Throughout an look on the podcast Urge for food for Distortion in promotion of his upcoming ebook “Sound N’ Furry: Rock N’ Roll Tales,” Alan Niven (who managed Weapons N’ Roses from 1986 to 1991) spoke candidly in regards to the band and his time with them.
Within the interview, Niven wasn’t shy about his emotions in direction of frontman Axl Rose, accusing him of being a little bit of a management freak.
“It’s a management factor with Axl,” Niven mentioned. “Right here’s one other little snapshot that’s illuminating and goes to forming an accurate notion. Axl takes 50 per cent of the earnings of Weapons N’ Roses now. 50 per cent, OK? That, to me, is anathema. He’s not Weapons N’ Roses.”
“They had been 5 people. It was a chemistry. It was a second,” he continued. “However Axl desires to be in charge of all the pieces on a regular basis. And look what that will get you. A boring solo report and a sh*tty factor of punk covers. And that’s it.”
Niven was additionally important of Weapons N’ Roses in a 2022 interview with Basic Rock, with the previous supervisor calling them “creatively impotent.”
“I’ve no hope of, or curiosity in, a brand new Weapons N’ Roses album,” he instructed the publication. “The tantrums of youth look absurd on a 60-year-old. It’s a disgrace they’ve been creatively impotent since 1991.”
