Theo Wargo/Getty ImagesAxl Rose performing in 2011.Axl Rose was always a rock star with a colorful vocabulary, but until now few of his fans realized it included the word sorry. In a post published Tuesday on the Web site of his band, Guns N’ Roses, Mr. Rose offered his apologies to his fans and to the people of Cleveland for snubbing last Saturday’s induction ceremony at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, writing that he “seriously didn’t plan on or expect the overwhelmingly positive response and public support for my decision.”
Last week the mercurial Mr. Rose announced in an open letter that he would not attend the induction ceremony honoring Guns N’ Roses (as well as acts like Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beastie Boys) and asked that he not be inducted in absentia, citing a grab bag of personal and professional issues that included the “endless amount of revisionism” of his band’s history and “the greed of this industry and the ever present seemingly limitless supply of wannabes and unscrupulous, irresponsible media types.”
In his latest missive, a more philosophical Mr. Rose wrote that he was surprised at the amount of attention that open letter received and that he “sincerely didn’t want to disappoint anyone.” He added, “It gets old being the outlaw even if ‘it’s only rock and roll.’”
Mr. Rose once again set his sights on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, writing: “I still don’t exactly know or understand what the Hall is or how or why it makes money, where the money goes, who chooses the voters and why anyone or this board decides who, out of all the artists in the world that have contributed to this genre, officially ‘rock’ enough to be in the Hall?” (Still, Mr. Rose wrote, “This isn’t an attack.”)
He then offered an apology “to Cleveland, Ohio for not apologizing to them beforehand for not attending” the ceremony. He added: “I think they know how much I genuinely love performing there. Cleveland does in fact Rock!!”
The post concluded: “Keep Rockin’, Axl.”
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