8 times per day. Please tell your friend it is 'normal', 'healthy' and that he shouldn't be ashamed, Tom.
I have it on good authority that Slash thinks of Axl up to 12 times per day, sometimes more, depending upon how much Jack Daniels he has consumed.
Then again, sometimes he doesn't think about him at all.
It's an emotional lottery, Planet Axl.
I saw your blog advertised in Classic Rock and I had to read it. It's awesome. Me and my Axl-crazed sister are gonna be killing a lot of time here in the near future!
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