Guns N' Roses and AC/DC vocalist wants 'Fat Axl' memes removed from the internet
Axl Rose is attempting to have an unflattering picture of him removed from the internet. The image was taken in 2010 by photographer Boris Minkevich at a Guns N' Roses show at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Canada, and has been widely used as an internet meme making fun of the vocalist's bloated appearance.The memes mainly centre on Rose's hiring by AC/DC as a guest singer, replacing Brian Johnson who was ordered to stop touring or risk going deaf. TorrentFreak report that Rose has filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) notice, asking Google and other web firms to remove the photo from the web entirely. The DMCA complaint sent to Google reads: “Copyright image of Axl Rose. Please be advised that no permission has been granted to publish the copyright image so we cannot direct you to an authorised example of it."
The Rolling Stones stream Miss You from Totally Stripped
The Rolling Stones have released their performance of Miss You from upcoming five-disc live package Totally Stripped. It’s an extended version of 1995 unplugged set Stripped, including three live shows plus a new version of the Stripped documentary, in which guitarist Keith Richards describes his outfit as “a club band that just got bigger gigs.The Stones take part in the Desert Trip festival in California in October, alongside Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Roger Waters and The Who. Totally Stripped is available for pre-order now.”
Metallica's 10th album 'more diverse' than Death Magnetic
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich says the band’s upcoming 10th studio album is “more of a diverse record” than 2008’s Death Magnetic. The San Francisco group are currently mixing the project, which is expected to be released later this year. Ulrich tells Citizens Of Humanity: “It definitely sounds like Metallica. It’s probably a little less frenetic than the last record." The last one Rick Rubin really encouraged us to, for the first time, be inspired by our past. It was the first time we sort of looked in the rearview mirror.