To be a rock star...

I sort of thought this all ended when the glory days of hair bands playing the Sunset Strip came to a close, I was wrong.

From top TCD field analyst, Thos. Reed, comes two excellent stories of rock stars behaving badly. Sourced from NYMAG.com:

Axl Rose Admirably Continues Living Up to Rock-Star Behavioral Expectations

Axl Rose Admirably Continues Living Up to Rock-Star Behavioral Expectations

Furthering today's trend of famously irascible musicians behaving as expected comes news that Axl Rose is being sued for leasing a 2006 Bentley Flying Spur, then failing to pay the $73,976.42 owed on the car and returning it with a cracked windshield, two damaged tires, broken glass on a taillight, two dented doors, and a gouged bumper. No official word on how that damage was accrued, but one can safely assume it was during a criminally irresponsible early morning joyride through the streets of downtown Rio de Janeiro that was serving as the nightcap for a three-day bacchanal made up of the requisite cocaine, strippers, Jack Daniels, fistfights, Tecmo Super Bowl, some of those fake mermaids from the "Hypnotize" video, and maybe even a few Eric Dane sightings. Well done, Axl!

The Fall’s Mark E. Smith Keeps Rock Curmudgeonliness Alive

How disappointing was finding out that it wasn't Lou Reed who banned Susan Boyle from singing "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent? Take solace in the further adventures of the Fall's Mark E. Smith, doing his best to protect the flame of hilarious surliness. In a new interview, Smith complains of sharing festival lineups with "ass lickers," then offers this charming little anecdote: "We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said 'shut them cunts up' and they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said 'that's the Sons of Mumford' or something, 'they're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers." For the record, the name of the band he's referring to is Mumford & Sons.