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Axl Rose hints at legal action over Guitar Hero
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 19 December 2008
Axl Rose has said that he’s not happy with the fact that Activision have used Guns n Roses tracks in their Guitar Hero game, and says the fact that Slash is involved doesn’t justify the use of the songs ‘Welcome To The Jungle’ and ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’.
In a letter to fans, he wrote: “[Slash] being [in] ‘Guitar Hero’s fine but not when Activision is using ‘…Jungle’ unauthorized. I wasn’t broadsided. I read about it as it moved along but Activision continually denied it right up to the release. That’s some low life chicanery on all their parts”.
“Yes, Slash was in Guns and on ‘…Jungle’ and he has rights to perform it, but not to be represented in this context in association with Guns. And since they weren’t granted the license it’ll take some sorting”.
