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Title: Axl Rose: Tour Tantrums Leave Sour Note
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by Claudine Zap

Here's some advice for any rock star wannabes. Show up to your shows on time. Axl Rose and his Guns N' Roses band made the mistake of arriving an hour late at their latest gig in Ireland. They were greeted by flying water bottles and boos. And these are fans.

Rose told the crowd to shape up or they would take off. The crowd didn't, so the band did. But once the Dublin audience settled down — and after concert organizers turned up the lights and told attendees to go home — G N' R came back on stage and performed till 1 a.m. — to a mostly empty house.

The concert was such a disaster that Irish politicians got pulled in — demanding ticket refunds for confused audience members who left the building and missed the show.

The band leader has seemed a bit grouchy lately. The veteran performer — who has been tardy on many legs of this summer's European tour — was 35 minutes late for the Leeds Festival in Northern England last week and had the sound cut off before he could finish the set. That move resulted in Rose launching into an expletive-laced tirade at police and concert promoters. Paradise City, it was not.

Still, fans don't seem put off by the performance. Searches on Yahoo! for "axl rose" have soared over 3,000% in the last day. Lookups also included "axl rose pictures," "axl rose news," and "axl rose dublin."

The tour may have been doomed from the start. Axl Rose's Twitter account was hacked by a user who announced the concert schedule had been canceled. Not true. But for a rock star returning to the limelight after decades as a Malibu recluse — not helpful. Axl, welcome to the jungle.

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