Oh, you're that guy.
The bassist? Yeah. Guitarist.
That's what I meant.
The one with the hat, right?
Sure. I remember you.
~ An American Dream ~
Axl is in the midst of a strange sexual fantasy. He is dreaming about a girl with huge thighs. She is naked except for a pair of hiking boots. She is a big, strong, healthy-looking girl. Her ass is big too; like a white medicine ball. She’s not the type of girl he’d normally go for yet he is completely turned on. He is in love. He wants to climb a mountain with this girl. He wants to bury his face in her big white ass. He wants to lick her until his tongue is swollen, distended and just hanging there like a dog’s. He wants to feel her thighs around his head He wants to be made deaf to the world by them. He wants to sit down eat a packed lunch with her. Maybe on a precipice overlooking a remote canyon. He is experiencing new feelings and new emotions. These waves of love and desire are alien to him. He awakes, sweating and erect. He guiltily jerks off. He has no idea what any of it means. Yet the girl with the big ass and thighs stay with him all day, as does the image of a nice quiet luncheon somewhere remote.
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