Guns and Roses: Being rich and having a psychic on call 24 hours a day

[Questioninggeller]

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The greatest disaster album... EVER
By Mick Wall 29th December 2006

Ten years, £7 million, svengali astrologers, chicken-obsessed musicians… of all rock’s decadent tales, nothing comes close to the extraordinary story of Guns N’ Roses star Axl Rose and his tortured attempts to finish the most expensive album of all time...

Tom Zutaut knew what to expect as his car crowned a steep hill and drew up before the vast Malibu mansion. The huge iron gates were permanently adorned with a small crowd loitering for the merest glimpse of the rock god within.
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In his solitary confinement, Rose had surrounded himself with huge tanks of snakes and spiders, a collection of Latin-American religious paraphernalia, and a large armoury of semi-automatic weaponry, including a huge array of Uzi submachine guns.

Although no longer the regular drug user he was in the Eighties, Rose still slept all day and then spent up to four hours every evening working out, alone, in his huge gym.

Then he would turn to his computer and surf the internet at night for any mentions of his own name, occasionally posting cryptic messages himself.

He communicated almost entirely by email and rarely spoke to anybody except his 50-year-old housekeeper, and his spiritual guru, Sharon Maynard.
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In the studio, Rose’s latest recruit, guitarist Buckethead (so-called because he wore an upturned Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket on his head on stage) had demanded a chicken coop be built. An area cordoned off by planks of wood and chicken wire had duly been constructed for the musician, an eccentric whose official biography claims he was raised in a coop, by chickens.
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By the time Zutaut arrived on the scene in 2001, Rose was back ‘working’ on Chinese Democracy. But getting involved in the project was no mean feat. Naturally enough, anyone working for Rose, from band members to cooks, had to sign confidentiality agreements containing stiff financial penalties for those who dared to divulge details of Rose’s bizarre private life.

All employees also had to submit a photograph of themselves, which Rose would then offer to guru Sharon Maynard for her ‘psychic inspection’ in order to reveal their true motives. Maynard even demanded pictures of potential employees’ children in order to read their spiritual auras more accurately.
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Outside the studio, his behaviour – on the rare occasions he was seen – was increasingly bizarre. In February 1998, he was arrested at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix after getting into a fight with security staff. ‘I’ll punch your lights out right here and right now,’ he screamed at a guard who was doing a routine search of his baggage. ‘You are all little people on a power trip. Just put me in jail!’

They fulfilled his wish. Friends claim the incident happened because Rose was carrying gifts that he was taking for ‘review’ by Sharon Maynard – including a glass sphere – and he was worried the security personnel might break them. Maynard’s ability to ‘channel’ spirits has led Rose to believe he has lived many past lives.

At least one date on the last GN’R tour was cancelled after she expressed concerns about ‘energy fields’ in Minneapolis.

Rose apparently had ‘trouble’ in areas of the country that had a strong magnetic field. The tour was called off two weeks into its run after a series of no-shows by Rose provoked riots from fans. Following his visits to Maynard, Rose also underwent counselling from a past-life regression therapist named Suzzy London. She is said to have helped Rose ‘recover’ memories of childhood sexual abuse by his biological father William Rose, whom he didn’t know about until he was a teenager.
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Full article:
"The greatest disaster album... EVER" The Mail 29th December 2006

Disappointed fans were cancelled on because a psychic. The psychic failed to predict his 1998 arrest when bringing her gifts. Past life regression bringing up unverified molestation stories. It seems Rose's belief in woo is part of the problem.

[American]

Mick Wall has legendary grudges on Axl. He got honorary mention on their "Get in the Ring" track (Use Your Illusion II). Anything he writes on GnR had better have good proof attached, or else one can assume it's just personal attacks.

Remember:

Fact + fiction = more fiction than "fiction" alone.

[Questioninggeller]

Originally Posted by American

Mick Wall has legendary grudges on Axl. He got honorary mention on their "Get in the Ring" track (Use Your Illusion II).

From google, I found a Rolling Stone article from 2000. According to it, Elliott and Sharon Maynard (Rose's psychics/advisors/woos) are both thanked in the Use Your Illusion.

Originally Posted by American

Anything he writes on GnR had better have good proof attached, or else one can assume it's just personal attacks.

Here's the Rolling Stone article from a few years back:

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What Happened To Axl Rose - The inside story of rock's most famous recluse
Rolling Stone, May 11th 2000
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Lost in the minor hoopla over the arrest was the matter of what, exactly, Axl was doing at the Phoenix airport. Was Axl coming back from a place where he often goes - Sedona, the New Age bastion in the red-rock canyons 115 miles north of Phoenix, where he sees one of the most important people in his world, a psychic known derisively in the GN'R camp as Yoda?
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Through therapy, Axl said, he recovered memories of being beaten and sexually abused as a child. It is these traumas, primarily, that Axl wrestles with, and it is these experiences that may, in part, be blamed for his hostile attitude toward women and his consuming need for control.
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Yoda's real name is Sharon Maynard. A rather plain Asian woman of middle age, Maynard stands about five feet five and has a medium build and dark, curly hair. Since 1978 she has run a not-for-profit business in Sedona called Arcos Cielos Corp., which loosely translated from the Spanish means "sky arcs." The company, with assets of $241,602 in 1998, lists itself as an "educational" enterprise. Aricos Cielos operates out of Maynard's rural home in Sedona, which she shares with her husband, Elliott, a gently gray-haired man. "Dr. Elliott and Sharon Maynard" are both thanked in the Use Your Illusion liner notes.

More on Axl Rose's psychic from her Research Center/Corporation:

Originally Posted by Arcos Cielos

Sharon Tanemura Maynard, born in Western Canada, brings a unique international flavor to Arcos Cielos and its innovative programs.
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Her educational background includes an ARCT Degree from Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music and studies in Communications at Simon Frasier University in Vancouver. She also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University the Trees Consciousness Research Institute.

Her unique gifts in the areas of Financial and Creative Structuring were passed on to her from her grandfather, who was a Buddhist Priest.

Her picture is here.

According to her husband's, Elliott Maynard, biopage: "He received a Ph.D. in Consciousness Research from the University of the Trees in Boulder Creek, California."

Searching google brings up people who have "doctorates" in "Nature Awareness" from the University of the Trees. Needless to say, the "University of the Trees" is not accredited and it is not listed as legally operating in California. Sounds like a Kent Hovind type of "education" and "doctorate."

According to a 990 search, as of 2005, Aricos Cielos has assets of $944,000.

(This post brought up a lot more woo then I expected to see when I skimmed The Mail's rock music article.)

[Big Les]

Well, that's pretty conclusive; Axl is even further out of his tree than I realised.

[The Atheist]

Yeah, but Guns & Roses totally copied REO Speedwagon.

[American]

Originally Posted by The Atheist

Yeah, but Guns & Roses totally copied REO Speedwagon.

Kid Rock sure copied Axl. I think.

[St.Michael]

Axl has always maintained he never sacked anyone from GnR, the original line up left one by one. I can’t say I’m surprised if this is what they had to put up with!

I doubt Lemmy would ever do stuff like this.