Ignoring his ongoing tiffs in the press with ex-band mate Slash, Axl Rose has launched one of his most public hissy fits since he offered out half the American music press for a fight in Get In The Ring on Use Your Illusion II. He’s filed a countersuit against über-manager Irving Azoff (the man who got The Eagles to make ‘hell freeze over,‘ and reform for megabucks), saying that the wily svengali tried to pull a swifty and get him to reform Guns N’ Roses; and as part of the ‘plot’ then failed to promote Chinese Democracy properly. Azoff sued Rose in March, claiming that Axl had breached an oral agreement to pay 15% of the earnings, or nearly $2 million, from a lucrative concert tour to him.

Axl’s suit also lists a myriad of claims against Azoff, all essentially saying that Azoff was bullying him and sabotaging Guns n’ Roses to the point where Axl would have no option but to get the original line-up back together. Far be it for Tone Deaf to give Axl advice, but this doesn’t seem like a bad idea. In the meantime, Axl foreshadowed his paranoia 23 years ago on Appetite for Destruction, writing a song about Azoff called Out Ta Get Me.

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