Throughout an look on the podcast Urge for food for Distortion in promotion of his upcoming e book “Sound N’ Furry: Rock N’ Roll Tales,” Alan Niven (who managed Weapons N’ Roses from 1986 to 1991) spoke candidly concerning the band and his time with them.
Within the interview, Niven wasn’t shy about his emotions in the direction of frontman Axl Rose, accusing him of being a little bit of a management freak.
“It’s a management factor with Axl,” Niven stated. “Right here’s one other little snapshot that’s illuminating and goes to forming an accurate notion. Axl takes 50 per cent of the revenue of Weapons N’ Roses now. 50 per cent, OK? That, to me, is anathema. He isn’t Weapons N’ Roses.”
“They have been 5 people. It was a chemistry. It was a second,” he continued. “However Axl needs to be in charge of all the things on a regular basis. And look what that will get you. A boring solo document and a sh*tty factor of punk covers. And that’s it.”
Niven was additionally vital 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.”
