Former Weapons N’ Roses supervisor Alan Niven has claimed that frontman Axl Rose now collects 50% of the band’s earnings. Niven was talking with Urge for food For Distortion, the Weapons N’ Roses-themed podcast hosted by Brando Weissle.
“It is a management factor with Axl,” says Niven. “This is one other little snapshot that’s illuminating and goes to forming an accurate notion. Axl takes 50% of the earnings of Weapons N’ Roses now. 50%, okay? That, to me, is anathema. He’s not Weapons N’ Roses.
“They have been 5 people. It was a chemistry. It was a second. However Axl needs to be in charge of every part on a regular basis. And look what that will get you. A boring solo report and a shitty factor of punk covers. And that is it.”
Niven is presumably referring to the final two Weapons N’ Roses albums, 1993’s covers album, “The Spaghetti Incident?”, and 2008’s famously long-awaited Chinese language Democracy.
This is not the primary time Niven – who managed Weapons N’ Roses from 1986 to 1991 and oversaw their chaotic rise to prominence – has criticised Axl Rose.
“I’ve no hope of, or curiosity in, a brand new Weapons N’ Roses album,” he instructed Traditional Rock in 2022. “The tantrums of youth look absurd on a 60-year-old. It’s a disgrace they’ve been creatively impotent since 1991.”
Alan Niven’s e-book Sound N’ Fury: Rock N’ Roll Tales is printed on June 24 and could be pre-ordered now.
Weapons N’ Roses’ As a result of What You Need & What You Get Are Two Utterly Completely different Issues Tour kicks off at Songdo Moonlight Park in Incheon, South Korea, on Could 1. Full dates beneath.
Weapons N’ Roses As a result of What You Need & What You Get Are Two Utterly Completely different Issues Tour 2025
Could 01: Incheon Songdo Moonlight Park, South Korea
Could 05: Yokohama Ok Enviornment, Japan
Could 10: Taoyuan Daylight Enviornment, Taiwan
Could 13: Bangkok Thunderdome Stadium, Thailand
Could 17: Mumbai Mahalaxmi Racecourse, India
Could 23: Riyadh Kingdom Enviornment, Saudi Arabia
Could 27: Abu Dhabi Etihad Enviornment, UAE
Could 30: Shekvetili Parka, Georgia^
Jun 02: Istanbul Tüpraş Stadyumu, Turkey^
Jun 06: Coimbra Estádio Cidade de Coimbra, Portugal^
Jun 09: Barcelona Estadi OlÃmpic LluÃs Companys, Spain
Jun 12: Florence Firenze Rocks, Italy*^
Jun 15: Hradec Kralove Rock For Individuals, Czech Republic*^
Jun 18: Dusseldorf Merkur Spiel-Enviornment, Germany^
Jun 20: Munich Allianz Enviornment, Germany^
Jun 23: Birmingham Villa Park, UK
Jun 26: London Wembley Stadium, UK
Jun 29: Aarhus Eskelunden, Denmark+
Jul 02: Trondheim Granåsen Ski Centre, Norway+
Jul 04: Stockholm Strawberry Aren, Sweden+
Jul 07: Tampere Ratina Stadium, Finland+
Jul 10: Kaunas Darius and GirÄ—nas Stadium, Lithuania+
Jul 12: Warsaw PGE Nardowy, Poland+
Jul 15: Budapest Puskás Aréna, Hungary+
Jul 18: Belgrade Ušće Park, Serbia+
Jul 21: Sofia Vasil Levski Stadium, Bulgaria+
Jul 24: Vienna Ernst Happel Stadion, Austria#
Jul 28: Luxembourg Open Air, Luxembourg#
Jul 31: Wacken Pageant, Germany*
* = Pageant look
+ = with Public Enemy
^ = with Rival Sons
# = with Intercourse Pistols that includes Frank Carter
